Kurt Vile - Girl Named Alex (Live on KEXP) 

And Alex...

I named my girl dog Alex... after "girl named Alex.. "most folks,don't get it...too bad for them

It's pure genius. His best song ever

same

I have a daughter named Alex... So definitely I think about this song all the time. 😬🌹

boy do we need it

@@inkwell6330 Absolutely

It never ends

the hit count went up significantly

I discovered this song in 2023 and it is outstanding.

his haunting slide work makes this version so much better than the album version.

Infiniteh fantasy! x

Neil was a lot more aggressive in his fingerpicking

I totally agree, only he's original, just as neil was. He listened to a lot of Neil Young growing up, so I suspect the influence is embedded.

@@Schodboyblves I wasn't aware that Neil Young fingerpicked. I've never seen him...

Sometime he uses a pick, other times he plucks ther time he uses his finger as a pick. I heard g him say he develop,his playing style because his left,hand was weaker than his right because he had polio - so he plays real fast with his right hand ands lower with his right... makes sense ... the extended notes and simple riff.. but then when he gets cooking on both hands ...ok'd, Neil..., Makes a good stiry

yeah. and someone put it well, in a comment on another vid, melancholy without being depressing, but hes even better at doing that than niel was

is he barring E A and D with his thumb?

mike vonkikenurash ❤️❤️❤️

Romey Sullivan I think it is a looper / delay pedal by Line 6

It is like alien sex haha x

Magari!

+manueldelsol12 All strings one full step down, except for the third string DGCGAD

Thanks a lot ! :)

You're welcome dude. Kurt Vile is awesome, and his songs are really nice to cover. (:

Yeah, I learned "Pretty pimpin" and it's so cool to play !

Why did he leave?

@@Warrogue1 he plays solo, has amaszing albums you should check him out, his tiny desk concert is incredible.

A girl named alex and her husband mark who were happily wed, at least in his head. That he thinks about all the time...

A fantasy infiniteh!x

divorce. alex is is mom "In the dawn's early light" is beginning of his life. "There I will never be abandoned. There I will have a handle against everything that ever happened to them and me" Dad leaves. "Sports car illusion" Mommy/daddy issues compensation. just my 2 cents...

check out lyrics genius. i recall a good explanation on there.

skatingpolly505 it is..

Who are you supposed to be?

***** Thanks, I'll give it a try.

because where is the chops? these guys don't have any chops. anybody could do this. if you don't have chops you just should give up. give me chops any day.

***** When you wrote that somebody declared this the best song of 2013, I wasn't surprised. I think maybe you started listening to the song with skewed expectations. Personally, I'm answering you because I really want to see my own explanation as to why this song is kinda mind-blowing. First and foremost, lyrics: This song exemplifies the Hemingway sorta method of understatement. The song communicates a very oblique, difficult-to-pin-down emotion. The lyrics are roundabout (a la Hemingway) because the emotion is so scarcely communicated. The solo, for example, is there not just as an obligatory guitar solo or whatever, but to sort of go deeper into this complex emotion. The complex emotion is, as discussed prior to the solo, about this guy remembering a girl who, for whatever reason, things did not happen with for the narrator. IDK: You know what I mean? You see this girl, and, shit, she's with this guy. Fuck it, man, embrace the sportscar illusion. And those fukcin' random power chords that don't really go anywhere... And that fuckin' keyboard at the end... Plus, this song's placement on the album is spot-on.