You don't need to be a fan a bluegrass to know that these are some seriously talented musicians. And how bad could a guy who sings about a Vincent Black Lightning be anyway? Just sayin'
My favorite version is still Richard Thompson's; that's not the point. He wrote an amazing song, and this is an amazing cover by one of my all-time favorite vocal talents and perhaps the tightest bluegrass band to ever take stage. Their version of Get Down on Your Knees and Pray sends shivers, and showcases how amazing their harmonies could be. It's an amazing video, to say the least.
I don't understand all this stuff about this is better than that, this is very different from RT, a fantastic interpretation I'm sure RT is delighted by this cover.
Cant believe anybody COULDNT like this. Del can do this with so much heart it will bring tears to yer eyes. Just couldnt quite feel the same about Richard Thompson, but he does it really good too. No offense Richard....
My brother Peter is a big Richard Thompson fan. He taught me this song one summer. Meanwhile, my family planned to take me to see the 'Down from The Mountain' concert that followed the "O Brother Where Art Thou?" movie. Out comes Del and the Boys....singing this song. One of the high points of my musical life. I will never forget that night. Gives me goosebumps just remembering it. And I have been a singer for 30 years.
i saw Del, Ronnie do this in cambridge ma a few years ago, its an amazing rendition awesome. another amazing version is the way reckless kelly does it! great play back to back....
I'm a massive Thompson fan, second to none, and I LOVE this version. Dell McCoury is superb, makes it his own. Just shows what a superb piece of music it is. And what great taste McCoury has. One of the best bluegrass bands out there.
I'm a massive Thompson fan, second to none, and I LOVE this version. Dell McCoury is superb, makes it his own. Just shows what a superb piece of music it is.
To all that think the original is better or conveys the message better you are wrong. The timing in this version is better and easier to listen to. The message is just as clear
@profdobro that's funny. you clearly haven't *LISTENED* to much RT or his oringal version. It's decidedly Brithish in tone, something completely lost by Del's version, which is nice but just doesn't compare.
@profdobro No matter whos plays it , in whatever genre its still a great song.. its a swine to sing tho. Reckless Kelly do a good upto date version on here & I,ve even heard a Heavy Rock version at a bike rally in the UK. I think everyone has thier personal favorite. That must be very flattering for RT. I,m really supprised this song did,nt go more mainstream.
@IHRGL thanks...I had no idea. I have been to Pennsylvania several times on business. It has some very nice people and beautiful countryside. I will never live outside of Texas, but Pennsylvania is a good place to visit.
@ElectricLabel LOL...I was thinking EXACTLY that!! Now, there's nothing wrong with doing this song in an old-timey, or bluegrass style...I just think poor old Del hasn't understood the song except the chord structure. Yee-hah! We're all-a-gonna-die.....
@acousticvillage If you don't like it, just don't watch it. Del McCoury has one of the finest voices and heads one of the finest bands ever sang bluegrass. By the way, in case you did not know, bluegrass is all about "old-timey" style.
@chinesecresteddoll Bluegrass is different from Old Timey although they are related. I like Del. Doing RT's song in a bluegrass style is ok...but I maintain that it doesn't get the feel or sense of the story across at all. Playing "Vincent" in Del's particular light and happy style just doesn't compare to the real thing. Like Peter Paul and Mary doing Blowing In The Wind. But you have to listen to it in order to reach this view. I have watched it twice. Won't watch it again. Still respect Del.
Picture yourself standing in a little corner of a big meadow in Golden Gate Park with the sun just starting to go down, gorgeous long-haired hippie girls and their dreadlocked boyfriends doing some kind of skipping spinning dance in zig-zags all around you and about 200 other people, little kids chasing butterflies, a cold Pabst Blue Ribbin on your hand, and Del up on stage jamming this tune, and you will be picturing yourself in one of the best moments of my life.
It is an honour to Richrad that these guys did this. But, good grief, talk about a pathetic version completely missing the feel that Richard gives it. Nice try, lads, but, please, not again.
@PlaztecPpl richard thompson is a good artist in his own right, but when it comes to bluegrass legends there are very few that match del mccoury. over fifty years of consistently good stuff - very few can meet that. these guys can hang big dog...richard may be out of his league in this one
I saw them do this in Bristol at the Paramount a few years ago. They are the premier traveling bluegrass act today. if you get the chance to see them.....take it.
One of my alltime fave bluegrass groups I had the pleasure of seeing them perform at Hornings Hideout several years ago, what a great place to enjoy these guys play their music........cheers
I only heard this song, first time, about 2-3 years ago. I'm as real a bike rider as there can be; started in 67, now I am a leg amputee, courtesy the dread tin top..... but I'd give the other one..... for a red haired girl and that Vincent 52!
(Actually knew a guy who owned one. Any Aussies know of Dan Grice?)
I just saw these guys live at the American Theater in Lancaster this past Sunday. as soon as Del asked 'any requests', this was it. wonderful artist and that band was TIGHT!
I love this but don't like how he changed the lyric from Box Hill to Knoxville. Why did they feel the need to try and make it American? Its a very english song about a very english Motorcycle.
@shemomos-You're an idiot, I was stating that Americans are always innovators when it comes to music. Jazz, Blues, Bluegrass are all American born. And this cover by Del and the boys has become more popular than the original performed by the singer-song writer-Richard Thompson.
@shemomos-You're an idiot, I was stating that Americans are always innovators when it comes to music. Jazz, Blues, Bluegrass are all American born. And this cover by Del and the boys has become more popular than the original performed by the singer-song writer-Richard Thompson-I feel sorry for ignorant people who get on here, and are too stupid to even express how they feel. So they have to say f**k you, because that's as far as their education or social skills have taken them in life.
@ettajames2luv As much as I like this version, you are very very very wrong to say it has become more popular than the original by Richard Thompson! Where on earth did you get that 'fact' from?!? It really hasnt, Thompsons will always be the quintessential version and noone will ever beat. Ive seen him perform it live and noone can touch the intensity of his performance. Also why talk about american innovation here? This is a very english song about an english bike! Ur comment is very misplaced
@GavDuggan1983- You won't find a bigger RT fan than me, since his 'Fairport Convention days. (I know the back story -He wanted to create a truly English folk song) My opinion (not fact) = the popular music scene has embraced this version. (Not that it compares to RT's) When Del plays this song the crowd goes crazy, most unaware it's an RT song. (The unfortunate "unknown" status "popular music" gives truly talented artist.) But innovative & clever to do this song B.G. style
If someone is motivated to take the time to complain about this singing, they just don't get it. That sort of highly ignorant comment would suggest the commenter were dropped out of the sky into 'now' without any connection to history or culture or music, but all the while unknowlingly full of great ignorance of why this particular sound is so appealing because it actually and intentionally does sound the way it does.
But who can argue with brash ignorance on display.
Along with Rober Earl Keen's "Road Goes On Forever" this is the greatest "criminal-on-the-run-with-his-woman" song in rock & roll history. Thanks Mr. Thompson
I saw these guys a while back. They put on an excellent show then stood in the lobby and signed autographs until the last person there who wanted an autograph got one. They are full of grace and class!!!
I was wandering around the walmart yesterday with my cousin, and we could hardly believe our eyes when Del walked by us. My favorite walmart experience hands down.
@plonker00765 if you dont like his singing dont listen to it but dont trash him because him and his band r awesome y cant ppl just follow the rule if you dont have nething nice to say dont say nething at all Del is a very famous bluegrass singer and will always be rememberd just like gibson and many others
@banjohombre hang on i'll clamp my nuts in a vice and try,nope, thats painful and sounds even worse than dels voice, seriously though richard thompson is a world class song writer,thanks for the tip on dimming of the day, i'll check it out.
NOBODY TELLS this love story about a hot motorcycle and a hot red head like Del does. I can see her face and eyes and that RED HAIR ON BLACK LEATHER my favorite color scheme.what a GAL !! and the band is settin it on fire.
Love the way he does this song...it was amazing live at the Princeton Theature in myu home down of Decatur, AL...Tells a hell of a story and its fun to play on the guitart.
Lovely to listen to, brings a quickening to your step doesn't it! Religion doesn't enter into this. Spiritually, this band is doing just what they need to do! Bravo!
Alright all of you guys shut up. I'm an Atheist (cosmically Agnostic but when it comes to Christianity I'm Atheist) and I very much enjoyed BOTH those songs. Songs of redemption and sin cross all religious boundary lines because at the root of them is a human emotion which we all possess.
I,m just amazed how comments on a RT song about a classic Brit motorcycle, covered by a bluegrass band ( very well IMHO) has become a battle ground for religeous willy waving. WTH ?? cant ya just comment bout the song ? Or find the million & one vids on tube to sound off about ya views ? , jus my tuppence worth :)
Such a shame to see a great band doing, "christian" crap. We don't share the same ideas on reality. They eliminated many people by offending them. Best kept to yourself. Here's a clue, investigate your idea of yourself, your ego, and realize it is not stable, it is a bunch of ideas, concepts and therefore not real. The only "god" is the one inside you, covered up by your restless mind
@rotagen5 Yeah, a baby just appeared one day and then another baby appeared and they reproduced and then became the world we all know today.
That's nonsense. Something had to create us. What created us wasn't evil. Christianity is the closet thing religion to not being evil. Jesus was a man without sin. I believe in Christ. Like any religion, people may not be true believers; or people may try to sabotage the religion.
God also says he will come back for his believers, not followers. So...
@k0ma1337 uhh yeah... so two adults just appearing from nowhere and then populated the world makes more sense?? It's called evolution, it is real, and to deny that is dangerous... now did something create the universe for it to happen? Who knows... but then who created the creator??
@k0ma1337 uhh yeah... so two adults just appearing from nowhere and then populating the world makes more sense?? It's called evolution, it is real, and to deny that is dangerous... now did something create the universe for it to happen? Who knows... but then who created the creator??
@moesciphish I believe in Christ, not organized religion. I believe Jesus was real, and the red text in the bible was true. You got to understand during the Crusades a lot of the scriptures were lost or burned, King James didn't obtain all or complete scriptures. And when it says God created earth he created Men not Man and the animals, it doesn't say how this occurred. You nvr know we cud have evolved, we're supposedly 96% ape, so I don't rule it out. Who created God? I'll ask him when we meet.
@moesciphish I look at it like this, when you put 30 people in a line and tell them to pass on a sentence, the 30th persons sentence will not be anywhere near the first persons sentence. That's the way I look at the Bible. Humans tend to exaggerate, so that's why I don't believe everything in the Bible. I know God is real and I know Jesus died for me and the sins of all of us. We are his creation, he had to show us somehow. Satan betrayed him and they are betting on our souls.
@rotagen5 what a crock... I will say I am probably one of the biggest opponents of organized religion you will ever meet, and I think Christianity is up there with the top "evil" religions with the amount of blood that has been shed in its name and corruption, ignorance, and shear stupidity involved with it. But Del can believe what he wants to believe, he's not forcing his beliefs on you, you're the one trying to do that... he's simply singing a song, and it's a traditional song at that...
as a father of a very young one, I can only imagine the joy Del must get from being up there on stage with his sons, doing probably what they love most in the world, and watching them play the way they do
I saw this when PBS aired it in 2002 and I didn't know the name of the song. I've been looking for it ever since! Thank you for posting, I absolutely love this song!
One of the best songs I've ever heard. Give that to RT. But this is easily the best version.
Let's face it, RT just doesn't come across as very comfortable with himself. His recordings, to me, are just short of excruciating in their self-indulgence.
He is much better in person (saw him at the Mystic in Petaluma a few months ago) -- interacts well with the audience and warms to them. That doesn't come across to me in his recorded performances.
What a great version of this some...IMO the best...the solos are just super....and just right! I saw Del and the boys perform this last year at Podunk...every bit as good and polished as in this vid...what a treat....
When Del Mc. and co. took this to the top the Bluegrass chart, it paid for an extension on Thommo's house (RT said in a radio interview - Jo-El-Sonnier's Tear-Stained Letter paid for the other extension). But it did much more than that, to have *the* best bluegrass in the world cover one of your songs is as good as it gets...
One of my favorite shows they played in Decatur,AL in 2007. they played this song when I seen them. just about brought me to tears. you can tell they love to play.
I've been checking out this vid. since 2.09.07 and comented on it perhaps too much. I onced promised not to say another word BUT....DAMN ! (it's in me and gots to come out ) The entire thing is just Perfect.
I still wonder 'Why no standing OV'"?
I've seen Larry Gatlin get a standing OV @ an 11:00 am show there. Makes no sense..although the audience obviously loved it.
i got this cd plus a few from ricky skaggs and one from the whites for between $1.50 and $2 each form a local electronics store. damn fine introduction to modern bluegrass.
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MrBigdaddyOHIO 4 days ago
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MrBigdaddyOHIO 5 days ago
Puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure Bluegrass!!! Wow! Thank you very much for sharing
hebertracicot 3 weeks ago
What a great song :)
wizrado 1 month ago
you know you should really just leave those 24 people alone, its just there opinion, so who really cares.....
deadchefbill 2 months ago
24 people just don't get it.
BamaBack1271 2 months ago
You don't need to be a fan a bluegrass to know that these are some seriously talented musicians. And how bad could a guy who sings about a Vincent Black Lightning be anyway? Just sayin'
slammybones 2 months ago
My favorite version is still Richard Thompson's; that's not the point. He wrote an amazing song, and this is an amazing cover by one of my all-time favorite vocal talents and perhaps the tightest bluegrass band to ever take stage. Their version of Get Down on Your Knees and Pray sends shivers, and showcases how amazing their harmonies could be. It's an amazing video, to say the least.
JohnApricot 2 months ago
My all-time favorite McCoury effort. It just glides.
01arbyrd 2 months ago
Bless you for this, Del.
bilgeratjim 2 months ago
Red hair and black leather is also my favorite color scheme.
ronelvis 3 months ago
thank god for rednecks :)
GuitarGod9856 3 months ago
Beautiful music!
fredkoning 3 months ago
huh?
hulleeseeya 3 months ago
I don't understand all this stuff about this is better than that, this is very different from RT, a fantastic interpretation I'm sure RT is delighted by this cover.
petgerco 3 months ago
Soul Music of the highest order!
guitarcheologist 4 months ago
Cant believe anybody COULDNT like this. Del can do this with so much heart it will bring tears to yer eyes. Just couldnt quite feel the same about Richard Thompson, but he does it really good too. No offense Richard....
Whiskeybuisness 4 months ago
It isn't a bad version but the original is too emotional to me for another person to do it justice.
zeolite2 4 months ago
This is so good I can't believe it; simply amazing performance…
trekleader 4 months ago
shivers...
rgriggs9 4 months ago
How good is that wow so cool!!!!!!!
faynes 4 months ago
23 people have no eardrums. YEEHAAAWWW!!!
send2meez 4 months ago
My brother Peter is a big Richard Thompson fan. He taught me this song one summer. Meanwhile, my family planned to take me to see the 'Down from The Mountain' concert that followed the "O Brother Where Art Thou?" movie. Out comes Del and the Boys....singing this song. One of the high points of my musical life. I will never forget that night. Gives me goosebumps just remembering it. And I have been a singer for 30 years.
mikekirley 5 months ago
i saw Del, Ronnie do this in cambridge ma a few years ago, its an amazing rendition awesome. another amazing version is the way reckless kelly does it! great play back to back....
cutchogue33 5 months ago
I'm a massive Thompson fan, second to none, and I LOVE this version. Dell McCoury is superb, makes it his own. Just shows what a superb piece of music it is. And what great taste McCoury has. One of the best bluegrass bands out there.
stickpictures 5 months ago
I'm a massive Thompson fan, second to none, and I LOVE this version. Dell McCoury is superb, makes it his own. Just shows what a superb piece of music it is.
stickpictures 5 months ago
Dude this is awesome
1RamTough 5 months ago
dumb hippies """"
dustinallen2006 5 months ago
These guys accept the audience like it's in the band
morriswil32 5 months ago
ricky skaggs is my favorite. going to see them aug 26 in watseka illinois at the watseka theatre.
rocmaven 5 months ago
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nothing I can say! whew
sotabob2 5 months ago
GREAT stuff! Love it!
old64goat 6 months ago
Best I ever herd'.I have the 50 years box set,this version is better.But I never Herd' Del do a bad one.
DUCK336 6 months ago
To all that think the original is better or conveys the message better you are wrong. The timing in this version is better and easier to listen to. The message is just as clear
profdobro 6 months ago 8
@profdobro that's funny. you clearly haven't *LISTENED* to much RT or his oringal version. It's decidedly Brithish in tone, something completely lost by Del's version, which is nice but just doesn't compare.
zolamando 4 months ago
@profdobro No matter whos plays it , in whatever genre its still a great song.. its a swine to sing tho. Reckless Kelly do a good upto date version on here & I,ve even heard a Heavy Rock version at a bike rally in the UK. I think everyone has thier personal favorite. That must be very flattering for RT. I,m really supprised this song did,nt go more mainstream.
oscarfish38 3 months ago
oh wow! what a tune
lmlOoOlml 6 months ago
Richard Thompson is by far better, it annoys me that this video is above his.
Fellatior 6 months ago
ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!
KENTENC 6 months ago
Yall should watch Kenny Baker play Denver Belle
1RamTough 6 months ago
My Gzrandfather personally Knows Del Mccoury. He went to school with him and were great friends i love bluegrass
IHRGL 6 months ago
True Southern Gentleman
kasstorey 7 months ago
@kasstorey he isnt southern Del McCoury is a York County or as we Pennsylvanians call it South County Pa and tell ya what we are country up here :)
IHRGL 6 months ago
@IHRGL thanks...I had no idea. I have been to Pennsylvania several times on business. It has some very nice people and beautiful countryside. I will never live outside of Texas, but Pennsylvania is a good place to visit.
kasstorey 5 months ago
Do they also do a happy version of "The Ballad of Hollis Brown"? If not, why not?
ElectricLabel 7 months ago 2
@ElectricLabel LOL...I was thinking EXACTLY that!! Now, there's nothing wrong with doing this song in an old-timey, or bluegrass style...I just think poor old Del hasn't understood the song except the chord structure. Yee-hah! We're all-a-gonna-die.....
acousticvillage 6 months ago
@acousticvillage If you don't like it, just don't watch it. Del McCoury has one of the finest voices and heads one of the finest bands ever sang bluegrass. By the way, in case you did not know, bluegrass is all about "old-timey" style.
chinesecresteddoll 6 months ago 19
@chinesecresteddoll Bluegrass is different from Old Timey although they are related. I like Del. Doing RT's song in a bluegrass style is ok...but I maintain that it doesn't get the feel or sense of the story across at all. Playing "Vincent" in Del's particular light and happy style just doesn't compare to the real thing. Like Peter Paul and Mary doing Blowing In The Wind. But you have to listen to it in order to reach this view. I have watched it twice. Won't watch it again. Still respect Del.
acousticvillage 6 months ago
@chinesecresteddoll He is also hillarious. He made me laugh whenever he wasn't singing... and even sometimes...
ajferet 3 months ago
@originalfunkyfrythis is a Bluegrass cover
different musical genre hence different feel. Not intended as a note for note replication down to the English accent
With Del's version you can almost feel the bike's RPMs (read up tempo)
RT focused on the painful chronicle of a wrecked life
banjohombre 7 months ago 2
What a great bluegrass story.
metman810 7 months ago
Red hair and leather, my favorite color scheme too!
360deeman 7 months ago
Del yeah!
TheCubanafrothunder 7 months ago 2
Thanks for this......Just awesome.....that's all I can say
eaks52 7 months ago
love Del an his band alot, this song blows my mind, love it,
tenbears27 7 months ago
Picture yourself standing in a little corner of a big meadow in Golden Gate Park with the sun just starting to go down, gorgeous long-haired hippie girls and their dreadlocked boyfriends doing some kind of skipping spinning dance in zig-zags all around you and about 200 other people, little kids chasing butterflies, a cold Pabst Blue Ribbin on your hand, and Del up on stage jamming this tune, and you will be picturing yourself in one of the best moments of my life.
originalfunkyfry 7 months ago
It is an honour to Richrad that these guys did this. But, good grief, talk about a pathetic version completely missing the feel that Richard gives it. Nice try, lads, but, please, not again.
sunaru1 7 months ago
I cried the first time I heard this, holy crap what a song
ypsetihw 8 months ago
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this is a fucking disgrace. get these pussies outta tha booth and put RT back in the mix. these clowns are clowns brah
PlaztecPpl 8 months ago
@PlaztecPpl good joke...
lattimorejd 8 months ago in playlist John Duffey Stuff
@lattimorejd richard thompson is a songwriting god, these guys cant hang
PlaztecPpl 8 months ago
@PlaztecPpl richard thompson is a good artist in his own right, but when it comes to bluegrass legends there are very few that match del mccoury. over fifty years of consistently good stuff - very few can meet that. these guys can hang big dog...richard may be out of his league in this one
lattimorejd 8 months ago
I saw them do this in Bristol at the Paramount a few years ago. They are the premier traveling bluegrass act today. if you get the chance to see them.....take it.
ironheadgrunt 8 months ago
Will be going to see the band tonight
AlyoshaK 8 months ago
One of my alltime fave bluegrass groups I had the pleasure of seeing them perform at Hornings Hideout several years ago, what a great place to enjoy these guys play their music........cheers
Lasercrew420 8 months ago
Saw these guys at Merlefest 2011 last friday night. Man, they were good. Del has the best high lonesome sound still around.
noseeumish 9 months ago
Good job fellas! One of my favorite songs. You do Richard Thompson proud.
iamtalamox 9 months ago
Del McCoury is a national treasure.
jnf91 9 months ago
damn....makes chills up my spine. Freakin great!
enlightenednow 9 months ago
godddamn....that's so freaking good I'm shaking
enlightenednow 9 months ago
Great double header!
dwcdaid 9 months ago
I only heard this song, first time, about 2-3 years ago. I'm as real a bike rider as there can be; started in 67, now I am a leg amputee, courtesy the dread tin top..... but I'd give the other one..... for a red haired girl and that Vincent 52!
(Actually knew a guy who owned one. Any Aussies know of Dan Grice?)
BlueHeeler1952 9 months ago
I just saw these guys live at the American Theater in Lancaster this past Sunday. as soon as Del asked 'any requests', this was it. wonderful artist and that band was TIGHT!
frymahhide1982 9 months ago
I love this but don't like how he changed the lyric from Box Hill to Knoxville. Why did they feel the need to try and make it American? Its a very english song about a very english Motorcycle.
GavDuggan1983 10 months ago
Wow. Love him, love the tales he tells and the songs he sings.
yldann23 10 months ago
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ive seen them many times ive even talked to him a couple of times and he knows my mom
deathfairy11652 10 months ago
ive seen them many times ive even talked to him a couple of times and he knows my mom
deathfairy11652 10 months ago
I play in a bluegrass band today because of these guys. Great band.
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gottalovebluegrass 10 months ago
I saw them live and they are the best most social act I ever saw. They are all great talents and was the best show I ever saw !!!
chadhys 10 months ago
Saw them last night along with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. They were so great!
Hyuna 10 months ago
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ettajames2luv 10 months ago
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ettajames2luv 10 months ago
Del sing in the traditional tone from the hills. Love listening to him and others play bluegrass.
daleallen45251 10 months ago
Think Richard would be proud, except he wrote this to be an English folk song and those darn American's just steal the show all the time.
ettajames2luv 10 months ago
@ettajames2luv fuck you america is awesome
shemomos 10 months ago
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@shemomos-You're an idiot, I was stating that Americans are always innovators when it comes to music. Jazz, Blues, Bluegrass are all American born. And this cover by Del and the boys has become more popular than the original performed by the singer-song writer-Richard Thompson.
ettajames2luv 10 months ago
@shemomos-You're an idiot, I was stating that Americans are always innovators when it comes to music. Jazz, Blues, Bluegrass are all American born. And this cover by Del and the boys has become more popular than the original performed by the singer-song writer-Richard Thompson-I feel sorry for ignorant people who get on here, and are too stupid to even express how they feel. So they have to say f**k you, because that's as far as their education or social skills have taken them in life.
ettajames2luv 10 months ago
@ettajames2luv As much as I like this version, you are very very very wrong to say it has become more popular than the original by Richard Thompson! Where on earth did you get that 'fact' from?!? It really hasnt, Thompsons will always be the quintessential version and noone will ever beat. Ive seen him perform it live and noone can touch the intensity of his performance. Also why talk about american innovation here? This is a very english song about an english bike! Ur comment is very misplaced
GavDuggan1983 10 months ago
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ettajames2luv 9 months ago
@GavDuggan1983- You won't find a bigger RT fan than me, since his 'Fairport Convention days. (I know the back story -He wanted to create a truly English folk song) My opinion (not fact) = the popular music scene has embraced this version. (Not that it compares to RT's) When Del plays this song the crowd goes crazy, most unaware it's an RT song. (The unfortunate "unknown" status "popular music" gives truly talented artist.) But innovative & clever to do this song B.G. style
ettajames2luv 9 months ago
@ettajames2luv Can't disagree with anything you've said here friend.
GavDuggan1983 9 months ago
The first time I heard this it moved me in a way i forgot music can.
patoaustin 10 months ago
If someone is motivated to take the time to complain about this singing, they just don't get it. That sort of highly ignorant comment would suggest the commenter were dropped out of the sky into 'now' without any connection to history or culture or music, but all the while unknowlingly full of great ignorance of why this particular sound is so appealing because it actually and intentionally does sound the way it does.
But who can argue with brash ignorance on display.
I love this sound.
defenseattny 10 months ago
Along with Rober Earl Keen's "Road Goes On Forever" this is the greatest "criminal-on-the-run-with-his-woman" song in rock & roll history. Thanks Mr. Thompson
corky246 10 months ago
I saw these guys a while back. They put on an excellent show then stood in the lobby and signed autographs until the last person there who wanted an autograph got one. They are full of grace and class!!!
mrbangham 11 months ago
I was wandering around the walmart yesterday with my cousin, and we could hardly believe our eyes when Del walked by us. My favorite walmart experience hands down.
SpooksHill 11 months ago
My hats off to you. That's a Norton Commando 1974.
There's nothin' in this world beats a Norton 850 and a red headed girl.
Well ok....Vincent's are awful close.
74norton850 11 months ago
@74norton850 norton fan ? on ya mate.
plonker00765 10 months ago
@plonker00765 Aye, mate... owned mine since 1975. still turning heads with it too......
74norton850 10 months ago
that is an annoying voice
plonker00765 11 months ago
@plonker00765 that is an annoying comment.
TheBrowndawg 10 months ago
@TheBrowndawg just my opinion, but still an annoying voice, hang on, i'll listen a bit more, nope still an annoying voice.
plonker00765 10 months ago
@plonker00765 It's called the "high lonesome" sound. And Mr McCoury defines it.
corky246 10 months ago 2
@corky246 it's called highly irritating,listen to reckless kelly's version of 52 vincent b.l. he does justice to a great song
plonker00765 10 months ago
@plonker00765 if you dont like his singing dont listen to it but dont trash him because him and his band r awesome y cant ppl just follow the rule if you dont have nething nice to say dont say nething at all Del is a very famous bluegrass singer and will always be rememberd just like gibson and many others
deathfairy11652 10 months ago
@deathfairy11652 so says you, being famous doesn't make you good, i find him grating, he sounds like he's
got lungs full of helium, his band is good though, just pity about the singer.
plonker00765 10 months ago
@plonker00765 haha fair enough
TheBrowndawg 10 months ago
@plonker00765 Del's voice register is called a high tenor. You should try the falsetto, it will really push you off the hill:)
But damn, what a great song that is. RT is a superb songwriter. Also check out his "Dimming Of The Day".
banjohombre 9 months ago
@banjohombre hang on i'll clamp my nuts in a vice and try,nope, thats painful and sounds even worse than dels voice, seriously though richard thompson is a world class song writer,thanks for the tip on dimming of the day, i'll check it out.
plonker00765 9 months ago
It does not get any better than this.
volman9 11 months ago
gurd jawb ma freend, yall gurd anyways!
zimmy81 11 months ago
I always wanted to be the girl on the back of that machine,Id dye my hair red too
KLP1900 11 months ago
I always wanted to be the girl on the back of that machine
KLP1900 11 months ago
saw del and the boys a few years back at blue grass festival in snow shoe w.v gives me cold chills.happy 72 dell roadglide55
MrRoadglide55 1 year ago
I have always loved this song!
it's just so catchy.
I lost the CD though and that makes me sad. :(
Kelsie154 1 year ago
NOBODY TELLS this love story about a hot motorcycle and a hot red head like Del does. I can see her face and eyes and that RED HAIR ON BLACK LEATHER my favorite color scheme.what a GAL !! and the band is settin it on fire.
9mmbigpapa 1 year ago
anyone know the chords .....for mandolin
4crows 1 year ago
19 people hit the wrong button. guess they need some glasses...
beltonmyt 1 year ago
The best love song ever!!!
fast85e 1 year ago
19 people are stupid.
yeti30312 1 year ago
There's no guitarist I love more than Richard Thompson but I really appreciate this cover. Love Del and the boys.
trishf 1 year ago
gotta love that crazy voice
lee5636 1 year ago
fucking genius!
MrParallelTwin 1 year ago
one of my favs
PurePrairieProduce1 1 year ago
Both of these songs are great. "Get down, get down, get down...."
rezeski 1 year ago
Love the way he does this song...it was amazing live at the Princeton Theature in myu home down of Decatur, AL...Tells a hell of a story and its fun to play on the guitart.
420thehead 1 year ago
what is all this bullshit religious crap. Watch the video , enjoy the music. Why make life so difficult
cwm7128 1 year ago
Lovely to listen to, brings a quickening to your step doesn't it! Religion doesn't enter into this. Spiritually, this band is doing just what they need to do! Bravo!
maziemiles1 1 year ago
Alright all of you guys shut up. I'm an Atheist (cosmically Agnostic but when it comes to Christianity I'm Atheist) and I very much enjoyed BOTH those songs. Songs of redemption and sin cross all religious boundary lines because at the root of them is a human emotion which we all possess.
SlickSmooth22 1 year ago
I,m just amazed how comments on a RT song about a classic Brit motorcycle, covered by a bluegrass band ( very well IMHO) has become a battle ground for religeous willy waving. WTH ?? cant ya just comment bout the song ? Or find the million & one vids on tube to sound off about ya views ? , jus my tuppence worth :)
oscarfish38 1 year ago
@oscarfish38 Totally agree! Your tuppence is worth ten-fold!
GEORGEZNEMETH 1 year ago
Bluegrass does not get any finer than this
hunley1964 1 year ago
@hunley1964 Your right Hunley, Bluegrass doesn't get any better!
maziemiles1 1 year ago
Best Song!!!!!
cindyahenry1967 1 year ago
Such a shame to see a great band doing, "christian" crap. We don't share the same ideas on reality. They eliminated many people by offending them. Best kept to yourself. Here's a clue, investigate your idea of yourself, your ego, and realize it is not stable, it is a bunch of ideas, concepts and therefore not real. The only "god" is the one inside you, covered up by your restless mind
rotagen5 1 year ago
@rotagen5 You gotta admit those harmonies and that mandolin solo was nice though
GrisGrisOnUrDoorStep 1 year ago
@rotagen5 John12:40
OLDSKOOL60813 1 year ago
@rotagen5 Yeah, a baby just appeared one day and then another baby appeared and they reproduced and then became the world we all know today.
That's nonsense. Something had to create us. What created us wasn't evil. Christianity is the closet thing religion to not being evil. Jesus was a man without sin. I believe in Christ. Like any religion, people may not be true believers; or people may try to sabotage the religion.
God also says he will come back for his believers, not followers. So...
k0ma1337 1 year ago
@k0ma1337 uhh yeah... so two adults just appearing from nowhere and then populated the world makes more sense?? It's called evolution, it is real, and to deny that is dangerous... now did something create the universe for it to happen? Who knows... but then who created the creator??
moesciphish 1 year ago
@k0ma1337 uhh yeah... so two adults just appearing from nowhere and then populating the world makes more sense?? It's called evolution, it is real, and to deny that is dangerous... now did something create the universe for it to happen? Who knows... but then who created the creator??
moesciphish 1 year ago
@moesciphish I believe in Christ, not organized religion. I believe Jesus was real, and the red text in the bible was true. You got to understand during the Crusades a lot of the scriptures were lost or burned, King James didn't obtain all or complete scriptures. And when it says God created earth he created Men not Man and the animals, it doesn't say how this occurred. You nvr know we cud have evolved, we're supposedly 96% ape, so I don't rule it out. Who created God? I'll ask him when we meet.
k0ma1337 1 year ago
@moesciphish I look at it like this, when you put 30 people in a line and tell them to pass on a sentence, the 30th persons sentence will not be anywhere near the first persons sentence. That's the way I look at the Bible. Humans tend to exaggerate, so that's why I don't believe everything in the Bible. I know God is real and I know Jesus died for me and the sins of all of us. We are his creation, he had to show us somehow. Satan betrayed him and they are betting on our souls.
k0ma1337 1 year ago
@rotagen5 what a crock... I will say I am probably one of the biggest opponents of organized religion you will ever meet, and I think Christianity is up there with the top "evil" religions with the amount of blood that has been shed in its name and corruption, ignorance, and shear stupidity involved with it. But Del can believe what he wants to believe, he's not forcing his beliefs on you, you're the one trying to do that... he's simply singing a song, and it's a traditional song at that...
moesciphish 1 year ago
That kid can pick that mandolin !! wish i could !!
shiflettoshifletto 1 year ago
this is such a wonderful song for someone who likes to put theyr balls in a vice and sing
emizz12345 1 year ago
Absolutely great stuff! Nice cover of a great song!
boywonder00009 1 year ago
I sooo love how you do this tune! :O)
Koupe69 1 year ago
Smoken!
nattyMatty420 1 year ago
"robbed many a man, to get my Vincent machine"
now that is old fashioned dedication!
great story, great song,
thanks.
edslides 1 year ago 9
as a father of a very young one, I can only imagine the joy Del must get from being up there on stage with his sons, doing probably what they love most in the world, and watching them play the way they do
moesciphish 1 year ago 3
@moesciphish Which ones are his children?
GavDuggan1983 10 months ago
IMHO Del is about as solid as they come, there not many left like him in the world of bluegrass.....thanks for the vid
oldindian 1 year ago
i love this song it reminds of my papa [><]
TheCampfire93 1 year ago
I saw this when PBS aired it in 2002 and I didn't know the name of the song. I've been looking for it ever since! Thank you for posting, I absolutely love this song!
chiquitinT 1 year ago
while i am a HUGE RT fan, Del McCoury just makes the 52 HRD come to life. Perfection in my mind.
scotbot1 1 year ago
One of the best songs I've ever heard. Give that to RT. But this is easily the best version.
Let's face it, RT just doesn't come across as very comfortable with himself. His recordings, to me, are just short of excruciating in their self-indulgence.
He is much better in person (saw him at the Mystic in Petaluma a few months ago) -- interacts well with the audience and warms to them. That doesn't come across to me in his recorded performances.
williedafish 1 year ago
my cement black statue danced to this tune...
dogsee1 1 year ago 2
I, dont know what it is about this song but i can listen to it over and over love it
cwg47 1 year ago
@cwg47 >it's about love, true love
ItsCabs 1 year ago
Can't beat that good ol' mandolin picking !!!!!!!!!!!!
shiflettoshifletto 1 year ago
What a great version of this some...IMO the best...the solos are just super....and just right! I saw Del and the boys perform this last year at Podunk...every bit as good and polished as in this vid...what a treat....
Ronplucksstrings 1 year ago
The greatest bluegrass band ever?? Got my vote.
TTipper 1 year ago 2
Damn, Del. Just Damn.
georgiaslop 1 year ago
Classy, elegant, tight, inspirational. Thanks for sharing your gifts! Makes me happy every time I look in on Del and Co.
surprisevisitor2000 1 year ago
When Del Mc. and co. took this to the top the Bluegrass chart, it paid for an extension on Thommo's house (RT said in a radio interview - Jo-El-Sonnier's Tear-Stained Letter paid for the other extension). But it did much more than that, to have *the* best bluegrass in the world cover one of your songs is as good as it gets...
redcrowdemon 1 year ago
WOW, that special unexpected song at the end was really, really choice.
Exzeluke 1 year ago
One of my favorite shows they played in Decatur,AL in 2007. they played this song when I seen them. just about brought me to tears. you can tell they love to play.
420thehead 1 year ago
I've been checking out this vid. since 2.09.07 and comented on it perhaps too much. I onced promised not to say another word BUT....DAMN ! (it's in me and gots to come out ) The entire thing is just Perfect.
I still wonder 'Why no standing OV'"?
I've seen Larry Gatlin get a standing OV @ an 11:00 am show there. Makes no sense..although the audience obviously loved it.
Jdennyv 1 year ago
They are so classy! Saw them live at Newport this summer. It was hot and windy and Del and his boys were elegant and tight!!! What a treat!
ebennett7 1 year ago
i got this cd plus a few from ricky skaggs and one from the whites for between $1.50 and $2 each form a local electronics store. damn fine introduction to modern bluegrass.
TheBrowndawg 1 year ago
One of our favorites, The Moore Brothers,
Jacob & Isaac
moorebluegrass 2 years ago
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does he have his balls stuck in a vice?
emizz12345 2 years ago
your dumb
CHICKAjo 2 years ago
ever heard of a tenor?
MisterSchlomah 2 years ago
love it!
Bekkant 2 years ago
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suks so bad
ribread97 2 years ago
These guys are wicked ... dunno who wrote this , but Richard Thompson version is superb ( thought he wrote it )
GibsonHummingbird 2 years ago
Rob McCoury is one of the best banjo pickers today.
Del McCoury has a voice that corporate country radio hinds from America listeners. If this would get on country radio would go straight to the top!
OSCAR82AA 2 years ago 8