Goin' Back to Harlan

[andthepharaohs]

@sgrindrod - I reckon it is.

[rainharper62]

Thanks for the link! and thank you whoever you are for posting the video!

[BLUEMOONGRASS]

NEW song about the fine folks in HARLAN and the coal mines...HILLS OF KENTUCKY..I used to haul coal outta Harlan back across clinch mountain into Tennessee...a song to sing around the campfires..add to your favorites.

[sunshinemaui]

I was raised in Harlan.  Love this!

[sgrindrod]

Is that Aly Bain on the fiddle?

[BroodofLoki]

how is this not the theme for "Justified"?

[dudleycunningham]

Merci, les soeurs McGarrigle et Emmylou: l'une de mes chansons preferées.

[UncleCharlieOakley]

Simple, stunning and soulful as always. Incomparable talents.

[travis37138]

My church is going on a mission trip to Harlan, KY in October...I've been looking at all videos & music about the place. When I came across this one.

That is CERTAINLY not Emmylou Harris on the 5-string, Larrivee acoustic bass...because it's me.

[rainharper62]

@travis37138 If thats you playing the five string--pretty darned good-I just wish that the sound on this video was better & you could hear the instruments clearer-its good tho-thanks for playing in this-i really enjoyed this

[wrongwayup]

@rainharper62 There is a better quality version on dailymotion. Not really ideal, but hey, at least it exists online. :)

[Francieska]

RIP Kate....thank you for the music.

[luesdurut]

love you so much, kate :(

[PogueMahoneX]

Beautiful.

R.I.P. Kate.

[cuzinkevin]

God bless Kate

[tinmiloutin]

Aurevoir, chère Kate! Tu vas nous manquer tellement, mais ta musique continuera de nous bercer!

[TheBitterWeed]

Great stuff. RIP Kate.

[Alaidh]

Kate McGarrigle is playing the banjo. She died yesterday at the age of 63 after battling cancer. She's going to be missed.

[woodscritter]

Just for clarification, Anna is playing the banjo, and Kate- guitar.

Bracketing their good friend Emmylou.

[Alaidh]

@woodscritter Nope, other way around. Kate is playing the banjo and Anna is singing lead while playing the guitar. I'm sure of this.

[unionguy36]

Those are Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Canadian singer/songwriter sister duo. Anna McGarrigle wrote the song.

[Petie1]

As a child from this place,I love the that place and those who give it beautiful props!...Nice!

[CoalMinerJack]

Makes an old miner like me feel good.

[CoalMinerJack]

Makes my heart feel good to hear this song.

[dino6161]

Emmylou is in the grey hair and red top...

[kaja66]

UN YAWN

[FAUSTORICCARDO]

Like this song.

Where is Emmylou, the Great Muse, all goes to be Great.

Beautiful Trio.

[Twolfe38]

Love it, love it. Haunting and "nourishing."

[timothy81]

i... just.... love.... it

[jeannevdb]

thank you, Helmut, great song!

[gxtthebest]

bEST SONG of the McGarrigle sisters...

[Caritone]

Great Voices, Great Interpretation. I Like the Song too. Thanks for posting.

[gxtthebest]

yOU can't beat those voices. I saw them performing and would run again to see them...they have much appeal...

[49Classic]

Very nice.

mike in harlan

[texasbluegrassfan]

If I had any musical talent whatsoever, I would want it to be like this! Absolutely outstanding!

[woodscritter]

Incredible assembly of talent there, in fact. Aly Bain and Jay Ungar, no less, in the string section.

If we're lucky, maybe dvd of Transatlantic Sessions 1 (source of this video) will be released in NTSC-compat. (US TV) form. 3:30 of excellence.

[helmuthoorn]

The echo of the melancholy for every rural childhood paradise for ever lost.

Great song !

[cuzinkevin]

Pure Magic

[Skatchat]

yeah well, my name is harlan

[wrongwayup]

Quite possibly one of the most beautiful songs I know. And then I mean this performance from Transatlantic Sessions.

[napier4721]

The song would Be very good remade But not with the Music bleanding in with the Song words is bad, " No Sycamores!! harlan has lots of Sycamores.. Harlan, Ireland Maybe??

[unitedcheerstar]

no harlan kentucky!

[napier4721]

The Music is outstanding, But the words to the Song is mombo-jumbo. I can't understand meany of the words.Balsams in Harlan ? I was a logger and I never seen a Balsam tree in harlan. I knew Willie Moore & "Barbara" Allen

[JohnCronin103]

You all should chack "Desperadoes on a train." Nancy on Letterman. Get me sound.

[overtone83]

You what bad month the song and yet you can't even spell words correctly.

[yourstubely93]

Nice song, and we are happy to have this interpretation here. But... this song is also in "Songbird". Played by Emmylou alone. Main feature being the deep sound of her fantastic bass guitar. The tempo is as of a train that can't be stopped... it's truly elating... it's exhilarating... it's inebriating!! I "shoot" myself listening at it endlessly, back-to-back...

[dubbedcrazy]

Emmy on bass guitar.......how intriguing.

she kills me too............whew i'm not alone....

this is a great tune by anna mcgarrigle.....lol i don't think theres a harlan in canada( except for my friend named harlan in b.c.) ya never know.

[inindian]

Hello dubbedcrazy, but do my eyes not see the same things as you do...I don't see Emmylou on bass here!? I do agree about the great song tho. And I love Emmylou's version on her Wrecking Ball album.

[SonofEmmy2]

Emmylou is not on bass, she is sitting with her hands folded atop her knee, singing. There is a grey-haired woman on the banjo, but she is not Emmylou.

[dubbedcrazy]

yeah, i was trippin! thanks for pointing that out *_*

i hope she teams up with lanois again.

wrecking ball is on another level.

[greygland]

i was qouted 75$ for a dvd... do a google search

[Ruda59]

Unless you played in the woods as a kid it is hard to understand this song. We pretended to be the queen of the woods around us and imagined lovers who hid in the tangled vines we swung from. I wish young people could grow up in the woods and fields as I did!

[clarkiedizzile]

I understand the song because I love the woods and I am from Harlan County...

[Dapruex]

HARLAN ROCKS, I am from Harlan living in a city now and I will say this: ,,, Give me the country and mountains anyday over the filth and evils of the city.... Harlan is the last Untouched land, people that love her know her,,,Soon Harlan will be gone and along with it a Great Lifestyle and Memories of yYesterYear, when Life was Grand and Clean!... (Jdapro) Canada

[jakeboggs27]

NIcely put. I'm also from Harlan and now living in the city, and couldn't agree with you more.

[kaja66]

YAWN

[banjobanjar]

The women who wrote this song would be horrified by the xenophobia expressed by some of these posts. You might consider withdrawing them.

[kingpleasure]

Yes the song is a longing for a childhood of playing in the woods, made more poignant by "growing up by and by". They played at being characters from old Anglo/Irish folk songs like "Willie Moore, Barbara Allen and Fair Ellen". The McGarriles are from a tradition of singing old timey songs as a family activity. All those references in the lyrics are to the names of old fiddle tunes: Shady Grove, the Bells of Rhymney, Bounce the Bow, Rock the Gallows, the Hangman's Reel, and Wake the Devil.

[coriolan92whybanned]

I must find all the missing Transatlantic sessions tapes ...

[Eddyoliver]

If you do ever find them, please let everyone know so that we can share this wonderful music.

[jeanhoel]

... when you played about the forest floor , was this diamond under a wet fallen leaf ? ... if the heart is a target , this , reaches the middle.