Just a bit of background will help you really appreciate how extraordinary this moment is.

So Doc he's blind from, I think, a year old he was already one of the great flat picking guitar is absolutely loved his music when I was a kid growing up on Long Island listening to this bluegrass mountain stuff, Earl Earl Scruggs, the great Earl Scruggs, Bill Monroe's banjo picker, flattened Scruggs, The Beverly Hillbillies Music Deliverance music.

I mean, he was a great classic, and these two guys loved each other.

Doc got sick once, and Earl took his private plane, which he flew, flew down and picked up Doc so that that could come home and be with his people.

There was a respect that kind of a North Carolina Appalachian mountain roots distancing between these two men, and they're getting together in the senior, about to see which is completely unrehearsed.

At Doc's home in Deep Gap, North Carolina set up a single microphone.

I'm a single camera, so whatever you see is what I got.

No.

Two takes, No two cameras, just a moment of friendliness and kindness between beautiful people.

Take a look and then I'll tell you what happened after when it's over.

Well, with the home of Doc Watson's and his family, which I'm very happy to be here.

This is dog and your son moral to my right and my son Randy and stay behind me.

And we're gonna attempt to just play a few teams that, uh, well, it's completely under her.

So being unrehearsed, it'll come out kind of like it would, uh, we're just having a natural gift together.

Well, that makes it what it is.

We'll just make that out and not worry about.

Usually sound better if you don't do do John Hardy there.

Wait, wait, you might be asking, How did David Hoffman get to make this movie?

Well, I had this idea me and my partner at the time that Earl Scruggs was really important.

Give him a call.

Cold Earl says, You know, I'm a time in my life where I'm searching new kinds of music.

He didn't like being in a camera very much.

He was shy, very shy, but he let us come down and we get to know each other.

I loved his family, and I'm on the road with them.

I loved that relationship between duck and a roll, that respect for hard times for the Depression era, for Appalachia, for North Carolina and this love of this music that they grew up with, that their families taught them and that they continued on that had nothing to do with success or money or power and everything to do with beautiful music.

Well played if you weren't a good player.

Both Ireland Doc treated you the same.

I mean, Steve, he's just starting out.

So in a way, this is a memory of a wonderful moment.

That's kind of got said after.

I mean Merle Doc, Son.

I think a tractor rolled over on him right at their farm and killed him.

Stevie Earl, son committed suicide.

Randy Scruggs is dead, Earl.

Is that of course.

And Doc is dead.

But this moment I'm so happy that I captured this moment.

It blew me away when it was recorded.

It still does.

Today there's a as you can see, an ease on a love and an appreciation for each other and for the music that I find just incredible.

Thank you for watching.

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Thank you very much for watching.