This performance gave me the courage to leave an awful marriage. It changed my life. I still have to come back and watch from time to time and give thanks.
@matty B same!!! Agee 100%!! This song saved me through the darkest saddest time in my life. When the person I loved most in this world passed. I played this song over and over and over!!!! 👏👏👏
I absolutely love every version of this song I've ever heard. I like the Cuttin Grass version more than the Sailor's Guide version, but there are very few things I love more on this Earth than this version of this song. I would pay an embarrassing amount of money for a 7" double-A-side of this and the "Oh Sarah" performance from the same episode.
I often turn on Sturgill when I have friends over and they are immediately turned off by "Country" These are people who consider themselves open-minded and progressive. It is sad that their ignorance and closed-mindedness cannot appreciate such a tender amazing artist.
Friends need ears, heard this guy for the very 1st time on Grammys last nite. I was doing shit and this song was the ONLY one that stopped me and made me sit down and listen.
The whole LP A Sailor's Guide To Earth and his whole last LP Metamodern Sounds In Country Music are both brilliant amazing beautiful from start to finish. Filled with Mega Talent and powerful lyrics and sounds.
@@disappointeddisgustedpisse4644 I can tell how much you love your Dad and all he instilled on you for musicianship and integrity. I really dont know anything about music but I was tripping, okay?, listening to this mans catalog of music...hes genuinely all you say. I thought crossroads too. Then I viewed Brace For Impact on loop while on my journey and a very very beautiful thing turned as dark and dreadful and filthy as anything ever could be. That song, on loop, is outright kabbalistic, the serpent rhythm...whatever that shits called in kabbalah...is truly in that song. I promise you, his talent is something he paid the highest price for. Seriously dude, on loop, while tripping, hes doing Pan-On-A-Stroll-Counting-Heads-of-Grain levels of mysticism. Ominous and dreadful and filthy Lord of the Flies levels. I wont watch that video production again. No way. Live version I can hear that kabbalic rhythm...like locusts in a fevered dream in studio...but tolerable live. I promise I felt the Shining and it was real bad news. Real real real real bad news. It's so sad I love this guy regardless of what he gave up at the crossroads. But I wont trip with him again. No sir. This man plays with very dirty things that are all dread and hate and desecration. Linda Blair in a cold room with fetid frosted breath. Right up there with her. Not even joking. That's kabbalahism fueling his genius.
These two Charlie Rose performances sound amazing stripped down to just the guitar. Love the new album, but would love to hear it in its entirety like this.
That was my one gripe with this album, his voice is just too good to have it swamped by the huge array of musical instruments/ jazz that took away something for me. When your this good, keep it simple, just focus on the voice. This is stunning.
ya I agree. ever since I saw his NPR tiny desk show a few years ago ive been dying to get an acoustic version of all his songs. so much better than the big band performance, I think..
Monday Morning my Mother died in October and I feel as if she is standing right beside me when I hear this song. My wife made me a collage with her pics and these lyrics. I love it.
@ heart Im a heavy metal fan through and through but theres not a day that goes by that I dont listen to Sturgill. Hes got a talent that every person on this earth should hear. Simply amazing songwriter!
Preach it. 🤘🏻 big doom metal, heavy psych, and stoner rock guy here. But there's a lot of good country music going on nowadays and while Sturgill is and will always be one of my favorites, he's the tip of the iceberg.
Are you talking about just country? Because he's by far the best for his genre but there are some other dudes out there still making music that are bad motherfuckers in their own right. Also, Sturgill isn't just country, he makes "music".
I wonder how many a mile was driven, how many a hour spent, in a ole piece of shit company truck, how many minutes did it take? his budding talent, his AMAZING writing intelligence, his wonderful intellect, HOW LONG DID HE SPEND HERE, before we,, COULD FINALLY HEAR? simply fucking brilliant!!! I thAnk the creator, 4 allowing Us to hear... i think the creator WANTED US TO BE HERE!
The whole LP A Sailor's Guide To Earth and his whole last LP Metamodern Sounds In Country Music are both brilliant amazing beautiful from start to finish. Filled with Mega Talent and powerful lyrics and sounds.
His right hand technique is absolute flawless! Do not sleep on this man fellas. For any guitar players out there that love his stuff get to work. His stuff is tuff. His playing style is one of a kind.
Absolutely amazing!! This guy is just tapping the explosive lyricist and musical talents that are within him!! " Gettin to the bottom of the bottom gettin to me"!!
Ga damn I'm no producer but is his voice and that guitar the perfect volumes and tune anybody has heard since the first time you heard seven bridges road by the eagles
I had never heard of this phenomenal talent until I heard him sing this song, just guitar, no accompaniment, at his mother-in-law, Judge Julia Kurtz Tackett's memorial service in December. It took a beautiful song to send this wonderful woman and judge on her way and this song did it perfectly. Bravo to you Mr. Simpson, and to you Julia, as well.
Just wanted to say i love all your music and the band and the sound quality is excellent and the words that make us think of things we usually don't think of great job by all
If you listen to this song and Dwight Yoakam’s “If There Was A Way”, especially the version he did on the Whoopi Goldberg show, the music, tones and chords sound very similar to each other. Obviously it’s a bit different and the words aren’t the same but both songs sound So MuCH Alike!
Hes the exact opposite, actually. God, hes so addicting, isnt he? Oh my I know what he is, brother. The Man of Filth...of pure unspeakable filth...ugh...sorry, let me summarize...i was tripping recently, listening and watching SS....so transcendant...so illuminated...then Brace for Impact began to play...on loop...3 hours of the most unspeakably profane man of desecration, of filth. I cant describe him properly...unborn...unnamed...unloved...unholy...unbeliever...the UnSon...so terrible...so utterly noxious, vile, FILTHIEST OF ALL FILTH...oh it was all that and more. That song, on loop, while tripping, is, I now believe, truly, truly believe, is the same rhythm used throughout history from today's kabbalah crowd to yesteryear Aztecs and African Headhunters. It's that Serpent of Olde in that song...I pray that the Son of God heard my prayers, that this addiction to this mans music isnt possession...not joking brother...not joking...I pray so very sincerely I will be ANYTHING God Almighty wants me to be to save me from that man of filth. No sir I'm not even joking in the slightest. This guy done been to the crossroads, not the Cross. Peace in Jesus Christs name, my friend. Amen
Pick?.....yes or no?....I've figured out how to play 92% of this song, only after watching it a million times over the last year n half...but still undecided if he has a pick or not..I dont think so. I play w/out.
I think Grammy performances were over the top like everyone was on crack. I would have loved to hear a stripped down performance like this at the big stage. I see Sturgill is trying some different things when playing to unfamilar audiences, but I think he should just keep it simple and showcase his amazing singing and guitar work. It is so heartfelt and honest and tender and that is rare today in music.
