I love this song and I think Aiden Quinn does a great rendition of it. His raw voice just adds to the emotion and authenticity. Just listen to some of the real mountain singers and you will hear the beauty of a raw voice. No cookie cutter crap like in most music today.
@Dancer3Thunder : exactly. there is a realness that the media masses simply cannot capture. bored! so bored with the digitized voices of today. that's why i love this music. the simplicity of their voices. actual feeling. not bedazzled and hairsprayed.
True about the singing. The Appalachian singers had sometimes primitive-sounding voices, but they were always on pitch! Going flat is excruciating. Get someone else to sing it! Pull Pete Seeger out of retirement or something..
@ferociousgumby I don't think songs like this (especially sung over this type of incident) are so much about pitch as they are about the emotion in the voice, and the reaction they invoke in those listening. Quinn puts some decent emotion into this scene.
Aiden Quinn fairly butchers this GORGEOUS song, but I love the macabre footage of a coffin en route to the graveyard in some forsaken, remote, mountain cemetery. This video won't be up long - the copyright police have routinely taken it down when it's been posted before.
@avorozheev IF im not mistaken it was written for the movie and no one has recorded it or can for that matter. I may be totally wrong but seems like i read that somewhere.
@insandysmind Yup, been living in California for years, but gramma and family hails from NC in the mountains. This movie resonated with me along with the music. I have to say Aidan Quinn deserves accolades, he does sing this song I am a linguist. Sometimes things touch your heart and have taken up the banjo in a weird hommage.
Sounds like "Dirty Old Town" by the Pogues to me
rw93003 1 day ago
No pitch shifter, no over dubbed crap, just a real guy singing a real song! Not Nashville smooth, thank goodness.
drewdanielson 1 month ago
I love this song and I think Aiden Quinn does a great rendition of it. His raw voice just adds to the emotion and authenticity. Just listen to some of the real mountain singers and you will hear the beauty of a raw voice. No cookie cutter crap like in most music today.
Dancer3Thunder 3 months ago
@Dancer3Thunder : exactly. there is a realness that the media masses simply cannot capture. bored! so bored with the digitized voices of today. that's why i love this music. the simplicity of their voices. actual feeling. not bedazzled and hairsprayed.
shankapotomusful 1 month ago
I think Aiden Quinn did a lovely job singing this. Pure and simple. Could listen to it over and over.
Jebbi1956 3 months ago
Id rather hear him sing than some of that pop bubble gum crap they pass off as music these days.
HeathenCub 3 months ago 2
Aidaen sings this as it should be sung: untrained & with emotion.
Memoria777 4 months ago 4
beautiiful dirge!
coolanddark 5 months ago
I like the way which Aidan Quinn sings this song. I'm sure that other artist sing it just as well or maybe better, but this version is fine.
allieree 5 months ago 2
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I loved this movie.
7tnorris 6 months ago
this is how music should be(:
HorseRider1496 7 months ago
A sad state of America when this piece has only 30 likes. We who adore bluegrass are countercultural. The mainstream disdains us, yet WE are America.
jhofmann33 7 months ago 4
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jhofmann33 7 months ago
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jhofmann33 7 months ago
True about the singing. The Appalachian singers had sometimes primitive-sounding voices, but they were always on pitch! Going flat is excruciating. Get someone else to sing it! Pull Pete Seeger out of retirement or something..
ferociousgumby 1 year ago
@ferociousgumby I don't think songs like this (especially sung over this type of incident) are so much about pitch as they are about the emotion in the voice, and the reaction they invoke in those listening. Quinn puts some decent emotion into this scene.
bradcash1 11 months ago 10
@ferociousgumby Primitive voice goes with the mountain song. They are one and the same. Beautiful.
jhofmann33 7 months ago 7
Aiden Quinn fairly butchers this GORGEOUS song, but I love the macabre footage of a coffin en route to the graveyard in some forsaken, remote, mountain cemetery. This video won't be up long - the copyright police have routinely taken it down when it's been posted before.
stillwaterguy04 1 year ago
@stillwaterguy04 Damned copyright police, I love this song ;) And who sings this song in original?
avorozheev 1 year ago
@avorozheev IF im not mistaken it was written for the movie and no one has recorded it or can for that matter. I may be totally wrong but seems like i read that somewhere.
phantom4x4 1 year ago
Makes me homesick for my North Carolina home. Loved the movie and the music.
insandysmind 1 year ago
@insandysmind Yup, been living in California for years, but gramma and family hails from NC in the mountains. This movie resonated with me along with the music. I have to say Aidan Quinn deserves accolades, he does sing this song I am a linguist. Sometimes things touch your heart and have taken up the banjo in a weird hommage.
bigmkc1 1 year ago 2
This was an intensely beautiful movie! EXCELLENT song as well..
DeepestSleep 1 year ago 4
really liked this song in the movie.
songcatcher1 1 year ago
Aiden Quinn is HOT. First song I learned to play on guitar.
1Biminitwist 1 year ago
Wonderfull song :)
kluknik 1 year ago