vera hall - trouble so hard

[UniqueOne36]

So much soul in this song. She sings with real passion. Both qualities that are very rare in today's music. Raw, real, and simply beautiful!

PS. Calling Kanye a real artist or any other of these folks that RUIN great songs for profit, is like saying someone is Vincent van Gogh just because they painted a picture like his. You can put lipstick on a pig, but they will always be a pig.

[luridlorea]

my parents are Lomax enthusiasts so I did hear this before the Moby rendition. And no, that doesn't make me a hipster, that makes me AWESOME

[major356]

Sampling is a beautiful new part of music. And anyone that thinks they're "real" because they oppose to sampling is full of shit. How could you say sharing music and combining music is not an artistic beautiful thing. In this new modern world of music I think it's important that people keep sampling old music to allow it to live on. Stop giving kanye shit for sampling soul songs

[Zhteud]

ВАУ

[HODAKIRYUCHAIB]

waaaaaw TT___TT

[TheSaam1]

i love this so much

[moonsugar1]

BlogBitch = Fucktard.

Music and songs always transcend and are passed on, from one generation to the next. Every generation is different, and every generation will pass it on differently. Theres something in alot of early blues that speaks to a very human part of all of us, and it doesnt matter how its passed down, whether through sampling in 90's dance music, word of mouth, or hearing someone sing it in a fucking cotton field. The only person making race an issue is you.

Idiot.

[SentinelConvergence]

@moonsugar1 What's really amusing is his attempt to pathologize Moby as having a 'slave master' mentality. When someone starts authoritatively declaring what occurs inside other people's minds, I start to wonder about their own mental processes.

[eLLriDe420]

I always thought this was sung by some epic southern african american women

[Ninje56]

Moby did a great job getting this beautiful voice and showing it to the world :D

[niave]

wow

[xXBronzedBalletXx]

A perfect example a beautiful voice that existed before autotune was created.

[ClappingForChlamydia]

THAT VOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!

[brojam83]

SAMPLING IS APPRECIATION, GRATITUDE AND ABOVE ALL A TRIBUTE TO THE ORIGINAL ARTIST. TO ME IF U GET SAMPLED , THATS AN HONOR. U SHOULD BE GLAD THAT SOMEONE WOULD WANT TO USE WUT U GAVE THE WORLD. IT SHOULDNT BE ABOUT THE MONEY OR COPY RIGHTS...IF ITS ABOUT THAT, THEN U ARE KNOW TRUE ARTIST. I DONT MAKE MUSIC TO MAKE MONEY , I DO IT BECAUSE I LOVE IT!!!

[jbolio888]

Don't blame Moby. I hate sampling myself, but in this case it brought the original artist to my attention. I'd have no idea who Vera Hall is if it wasn't for Moby.

[FloydianMario]

reminds me of Son House's Grinin in Your Face ...

[ryangooner14]

Freddy Got Fingered.

[GonoManiax]

@ryangooner14 just go moby's play album after watching freddy got fingered XD

[limaozito]

FUCKING AMAZING!

[HughManification]

amazing. . . timeless . . .

[Teetee33]

First time I ever heard a Vera Hall song wasn't cuz of Moby; he had nothing to do with it. Some people actually have an idea of what's what and who without samplers. Shocking, I know....

[CAMBi07]

@Teetee33 Well done..........

[ShreddinThrash]

@Teetee33 yeah well done... blah blah. Just because people dont know who she was before moby dosent mean that they dont know who is who and whats what. In fact a lot of people probably know alot of artists you dont know. Shocking, I know...

[Teetee33]

@ShreddinThrash Um, for your information, I was responding to the notion that Moby was the one to make this person known to anybody and everybody who'd ever heard these lyrics before. There are people out there who would have heard Vera Hall independent of Moby, lots of them. That's all I was saying. And yeah, there are lots of artists I don't know. But that's never been the point here. Whatever, dude.

[lmcfadden800]

@Teetee33 well the way you said it wasnt very nice.

[Teetee33]

@lmcfadden800 Well, I didn't realize that decorum was the way of the world on Youtube, as a rule.  Coulda fooled me.

[ikosabre]

I had no idea that the voice was that of an black woman. The voice in the Moby's video sounded more like an old man, probably because there was an old guy in the music video. Interesting.

[LadyStylez]

U can just hear the pain in her voice i love this

[Slimette002]

"Went in the room, didnt long, looked in the bad, brother was dead"

My brother's just died a week ago, cant stop listening to this song.

[theheartshoes]

I'm crying. Wow.

[pop4357]

nice voice

[americanheritage1660]

Lets try and keep American history and culture alive. I cant believe that some people think the United States does not have a culture except for a commercial one.

[gmj2012]

Google search showed Moby 1st & Vera second. Whoever took the time to make & post these videos by the original blues female vocalist, I salute you & am grateful to you for the uploads. :)

[ireternalexistence]

This song reminds me of the book The Colour Purple, where the main character's only refuge is God.

[nickiz1]

have you heard Mobe's version of this song ...

[Pukku07]

Для меня открытие, что это песню написал не Моби...

[whatitischief]

@Pukku07 да, я тоже. настоящая музыка американских, я думаю.

[Kedwa050]

Beautiful. I have never found anything so passionate and so equally simple in anything except for the first songs of the Blues. Absolutely beautiful.

[bluesnorway]

this song is just so honest

[Tucknrollgrampa]

I sat here wanting to type something, but I don't know how to express what I heard. Just wow...

[docravinsky]

Born 1967 just outside of Livingston -Scotland.

BlacknProud

[echoplex89]

moby isn't a thief either. he gives anonymously to alot of charities. He's just wants to make beautiful music, not tons of money.

[ihatenazi]

this kind of performing (without instruments, simple form, folk song etc.) leaves a space for the next generations to modify it. there are two ways: you can maim the song, or you can make it filled with instruments and new approach without maiming/hurting it- in other word you can make a superstructure of a song, make it better (do not consider this like I said "This song is bad", I said it is good to enable it to evolve). Moby's work here is great!

[scribnermichael1982]

makes you wonder would we appreciate this as much if it was never mixed with moby? hard to say

[hoodhenk]

hoe laat is het?

[DjagoMoaI]

@hoodhenk half 3 in de ochtend, maar het is er nooit te laat voor ;)

[ybdiffrent]

I cant wait to try and find and listen to more of Vera. Real music, as was said by skelze.

[trentlloyd]

a haunting voice, it cut's right to your soul and shakes you! beautiful!

[Beebsentrance]

Brought me to tears...oh Lordy...

[mscool098]

i like moby's sample of it called natural blues, it sounds good. but he didn't give her any recognition what so ever... and her voice is playing thoughout the whole song! wow bitch

[ybdiffrent]

@mscool098 I am totally with you. many artists have been sampling legendary blues since Day One. Too bad the artists dont get their recognition, as is due. 

[italianbabiie55]

this is absolutely beautiful<3

[sotuf]

Dont get hung up its just a song nothing more nothing less relax my friends, your obscure comments spoil what is otherwise a perfect thing we have lost in todays mad mad world..

[onuzpp]

Nice Song, Alex Kenji Remix.

[skekze]

This is what I seek, real music. Fucking beautiful.

[Mico605]

6 people does not knows what life is.... :(

[DaniVerd]

Hipster: fuck off men, i knew her before moby's "natural blues" ;D

[t77snapshot]

you can feel the emotion in her voice when she sings, I like it with no instruments. I still think moby did a good mix on the song. He kept it close to the heart.

[busessuck1]

Oh... so Moby did a "sample" of this

I was wondering why this has 150k views

[45kdm]

Her voice brought me to tears.....

[Bogwire]

Yeah, anyone who says sampling is wrong, is wrong. This is beautiful but none of you would have ever heard it if Moby hadn't sampled it. Love Music, & beauty transcends boundaries. Blessings to music.

[32wallace]

@Bogwire

Not strictly true, it took me ages to find this one after hearing it on a compilation of blues because of fucking Moby

[SpiffingShow]

@32wallace took me about 30 seconds :p

[32wallace]

@SpiffingShow

I only knew the lyrics, not the song so had to google the few word i could remember. Oh well, I've got it now

[BlogBitch]

@Bogwire

Actually no... I always knew this. Some people on this site are older than you,,,and even Moby. This is wonderful but anything by Moby will always be derogative.

[abesha171]

@BlogBitch ...But your name is BlogBitch?

[BlogBitch]

@abesha171

So? ..... Check out the album 'Natural Blues'

[AngryOscillator]

@BlogBitch I hear your first bit, but Moby did this vocal great justice, encapsulating the feel perfectly while giving the vocals due respect (there is little (if any) processing, slicing, editing, etc) and a wonderful video to support it. And as it happens I do know the name Vera Hall, but didn't know about this song and yes I found it because of the Moby track :)

[thewilladair]

@Bogwire The person who referred me to Vera has never listened to Moby. Sampling though definitely in not a bad thing.

[taurtue]

@thewilladair Just compared the other Vera Hall's views, they're like max around 5000, this one 188 244 right now.. No doubt Moby is for something bout that

[53104]

@Bogwire

[Marcsafon]

@Bogwire

Hattie Cursey brought me here.

[BlogBitch]

@Bogwire Bless to you and all the green thumbs.. you just don't get it.

That it takes some itty bit of white no talent to bring this music to the wider world says everything about racism. Moby is nothing more than a Plantation Musician.

[speakercoilmusic]

@Bogwire Not necessarily true... Though true for most... But I heard it before Moby sampled it. A blues obsessed friend of mine leant me a box set called "Sounds of the South"... Which has some other cool shit on it (some of which Moby also sampled in other songs). It has some cool Chain Gang songs on it too.

[djmichaelgaudry]

Amazing ^_^ 

[Horaciow14]

Moby's take is just as amazing and he is responsible for brining this to a larger audience.

[deesnutz757]

love this .... I actually could hear the emotion in her voice in the sample and it made me wonder where to find the rest of her stuff..... I have to give it to Moby because if he didnt respect this music enough to to put it out i would not have known Vera existed.

[valkyrio]

There's so much emotion in her voice that gets lost in Moby's sample; his song is still great, but this...there's just no comparing.

[Cangouro]

pure beauty of soul...

[IvoryPhil]

At the end I would like to hear "Thats It" (Janis Joplin, Mercedes Benz)

[jessezammit94]

Goose bumps dont lie, this woman is inspirational in all ways, agree with all your comments btw!

[LethalEugene]

It almost made me cry.

[Tamoshante]

Blues is your carries and worries

[Popstarr23]

It's amazing that back in those days, no one needed instrumental accompaniment. You can feel what she is singing and you believe her.

[raymievision]

Two minutes of sweet music.

[HajrudinPranjga]

my favorite song, love it so much, this is blues.

[mickmos]

FUCK THIS. THIS IS SHIT

[RikJamezBich]

This is SUCH a dope song. I wish I met her.

[Aidinovic]

A musical gem, this one. Chillingly heartfelt.

You guys might enjoy this rendition as well. I find it's kept the somewhat eerie touch of its original a bit more than Moby's otherwise excellent remake:

watch?v=KqXXnBKa-Os

[gpeak01]

AMAZING

[CENOZOICMAN]

super

[Samnamnam]

What a voice...

R.I.P me lady

[jeneverbes]

intense

[TheUndeadShark]

SOOOOOOOOO beatiful song

[cedricleecason]

How this is our old church feel!!

Soul in the singing!

[glasscitadel12]

"Moby"- one of the few samples that i can stand!

[39user274502]

this is how sampling should be done. most of the time hip hop musicians sample old music tracks and just add crappy rapping on top of it , but moby did all the beats himself and music himself and just sampled a really good vocal track.

[PhantomLyric]

@39user274502 eyeroll

[Spiritree41]

Wow she is from my birth home.  And this is the way it was....

[busha2743]

holy crap i can feel the pain just from her singing. that's what real music is.

[Tigibko]

мурашки по коже... это божественно!

[GodmyX]

I'm bit dissappointed, because I thought Moby had this one out of his head :-///

But everything nice of that song is here.... although I still like his edit.

[Pieperson277]

man. i love vocals like this...

you can feel the love for the music. literally.

[gigaves]

The only bad thing in this song is that it's short... I want more sonic delight!!!

[Spiderwick1989]

since moby has kept the original voice, we can consider "natural blues" as a remix of this song!!!!

[spdskte]

this is the song Moby samples. "Natural Blues"

[TurangaMorris]

@spdskte Really?

[Bikendi100]

@spdskte more than a samlpling stuff, it looks like Moby composed the perfect beat for the eprfect voice xD

[faithlez2]

This is the only song I know of which feels absolutely fabulous without anything else except for pure sweet vocals!

[mrEmandible]

@faithlez2

amazing grace still gives me goosebumps every time i hear it

[fifzeppelin]

@faithlez2

Try Grinnin' in your Face by Son House

[bigwillhenk]

this is great

[browniemcgheeggallin]

i am trying to think of what movie this song was in.... four brothers? its gonna bug the shit out of me

[Awesomeist100]

Wow, this womans voice, the lyrics, ... I feel like crying

[llxllmayalenllxll]

thank you for posting this

[tmudd24]

i love this woman

[andybassman67]

A thing of real beauty.

[WindyFellow]

sounds like the black keys - stack shot billy

[TRACKWIZ36]

Moby and the song is called natural blues.

[TRACKWIZ36]

Classic

[audisport]

this is fucking amazing . moby stole this fuckin song and melody. She sang without a melody or beat. just a solo and it sounds amazing

[mateopumba747]

@audisport he didnt steal it, he sampled it, and gave all credits in the album booklet.

[Natashadoingit]

@audisport Perhaps. But if it wasn't for Moby 'stealing it' and highlighting this amazing acapella, not as many people would have appreciated it in the rest of the world.

[GenieBella]

@Natashadoingit

Agreed!

[albert1350]

Theres an acctually song to this with the exact same voice but with a beat and music, I found it before but now I cant does anyone know?

[audisport]

@albert1350 moby troubles with god

[proud2bmuslim2]

I love this song.. filled with emotions and sang from the heart..I love the South and Southerners! If you like Southern people, raise your glass or raise your standards!

[paulgad]

@leshager2009 Not around here is there anything being sung like this, I live in Rhode Island. Maybe down south. But not around here. Also, I always thought Moby came up with it, and I really like his song, but It is just a ripoff.

[fmusikalia]

I live in mississippi now and this song makes me love where I am now

[paulgad]

Wow, this is so fucking cool. I kinda thought that Moby, was not the original singer of this song. This woman would be extremely famous were she around today. It stirs the soul.

[Ovito85]

black women and women in general dont sing like this anymore, no feeling in music now days.... sad really

[schaffk]

Wow Vera, you have got a really great voice and I just feel you must be just as beautiful a person as well....

[paulgad]

@schaffk She is dead pumpkin. Wish was still around though

[monsterofmuaythai]

@schaffk i bet you want all up in that poontang..........

[MrRoofkiller]

bad ass!!! respect

[Anjis]

Never fails to grab you by the throat and demand the emotion to be felt, blissful!

[hipermetrope2009]

gfbnvbmn

[AnnikHonoreDeBa]

who know's lyrics??

[Ac3rino]

@AnnikHonoreDeBa Oh lordy, My troubles so hard Oh lordy, My troubles so hard, Don't nobody know my troubles but God (x2) Went down the hill, Other day my soul got happy and stayed all day Went in the room, didn't stay long, looked on the bed and brother was dead

[AnnikHonoreDeBa]

Ac3rino thx :*

[timjmoran]

and to think this tune made a Moby a pretty rich dude.. kinda ..uh.. "ironic" ain't it?

[GoHaliGo]

this is soul.

[djoepro]

I apologize for my earlier reply. it's just very frustrating that music history is close to unknown endless it's remixed by a pop star. growning up I was privileged music wise. by 12 yrs old I knew that zepplin, the doors, janis joplin ect ect plagiarized simply because of my parents blues collection.

[95PIERCE]

I HAVE CHILLS

[lovelycreation]

Thank You, mother Hall.

[phobbb]

i always belive, that it is mobys voice

[ProGameTuts]

i can feel the fear and fright in her voice, if you listen so hard just to her voice, you can tell shes been through alot

[juanluis64]

moebee lol

[Skybaby79]

there's pain in her voice, this woman has seen things.

[J222333]

@Skybaby79 Has the same feel as one of the spirituals that my ancestors used to sing, it's so moving and sad at the same time, Mrs. Hall was clearly thinking of someone and something important when she sang this.

[glasscitadel12]

@Skybaby79 this vocalisation is natural in most baptist churches.

[suckmebeautiful78]

@Skybaby79 ...probably more than just "seen" things.

[legoid43]

@Skybaby79 they shood make a film about here live man...

[BethPessoa]

i actually discover this song by Moby's "Natural Blues" like everyone. And i'm impressed, sounds so actual and moody but it's just a voice recording of 1943, bizarre how music can get so excellent without too much.

[Bunzypoo]

I love this song soooooo much!

[89fenderplayer]

wooow..

[liedjelisette]

This is the original moby got it to the public with his mix.

[djoepro]

modey lol?? you can't spell mody!!

..how about the dock reed, henry reed and vera hall version of this song??

[Ulfar22]

@djoepro mody lol?? you can't spell moby!!

[D3nny777]

This song is from 1943 Vera Hall is born in 1902 - died in 1964...

[adettmer82]

Mobey did it better.

[not88responding]

mobey?

i think it's moby.

[thegarbeen]

@adettmer82 Fuck the fuck off!!

[vampiricdave]

@adettmer82 are you stupid? Do you even understand what the song is about? Moby could never express the true anguish and pain this song is about.

[julittok]

it's great indeed

[igotssssoul]

AMAZING. Simply amazing...

[legoid43]

lovely and good

[klakkin]

Lovely

[BitterPoetMadman]

This is an amazing song.

[cinemavirtualis]

This is absolutely hypnotic in both versions.

[Prahduhgee]

born in Payneville...Painville

[gypsyqueen1964]

Lovely.

[MrMrbobblehead]

is that the blues

[MrBeknown]

Love this song, amazing.