I know this song was written in regards to the Dust Bowl, because about 40% of Guthrie's songs were about the dust bowl, but the fact that it can be for anyone about anything is what makes it great. It's not just about young love, when you think of it as about the dust bowl you know it's a song about a dream for a better future and a peaceful life with the person you care about most. a place of solace.
I saw Wilco at the Ryman Auditorium for the first time in October and it was amazing! I found an artist that is in the same vein - Nathan Roberts. Check out NathanRobertsMusic.tumblr.com
adriana...songs that take you to a place or time are the songs that will stay with you forever. when i was 17 i too, spent a warm night with friends and on the way home the radio played " reflections of my life " by marmalade... hold onto those songs forever. they will never let you down. you wrote beautiful words.
This is the song we're going to use for our curtain call at our production of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath". It's going to be absolutely beautiful.
don't know if i should thumbs up or thumbs down this....LOVE THE SONG...but the disconnect between it and the video is nowhere near close to funny. more like pathetic.
@carann5 it let me upload to FB...you know you can copy the url and post it into your status on FB as an alternate way of sharing...just fyi...good luck
@wookie20f just copy the link and paste it as a comment...FB automatically creates a posting with uploader comments/video preview when you paste the link on your wall...
If you like this I strongly suggest you get the DVD “Man In The Sand” it shows the whole process of the collaboration of Wilco and Billy Bragg to bring together the album Mermaid Avenue. I know this because my sister Kim Hopkins was the director.
on an evening in late may of 2007, my five best friends and i decided to celebrate our last day of (high school) classes by building a bonfire on the beach in little compton. several hours later, we were all totally exhausted. everyone piled into my car at two in the morning and i drove to will’s house. the windows were rolled down, the air was warm, the skies were clear… and this song began to play. it was perfect. I read this somewhere and found it absolutely beautiful.
@carann5 If I know anything about the world, I would have to say that the lead vocal is DEFINITELY Jeff Tweedy. I'll give you my first born child if it isn't.
I will have to agree. Every song in the album says Billy Bragg and Wilco. Both Billy Bragg and Jeff Tweedy do the vocals and since Tweedy leads Wilco it may very well be him on this song. I have listened to both and it sounds a lot more like Tweedy.
The collection of pictures that you have chosen does ruin the song. The comment must have been deleted, but it was stated pretty eloquently earlier. This is not about upper class people drinking in their private vineyards and sleeping with their laptops on in hammocks. Its about Guthrie's experience heading west during the Great Depression, and just wanting to get there.
I don't delete comments unless they are pretty darn nasty or contain vulgar language. If it was deleted it was accidentally. I appreciate all comments, even negative ones. If you know what Guthrie was experiencing when writing this song then I would love to see you create a video to it using more appropriate pictures. Or create one to any other song that you like. Thanks for commenting.
@DeathBySitar Yeah you have a good point, I just disagree with the pictures haha. Its like putting passionate war pictures in "Give Peace A Chance". Although that could just be for irony...
@TheGatosarnoso Quite true; it good to appreciate context of music/art/the human experience - but someone posting these images is fine - its someones current interpretation. i travel - i've seen oklahoma city grow up and become prosperous, and i enjoyed reading the grapes of wrath and tales of dust bowl and great depressions struggles. we should not forget the past and our history - and celebrate the present, maybe Gutherie was truly prophetic in dreaming of "that lovers class of wine".
@TheGatosarnoso not quite comparable and barely intelligible, I understand what mr gurthrie was trying to depict however I think to some the chill/relaxed nature of the song and lyrics lend themselves quite nicely to the romantic images the creator of the video picked.
The emotional context of a song is to be determined by the listener.
That is the whole purpose of music.
Furthermore, there is not a goddamned thing wrong with rich people or even rich people with vineyards.
Your post reeks of the same kind of parasitic, communisto cult rhetoric that motivated Steinbeck's Grapes-of-Wrath revisionist view of Guthrie's America.
@scottfunkhouser well this is my interpretation. Besides, calling Steinbeck a revisionist of Guthrie is absolutely ridiculous, as Steinbeck was writing books before Guthrie was publishing music. Guthrie was always a warrior for the poor, and so he would find something wrong with the rich oppressing him and his fellow working man. Steinbeck and Guthrie both wrote to address the same thing: the destruction of the poor by the means of the rich. Your McCarthy-like catch phrases only make it worse
@scottfunkhouser of course they were contemporaries, but that doesn't mean that Steinbeck didn't start before Guthrie. If you claim that every rich man is a generous king who hands jobs out to the poor, I can not argue with you, because you are too deeply sunken into your own ridiculous misconceptions. The rich man that does have a passion for creating jobs is a great man in my eyes, but I don't see too many of those these days (cough cough Goldman Sachs)
@TheGatosarnoso You'll never get through to the pretensious idiots. They believe themselves crucial and beneficial to the world,anyone can enjoy what they didn't bloody thier knuckles earning and ignoring reality,money doesn't make morons geniuses. I can imagine Woody writing this song while sleeping beneath the stars,nor because it was the "in" thing to do but because he had no choice. Like alot of others sleeping tonite under stars...and tarps...and plastic bags...
@evolve991 Hey thanks a lot, that really made my day! I've been getting a lot of criticism, and I'm glad theres someone out there on my side. Yeah, I couldn't agree more! Yeah, I imagine him under some old oak tree in the summer, pretty much along those lines haha. Yeah its disgusting how the homeless have been treated in the past century, and how people often dismiss them as either nuts or lazy. I think often they're just lost or in transition.
@TheGatosarnoso The homeless now are working people who didn't have a Mom or Dad or uncle,cousin,friend to give them that one ounce of help before they slipped through the cracks. They're your old neighbors,coworkers,people you never thought would become homeless. We've almost been there a dozen times and it still comes creeping around looking for a weakness to exploit a few times a year. The pampered,the fortunate,the pimps of corporations have no idea what they've created. They will though
@evolve991 yeah just usually people that got had one unlucky slip. My great uncle actually is living in Seattle homeless, by choice though. The Vietnam War left him scarred mentally so I think it was hard for him to fit into modern society anymore.
WOW! Heard this little diddie at the end of the King of California film. In about 15sec of the lyric I new I needed to download this song. Looked up the Soundtrack of the film and discovered Wilco's version. Unbelievable great song. The fact that is was written by Woody Gutrie is no supprise. Have you ever heard the Bosses version of This land is Your Land? I thought California Dreaming was the Best California Song ever written. As a 4th Gen Californian I say Tupac, Woodie/Wilco smoked you!
Woody's songs are well known. The tons of lyrics with no music are not so well known. Billy Bragg and Wilco did exactly what Woody did,turned people's stories (Woody's) into ART!
First time I heard the song was after watching "King of Kalifornia" fell in love with it immediately. Was so glad to find it on here. then to find out that it is an Woodie Guthrie tune made it even better. Thanks for posting this great song.
uaaaa! no se q tiene esta cancion q la nescesito escuchar y escuchar. la se tocar en la guitarra, a pesar q aunq parece engañosamente lenta , la letra va a galope tendido y tiene un contra tiempo del demonio. y es en ingles. y suena tan triste...
This was in light rotation over at FRSD 96.9 FM, San Diego's mid-2000's pirate station....only station in town that would jump from this to the most obscure straight-edge bands.
@crippledinside92 ,yeah i also really injoyed the movie. Differnt refreshinhg storyline. I think its important to go for your dream even if it's a longshot. Thats what makes this country so great .... The song was aa perfectily placed in thr movie.
awesome video. this is a beautiful and moving tribute to a great song and man. i'm sorry other posters here can't keep their negative attitudes to themselves. songs are open to individual interpretation, and if you think you can do a better job, make your own g__dd___n video, fer cryin out loud!
that was horrible. i went to type in california and some stupid song called california girls by katy perry came up, it was horrible. what has the world of music come to, nobody knows what good music is nowadays at least any of people my age (15)
i only know this song bcuz Andrew Heringer sang it at Sugarloaf Fine Arts Camp =) like this if u know Andrew *i dooooo*, if you have gone/go to/are gona go to Sugarloaf *wuv it 2 bits!!*, or have heard him sing it, =)=)=) <3<3<3 tanky, wuv u all lol *little blue man, like if u no wat the little blu man is*
My only misgiving with this album is that Bragg and Tweedy came to loggerheads over some stupid issues - song order or some bs. I wish this partnership had survived Mermaid Ave.
Still, a great album and I think we're lucky to have it.
I heard this song for the first time about a month ago, while listening to Listener Supported Radio in New York City (WBAI - 99.5 FM). I had to find out the name of the song and was amazed that they gave the info at the end of the show!! This Song Rules!! Very Simple, Musically Ingenious...Shout outs to Community Radio.
i've enjoyed this song a very long time; It was also used as a herd grazer after phish festival 8. I cant remember which night, but i was happy to see they chose it.
@dog52916 the song misunderstood is from the album Being There(their best album) not Summerteeth. Love the song Shot in the Arm and Via Chicago from Summerteeth.
def. check out sky blue sky, yankee hotel foxtrot and ghost is born. start w yhf. that is my favorite album of all time... rolling stones #3 of the decade...def check it out
Wilco's album Sky Blue Sky is fantastic, as well as a Ghost is Born. Some of my favorite songs are "Forget the Flowers," and "Impossible Germany" and "Hate it Here." You really should just listen through their entire collection, they're a fantastic band.
@lillynboo Start with the album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The first song you should hear is "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart." If you like that you should move onto their album Summerteeth - a good song on Summerteeth is "Via Chicago"
@carann5 So Very good.. Thank you so very much "Hamdelsun" is right.... America needs to get back to "Woody Gutherie" how did we lose touch with such a great person? Makes me cry. And miss my younger days when music meant more than work, and Family and friends was all you had.... And needed. Thank you Thank you Thank you.
Bravo. That is one extraordinarily beautiful song. Guthrie must be looking down from those stars and be proud of what he hears. I thought the montage was awesome.
yeah i know but before woody guthrie dyed he told bob dylan that he could have all his unfinished songs but when dylan went to get them they would'nt let him have them
Well, clearly the lyric is highly poetic, so any literal representation of stars and such, and couples cavorting is off tone.
Secondly, it is a song that expresses the grace Guthrie felt travelling around the country, as he did, as best he could -- on the rails, in cars, buses, walking. That raw feeling of being free and open is humbly prophetic. To show images of suburban couples, hammocks, which is a middle class dream, and show guys jumping at the lyric Jump Up -- my heavens, WRONG.
WRONG according to your interpretation but who could really know what Guthrie was thinking or what he really meant or felt when he wrote it? I created the video according to what I hear in the song but thanks for your poetic perception.
Well, of course it's according to my perception. What else do I have. I don't want you to think me rude. On the contrary, I take it for granted that this sort of thing is for the purpose of evoking a response, and I would very much want to hear polemic going on if I were the one posting it.
Maybe it's time I stop bellyaching and post my own vids. What do you think?
That would be great to see a video done by you to any of your favorites, especially since you've been on YouTube for almost 3 years. But be careful what music you choose to use because it may be banned due to copyright issues.
@carann5 Hi. Thank you for the suggestion. Honestly it never even occurred to do something myself. I just thought to comment on other people´s stuff. My turn. Wish me luck.
@mwoldin Get that stick out of your ass and stop thinking you know what this song is about more than anybody else. Its a beautiful song and just as long as you enjoy it and it makes you feel good thats all that matters.
How can you tell that these are suburban couples from the video? Don't rural folks use hammocks? Don't urban folks sip wine? How you can you they are suburban?
@carann5 You nailed it.... One of the best videos on the net. I love it and have it on facebook.
I love Calif. with all my heart... But stuck here in Phx. for some time.. When I think of my old life and my kids I play this video... Sometimes I cry.. Sometimes I just think of home and dream about happy times.
I know one day I will go back home... and I will sleep under the calif. stars again... God I miss Escondido so much.. This song takes me home...for a little while anyway.. Thanks..Marcus
I know this song was written in regards to the Dust Bowl, because about 40% of Guthrie's songs were about the dust bowl, but the fact that it can be for anyone about anything is what makes it great. It's not just about young love, when you think of it as about the dust bowl you know it's a song about a dream for a better future and a peaceful life with the person you care about most. a place of solace.
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I saw Wilco at the Ryman Auditorium for the first time in October and it was amazing! I found an artist that is in the same vein - Nathan Roberts. Check out NathanRobertsMusic.tumblr.com
RainyCatori 2 months ago
adriana...songs that take you to a place or time are the songs that will stay with you forever. when i was 17 i too, spent a warm night with friends and on the way home the radio played " reflections of my life " by marmalade... hold onto those songs forever. they will never let you down. you wrote beautiful words.
vazmo14850 3 months ago
@vazmo14850
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and memories!
carann5 3 months ago
This is the song we're going to use for our curtain call at our production of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath". It's going to be absolutely beautiful.
weyand123 4 months ago
Ah love this song.
ErgoArgo 4 months ago
Great song. Super corny video.
hugboat808 4 months ago
I want this to be played at my wedding and my funeral.
GiantBlackWomen 5 months ago
Thought it was carping until the unwatchable video kicked in.
angelenoof206 5 months ago
This was my first dance at my wedding :)
bannanaqueen42 6 months ago
don't know if i should thumbs up or thumbs down this....LOVE THE SONG...but the disconnect between it and the video is nowhere near close to funny. more like pathetic.
moonlitme 7 months ago
@knoskillerr666 I think he is in the background, Jeff's up front. Sounds like 3 or 4 singing to me???
jczother 7 months ago
@knoskillerr666 Jeff Tweedy from Wilco is the vocalist.
hoya2002 7 months ago
song just gives me goose bumps
MrSupernova75 8 months ago
this song just gives me goose bumps
MrSupernova75 8 months ago
Why can't I share this lovely piece on facebook? Thank you for putting it up in any case!
wookie20f 9 months ago 3
@wookie20f
I really don't know. I tried to put some of my videos on Facebook too, but couldn't. If I find out, I'll let you know.
Thanks for your comment!
carann5 9 months ago
@carann5 it let me upload to FB...you know you can copy the url and post it into your status on FB as an alternate way of sharing...just fyi...good luck
Ivegotmymojoworkin 8 months ago
@wookie20f just copy the link and paste it as a comment...FB automatically creates a posting with uploader comments/video preview when you paste the link on your wall...
hendrixius 7 months ago in playlist The Low End
Yes I'd give my life
To lay my head tonight on a bed
Of California stars
1ll0n3 9 months ago 2
I love WILCO!
Float2001 11 months ago
horrible video. looks like some kind of christian product
ktbaby077 11 months ago
@ktbaby077 Just a Hater. Crawl back into your miserable hole and feel sorry for yourself..... what have you Ever Produced ?
Westsideswimcoach 11 months ago
@Westsideswimcoach wow..ha you're terrible
ktbaby077 11 months ago
If you like this I strongly suggest you get the DVD “Man In The Sand” it shows the whole process of the collaboration of Wilco and Billy Bragg to bring together the album Mermaid Avenue. I know this because my sister Kim Hopkins was the director.
deanhop1 11 months ago
on an evening in late may of 2007, my five best friends and i decided to celebrate our last day of (high school) classes by building a bonfire on the beach in little compton. several hours later, we were all totally exhausted. everyone piled into my car at two in the morning and i drove to will’s house. the windows were rolled down, the air was warm, the skies were clear… and this song began to play. it was perfect. I read this somewhere and found it absolutely beautiful.
adrianasaysrawwwwr 11 months ago 19
@adrianasaysrawwwwr
Wow! I love it. Sounds like a magical day ending with a great song. It would have been even better if you lived in California.
carann5 11 months ago 3
@adrianasaysrawwwwr Oh yes....only in RI........
97MstngCobra 9 months ago
@adrianasaysrawwwwr embrace those moments. never let them slip away...
hobo877 9 months ago
Did Billy Bragg actually contribute to this track at all? That's obviously Jeff Tweedy on the vocal.
mdumas43073 1 year ago
@mdumas43073
Although Tweedy sang the lead on a few songs on the album, I'm pretty sure this one was Bragg. It just doesn't sound like Jeff Tweedy.
carann5 1 year ago
@carann5 No, this is obviously Tweedy's vocal. The liner notes have Bragg playing acoustic guitar, but the arrangement was all Tweedy & Bennett.
ih8music 11 months ago
@carann5 This one is Jeff Tweedy. Note the lack of East London accent.
kaufmadsce 11 months ago
@kaufmadsce
Yes I did notice that, after listening to both. Tweedy deserves more credit.
carann5 11 months ago
@carann5 This one is Jeff Tweedy.
kaufmadsce 11 months ago
@carann5 If I know anything about the world, I would have to say that the lead vocal is DEFINITELY Jeff Tweedy. I'll give you my first born child if it isn't.
kipstir 11 months ago
@kipstir
I will have to agree. Every song in the album says Billy Bragg and Wilco. Both Billy Bragg and Jeff Tweedy do the vocals and since Tweedy leads Wilco it may very well be him on this song. I have listened to both and it sounds a lot more like Tweedy.
carann5 11 months ago
It's pleasant music, quite solid arrangements, not too original but deserving. Not sure that the video brings much to it.
jerste 1 year ago
wouldn't you like to just lay back, and enjoy something.... :D good song
fiofunk 1 year ago
does anybody know the bass tab for this
fenderfanatic12 1 year ago
lol a bass?
mxl812 1 year ago
love the picture this song paints
ViaChicago3441 1 year ago
@ViaChicago3441
Thanks for your comment!
carann5 1 year ago
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1BTXBOY1 1 year ago
The collection of pictures that you have chosen does ruin the song. The comment must have been deleted, but it was stated pretty eloquently earlier. This is not about upper class people drinking in their private vineyards and sleeping with their laptops on in hammocks. Its about Guthrie's experience heading west during the Great Depression, and just wanting to get there.
TheGatosarnoso 1 year ago 68
@TheGatosarnoso
I don't delete comments unless they are pretty darn nasty or contain vulgar language. If it was deleted it was accidentally. I appreciate all comments, even negative ones. If you know what Guthrie was experiencing when writing this song then I would love to see you create a video to it using more appropriate pictures. Or create one to any other song that you like. Thanks for commenting.
carann5 1 year ago 3
@TheGatosarnoso
I agree completely with what you're saying. But whats so wrong about people making their own personal interpretations?
DeathBySitar 8 months ago
@DeathBySitar Yeah you have a good point, I just disagree with the pictures haha. Its like putting passionate war pictures in "Give Peace A Chance". Although that could just be for irony...
TheGatosarnoso 8 months ago
@TheGatosarnoso Quite true; it good to appreciate context of music/art/the human experience - but someone posting these images is fine - its someones current interpretation. i travel - i've seen oklahoma city grow up and become prosperous, and i enjoyed reading the grapes of wrath and tales of dust bowl and great depressions struggles. we should not forget the past and our history - and celebrate the present, maybe Gutherie was truly prophetic in dreaming of "that lovers class of wine".
naj70 7 months ago
@TheGatosarnoso It doesn't ruin the song you snob, I dont even watch the slide shows.
Just enjoy the music and stop tearing at what somebody else took the time to put together
ClassicRocker30 5 months ago
@ClassicRocker30 if I one a video of "Imagine" glorifying Hitler I think even you Mr. Classick Rocker would speak up
TheGatosarnoso 4 months ago
@TheGatosarnoso not quite comparable and barely intelligible, I understand what mr gurthrie was trying to depict however I think to some the chill/relaxed nature of the song and lyrics lend themselves quite nicely to the romantic images the creator of the video picked.
ClassicRocker30 4 months ago
@ClassicRocker30 yeah I messed up on spelling. I understand your second part though, totally relatable.
TheGatosarnoso 4 months ago
Respond to this video... I concede that it is the shallower of the two directions he could of gone.
ClassicRocker30 4 months ago
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TheGatosarnoso 4 months ago
@ClassicRocker30 and you call me barely intelligible, what the heck is this?
TheGatosarnoso 4 months ago
@TheGatosarnoso
I think the pictures are great.
The emotional context of a song is to be determined by the listener.
That is the whole purpose of music.
Furthermore, there is not a goddamned thing wrong with rich people or even rich people with vineyards.
Your post reeks of the same kind of parasitic, communisto cult rhetoric that motivated Steinbeck's Grapes-of-Wrath revisionist view of Guthrie's America.
scottfunkhouser 4 months ago
@scottfunkhouser well this is my interpretation. Besides, calling Steinbeck a revisionist of Guthrie is absolutely ridiculous, as Steinbeck was writing books before Guthrie was publishing music. Guthrie was always a warrior for the poor, and so he would find something wrong with the rich oppressing him and his fellow working man. Steinbeck and Guthrie both wrote to address the same thing: the destruction of the poor by the means of the rich. Your McCarthy-like catch phrases only make it worse
TheGatosarnoso 4 months ago
@TheGatosarnoso
First of all, you moron, Steinbeck and Guthrie were contemporaries.
Regarding your cultish demonization of the rich:
The last time I checked the rich give jobs to the poor.
Only in the twisted mind of a goose-stepping sozialist parasite could
giving people jobs equate to destruction.
scottfunkhouser 4 months ago
@scottfunkhouser of course they were contemporaries, but that doesn't mean that Steinbeck didn't start before Guthrie. If you claim that every rich man is a generous king who hands jobs out to the poor, I can not argue with you, because you are too deeply sunken into your own ridiculous misconceptions. The rich man that does have a passion for creating jobs is a great man in my eyes, but I don't see too many of those these days (cough cough Goldman Sachs)
TheGatosarnoso 4 months ago
@TheGatosarnoso You'll never get through to the pretensious idiots. They believe themselves crucial and beneficial to the world,anyone can enjoy what they didn't bloody thier knuckles earning and ignoring reality,money doesn't make morons geniuses. I can imagine Woody writing this song while sleeping beneath the stars,nor because it was the "in" thing to do but because he had no choice. Like alot of others sleeping tonite under stars...and tarps...and plastic bags...
evolve991 4 months ago
@evolve991 Hey thanks a lot, that really made my day! I've been getting a lot of criticism, and I'm glad theres someone out there on my side. Yeah, I couldn't agree more! Yeah, I imagine him under some old oak tree in the summer, pretty much along those lines haha. Yeah its disgusting how the homeless have been treated in the past century, and how people often dismiss them as either nuts or lazy. I think often they're just lost or in transition.
TheGatosarnoso 4 months ago
@TheGatosarnoso The homeless now are working people who didn't have a Mom or Dad or uncle,cousin,friend to give them that one ounce of help before they slipped through the cracks. They're your old neighbors,coworkers,people you never thought would become homeless. We've almost been there a dozen times and it still comes creeping around looking for a weakness to exploit a few times a year. The pampered,the fortunate,the pimps of corporations have no idea what they've created. They will though
evolve991 4 months ago
@evolve991 yeah just usually people that got had one unlucky slip. My great uncle actually is living in Seattle homeless, by choice though. The Vietnam War left him scarred mentally so I think it was hard for him to fit into modern society anymore.
TheGatosarnoso 4 months ago
@evolve991 yep.
jwallguitar 2 months ago
@TheGatosarnoso Or maybe the pictures depict the contents of the dream.
nb321cmrc 1 week ago
"My", Music is timeless.. I just found this tune.. now I'm Billy Bragg Fan!
jackhair311 1 year ago
WOW! Heard this little diddie at the end of the King of California film. In about 15sec of the lyric I new I needed to download this song. Looked up the Soundtrack of the film and discovered Wilco's version. Unbelievable great song. The fact that is was written by Woody Gutrie is no supprise. Have you ever heard the Bosses version of This land is Your Land? I thought California Dreaming was the Best California Song ever written. As a 4th Gen Californian I say Tupac, Woodie/Wilco smoked you!
deepseakilr 1 year ago
Woody's songs are well known. The tons of lyrics with no music are not so well known. Billy Bragg and Wilco did exactly what Woody did,turned people's stories (Woody's) into ART!
stihlhead1 1 year ago
What a wonderful song... If only all music was this great and everyone carried this attitude... can you imagine???
Physcimaniac31 1 year ago
@Physcimaniac31 it be boring as hell
ktbaby077 11 months ago
woody guthrie song
daffodil97 1 year ago
First time I heard the song was after watching "King of Kalifornia" fell in love with it immediately. Was so glad to find it on here. then to find out that it is an Woodie Guthrie tune made it even better. Thanks for posting this great song.
oohlookapooh 1 year ago 2
@oohlookapooh
You're more than welcome and thanks for commenting!
carann5 1 year ago
No offense was intended. Just putting in my two cents. Perhaps I should just make my own vids and keep my mouth (hand?) shut.
mwoldin 1 year ago
Evergreen. Just truth. Straight, honest. Must respect this :)
Paxta666 1 year ago
hey carann5: i love this song! it has such a sad cadance though. like me! maybe thats why i love it so much.
well, peace out
feoeo 1 year ago
uaaaa! no se q tiene esta cancion q la nescesito escuchar y escuchar. la se tocar en la guitarra, a pesar q aunq parece engañosamente lenta , la letra va a galope tendido y tiene un contra tiempo del demonio. y es en ingles. y suena tan triste...
q se yo. lo unico q se es q no se nada...
feoeo 1 year ago
@feoeo
Yo realmente no entiendo whatg que usted está diciendo ... si te gusta la canción
y el video o no. Pero gracias por comentar T-Man..
carann5 1 year ago
just...wow
alczyn182 1 year ago
@carann5: are you sure woody guthrie wrote the lyrics *sometime before his death " and not afterwards? ;)
MrXPATX 1 year ago
My favorite song of all time.
austinandjoefilms 1 year ago
This was in light rotation over at FRSD 96.9 FM, San Diego's mid-2000's pirate station....only station in town that would jump from this to the most obscure straight-edge bands.
Free Radio San Diego you will not be forgotten!
MrJohndoakes 1 year ago
Very nice. I love this song. I emailed to a friend from California who I have not seen in 41 years and we are hooking up next month.
mrsunmoon2010 1 year ago
This song make me feel like Im on Xanax
spinksjinx1 1 year ago
@spinksjinx1 so it makes you forget everything?
LegalizeTheGreen215 1 year ago
@LegalizeTheGreen215 No, makes me feel calm and tranquil.
spinksjinx1 1 year ago
the most amazing song ever. (:
natalove96 1 year ago
awesome song and an awesome video..I need to watch this every once in awhile ever since I found it on here. Thank you for posting it.
ojaidude 1 year ago
The first time i ever heard this song was 2mins ago. At the end of a movie called king of california :)
i cried..with the movie, n the song came in at perfect timing.. I love it.
crippledinside92 1 year ago
@crippledinside92 ,yeah i also really injoyed the movie. Differnt refreshinhg storyline. I think its important to go for your dream even if it's a longshot. Thats what makes this country so great .... The song was aa perfectily placed in thr movie.
jikelgo 1 year ago
@jikelgo i have always been afraid of going for my dreams :/ but sometimes the end result is worth the being afraid :)
crippledinside92 1 year ago
Ace.
TheBitterWeed 1 year ago
so many memories coming up ....
jjnetten 1 year ago
i love this freakin song by Wilco and the Vid is great.. good job on it!
rupman27isback 1 year ago
awesome video. this is a beautiful and moving tribute to a great song and man. i'm sorry other posters here can't keep their negative attitudes to themselves. songs are open to individual interpretation, and if you think you can do a better job, make your own g__dd___n video, fer cryin out loud!
bikerboy2791 1 year ago
that was horrible. i went to type in california and some stupid song called california girls by katy perry came up, it was horrible. what has the world of music come to, nobody knows what good music is nowadays at least any of people my age (15)
autumn438 1 year ago
so damned good.
silverghozt 1 year ago
i'd like to rest my weary bones on a bed of california star wars.
sunshinestuntdub 1 year ago
i only know this song bcuz Andrew Heringer sang it at Sugarloaf Fine Arts Camp =) like this if u know Andrew *i dooooo*, if you have gone/go to/are gona go to Sugarloaf *wuv it 2 bits!!*, or have heard him sing it, =)=)=) <3<3<3 tanky, wuv u all lol *little blue man, like if u no wat the little blu man is*
ttlyinky 1 year ago 2
mama, play this at my funeral
jovenmedia 1 year ago 40
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dmkext 1 year ago
My only misgiving with this album is that Bragg and Tweedy came to loggerheads over some stupid issues - song order or some bs. I wish this partnership had survived Mermaid Ave.
Still, a great album and I think we're lucky to have it.
ZekeBriarcliff 1 year ago
Great great song!
climbercaver 1 year ago
This brings me so much joy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you! PS. I play it again and again. Luv, S
wisearts1 1 year ago
I love this song. I grew up listening to Billy Bragg <3 <3
kylee112297 1 year ago
adoro esta musica, esta no filme " rei da california"
171cello 1 year ago 2
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spookybeast 1 year ago
Great Song.. It changed my mood with every note.. I like......
TheIngridFonseca 1 year ago
goooooooooooood song i lovet
3bodyish 1 year ago
great song
dhm80 1 year ago
I heard this song for the first time about a month ago, while listening to Listener Supported Radio in New York City (WBAI - 99.5 FM). I had to find out the name of the song and was amazed that they gave the info at the end of the show!! This Song Rules!! Very Simple, Musically Ingenious...Shout outs to Community Radio.
Wrath1050 1 year ago
musical perfection
dethbryte518 1 year ago
i like this a lot. nice work! very beautiful!
minipancake2 1 year ago
For years I thought I the lyrics said "I'd like to drink my troubles all away" Hmm
ShaNiRiFFiC 1 year ago
Yup!
IntegralMind 1 year ago
wow, great work! you really captured the essence of the song perfectly :D
hippomaiden 1 year ago
I just spent 45 minutes looking for this song online. FOUND IT!
OlafForkbeard08 1 year ago
i love this song!
harrypotter428 1 year ago
i've enjoyed this song a very long time; It was also used as a herd grazer after phish festival 8. I cant remember which night, but i was happy to see they chose it.
fiofunk 1 year ago
@dog52916 the song misunderstood is from the album Being There(their best album) not Summerteeth. Love the song Shot in the Arm and Via Chicago from Summerteeth.
eapazar 1 year ago
Bragg had nothing to do with this particular song. The words are Guthrie and the tune is 100% Jay Bennett and Jeff Tweedy the later singing it.
alienhuman 1 year ago 2
@alienhuman thank you
porlet271 1 year ago
The best song ever made.
UnLoboAcatarrado 1 year ago 4
Woody Guthrie rules. I would have like to have heard him sing this song.
Bruce0Smith 1 year ago 5
yay im the 99,999 viewer!
xlolx2009 1 year ago
hey me too
lucascroft 1 year ago
God i looove this song!!!
LogiSchen 1 year ago 2
great song.king of california is a good movie too.
abs0fuck1nlutely 1 year ago
Bill bragg is amazing. Not heard any of Wilco's own stuff though, anyone got any good songs i should listen to by Wilco?
lillynboo 2 years ago
def. check out sky blue sky, yankee hotel foxtrot and ghost is born. start w yhf. that is my favorite album of all time... rolling stones #3 of the decade...def check it out
bman20122772 2 years ago
Okay thanks! (Y)
lillynboo 2 years ago
are these albums or songs?
lillynboo 2 years ago
Yeah, bman pretty much nailed it. Wilco's great. Listen to whatever albums of theirs you can find
ThaIrishMafia 2 years ago
Wilco's album Sky Blue Sky is fantastic, as well as a Ghost is Born. Some of my favorite songs are "Forget the Flowers," and "Impossible Germany" and "Hate it Here." You really should just listen through their entire collection, they're a fantastic band.
huxtiblejones 2 years ago
@lillynboo Start with the album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The first song you should hear is "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart." If you like that you should move onto their album Summerteeth - a good song on Summerteeth is "Via Chicago"
RKingFaraday 2 years ago
why dont you start with summerteeth misunderstood is the greatest to see live with the continuous nothings !
dog52196 2 years ago
This is really beautiful music. favorited.
Lordlollygag 2 years ago
Honestly never knew how brilliant Woody Guthrie was until Mermaid Avenue. Great stuff!
MrCherryGhost 2 years ago
i always loved this song...it's been made better since i saw `king of california'.
what a hoot!
nice work Carann 5;-D
this whole country could use a `Woody Gutherie' infusion
hamdelsun 2 years ago 11
Thank you so much! I really appreciate such nice comments!
carann5 2 years ago
@carann5 So Very good.. Thank you so very much "Hamdelsun" is right.... America needs to get back to "Woody Gutherie" how did we lose touch with such a great person? Makes me cry. And miss my younger days when music meant more than work, and Family and friends was all you had.... And needed. Thank you Thank you Thank you.
dmkext 1 year ago
@hamdelsun Hahaaha, yeaj thats where i first heard this song, like 3hours ago, was a great film eh? Micheal douglas is a nut-job in it !! hahaha.
twentyfoursevenable 1 year ago
@hamdelsun King of California was the first time i heard this song
skater32792 1 year ago
@hamdelsun Everyone needs some Woody in them.
ady10001 1 year ago
Bravo. That is one extraordinarily beautiful song. Guthrie must be looking down from those stars and be proud of what he hears. I thought the montage was awesome.
ngrcia 2 years ago 5
So glad you liked it and thanks for the very nice comment!
carann5 2 years ago
great song, but that montage was the HONKIEST of montages....
FanzineLibrary 2 years ago 2
Yes, thank you. It is one of my favorite songs but this montage BLOWS.
jconAK 2 years ago
such.a.good.song.
toiletexaminer 2 years ago
woody guthrie actually told bob dylan that he could have these songs
theoldcrow13 2 years ago
@ theoldcrow13
wrong! it was his widow who gave them the rights to produce the music. he was long dead when this was produced
thatpunkfromDC 2 years ago
I thought it was woody guthries daughter?
wuppz 2 years ago
yeah i know but before woody guthrie dyed he told bob dylan that he could have all his unfinished songs but when dylan went to get them they would'nt let him have them
theoldcrow13 2 years ago
It was kinda neat except there is no bass in this song and that "bass animation" is truly awful. This is like a 1996 screen saver.
Clamwacker 2 years ago
no bass are you high? you can hear it.
T2DAFEE 2 years ago 3
If he was high he'd definitely hear it lol.
d3daiM 2 years ago
Tone deaf, perhaps?
1pattaya 2 years ago
great song, crappy video
7777srd 2 years ago 2
@7777srd crappy video?? I love it
dmkext 1 year ago
My friend, the images here are ALL WRONG and not at all in keeping with the spirit of Guthrie's lyric. dont you get it?
mwoldin 2 years ago
I think songs, like artwork are open to interpretation. What does the song mean to you?
carann5 2 years ago
Well, clearly the lyric is highly poetic, so any literal representation of stars and such, and couples cavorting is off tone.
Secondly, it is a song that expresses the grace Guthrie felt travelling around the country, as he did, as best he could -- on the rails, in cars, buses, walking. That raw feeling of being free and open is humbly prophetic. To show images of suburban couples, hammocks, which is a middle class dream, and show guys jumping at the lyric Jump Up -- my heavens, WRONG.
mwoldin 2 years ago 10
WRONG according to your interpretation but who could really know what Guthrie was thinking or what he really meant or felt when he wrote it? I created the video according to what I hear in the song but thanks for your poetic perception.
carann5 2 years ago
Well, of course it's according to my perception. What else do I have. I don't want you to think me rude. On the contrary, I take it for granted that this sort of thing is for the purpose of evoking a response, and I would very much want to hear polemic going on if I were the one posting it.
Maybe it's time I stop bellyaching and post my own vids. What do you think?
mwoldin 2 years ago
That would be great to see a video done by you to any of your favorites, especially since you've been on YouTube for almost 3 years. But be careful what music you choose to use because it may be banned due to copyright issues.
carann5 2 years ago
@carann5 Hi. Thank you for the suggestion. Honestly it never even occurred to do something myself. I just thought to comment on other people´s stuff. My turn. Wish me luck.
mwoldin 1 year ago
@mwoldin Pretension is such a very unattractive human character trait.
u2vandy 1 year ago
@mwoldin Get that stick out of your ass and stop thinking you know what this song is about more than anybody else. Its a beautiful song and just as long as you enjoy it and it makes you feel good thats all that matters.
YuckOneStudios 1 year ago
@YuckOneStudios Is there anything written here that was necessary to express?
mwoldin 1 year ago
@mwoldin
How can you tell that these are suburban couples from the video? Don't rural folks use hammocks? Don't urban folks sip wine? How you can you they are suburban?
MartyMNMayor 1 year ago
@mwoldin Mr. know it all over here....
jakup10 1 year ago
@carann5 You nailed it.... One of the best videos on the net. I love it and have it on facebook.
I love Calif. with all my heart... But stuck here in Phx. for some time.. When I think of my old life and my kids I play this video... Sometimes I cry.. Sometimes I just think of home and dream about happy times.
I know one day I will go back home... and I will sleep under the calif. stars again... God I miss Escondido so much.. This song takes me home...for a little while anyway.. Thanks..Marcus
dmkext 1 year ago
Woody guthrie was soooo lucky to get these musicians to put music to his lyrics.. Almost every track on both albums are very very good!
Mrsjessywessybessy 2 years ago
one of my favourites : ) this song brings me some bittersweet memories
alex0ml 2 years ago
i can only turn this song up. it's so old-school classic to me~ "all of it"
fiofunk 2 years ago
I find this song to be perfection.
pdscotia 2 years ago 7
Evergreen. For good and bad times. Everything is good :)
Paxta666 2 years ago
Chickens and Hangers?
bonesat 2 years ago