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  • Wow! I still get chills whenever I hear this. I agree that Kelly Clarkson is the best thing to come out of American Idol. I'd like to see her do entire albums with this type of song in them.

  • This gives me goosebumps every time.

  • Sh*******t! She SANG that.

  • wagner sings a cappelle, take a look

  • oh glory!!

  • her voice is angelic

  • Very good and Kelly has an amazing voice, but this will always be performed best by the original artist Patty. However this isn't what we should talk about, we should just listen to the performance and not argue ove who has done it better....

  • she is in just one word....incredible.

    

  • LEGENDRY PERFORMANCE !!!

  • this is PATTY GRIFFIN"S SONG DON"T GET IT TWISTED KELLY DID GOOD BUT PUHLEASE

  • This for me has to be one of the greatest performances not just in American Idol but in the whole of entertainment. Handsdown, two thumbs up, hats off. Hail to Kelly and Jeff. This is beyond perfection.

  • im sorry but kelly has no soul, i like stacy her rendition of this song gave me goosebumps

  • @TheAries414 stacy's voice was way to bland compare to kelly.. sit down..

  • @TheAries414 if you think that kelly has no soul, then you would not know soul if it bit you on the ass.

  • Stacy who ??

    Kelly is sooooooooo much better .

  • omg ew kelly's terrible. Stacy Francis is AMAZING at this song. all these idiots saying kellys better, smh she has no voice at all and has NOTHING on Stacy.

  • @cocomiley218 youre simpleton.. idiot.. stacy has nothing on kelly.. will never even on kelly's level.. her voice sounds like just a rejected idol contestant.. bhahahahahahaha

  • @carshe209 are you kidding? Kelly doesnt have the amazing range that Stacy has. you obviously know nothing about singing.

  • @cocomiley218 bitch call me when you heard stacy asshole loser had an 3.2 octave vocal range like kelly does then we can talk,, for now youre nothing but a skank ass to me

  • @cocomiley218 amazing range your ass.. call me when you haeard stacy loser infamous amateur biatch.. belts from bb4 to c6, hahahahahaha.. you dont know how to stop? bitch .. get owned over and over

  • @cocomiley218 omg FALSE! stacy francis screamed half the song and its sad that a white girl sings this song with more soul too! I could listen to her sing this song all day everyday for the rest of my life

  • The only two people that should sing this amazing song besides the original artist are Kelly and Josh K. That crybaby Stacy Francis needs to get off that show asap, she is not at the same level as the finalists in that show, her sob story got her into the finals. She butchered her version of this with her over the top vocals. I honestly cannot believe anyone would pick that trainwreck Stacy's version over this one or Josh's.

  • Just. Awesome!! Love you Kelly!!

  • Can't believe some people prefer Stacy Francis's version to THIS! Guess opinions really ARE like assholes. 

  • @softcoredeath Agreed, Stacy's version is just horrible.

  • I think everything Stacey Francis does is too over the top...I am sick of her already.She in no way compares to Kelly Clarkson...sorry- just the way I see it. I actually liked Josh Krajcik's version of this song much better, in one of his earlier audidtions.But I have to disagree that Kelly is hands down the best to come from Idol- I think Carrie Underwood could arguably be the best. Great song though!!

  • I love you Kelly, however, Stacy Frances XFactor version is way over the top with more SOUL ;-)))))

  • just went to see stacy francis's version...it was like all over the place? but it was ok...this version is just flawless...! i hope kelly comes out with a blues soul album!! its many's wish! her blues soul track "why don't you try" is not even on her album, quite disappointed

  • @ireallyamben RIGHT!? How in the world did that track NOT make the album?!

  • @deannabanana1983 i tink cause the track is really out from the rest..if its on the album it will be really random....hope that she will sing that for the VH1diva! so that the world can know the song..and hope she will come out with a blues or acoustic album!!! cant wait!

  • @deannabanana1983 @ireallyamben I think you guys haven't known that "Why Don't You Try" was included in the Ep Smoakstack session & Kelly just sang it flawless!

  • In My Opinion, Stacy Francis has the best Cover to this song now. Just stating my own opinion. Wish Stacy's version was longer though :(

  • Stunning. Outstanding. Amazing. <3

  • i remember the first time i saw this...i was watching idol gives back and then she started singing, and literally nothing else existed. the first time i heard this song, kelly clarkson was singing it, and even though i've heard a hundred covers no one has even come close to measuring up. i wish she would make records like adele that show her emotion and vocal range. i don't care what her record label says, my december was one of her best albums and a step i the right direction

  • @EvanescentMelody You´re Right...My December Is an AMAZING album.....The song are just TERRIFIC....The Hardest Sounds of kelly are amazing....Good Taste....

  • I always cry when i hear this song.. i relate so much...

  • this is the best. live. performance. ever.

  • She is hands down the best thing to ever come out of American Idol

    Did anyone hear Bryan Hawn's cover... he sang is drunk! lol

  • @cayeneass

    I would say Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood are the 2 best things to ever come out of American Idol :)

  • @shinmopi who cares about carrieoke shit here? kelly is the best and the most successful.. 36 million singles.. and 23 million albums.. end off..

  • The original is by Patty Griffin and it beats all the covers in my opinion. she wrote it and you can tell that she lives it

    Patty Griffin is the true original artist and she breaks all barriers in music

  • Crystal Bowersox had an amazing version.

  • @DshankumMusic She has an ok version

  • I have never heard anyone come close to Kelly's version...the whole song seems to be in the sweet spot of her voice. I love Patty Griffin but this is Kelly Clarkson's song now.

  • Countless singing show contestants have covered this since Kelly did....but nobody has been able to compare to her or the original.

  • @HighNoteFanatic Exactly!!!! Stacy's version is not even close enough.

  • Stacy Francis sucks ass compared to Kelly!! Why people like her is a mystery to me, i think she sounds like shit... Kelly on the other hand FLAWLESS

  • @21ctm21 I have been saying the same thing since the show started. Stop with the crying routine after every song and the sympathy crap, her voice is terrible, trying to hit notes she can't hit. No one can do this song justice like Kelly can and of course Josh Jrajcik

  • @dolfinsfan32 YES! i completely agree its the most annoying this ever! I guess she had like a whole career b4 X Factor too, like with madonna or some thing. So pretty much she is a fake bitch who can't sing at all. And the sympathy crap can only get you so far, i ain't gonna by a record because your dog died. lol if she makes it any further i'll have a full on rage session cuz its bullcrap

  • outstanding !!

  • yo creo que ella puede cantar de todo se nota que le sobra voz y sentimiento ... me gusta el nuevo album y mucho

  • Mantap...

  • flawless.

  • I think if Kelly could put together a catalog of bluesy soulful songs like this and play small venues, she could charge more for the tickets and still fill houses. I would gladly pay $75-$100 to see two hours of this, but would never go to one of her regular “pop” concerts.

  • @wthomps429 exactly!

  • Okay, I just watched Josh Krajcik's rendition and I don't see it. It was passionate and had a Joe Cocker quality, but he changed it up too much and it didn’t put my heart in my throat like Kelly’s version does. To each his own I guess. I do wish those reality/competition shows would let them sing a full version of the songs instead of these truncated versions.

  • I just previewed "Stronger", and with the exception of "Why Don't You Try", it was all generic bubble gum pop. Such a waste of her talent and completely forgettable. She should do much more of these types of songs. I've been a big fan since year 1 of Idol, but she's wasting her instrument.

  • es fantastica canta con sentimiento ......y canta jaja que eso es raro en este tiempo

  • With all due respect to the multi-talented Kelly Clarkson and her fans, this was an immaculate performance.... but it pales in comparison to Josh Krajcik's rendition. This beautiful song now belongs to Josh!

  • @Maverickaiser Hahahaha right. Josh's version was decent, but cannot really compare to Kelly's version. There's so much more emotion in her performance.

  • When Kelly reaches the part at 2:46, it shows what great vocal ability and control she has singing. I think it's the best part! :) :) And, JEFF BECK is one of the top guitarists in the world!!

    Patty Griffin, who wrote the song and performs on smaller tours has had her music recorded by a LOT of famous musicians-- probably the Dixie Chicks have performed more of hers than others, but also I hear her songs in soundtracks for TV and film too.

  • Still makes me cry

  • What do you say after that? That girl has one amazing gift. 

  • SIMPLY AMAZING!!!

    Amazing voice. GREAT Song

    And the guitarist{I don't need to say anything}

  • GREAT GREAT SONG!!!

    And i LOVE HER VOICE!!!

  • Just AMAZING..........

  • She killed it too. But much improved with Joshes blues

  • Sweet-Lord-Jesus can you imagine Mahalia singing that!!!

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  • the guitar kinda ruins it. but otherwise AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!

  • @mrtotalycoolman OMG I can not disagree with you more!

  • wow great great voice

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  • 21 people must not be saved

  • yup. Josh brought me here too. And glad I am :) Jeff Beck is legendary and you see him step right out of the spotlight to give her the full attention. He was awesome as well. GJ Kelly 

  • @MrPaCorcoran ... lol same here sooo where is the door so i can get back to Josh Krajcik version liked it alot better.....

  • Love the song!!

  • Her voice is incredible!

  • Kelly and Josh Kragcik would be so great singing together

  • just heard this song for the first time.... this song has nothing but blessings all over it.

    Always hoping for a better day and faith to make it through.... God bless...

  • What a song.......... It says it all.

  • @suzanne24ish I've been saying that for years! Love them both so much

  • I love her voice. I love her personality. She is a real singer...rare thing these days.

  • No one else should ever sing this.

  • @jviehe except for josh Krajcik

  • @jviehe NO ONE !!!!!!!

  • fantastically sung! The original is sung and written by Patty Griffin just fyi.

  • @jsr08006 Agree. They are both great and should duet somes!

  • Seriously, her record label wanted her to sing NEVER AGAIN! I mean, I love that song like Winnie the Pooh loves honey, but really? That song is like a bitter song where she sings about hating her ex-boyfriend! This is an amazing song to sing at a charity show, not Never Again.

    I love Kelly Clarkson, not just for her voice, but for her personality, charisma & she is downright beautiful. She is not fat, she is curvy and sexy unlike other singers who are sticks.

    :D

  • @chocolatecake742 Never Again is not what her label wanted it's what kelly wanted. She loves that song.

    Entire My December album is pretty much Kelly.

    Asong about hating an ex-boyfriend isn't bad lol?

  • @SuperDuperN3rd No if you look on wikipedia (I rely on it a lot XD) You'll see she didn't want to sing it :D

  • @SuperDuperN3rd she didn't want to sing it because it's a charity event and it's not good for her to sing a mad song. She wanted to sing something that is inspirational.

  • wow the privledge of having jeff beck play with you, that is called makin it. jeff only plays for the best. and they are both the best, I can assure you he doesnt'care what she looks like, he has to love the singer to walk on the stage with them. He just did the album with Imelda May look up Imelda May she is so worth listening to, her song mayhem or her love song fallin in love again, or the kentish town waltz. he loved imelda enough to do the grammy's with her, Train kept a rollin. imelda may

  • she can top every song she sings even rock. and when she sings rock man she on fire wowww. she has got a wonderful talent and stop talkin about her weight your are suck idiots Way to go kelly this just proves that you're the best

  • One of my favorite ever performances, of any television show! This was flat-out amazing, and I still get chills when I hear it.

  • I got blown away!!! Didn't know she is this good a singer with so much depth.

  • she needs to go down the Adele route of writing what she believes. a country album from this woman would be absolutely amazing!

  • @injectmex id love her to do a blues album, even randy jackson said so.. id love for her to do big band album or somthing tony benett like...when she sang his version of because of you it was sooo perfect

  • @RobertaHampton24 Why the heck are you talking aout that piece of crap, Lady gaga, on a Kelly Clarkson video? You moron

  • AMAZING VOICE!!!!

  • She's just plain BEAUTIFUL!

  • I like her hair when it was brunette...

  • I'd love an album, live or otherwise, of Kelly singing songs like this, classic songs, (maybe even with guest musicians, she's got Jeff Beck, the guys from Aerosmith, Reba and more). It'd be great!!!

  • These are the types of songs that were made for kelly, such a soulfull powerfull voice!!!

  • Amazing. I love her.

  • please perform in chicago before december because then i would have the best b-day of my life! And if you don't it would be my wost birthday im counting on you kelly!

  • Goosebumps start at 02:52. wow

  • I love you Kelly!!!! You are a goddess to me :). I am getting sick of all these iconic stars with their flamboyant costumes and auto-tuned voices!

  • THINK ABOUT IT AND LISTEN TO HER CLOSELY....SHE SOUNDS SO MUCH LIKE JANIS JOPLIN......LOOKS BETTER AND HAS A GREAT STYLE..BUT SOUNDS LIKE JANIS AND HAS SUCH TALENT...

  • so powerful! Praise Him! :D

  • wow... amazing

  • Kelly sang with so much soul. She hit some great runs and left it all out there. Jeff Beck...just awesome. That blues guitar work gave me chills, wow!

  • omgz- she's totally sexin that 'phone..

  • It's like a moment frozen in time...a haunting melody and a beautiful voice that touch the secret places of our soul.

  • @WorldWalkerIn Yup, all the others are auto tuned robotic clones

  • I'd kill to have her voice,for one day.

  • She is effortless. Gah, Kelly, how are you so amazing?

  • I think I actually prefer Crystal Bowersox's final idol performance version of this song, but Kelly definitely shows why she won idol with this amazing performance.

  • thumbs up if you think Kelly Clarkson has one of the best female voices?

    

  • @lilsking94 Thumbs up if she is the best lol

  • @lilsking94 for me she's the best just like P!nk. she's not screaming like Aguilera. she's singing her soul out.

  • @lilsking94 Omfgd hell yes. This girl is truly unbelievable.

  • @iLolz19 Agreed! :)

  • @lilsking94 I might get alot of hate for this, but I think she's better than Celine Dion and Mariah Carey. (Just my opinion)

  • @jojoxx1231 hmm definitely the most natural sounding talent i think

  • @jojoxx1231 I totally agree:)

  • Check out Heather Evans and 12 year old guitar prodigy Caden Davis doing this song. Video quality isn't there but everything else is. 

  • this is my favorite performance out of all 10 years of american idol.

  • Why can't Kelly sing music like this all the time? I'm not much a fan of her over produced songs they play on the radio. She has a very 'Joss Stone-esque' voice, soulful, beautiful, and real

  • I love ellen, she is such a sweetheart.

  • the ending is cute :)

  • LITERALLY gave me the chillz.

  • Crystal, WHO?!?

  • stunning, she's incredible and so underrated. she has showed her INCREDIBLE skills so many times and after all those years people still complain about her weigjt and shit like that, that industry is sick and people listening to today's shit pop are deaf.

  • @xXmissNobodyXx I mean weight*

  • @xXmissNobodyXx Something I could never figure out is why in the world someones weight would matter so much. This girl has more talent in her little finger than most of TODAYS so called superstars. Singing is singing shouldn't have anything whatsoever to do with what someone looks like.

  • @copperhead29 It's the dress, it does not a single thing for her, but man can this girl wail! She's one of my FAVORITE artists, I love the way she uses her voice as an instrument instead of just singing

  • @bsbncandey I do too. She can sing ANYTHING. I found some cover songs she has done here on YouTube and they are incredible. I think she would be great role model for young girls today seeing as how the majority of todays female pop stars are raving lunatics.

  • @bsbncandey YES, CHECK OUT THE VIDEO WITH JASON ALDEAN..."DON`T YOU WANT TO STAY"..SHE LOOKED SO SLENDER AND BEAUTIFUL......

  • @76oldlady I saw her performing that song, she looked great and I LOVE that song! It's one of my favorites that I play OVER AND OVER again

  • @copperhead29 That is so true. Weight doesnt get you a job, it doesnt get you a life. It is what you bring into the world that truly matters. And Kelly truly brought a light into the world through her singing and the lyrics of her songs. And that is what really matters in the end.

  • @copperhead29

    Amen to that. Honestly, Kelly Clarkson is beautiful. She's one of the most beautiful women walking around this planet. I guess the outside of someone is what matters most to some people.

  • I don't know if you guys agree, but I think this is the greatest songs ever written.

  • Kelly has more alot more talent than any other singer alive, she can sing any kind of music and she makes it all her own. I am still in aww of her. Love her.

  • The world still fails to realize @ how good this girl has it vocally. I mean, she will be around for the longhall.

  • ...But even after this kelly still gets BUNK from people. So the ol' sayin comes to mind that some people were just born to hate your guts.

  • unfortunately crossing genres and being a multi-task genre artist is sooooooooooooooooo underated to date. There is not enough respect for people or a person like kelly for doing such in the music business. Crossing genres or being a multi-task generated artist would be the only thing I could tell someone to do to gain more respect musically, its just so unfortunate that FEW in the business can do this.

  • Try to watch this with the 1911 option! It suits it well :D

  • i come here usually whenever i open youtube and every time i watch this perfromance i got chills like it's the very first time !!!

    there is no words to describe this wonderfull voice ... just amazing !!

  • I get so misty watching this... Beauty that cannot be described...

  • You have to be mental to dislike this. The voice, the passion, the girl..She's simply BRILLIANT.

  • Id love to hear these two do more songs together, she can sing ANYTHING and he can play ANYTHING.

  • Kelly voice is amazing!! She has demonstrated time and again her versatility to cross genres of music. My desire is for her to record an album full of material that best reflects her versatility to include Up to the Mountain. Her talent remind me a lot of Eva Cassidy, who was another artist capable of performing all genres. Great job, Kelly!

  • We live in difficult times but we are told to go up to the mountain. I am comforted by the spiritual undertones in this song.

  • Amazing ! One of the best voices ever. <3

  • Brilliant! If you like Kelly's version you may also like Lexie Stobie's... take a look..

  • did u people know this song was originaloly written for martin luther king jr after he was shot

  • @jcacka18 It's about MLK and his "Up to the Mountain" speech, yes, but Patty didn't write it WHEN he was shot. The song only came out four years ago--first on Solomon Burke's "Nashville," then on Patty's "Children Running Through" in 2007.

  • Superb!!!! enough said!!!x

  • holy friggin crap. she's amazing.

  • This is an amazing song just to listen too outside on your smartphone with earphones on. In the ol' rockin chair on the porch with the sun beams hitting you wide open on the face, it truely is a religious experience for me.

  • @trisrays Well i believe you...

    I play this on my smartphone while working construction/demolition and whenever this song comes on i stop working for the duration of the song...

    Her voice in this can move me to tears...

    And this is coming from a 33 year old ex-addict, ex-convict...

  • @EveSideR4LiFE haha I love your comment.

  • @EveSideR4LiFE Yea I am near 24, and yet I can really understand music like this. Amazing. I always liked kelly in POP, but now I have grew up a bit, and I LOVE country and SOUL/inspirational music like this, whatever this song would be categoried/generied by.