No other version of this song matches this one. Including renditions by Gillian and David. The harmonies and David's guitar interludes are so perfect.
@NancyHanson3472
Жыл бұрын
Very well said. I agree.
@amyh2310
3 жыл бұрын
My mantra. 💔
@uknownpicker4817
9 жыл бұрын
Sweet!
@jimmygo06
3 жыл бұрын
I too am an orphan girl. This song gives me a feeling of peace.
@gregsilsby6884
3 жыл бұрын
I’m an orphan boy. I understand completely. ✌🏼❤️
@BRLaue
2 жыл бұрын
We are all spiritual orphans without the Lord.
@skumsters2323
4 ай бұрын
Beautiful! love from a streetkid
@melindalemmon2149
5 жыл бұрын
FIRST TIME I HEARD THIS, I BROKE DOWN. IT WAS MY TRUE CIRCUMSTANCES.
@mrrhum3311
4 жыл бұрын
😢 ::hugs:: ❤
@1mrasberry1
4 жыл бұрын
God bless you, Melinda.
@samuelbacon9272
4 жыл бұрын
I got choked up too, I do have family but my heart goes out to you Melinda, and you're my sister!
@torvilasulvstle362
4 жыл бұрын
Hang in there, friend!
@2009carol2010
Жыл бұрын
God's table ❤️
@jjj1951
12 жыл бұрын
This sure beats the crap country songs out there about pickup trucks, tight jean girls, sweet tea, roadhouses and jingoism.
@not2tees
10 жыл бұрын
And Gillian is in fact an orphan girl, according to her Wikipedia page. And she and Dave are keeping real music alive today, I might add as a personal opinion.
@Frisbieinstein
6 жыл бұрын
She is adopted and doesn't know who her father is, I think.
@lindaclark5911
5 жыл бұрын
She knows her bios& is loved and cherished deeply
@stephaniejefferson6566
3 жыл бұрын
@@lindaclark5911 thank you.
@briandowdall1958
3 жыл бұрын
Jesus said "who are my mother and brothers?...those who do the will of God" therefore every Christian is an orphan in this world, we have a new family from the moment of salvation.
@gregsilsby6884
3 жыл бұрын
Amen brother
@multicaruana
9 жыл бұрын
One of the most stirring gospel songs ever written, and what a beautiful version. Thanks for posting this one.
@Scotsgrey13
5 жыл бұрын
Someone said this is "alternative country". This is real country.
@Chris-qt5cb
4 жыл бұрын
English fella here. My Dad raised me on all sorts of good music. I have my own tastes now but I have retained the best parts of country music. When I was about 6 my teacher asked all the kids about their favourite band. They all trotted out 80s pop singers like Boy George or Adam and the ants. John Prine Miss. I can still see the wtf! look on her face. Class never changes. Gillian Welch is world class. None better.
Gillian and David have such a respect for country music's roots, traditional formats and yet the music still sounds fresh and vibrant. I love musicians who follow there own paths, play & sing what they want to...
@jonturner9987
3 жыл бұрын
My Ophthalmologist, of all people, asked me who my favorite guitar player was and I told him Gillian Welch's partner. David Rawlings is real good. Thanks Gillian, I love you too.
@edithmcpherson2913
3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love this , it does my heart such good 😻
@rubystar2045
10 жыл бұрын
Gillian Welch is one of my favourite alternative country singer song writers, I thought you might enjoy hearing some alt country!
@twistersurvivor
11 жыл бұрын
Oops! The fact that she was raised in LA & connects to this music makes me think she truly finds her roots in the sounds of Appalachia. It is also my opinion that some of the best music is made when two genres/cultures collide . Either way, I'm glad you appreciate & stick up for Appalachian, hillbilly culture & music!
@wandawatson5006
12 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite songs. Gillian Welch does a beautiful job & Rawlings is a fantastic guitarist.
@BillBraskyy
Жыл бұрын
God man, I love Gillian Welch.
@JohnBrown-el8ir
Жыл бұрын
Hey Gillian, are you related to Joni Welch? Or, Amiee Rawlings?
@billysellers5235
11 жыл бұрын
I CAN'T HELP BUT SMILE WHEN I SEE GILLIAN SMILE. ONE COMMENT I READ SAID THAT WHEN GILLIAN SMILED THE WORLD WAS OKAY
@Misszumicat
4 жыл бұрын
beautiful...brings tears to my eyes...I feel like an orphan in my family, from which i am alienated.
@lisawilson3032
4 жыл бұрын
I have a brother. We were once so very close. When our father dies, I will consider myself an orphan nonetheless. I understand your pain. I feel it daily. This is part of my funeral music. The funeral my brother will never know happened.
@crflowergoddess
4 жыл бұрын
Make peace with them . Life is short. God bless
@terrymacdougall2055
3 жыл бұрын
@@crflowergoddess sometimes making peace isn't our chose.
@terrymacdougall2055
3 жыл бұрын
I was abandoned by my family when my mother died. I understand; I know your pain! One day at God's table.
@chriscraft77022
5 жыл бұрын
this song means so much to me because my family is shit... i only love my brother.. and maybe when i die will i meet my real family that loves me.. i have a daughter that i give the world to, btw
@brandulph
11 жыл бұрын
Great song, great rendering, superb country!
@sgregg1000
11 жыл бұрын
This is beautiful.
@MrRicardobach
12 жыл бұрын
The best American music is from these two married folks and the married duo of Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist of Over The Rhine. Sarah Jarosz is a young prodigy from Texas; if she meets and marries a musician, some unexpected and unsuspected might arise...
@lisawilson3032
4 жыл бұрын
Hey! I was gonna say that!
@karencarroll8888
2 жыл бұрын
how about the loving parents that adopted ..are they not mother father?
@keepgoing1973
3 жыл бұрын
Great photos
@TheDivayenta
10 жыл бұрын
yeah,but Gillian wrote this. It's hers. So her! love her!
@Trollificusv2
11 жыл бұрын
Nobody's fighting except westchesterny, who seems to think this music exists for them to judge meaningless crap like "authenticity", thus making it all about them. More than being "authentic" in the geographical or cultural sense, Gillian is directly connected to the real human things that this music connects to and which have always given it value.
@Zeda1002
11 жыл бұрын
Gillian Welch is in fact strong chemistry between two extraordinary and creative musicians. Not just in country but in any music style there are basically two possible approaches. Creativity recognizes only one of them, and originality is the only outcome of creativity. Creative musicians (and not only musicians) do not follow, they bring something new to the music.
@Canoe571
11 жыл бұрын
It's funny how this audience fights and scrabbles about nothing of substance, while Gillian sings and David plays. Gillian and David are oblivious to the meaningless fray at their feet. And they sound good to my ear. That is all that matters. What is needed is a higher class of listener.
@haroldsteinblatt2567
11 жыл бұрын
I am often guilty of fascist traditionalism -- to a degree. While I can't listen to, say, John Hammond Jr. and other copyists of early blues. and early country music, Gillian somehow has channeled the past in her singing and songwriting.
@wferrell9787
8 жыл бұрын
This is the 2nd best version of this great song. They did an even better version in this time frame (~1996) on a PBS show. Main difference was that Rawlings' guitar excursions were exquisitely good, even better than here. I taped it off the TV.
@ronaldnielsen5796
6 жыл бұрын
You know I get tired of these people rating these performances is a great performance every time you make love to your wife you say well 3 years ago was a lot better than this
@JasonUmbrellabird
10 жыл бұрын
This is great, not sure I like the Crooked Still version, although the banjo player is excellent, it's too clever.
@antonmartens84
12 жыл бұрын
speachless......gotta love these two.
@ehairgrove
10 жыл бұрын
I was privileged to see Gillian and David open for The Buffalo Springfield at the Santa Barbara Bowl in 2011.
@susansmeltzer3001
9 жыл бұрын
+Shiva Ganesha I saw the same show in Los Angeles, and it was the first time I'd heard Gillian Welch. Love at first sight.
@Mjollnir50
11 жыл бұрын
Totally, and his harmony singing is wicked good as well.
@musikgirl1
11 жыл бұрын
I think most people might call this "old time". But whatever noun you wish to give it. :)
@nwk38
10 жыл бұрын
In answer to John Capone. You are 100% correct.What they are passing off today is a mish mash of junk. The people you mentioned are country and Lucinda Williams in top notch. You may also want to consider Miranda Lambert and ...of course Willie Nelson. Another ,and yes he is touring, is the great Merle Haggard.
@mcdainty4202
3 жыл бұрын
RIP Merle.
@nwk38
10 жыл бұрын
Great song,incredibly well done. A version of this and also extraordinary is sung by Mumford and Sons with Emmylou Harris.
@mechablastoise
13 жыл бұрын
@happytime64 if you liked this vid that much than i think you would enjoy Crooked Still's version as well this is the best performance that i found. Crooked Still's masterful arrangment of Gillian Welch's
@Tigrebleau1
11 жыл бұрын
Res ipso loquitor: the thing speaks for itself. In this case the music represents itself regardless of interpretation or caviling about "authenticity". The "whole point of her music" is that you should enjoy it, and if you can't, then don't listen.
@patriciamoore1908
3 жыл бұрын
I am an Orphan Girl too
@Raju_Alpha_patriot
3 жыл бұрын
hi! my name is raju _ from India my dream is to love orphon girl and understanding her acceptances based marry her .....Raju from India
@hailstonejohn
12 жыл бұрын
Wow truly a beautiful song... well sung...gets down to what music and life is about!! Cheers
@Frisbieinstein
6 жыл бұрын
That guitar solo is something else.
@JasonUmbrellabird
11 жыл бұрын
Ralph Stanley, Norman Blake, John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Emmylou and the rest would slap you down for saying that.
@uniqueninjaful
11 жыл бұрын
Gillian Welch describes herself as folk.
@Trollificusv2
12 жыл бұрын
@wanderer686 Very good description. On this version, Rawlins plays like Willie Nelson has always dreamed of playing. And of course, he "gets" Gillians' songs perfectly.
@happytime64
13 жыл бұрын
As a single man wanting to adopt through the foster system, this song encourages me to persist in my efforts. I know a man who got to adopt his 2 foster girls and they have been welcomed with open arms by friends and extended family of the dad. I hope for my own success story. Add this song to Gillian's "By The Marks" as my favorite songs.
@lordsuperfred
13 жыл бұрын
saw Gillian and Dave at Brighton , the best show I have seen in years , sadly they did not sing this , but I could not complain , if there a better picker than Dave Rawlings I have never heard him
@alkryz1
6 жыл бұрын
This song has been in my heart forever.Thanks Gillian.
@martinhitchcock7248
7 жыл бұрын
If Ms Welch is not herself an orphan, a song like this is an eye opener to the concept of channeling from other Souls? Or perhaps, her ability to perceive at such a depth that modern common sense cannot explain. But then again, common sense is anything but common. Anyway, I'm running on here...
@martinhitchcock7248
7 жыл бұрын
And a note to Ms Welch if she may read this -- thank you for sharing your gifts with us. This song blew me out of my socks & knocked me to the sidewalk.
@maureenelizabethscott1535
7 жыл бұрын
So beautiful!
@bazthehandyman
4 жыл бұрын
Lovely couple with music from heaven.
@christarasp5791
7 жыл бұрын
You probably are God's favourite child and blessed.
@DaStoneboat
5 жыл бұрын
Bless our orphan souls...
@sirfrancisdrake4285
5 жыл бұрын
Walk Beside Us All.
@webnet15
7 жыл бұрын
Beautiful..........
@Gonecountryin1999
11 жыл бұрын
I agree. Country is truly where I learned to sing and play guitar I love it.
@TheAnnayin
10 жыл бұрын
love this
@crflowergoddess
4 жыл бұрын
I love this so much
@Trollificusv2
13 жыл бұрын
Thanx for the quality sound on this upload. This is one of her greats. Probably in the top 50 or so of the greatest songs she's written. I swear, she's the best songwriter this side of Richard Thompson.
@charlieduncan2007
2 жыл бұрын
Sorry, but she knocks Richard into a cocked hat as songwriter and vocalist, good though he is, and the same goes for Dave as a guitarist.
@Paxyart
11 жыл бұрын
pure gold !
@Rainmakers84
11 жыл бұрын
Indiscernable to me from the studio version.
@echad5698
7 жыл бұрын
Best duo out there
@t4texastomjohnnycat978
6 жыл бұрын
Two of the most talented people on the planet.
@twistersurvivor
11 жыл бұрын
WestChesterny, you of course know the Appalachian Mountains extend to New York. She may not reflect the good ole Appalachian hillbilly culture I grew up with but I believe it's in her blood, her heart and her soul. Her talent is undeniable and if being a manufactured, no substance, hack was her goal she would've chose pop music.Choosing this music while being raised in LA
@2cruiz4vr
13 жыл бұрын
Love the studio music to your images.
@InspirationalDawn
5 жыл бұрын
♥️❣️🎶🎶🎶🎵🎶
@bogdanmirzakabilov
11 ай бұрын
Her pronouncation reminds me of Dolores O'Riordan and it feels so well. What a song, what a performance.
@lindanorris2455
4 жыл бұрын
LOve Gillian!
@toddiusmaximus3103
7 жыл бұрын
classic track of times gone by.
@SmooveBee1
9 ай бұрын
So nice ... so just .. so nice. thank you GW and DR. Awesome.
@Gonecountryin1999
11 жыл бұрын
So pretty!
@itsem100
10 ай бұрын
Such a sad song for me, but oh so nice to listen to...
@robdevilliers666
Жыл бұрын
Fabulous version. You can smell the sawdust.
@fnupfnup
12 жыл бұрын
Wonderful.
@taraharrison8381
4 жыл бұрын
What's the point of this song? When you're dead you'll be happy? People need to step up and support former (adult) foster youth and adoption fails and not look away, leave them to be off and on homeless and then hate them for collecting welfare. You don't leave it to prayer, or to god. You be gratefulfor the privilege of resources and family and share it fairly. This song really says orphans you're better off dead. But good she raised it to consciousness in song. People always talk about responsibility not having any sense of it for others themselves. Your life is not just for you.
@westchesterny
12 жыл бұрын
NOT REALLY--- She's from NYC and otherwise raised in LA. If you are really from the South and Appalachia, you HEAR what a poseur she is. It's a real shame. She's "marketed" as if she speaks for people who don't really believe in ideas such as this. It's soul-less. It's a good mimic of the voice and sound---but she is not really from it, and she destroys the real culture completely (which is the whole point of her music, really)
@sunnyseacat6857
Жыл бұрын
Gillian is the real deal. I sing and like 1930s-1950s songs, long before my time. Who cares? If you like it, write it, play it, sing it.
@honestbutugly
6 жыл бұрын
She seemed so awkward and out of her elements at the Grammys on stage, better get used to it
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