Jill Johnson singing "Boulder to Birmingham" for Polar Music Prize Laureate Emmylou Harris 

To write a song for the love of your life and hear it sung back to you 40 years later and it still moves you to tears. That's beyond words. RIP Gram.

The look on Emmylou Harris towards Jill is priceless, and she is still beautiful as always. ❤️

this girl is a real singer im in love Jill your smile

Standing in front of your Hero that just happens to be a Legend and playing one of her song's for her......Priceless

Lovely performance..... to be singing this in the presence of Emmylou, takes some doing .... and she did it beautifully. I wondered while I was watching Emmylou's face, what were her thoughts about listening to someone else sing such a poignant piece of her music.

ELH is one of t he hidden American Treasures. She has touched the hearts of so many, and her legacy will be discovered over time by the new younger crowd. You're one of a kind, EmmyLou....I'll treasure the moments that I listened to your music forever - especially "Boulder to Birmingham." Everyone will cry over this song at some point in their life. I will always love you!

Who would have thought; a Swedish country singer. Such a beautiful song. I'm glad Gram had such a fine person as Emmylou Harris to care about him.

It takes a real talent to cover a song in the presence of the owner, and Jill did it beautifully.

I interviewed Emmylou Harris in 1991, when I was working for a radio station in Norfolk, Va. She told me the same story about the origin of this song.

This version is absolutely phenomenal. A true tribute to Emmy. A brilliant song written by Emmy and brilliantly delivered. The emotion on Emmy’s face shows how good it is. Only Emmy sings it better. Jill comes very close to the original. This is classic.

A song about losing the reason you breathe. The most devastating lyric ever written "The hardest part id knowing I'll survive." The only thing worse than my beloved Mary Jo dying is that I didn't.

I lost my father in 2021 hours after he passed I could not get the line "the hardest part is knowing I will survive" Out my head thanks emmylou for your music ❤

This is a very confident and bold rendition of Jill`s idol Emmylou` song while--- in the audience, is the great lady herself. Brilliant !!

Amazing voice. You know that you are good when you can hit an Emmylou Harris song out of the park. Great job,

Wonderful tribute to a great song and an incredible lady.

Jill you sing this song so wounderful🎤🎸😢💖

What a beautiful rendition, by a beautiful woman, of a beautiful ode to Gram Parsons.

My favourite ELH song sung beautifully.

So beautiful!!!!

Swedish with a trace of a country American accent. love

That was so beautiful ❤

As someone has said, nice...but Emmylou made it a classic. I respect Ms. Johnson for doing this.

Its new years eve im in birmingham drunk since daylight and i dont have to be sober to cry when i hear this song

I think I read somewhere that Emmylou said shortly after Gram passed, when asked, what was she going to do now , and she said something like, ... I don't know, I thought I was going to be playing with Gram forever.

Nicely done. Takes a certain amount of courage to cover an ELH song. She did it justice.

I agree it' will always be Emmylou's song but...this is a fantastic version! Great band too.

Emmylou sitting with Karl Gustav, King of Sweden, too!

Beautiful Boulder to Birmingham. I don't want to hear a love song I got on this airplane just to fly And I know there's life below me But all that it can show me Is the prairie and the sky And I don't want to hear a sad story Full of heartbreak and desire The last time I felt like this I was in the wilderness and the canyon was on fire And I stood on the mountain In the night and I watched it burn I watched it burn, I watched it burn I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham I would hold my life in his saving grace I would walk all the way from boulder to Birmingham If i thought I could see, I could see your face Well you really got me this time And the hardest part is knowing I'll survive I have come to listen for the sound Of the trucks as they move down Out on ninety five And pretend…

The best sequence is from 2:51 The song transpose, and the steelguitar harmony is magic.

Du är så Bra Jill .

thumbs way up!

That might be one of the saddest songs ive ever heard. Very moving

I don't think anyone can really sing this song but Emmylou, but she came pretty darn close. Especially she's singing not in her mother tongue.

I think she probably loves hearing others do this song. It more than like means a lot to her that others feel and see the significance of the song.

Nice

Bam

Two much music the words are the most important:

I suggest you have a listen to Jessie Buckley singing Boulder to Birmingham, this is good but Jessie is in a different class

I think that if you sing this song, the song has to be more important than the singer. You should just be the vessel through which it moves.

jill johnson probely only female singer can singer this cover best av all.his so close original..

Nice, but I feel this song needs to whispered not belted nor have a weird chord change in the middle. Sad.

Fin rost

When singing a tribute song, please please please DON'T CHANGE THE WORDS!! Even little words... 😢

This is good but not the best version. (Emmylou is sitting next to the king of Sweden, that old f....).

did not need the story at the beginning -- we all know it was about Gram

This is nice but; it's just not Emmy Lou...

She must be laughing inside every cover of this song I have ever heard nothing compares to the Original. ..even lucinda Williams could not get it...One of a kind maybe someday..

Tragic

Whats the matter with the king? Seems, he don't like music. Terrable.

Fuck 😱who is this?