It's David Hopping filmmaker, and I'm about to show you a clip from a film I made back in 1972 called Earl Scruggs, his Family and friends, a television special rule.

Scruggs was an amazing banjo picker, as many of you may know, and he was also a very experimental.

He wanted to move the banjo into other areas than just traditional bluegrass music.

And what he did was he said to me, David, I'll make this movie with you if you let me take you into some places where I played with musicians I wouldn't ordinarily play with.

And I said, Earl, I'll make this movie with you Course I would have made it anyway.

But I'll make this movie with you if you take me back to some of your roots.

I want to go back to North Carolina.

I want to go back to those mountains.

I want to feel the culture that you came from that made you you.

So you're about to see a scene of Zeke and Wiley Morris, the Morris Brothers.

Oh, God, I love the Morris Brothers.

They were popular back in the late 19 thirties, They had a radio show, I believe on local Asheville, North Carolina radio.

And they did a very famous song, which is Let me be your salty dog or I won't be your man at all.

Have you ever did Let me be your sold the dog or I won't be your manual.

Honey, let me be a salty dog.

You're gonna see that in this scene.

So Earl takes me around North Carolina and he takes me to the Morris Brothers who have a body shop.

When they came back from World War two, they never went into the singing business again.

They can't open his body shop and had a terrific reputation for treating people.

Right.

So I pull up with my car, I get out.

I set up my camera on a chair, handheld.

My salmon sets up one ointment microphone on a stick in front of them.

We sit down, the two of them Earl and his boy Randy, who's a great guitarist, and they start, and it's unbelievable.

Not only the singing is unbelievable, but to talk.

You'll hear them say to me how they feel about the garage and why they do their repair and how they feel about cars.

It's just wonderful.

This speech there quality their voices.

I love the people of North Carolina.

I love the mountain people of North Carolina.

I love them out music and culture.

And I felt so honored to be with Zeke and Wily Morris, the Morris Brothers with Earl Scruggs and his son Randy.

I guess I guess you people been wondering about these uniforms we've been.

We know these is not for ST No, we don't use these own stage.

Uh, see, we drop by.

You know what you like.

We dropped in on this and called us while we work.

This is Morrison's body shop down your foot of the hill.

We work on car, they tied him up and we fix him.

Why?

Cars?

Well, you know, after you get along in life, you gotta have something to fall back on.

Well, I fell back a long time ago on duh.

That's then we've been beaten out bodies and painting bodies, working on cars for a living.

I must say it's hard, but what ain't hard to make a living out of this time back in, back in when we have the music years ago.

Uh, come easy.

Go easy.

And God sent Sunday every day.

But now you work every day and you rest on Sunday, Right?

No way.

Wait.

No, no.

Yeah, that's our we wrote, written and rotten all of it years ago.