You're about to see a lengthy clip between the great artist Joan Baez and the great artist Earl Scruggs and his boys.

It's one of my classic clips, and it's one of my most popular clips on YouTube.

It's just gorgeous.

I'm David Hoffman filmmaker, and I'm about to tell you in advance what you're about to see.

So picture the time.

It's 1972 and Earl Scruggs is on a search.

Earl Scruggs broke with tradition when he began to express his hostile feelings towards the Vietnam War.

His hostility was based on warning the boys to come home.

That's all he cared about.

I want the boys to come home.

I don't want them fighting this war.

Every other country music musician didn't feel that way.

They had American flags at the Grand Old Opry, and there was Earl and his boys or was really famous.

Earl was first part of the Bill Monroe Country Music Group.

Then he became flattened Scruggs, which played Beverly Hillbillies among many other famous classic kits.

And then he broke away on his own with his boys, and he had the Earl Scruggs revue.

Randy was 16 Gary, I think, was 18.

You'll see them.

And he was on a search to find music that allowed his music mountain music, bluegrass country to match with other musical forms that were popular.

What an interesting idea.

He visited a lot of people, which allowed me to make a 90 minute television special called Earl Scruggs.

His family and friends.

He visited of the birds.

He visited Bob Dylan.

He visited Doc Watson, another great Mountain Country bluegrass artist.

And in each case I got this scene was one camera, me on one Mike, and he's interested in Joan Baez.

Any context there she's has come out to my house in Portola Valley, California So we fly to California and we go to her house at the top of a mountain.

And there she is with this baby that had been, uh, a part of her partnership with David Harris.

David Harris was an antiwar activist, a draft dodger who believed in fighting the draft on was in prison for his protests, which were nonviolent.

But I forgot why he got the prison.

But he's in prison at this time, and there's Joan at her house.

There's the baby drinking water, by the way, not beer.

That's what some people think.

And Earl sits down with his son, Randy, 16 years old.

Unbelievable guitarist.

Radius past thought now, but in flat picking, Randy was almost Doc Watson at 16 you're gonna hear that.

And Gary Carrie was a wannabe, a singer just starting.

And Earl was helping his son to get in by playing with and singing with people like Joe Maya's.

So in I walk, I set up my mic, set up the camera, shields the baby, and boom.

What begins is what you're about to see.

An incredible scene just beautiful between them.

With music being made that, you know, I could have taken a month to record, but it was just minutes.

Almost live what you're watching.

I'll tell you more about what happened after the clip.

Wait, wait.

Can I wait?

Wait.

We're joined by this house here.

I think somewhere up the hell don't you tell a way.

1959.

60.

And you're so shy.

Uh huh.

Remember this way with five times that many me say that.

I just think that same song I reasoned with Marjorie, you get terrible crush on when I went into where were we?

Ways he written some gave a concert together and I went into the ladies room and there's a woman saying I said, Oh, I think girls are just so far out.

She's saying you're washing your hands of this thing Looking really crazy.

I think you lucky Bones, Did you find fired a year?

A song that you recorded that inspired me to record it.

And, uh, if you remember, the words of love is just a four letter word.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

No way.

Oh, my operation mining.

And there was nothing.

Wait, I can say nothing.

Todo professional.

What?

E I've never I've never been professional.

Never really professional, and I really can't pay.

They're playing with boys girl.

And I played a concert together nine years ago.

Eight or nine years ago.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Yeah, Wait.

Oh, wait.

You can including me.

Wait, wait, wait.

And my way back.

Way.

Joanie, I'd like to especially do a number for David.

Would you, Gary and possibly Randy.

I certainly thank you.

Wait, wait.

Give me it.

Wait.

You know me?

Wait.

You wait.

Way.

Enjoy house.

So I spent the time with Joan and Earl, and we knew we had recorded Butte.

Just beautiful moments, casual moments, and we step outside and there's an outdoor shower and I'm an East Coast guy.

I've never seen an outdoor shower, and I also never got undressed in my hot tub with anybody else with my bathing suit on.

And Jones says, You want to go in the shower, so I didn't know you were supposed to sort of take your clothes off.

So I go in the shower with my clothes on my shirt, my undershirt, my pants.

And I think she went in that way, too, because I didn't figure it was very funny.

But the picture you're looking at is a picture taken at that moment between Joan Baez and David Hoffman to extraordinarily different cultures.

The beautiful culture of the mountains off south of San Francisco, the gorgeous mountains of Portola Valley and David Hoffman, New York City transplant to a small town in Maine, definitely a Northeast guy.

For those who are curious, I cannot say enough about the beauty of Earl Scruggs as a human being and how he treated me, and I'm going to tell you a story about that in another clip.

And Joan Baez how open she was to just allowing Earl to play with her, allowing gallery to sing when you were there was Joan Baez Standard allowing Randy to play.

When he did, she turns to him with love and admiration.

The whole thing really extraordinary.

I was lucky to be there.

Hope you enjoyed it.

Thank you for watching for hopefully being a subscriber and for hopefully supporting me on patriot.

Which is how I'm doing this and want to do more of it.

Thank you.