Flashback: See Ricky Skaggs bring Bill Monroe and bluegrass to New York City in the wild “Country Boy” video
married his brand of bluegrass — a modernized version that included drums, piano, and electric guitar — to the burgeoning music video medium. The result was one of country music’s all-time great videos, an irreverent clip that shined a light not only on Skaggs’ vibrant new style of country-bluegrass but also on a pillar of the bluegrass genre, Bill Monroe.
The song and video was “Country Boy,” the title track of Skaggs’ 1984 album. Shot in New York City in early 1985, the clip casts Skaggs as a big-city bank executive with a plush office who’s confronted by his disapproving Uncle Pen, played with great relish by Monroe. Barging into the office, case in hand, Uncle Pen accuses his nephew of “gettin’ way above your raisin’,” a reference to the old Flatt & Scruggs tune Skaggs covered three years earlier.
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