Their aged voices seeped in experiences that include love and heartbreak make the song that much better. Sometimes music isn't about the technical aspect but about the emotion. :)
Back in 1969, I went to Vietnam as a common 11B Infantryman. Our nation was divided at the time, and when I got out into the field, everyone wanted to know what was new. I told them than Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan just had a fantastic duet called "Girl From The North Country". Nobody believed me.
I still remember sitting in the 4th row at Oakland Coliseum, for the Bridge School Benefit 1988, when both Dylan and CSN&Y played, and watching Crosby and Neil Young watching Dylan's set from the wings....still fans, after all those years...it was a special feeling.
+wygakyl That's such a nice story. I had a similar special feeling at my first Neil Young concert. He was rockin' so hard on his guitar and all I could do was trying hard to hold my tears and enyoing every single note. Worth every Cent I spent! Musicians who really love what they are doing and can convey this feeling to the audience and theire music is one of the most beautiful things in the world for me.
Thank you for giving this song the dignity, heart, and soul that it needs when it shows up on the internet. God bless you and your's David, Steve, and Graham.
It’s a bitter sweet thing of teen first love We all have a ‘Girl from the North Country’ in our lives……beautiful harmony and Stephen Stills guitar play captures the sadness and angst of young love
Tha lads should try to get tickets for the current show at the Old Vic then get themselves on to do this as an encore to what is one brilliant musical play. Praise be to Bobby and to the best ever...'Crosby, Stills & Nash'.
It didn’t help that much. It really unfortunate listening to classic live dead & the singing swing between ok & out of key. They needed a lead vocalist & never got one. The lady whose husband was on piano helped keep bobby from to manny boo boos
One afternoon, 1971, my friend Doug Finley invited me to come up and spend the weekend at his family's home. Little did I know that neighbors next door were Crosby. Stills, and Nash, just happening to be they're one afternoon and they play some tunes. I didn't see Doug after that. He was shipped off to who knows where. It wasn't until later that year, I was shipped off to South Korea. I was standing on sidewalk waiting for the bus to take me to my company, when all of of a sudden I hear the sound of someone burning rubber fromtires. Out of nowhere this Army jeep comes around the corner and passes me by. Driver slams on his brakes, puts it in reverse and stops next to me and I hear him shout out to me, "Rick is that you?" I said yes, and he proceeded to take me up to my, Company in camp Casey, South Korea. We saw each other occasionally while we were stationed in South Korea. And then when we both got out. We occasionally communicated by telephone. One time, when my friend Charles Carney and I drove up to San Francisco. We proceeded to go North into Mendocino county and see Doug again. Some years later, I found out if he passed away from a heart attack. I miss you so very much. And I want to dedicate today to Doug, because it's Crosby's birthday and also my friend's birthday as well. Happy Birthday Doug and David. ✌️❤️🙏
All they touch turns to gold,, ... in this case ... I don't know.... AS Bob and Bob and Johnny......when a song is very good, there in nothinhg much to add., Love!
CSN have so much of their own material but one of my favourites is Blackbird, not to be confused with the Stills classic Bluebird from his Buffalo Springfield days. The former, written by Sir Paul McCartney is covered with their trademark 3 part harmonies to perfection. A good rendition is on the Daylight Again DVD....
obviously a great song....dylan`s unique live version on youtube with smith playing along side him too is hard to beat.....nobody had that intense, eccentric sneering drive like dylan....CSN take it at a more leisurely pace, with beautiful hamonies/
Interesting that the version by Dylan & Cash changes the chords to a simple G, Bminor, C, G all through. I think this excellent version uses same chords as Dylan's original. Also Dylan & Cash's harmonies are less "conventional" let's say, but wonderful none the less.
Lovely treatment of this beloved song. I also like what Nitty Gritty Dirt Band did with it. Dylan didn't come up with this song out of thin air. Paul Simon's Scarborough Fair is from the same English folk song and there are many other versions.
This is a nice version. But Bob's original on Freewheelin' is hand's down the best. Yes many have cited Johnny and Bob's classic version from Nashville Skyline. Here's the problem with that one: For some unknown reason, they left out the verse that makes the whole song. I'm a wondering if she remembers me at all. Many times I've often prayed, in the darkness of my night in the brightness of my day. This verse takes the song from a nice simple ballad and makes it a masterpiece.
Yes I noticed that too, I've been singing this song for 40 odd years without knowing of this verse -Doh-. I don't know why they left out such a lovely lyric. I like CS&N but this version seems a bit overdone IMHO. Best regard from the UK
I can understand why you'd say that at the same time there would be many fans who would be disappointed if they stopped. Just proves that everyone has an opinion and artists aren't going to be able to please all the people all the time. :)
These guys adapted their own take on Dylans beautifully adapted Parsley sage Rosemary and thyme. The oldest anti war song in the English language.You gotta love how art evolves.
His signature 0-45. It's a 12-fret model and if you look closely you can see his signature inlaid at the 12th fret. It's based on the guitar on the album cover of his first solo album, where he's sitting on a bench in the snow with a toy giraffe to his right (while he's got a burning cigarette tucked in the pinky of his picking hand while playing what was undoubtedly a ridiculously valuable guitar - note the slotted headstock). Martin also made signature 000-45 and D-45 models for him, but the D-45 is the most significant. IIRC, only 91 pre-war D-45s were made; only 87 have been accounted for, and Stephen owns two of them (he calls the main one "Mother Maybelle). So when Martin made his D-41 signature model they only made 91, and he got the first two. They sold out immediately at their list price of $17,500, and now - if you can find one - they go for $25K - $30K.
I love CSN and have seen them a number of times. It's reality that as one ages the vocal range is becomes limited. I just think they shouldn't do songs that challenge that too much, Peace....
Beautiful version when the harmonies come in. This is one of my favorite Dylan songs. I recorded a version and I've posted it at reverbnation,com..if you'd like hear just Google TimothyFlyte'66 at reverbnation.com. I hope you like it .
Stephen crooning like Dylan. Interesting choice. I'd of liked to hear them do this one 25 yrs. ago Their voices seem strained now. I guess the harmonies have lost a little something. This one just doesn't quite work.
you know what ? Rattle is right. Cant improve on the original. I love CSN almost as much as the great Zimbo but they shld just hv left this one for private viewing. To give u an idea my first ever 7" (remember those !!!) was Rainy Day women - 1964 !! Don't even try to work out my frixking age !!
@@David-D-Pyrénées there is a video of Neil singing this song on RU-vid recorded in one of those booths that they have in truck stops etc. It's very good, he plays it quite up-tempo and kickin, search it out.
