The Tallest Man on Earth - Moonshiner (Live)

[ilovethepeppers]

i uploaded a better audio quality one to my profile, check it out

[itabuttrose]

i know this aint an original dylan song and i love dylan but kris is ten times more haunting but sing like dylan very nassel man still fucking amazing but serious tho peps it aint hard 2 find out that this song is near enough as old as the old USA itself sort it out but he is a furture legend

[onthewalkoffame]

This is so haunting.

[gabeuop79]

Uncle Tupelo's version of this song is pretty excellent as well, don't you think? Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar were a damn good duo . . . .

[IvanhoeMartin3]

tosto!

[jhatfield89]

Bob Dylan wrote this song originally for anyone who does'nt know. He covers this song very well and he does it in his own way. He is very similar to bob in many ways. I think any bob dylan fan can find something in the tallest man on earth that we never thought we could find ever again.

[Lepersandman]

@jhatfield89 Bob dylan didn't write this song. This is a old folk song Dylan also covered once in his youth.

[Vikguitar123]

@jhatfield89

Dude, you are lame. What the hell are you writing? Bob wrote this song? Wrong. "Find simliarities". Bob can't be compared.

[TomThumbsBlues1965]

@Vikguitar123 whoa man dylans the best there ever was and still is and dont you forget it

[Boot724]

You're right, but for the last time. BOB DYLAN DID NOT WRITE THIS SONG. IT IS 300 years old.

[thecomicalhat]

The tune is also reminiscent of "House of the Rising Sun" (perhaps not indicated as strongly by this particular version) if not so much by melody, by that sense of longing, regret, remorse -- there is an Irish folk song (which also traversed the Atlantic) called Moonshiner with similar lyrics about being a drunk but also with a verse about being a gambler.

All of these songs that travelled Ireland and travelled America are obviously strongly interconnected and once sprang from the same well

[thecomicalhat]

Most likely this an American folk song based on an Irish song -- a fairly common trajectory for lots of American folk music.

The song is kind of interesting for me being Irish --- looking at it like you would a cross section, you can see all sorts of inluences and also songs influenced by the song.

"spent all my money on whiskey on beer" - lyrics plucked straight from "(I've been a) Wild River..."

[Mohad15]

can anyone figure the tuning and the chord to this? :)

[Stampybrown]

I fucking wish. His songs are built in the craziest fucking tunings, this one is obviously WAY odder than the rest

[siddboots]

Roscoe Holcomb's version is pretty amazing. I'm pretty the song was an Irish folk song before it became a bluegrass staple.

[lichtermeer]

do you have more videos from that show? i would love to see the whole concert!

[maxwinner]

actually moonshiner is a dylan song based on a woody guthrie song (ithink,dontkillmeifimwrong)

[jtallen12345]

I believe it's an old irish folk song or at least has its roots there.

[davegrohl321]

the origins of the song are a bit disputed. i believe it's an old american folk song, although others believe it's irish. it was actually performed by delia murphy in ireland 30 years before dylan. but you might be right, i might be wrong. but it's a great song, and i think kristians version of the song are much better than dylans, although i'm a huge dylan fan.

[dougsinatus1]

The lyrics on the first verse are actually quite similar to The Wild Rover: "I've been a wild rover for many long years, I've spent all my money on whiskey and beer". Any relation with this song would argue that Moonshiner is Irish. But I don't really know either. Beutifully preformed here anyway:)

[SeranAki]

Nice, greatings from Mexico.

[Barbagnu]

Awesome !

/ Oscar, from Sweden

[renshammar1]

I just had this amazing artist here at my place, the girl who did the light had a little videocamera next to her - you can search on "tallest man Bollnäs Världen".

Cathrine

[longhairchild]

written by bob dylan

[SeijuraHiko]

as far as I know the origin of this song is not confirmed, some claim it is an american folk song while others insists that it is in fact Irish, it goes back far earlier than Dylan in both nations though. Sung by Dylan indeed but not written by him.

[longhairchild]

hmm...okay. i didn't know that. thanks!

[folkhippie500]

Leadbelly

[captaininsanity89]

@SeijuraHiko well since the first moonshiners in america were irish and scotch it could be both an irish andan early american song the first moonshiners date back to the late 1700's and early 1800's when the colonist attempted to tax moonshiners.

[omik3o]

I know the Clany Brothers have a version that predates Dylans.

[BodieJarman]

dave van ronk (who dylan used to watch at the gaslight back in the day, even played with him) did a pretty wicked version on one of his cds.

[msbehavior2003]

Love this guy, just have to.  Not hard music, just his command of what he does is so fine, so very fine. A true performer, a true artist. Can't get enough. Hope he makes albums forever!

[omik3o]

what's his real name?

[SeijuraHiko]

goes by the name 'Krille' which in swedish is short for Kristian, cant really say much more.

[stillian45]

@SeijuraHiko his name is Kristian Matsson

[joelbitar]

@omik3o Kristian Matsson

know im 2 years late but ANYWHOOOOOM!

[joelbitar]

@omik3o

Kristian Matsson

[bentsynth]

this dudes amazing!

[thisbarnowl]

any chance you might post them?

[SeijuraHiko]

Yes I probably will, if you want me to, haven't the time right now though.

[thisbarnowl]

do you have any more video of this show?

[SeijuraHiko]

yes, I have three more; Pistol Dreams, It will follow the rain, I wont be found.

[szlobadicsky]

dude, thanks!

[SeijuraHiko]

no problem

[radiofriendly]

Thank you so much - always on the lookout for more TMOE

[SeijuraHiko]

now that the album's out, he might emerge from obscurity, who knows.

[szlobadicsky]

it would be nice