Dick Gaughan with Emmylou Harris - Both Sides The Tweed

[servitrad]

Emmylou, I love you !

[ibitron1]

Fan-fecking-tastic!!!!

[psalmer54]

Emmylou isn't struggling with the song because it doesn't suit her, she just doesn't know it well enough, or at least this version. Her rhythm is a little off and that's all it takes to distract.

[gaconnochie]

@psalmer54 It's from the Transatlantic Session series and basically the musicians turn up and just go over song two or three times before making the recordings. There's no real proper rehearsal. So yes I supect you are right in that she probably just doesn't know it that well.

[Blindleoblake66]

farted there freedom for gain???



[Blindleoblake66]

aye

[ianthecook]

How did he manage to keep his dirty hands off her? I'd have thrown down the guitar half way through and chased her 'round the studio.

[xanthine123]

@ianthecook jobby talk

[ianthecook]

@xanthine123 Oh, lighten up. Dick's only human. I'm sure the thought crossed his mind. Chasing the world's most beautiful woman around the studio while Jerry Douglas plays the Benny Hill theme on the dobro is hardly jobby talk. It's a perfectly normal thing to think about.

[hjortshoj]

Dick Gaughan playing his own song "Both Sides The Tweed". A great song about peace. Wish more people would listen to this song...

[kaja66]

i could listen to this guy read the phone book

[yippierb]

Dick and

Eemmy Lou wow

[VeefDaddy]

And Jerry freakin' Douglas and Russ freakin' Barenberg. The Ta Sessions were really remarkable. I never regret picking them up at import prices.

[carolinekstanley]

Beautiful

[rickbarrel73]

Fantastic version of the legendary classic included in Handful of Earth!

[scottstanton1]

Great !!

[cdogse7]

perfered the dodgy piano sound on handfull of earth

[DonegalRaymie201]

@cdogse7

That was a Harpsichord brainless, not a piano!

[katzentopf]

i play this on my guitar

[Altaiiiir]

not bad

but boyscouts version is better ;P

[TheFiatLux]

hurrah! Good stuff.

[aspectsdecor]

dick makes this song his own his voice is suited so well see him live he is worth every penny come back to greenock any time

[franbrid]

Dick's voice grows with maturity,but what

a lucky guy to sing with his own Heroine Emmylou Harris

[rosesredvioletsblue]

Beautiful, ,haunting song. I love this. Dick Gaughan's voice is rich and captures

one's heart. Emmylou harmonizes so well with him. Superb. 5 stars!

[Blindleoblake66]

Wipes a wee tear from the eye, love it.

[Mariekesone]

Dick Gaughan...one of Scotland greatest folksingers...Just Brilliant....

Nice to see him sharing his brilliance with other musicians...

[MehefinHeulog]

Let virtue distinguish the brave

Place riches in lowest degree

Think them poorest who can be a slave

Them richest who dare to be free

brilliant arrangement, just stunning

thank you for posting this

[yippierb]

Having been a fan of both since the dark ages. I don't think that Emmy Lou struggles to sing anything. However if she was not on this session it would not suffer. Dick's voice is strong and gains from it's singularity.

[giorgiopicker]

dick gaughan forever!!!!

[gersp987]

Absolutely superb. Love it.

[cycloneaxe]

i know this is a good vid,but i feel emmylou struggles with this song,seems out of her comfort zone,i know shes a mega musician but this aint her style,just a personal opinion tho.

[jen8infinity]

I think I agree with you. I love Emmylou, but not on this song. I'm absolutely in love with Gaughan, though. He could sing the phone book to me and I'd be his forever.

[DonegalRaymie201]

You're bang om here! Emmylou is singing in the background and adding little, unlike Jerry Douglas, who's Dobro is excellent and welcome!

[crlcripps]

It certainly doesn't showcase her voice, which is normally magnificent. And I agree about the dobro!

[shrunkenheadache]

I have just found this dvd for sale in the U.K. in an internet shop but cannot find the track listing.Could you please tell me what tracks Emmylou performs on.

Thank you

[mnemonyxx]

Google WHIRLIEDVD2 and click one of the musicinscotland links - there's full track/performer listings.

HTH.

[IRVINEDRUM]

Thanks Mnemonyxx for showing this song. My Grt Grt Grandfather worked near the Tweed. He worked for Sir Walter Scott's 1st cousin and after Scott's death, with Sir Walter's

Factor William Laidlaw. Thanks again

Regards

Mike

West Australia.

[irishlike1]

Scotlands voice himself! Dick Gaughan is so brilliant. Hope to see him playing on stage someday! Both Sides The Tweed is a great song!

[DonegalRaymie201]

Have had the pleasure, and he will not disapoint! Hope to see him again live before the year's oot! Saw him January past playing to about 100 people crammed into a big front room near Perth and he had us enthralled! Us, a guitar and Dick nose to nose, it was heaven!

[abadan29]

he is simple & pure ,i guss he is grat .

[johnfinbarburke]

i heard Dick Gaughan for the first time tonight ... what a fuckin talent ... i was in aw

[DonegalRaymie201]

You have just joined the ranks of the blessed then! You never forget your first Gaughaning!

[brother1ray]

Yes He is, he is even better seen live! A true trubabour!

[DamianNixon]

Yes indeedy.

[danlay]

Not that it matters, but Russ Barenberg is actually playing the mandolin

[mnemonyxx]

Oops. Thanks for pointing out my slip.

[LochMeikle]

Good news for all fans is the release of the DVD "Transatlantic Sessions: Series 3" bringing together the best of Nashville, Ireland and Scotland to perform what has been called "the greatest backporch shows ever".

All of the six half-hour programmes from the BBC/RTÉ TV series are included, recorded in a beautiful old converted farm steading in the Perthshire Highlands.

[bemisuk]

we were talking about this song in our last rehearsal - beautiful stuff.

Dick Gaughan is an amazing performer.

- and as people have been saying, Emmylou Harris is a great addition.

Lovely arrangement with the dobro etc too...

[BardofCornwall]

Great bluegrass twist on the Scottish song. Nice instrumentals.

[wrongwayup]

That little solo piece on the dobro sounds amazing within this song.

[schaf913]

Lovely song. I heard Dick Gaughan playing at the Marchioness of Bute in Cardiff some 30 years ago. He was superb then too.

[scati1971]

Lovely to hear some Scottish tunes, God Bless from your Irish cousin.

[NSResponder]

Did Gaughan write this song?

-jcr

[mnemonyxx]

See the link I just added to the description box.

[gaspode18]

@NSResponder The lyrics are traditional but Dick modernised them a bit. He did write the tune, though.

[Cruitheach]

It's believed to have been written by James Hogg

[gaspode18]

@Cruitheach The Ettrick Shepherd? I'm not surprised. It had to be either him or Burns - nobody else could write it, really. It's a lovely verse.

[Cruitheach]

@gaspode18 I heartily agree!

[gaconnochie]

@gaspode18 I think people have suggested Hogg may have written it but there is no evidence that he actually did. As far as I know the words are by that prolific Mr Anon :-)

[naxi55500555]

@NSResponder  Grandiose ..

[SonofEmmy2]

Are you people on drugs? Emmylou Harris posesses one of the most unique, pure, and absolutely beautiful voices in the history of mankind.  She has 13 Grammy awards to prove her massive critical succes in music. Anyone who does not appreciate the pure instrument that is Emmylou Harris' voice has been polluting their ears with the overdrawn shreaks of modern day music's so called "artists".

[McAroe]

Good song!

[murfleblurg]

There's a reason Emmy Lou Harris shows up more or less everywhere. She doesn't have a great voice, but "a great voice" isn't always what you want - you want someone with impeccable musical taste whose voice shades the music rather than taking possession of it.

[FloatingGrin]

She's not taking possession of the song because she's there to sing harmony and she knows how to do it...better than anybody. She has the most beautiful voice I've ever heard, an angel in heaven.

[longhairedbeatnik]

@FloatingGrin an angel in heaven ? emmylou is still with us thank the lord.

[McAroe]

Who is Emmylou Harris? is she a bad singer or somethin?

[SonofEmmy2]

Someone should stone you......

[hjortshoj]

Emmylou overrated???!!! Ignorants! She is truly wonderful and her voice will add to any song.

[yobnez]

I agree...gauvhan is brilliant, as is Jerry Douglas. But Emmylou?...naw totally overrated...begone wench!

[Verified1]

I'd love to see some Gaughan videos sans Emmylou Harris. To my taste, she's always been overrated and her voice doesn't really add to this beautiful song. Thanks for the post,though! The Dobro is wonderful.

[graeme0309]

Please, please, please - from the same show "Trans-Atlantic Sessions": can you please post Dougie MacLean and EmmyLou singing "This Love Will Carry".......? That would be brilliant. Thanks.

[Revelations]

The guitar player is Russ Barenberg, a bluegrass guitar master known for his great tone.

[alderbaran1]

This whole BBC series is marvelous. Is a DVD available?

[zappc]

He is one of the greatest I think, since the first time I heard his voice in the seventees.

[Caryngoth]

It is a beautiful song.

[westphalianprinz]

Nota bene: The River Tweed forms the border between Scotland and England. Also one of the ancestral dogs of the golden retriever (a Scottish breed) is the Tweed Water Spaniel, the dog of the market hunters along the mouth of the Tweed.

[MarkStrat]

Very Strong. Great slide player, does anybody know who that is ?

The bassplayer looks a bit as if she's doing the ironing though.

[mnemonyxx]

I always put all the personnel info I can in the description - click the (more) button. :-)

[MarkStrat]

tx for that, I didn't notice.

[derfeus]

That's Jerry Douglas - the king of the Dobro. He can sit in on any musical scenario and elevate it to a knew level. I think he holds the record for being on the most albums of any musician.

[parhal]

Thanks for this! He has been one of my all time favorite singers since I first heard him in the eighties. Anyone have a recording of him singing Song for Ireland?

[IBM59]

It's on Handful of Earth.

[warwolf4215]

Genius, a true Genuis.

Thanks for posting this

[jeanhoel]

... STRONG !!! ... voice , song , harmonies !!! ...

[WizardBogle01]

This is really truley wonderful thanks for adding that Dick Gaughan is a great singer/player. Beautifal song he wrote.