Gillian Welch - Wrecking Ball

[bluesman341]

there are a shitload of 'wrecking ball" songs--Gillian wrote this one

[thewholedamnworld]

This so reminds me of The Waterboys song, Bang on the Ear. This and Nobody knows my name are my favourite songs from Soul Journey.

[niallvan]

Anybody know the chords?

[Camelwoman13]

I loved everything about this song!

[bunnyzero0]

This is just a great song.

[greatestxgift]

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[Shakey719]

Thanks to whoever put this up: I made a cover this morning, and not a very good one, but if you're into covers by amateur musicians of songs you like, check out

Steve Duffy on myspace music (La Mesa, CA)

I have probably listened to this song 100 times or more in a 5 day period at one time in my life. Love everything about it, as well as (Time) The Revelator. What a great talent and artist, can't wait to see her my absolute fave Neil at the Buffallo Springfield show up in S.B. :)

[tembuck2]

Bob Dillon with a twist! Not Bad. Not Bad At All  !

I'm an Old B-3 guy from the 60's . Really enjoyed this!

Thank You Gilian !

Tem

[oregonghostwave]

I like Mr. Young, but this is now a Rawlings/Welch song.

[Gazza63]

@oregonghostwave This isnt the same 'Wrecking ball' that Neil wrote (and which Emmylou also covered)

[thewikerman]

simply a great song

[kotaboner42]

the 6-5-4 chord descent. Gillian makes it the saddest thing in the world.

[EntropyHaptens]

This type got me too!

[geopatchwork]

Love this one. Just figured out the chord progression (I think!)...

Verse:

C-F-C

G-F-C

F-C

Am-G-F

Am-G-C

Chorus (Deadhead part):

F-C

Great tune.

[pasaywuh]

think it's santa cruz dining hall, not garden mall. she's an alum of uc santa cruz.

[broadpath]

@pasaywuh It is "Garden Mall". That is (was?) the name of the shopping center - The Santa Cruz Garden Mall. And she mentions farming in the pogonip. That is the name of a park in Santa Cruz.

[pasaywuh]

my bad. first comment ever on youtube and i'm bitch slapped. thx:)

[septip123]

she takes modern day events and puts an "old tyme" spin on them.

brilliant

[MartinezxD]

aw man does anyone have the chords??

such a great song

[turpidude]

4 chords - C, F, G, Am.

[willgonow]

she can make shite sound good, not that this tune is crap, done better.

[40thCapeRifles]

An amazing song. I don't know how I could've been into alt.country in the 90s and not heard this song until tonight.

Thanks for posting this!

[harveytg]

female Gillian Welch

[mikialama]

female bob dylan

[irelephant]

oldtimesound, Gillian Welch did write this song. The song written by Neil Young and covered by Emmylou Harris on her eponymous mid-nineties CD has the same title but is a completely different song both lyrically and musically. Listen to both again and compare them!

[tommenright]

I was so happy to hear Gillian say she was a deadhead the first time I heard this song.

by the way, does she say "the weed that I recall" or "Oh wee did I recall", it sounds like weed to me, but someone told me it wasn't

[derfunkhaus]

From what little I know of G.W.'s life, elements of this song are pretty much autobiographical. She was a "little deadhead," and she did play bass in a band for awhile. I have no idea if other verses allude to actual events or people in her life though, such as the "love-sick daughter in the San Joaquin."

[seemedlikeagoodidea]

You are right...I think this is the best of all of her songs... it is the most intensely real and personal... every other song of hers is a story... this one is her story. The colors she'd never seen came from the Love Sick Daughter .... probably an acronym if you think about it.

[snowyday8]

What a great song! She is amazing

[taariqtaariq]

i was a little dead head, too i ate lsd and smoked the herb and listened to the dead. I was sad when Jerry garcia died.

[johnny991965]

`Little Deadhead` refers to fans of The Grateful Dead...Great tune this...

[lmike1918]

I was just a little Deadhead...

thanks for posting this great song

[GovmentTookMaBaby]

I always thought it was "I was just a little redhead"

that makes sense too though.

[mwindle1973]

Actually I thought it said dead head. BUt red head would make more sense. Either one really. I going to listen really really closely. But she does make references to being a rolling stone so poetically dead head fits to.