Patty Loveless - You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive Live | Reaction 

Patty is from Kentucky. She is a cousin of Loretta Lynn who is also from Ky. The. Cumberland Mointains run through Kentucky. Harlan is a mining town in Eastern Ky. It has a brutal history, also known as bloody Harlan. That Bluegrass sound can touch the soul like no other!

This wasn’t just the story from generations ago, this is still the story. My dad was a mechanic for the coal mines. This is Eastern Kentucky now.

Harlan is in Kentucky. My great grandmother came from the Cumberland Mountains. My Daddy died from black lung. Patty, I love you. Proud Kentuckian here. ❤️

Definitely hear the “Scots Irish” in this Music. Americana at its Finest.

IMO this is the best performance of this great song. Respect to its creator, Darrell Scott. It was a dream come true when Chris Stapleton asked Loveless to perform it with him at the 2022 CMA Awards. And Stapleton, being the quality human being he is and always honoring the music, had Darrell Scott with them on that stage.

I have been a fan of Patty's since she released her first CD. She is the last of the Appalachian queens. Her place is among other greats like Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton.

what a great stank face as soon as she started singing. To me she is the greatest female country singer of all time. her version of this song with Chris and Morgane Stapleton is amazing. this is one of the greatest story songs of all time n country music and was chosen as the closing song each season for the great show Justified.

I’m from eastern Kentucky. Both of my grandfathers were coal miners. One died from black lung and the other had a steel rod in his leg and a limp until he died from being in a mine shaft collapse. The only advice my mother’s dad gave to my dad when my parents got married was to stay the hell out of the mines.

This is the story of many people all in the 20th century and even now.

Cumberland Gap is in Eastern Kentucky. Pineville, Harlan and Louisville all KY.Great reaction .

If you want to listen to real Country Music, you can't go wrong with anything Patty Loveless sings

Harlan is deep in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. The mountains between Tennessee and Kentucky is the Cumberland Gap. Patty was born in Pikeville, KY.

Probably the most talented & underrated artists in country/bluegrass history. She is phenomenal.

What happen is Harlan was historic, unbelievable and true....

My great uncle passed from black lung from working the eastern ky coal mines. Harlin is a small town in the eastern ky mountains. My family is from there, this song is the story of many people from the region.

She was a cousin of Loretta Lynn’s. Some of her other songs are “You Don’t Even Know Who I Am”, “Pretty Polly”, with Ralph Stanley, and “How Can I Help You Say Goodbye”. She’s one of my favorite female singers

Welcome to Patty Loveless and bluegrass brother. God puts his gifts of voice into special people Patty is one example.

"Justified" with Timothy Olyphant as Deputy Marshall Raylan Givens and Walton Goggins as Boyd Crowderwas an amazing series set in eastern Kentucky. Phenomenal show! They use this song several times. Excellent, excellent series. Well written and acted showing the some of the culture of that region. Of course there are plenty of outlaws. Great reaction!!

Patty is one of the best female country singers ever

No one sings HURT like Patty

Cumberland gap is in eastern Kentucky. Been through there very beautiful. 👍👍

Patty is my favorite female country vocalist and isn’t even close. Had the honor to see her live 4:23 several times and she killed it.

Both of my grandfathers mined coal in the Appalachian mountains. One was injured working underground and the other died of Black Lung (emphysema) due to inhaling coal dust for years. Patti's version of this classic always brings me to tears.

When I hear Patty, I hear the mountains. I also hear the Irish/Scottish sound that arrived in those mountains a long time ago.

You asked to hear more from Patty when you watch her sing with Vince Gill at George Jones funeral. She has a wonderful catalog of music. You would probably love her singing with Chris Stapleton. They did a wonderful job performing her song You Don’t Even Know Who I Am.

Harlen, Kentucky, major coal mining area. You did Vince Gill when he did the George Jones Memorial, "Go rest High on that Mountain." This is the same Patty Loveless that sang with Vince when he had a hard time getting thru it. She is one of the queens of country music, for sure.

Thanks for doing my request. I requested this because of your reaction to Patty singing and comforting Vince Gill at George Jones Funeral.

Great song about our history in Kentucky. Love Patty. She also did this song with Stapleton another Ky singer

Cumberland Gap is in Tennessee on the TN/KY state line. Harlan is in Southeast Kentucky.

Coal dust is very hard to filter out. They pay well but you know your trading time off your life was well. I have to set up machinery in mines, it took weeks to cough up that dust.

WV born and raised. Closed down mines leaving behind destroyed towns is an understatement

You have heard Patty sing with Vince Gill on Go Rest High on This Mountain and When I Call Your Name. Rolling Stine magazine named her #177 on it's list of the best 200 singers of all time.

It’s Kentucky, Patti Loveless, Loretta Lynn, Chis Stapleton. Kentucky.

Such great story telling with beautiful music and vocals that r pure fire. Patti is unmatched. Thank u so much for getting to this song. She has a great catalog of music.

Yes!

I live here in Harlan, Ky. MRLBOYD I've been watching your videos and reactions. Glad you got to hear this one. Thank you.

Patty is a true artist. You must check out more of her tracks! Also noteworthy here is the fantastic Carmella Ramsey providing perfect harmonies and slaying the fiddle. The honesty and authenticity that comes with Patty's bluegrass career is incomparable.

Cumberland, Harlan, etc, all in Kentucky

Oh my god that voice! I started tearing up the second she started singing

One of my favorite songs of all time.

Went to Harlan twice this past year. Most beautiful place, and the people are so kind. My Mother was born there and my Grandfather a coal miner. This song and Patty’s version is my favorite song ever.

Proud coalminers daughter from Harlan Ky. To this day people still don’t own mineral rights to their own land. Cumberland is actually a town in Harlan County.

Powerful voice. Love this song. First introduce I the great tv show 'Justified'

Miss Patty is a legend. Check out the song Two Coats

one of my all time favorite songs/version of this song. i am from KY and my blood comes from eastern KY. i feel this song in my soul.

Cumberland in Southeastern Kentucky, A waterfall on the Cumberland River is better known as the Cumberland Falls, A beautiful place! All of Kentucky is beautiful!

Cumberland mountains are TN/KY. Harlan is in SouthEast KY a very poor area even today in some parts.

Harlan is in eastern Kentucky. Beautiful area.

Beautiful blue grass voice!

Cumberland Mountains are near Harlan County Kentucky. The Cumberland Gap was used by Daniel Boone to bring settlers into what was then the western frontier.

Very wonderful era song. Loved it.

Complete perfection

Hi LB. Harland Country is indeed in Kentucky. Patty is actually a cousin to the Hall of Famer Loretta Lynn. I am going to leave you a link to another song from this same live performance, It shows a different side of Patty's music, as it is a bit more upbeat. Hope you enjoy it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Nj67hHp5GQ0.html

I've been to a family graveyard on a hillside near Harlan... this song touches my soul with 300 years of history there. Family pictures reflect the abject poverty at the turn of the last century.

I’ve always loved this song. My dad’s family is from harlan county Kentucky and many worked in the mines.

Theyre still mining where i come from. This song is off Patty Lovelace's 'Mountain Soul (I)' album. The whole album is fire! ❤ Thank you mrlboyd, u know there's a version of this song with Patty & Chris Stapleton, eh? ;-) 😊

Years ago, mountain folk didn't know what mineral rights were and therefore, sold their rights to the minerals sitting right under their 'feet'. Many thought they were keeping their homes and land. Too late, they found out they "sold" their futures for a few hundred dollars and ended up losing just about everything anyway.

Patty is a trip in her music career....

Cumberland Gap, it's near where Kentucky,Virginia and Tennessee meet. Daniel Boone cut the wilderness road through that pass to extended to the new territories out of the 13 colonies.The gap was very strategic during the civil war.

new guy here, big historian , irrelevant. You are the breed of everything i love brother. Keep it up

The Cumberland river is in Kentucky, along with the Cumberland Gap (or pass) that separates the Appalachian mountains from the Kentucky Cumberland mountains. The pass was discovered by Danial Boon.

The Cumberland reference may be the Cumberland gap, on the border between Kentucky and Tennessee, a gap between the mountains where people could travel through. Or there is a small town near Harlan called Cumberland. The coal mine owners were all out-of-state, wealthy business men. Most of the workers were either immediately local or from throughout the region. There were always worker/owner conflicts and there were numerous battles to unionize. My people were from that region.

The location was in the first line: "In the deep dark hills of Eastern Kentucky." Though, it's a story that rings true throughout Appalachia.

Cumberland Gap was a gateway to the Mississippi River.

The Cumberland Mountains between Kentucky and Virginia in Harlan County . The Cumberland Gap is in Bell County , next county to the west , where Daniel Boone crossed the Cumberland Mts .

My family is from Kentucky as well as myself. Grew up with the Cumberland Mtns as my backyard. My grandpa was president of the United Mine Workers in KY. My dad worked in the mines. Died from black lung disease. It's a terrible death where your body smothers itself. One of my brothers has it now. You really do go to work knowing it's one day going to kill you. This song rings true and hurts my soul each time I hear it.

Harlan is in Kentucky The Cumberland Mountains are a major geologic feature there.

Harlen is in eastern Kentucky. Before mine safety regulations, most died in the mine or from black lung.

The Cumberland Mountains run through Northeastern Tennessee and into Southwestern Kentucky. Strip mining has completely tore them up. To quote Raylan on Justified (which takes place around Harlan County, Kentucky), "I'm sorry, did you see a creek out in the lobby? Some pretty green trees and cut off mountains? You think we're in the holler?"

My ancestors crossed Cumberland Gap with Daniel Boone. Family is still there. I was born there.

MRLBOYD I have suggested many times that you start in Ashland KY and travel to Jenkins Ky on Rt 23 it would allow you to understand this music much better. The Country Music highway is an experience that every person that loves this music should experience.

Chills

Cumberland Mountains run through Tennessee, Eastern Kentucky and western WV. Cumberland plateau is the western boundary of the Tennessee valley and on the east side are the smokey mountains (Appalachian). This lifestyle was going on up until the early 1980's. Actually its still is

My grandpa worked in the coal mines in Virginia! The mining company owned everything in the town! The miners were paid by script and could only spend it in the town so everything he made was given back to the company! He left that part of Virginia when his sons got old enough to go into the mines which was 12! He died of black lung disease when he was in his 50’s!

Harlan and Cumberland are in Kentucky. I live about an hour or so from Harlan.

Patty sang with Vince Gill in several of his videos but she did it with no recognition, per her choice. Their harmonies are amazing!! She has an awesome discography and just about any song you pick will be amazing.

mountain music.....P Loveless is a great singer. my grand father died from black lung in the mountains of Colorado. I am 72.

It's about eastern kentucky. Cumberland and Harlan in Kentucky.

I have always felt like this is the most compelling musically performance ever. Evertime she performs this song!

This is about Kentucky. Beautiful bluegrass music about the bluegrass state.

West Virginia born and raised. I was in/around the coal industry since I was 14--first working for the company my mom worked for, getting paid under the table to do stuff around the office; then as an analyst and technical writer for a mining contractor; and finally as a paralegal in a mining lawfirm. Watched mining bottom out in the 1980's following the disaster that was the Carter Administration, and it nearly bankrupted my family, because the company Mom worked for nearly folded and couldn't pay their employees for months at a time. Dad's far more more modest salary as a fireman just barely got us through that. Of course I was too young to understand what was going on until I got older and Mom talked more openly about it. Coal evenutally rebounded. It rebounded to such an extent that many power plants in the US started switching from coal to natural gas in the early 2010's because bituminous coal prices had risen sharply and natural gas prices were at an all-time low. By then, I had moved on to work as a paralegal for the largest mining-related lawfirm in the US. I was the primary paralegal for the firm working on the aftermath of the dust explosion at Massey's UBB mine in 2010 in Raleigh County, WV, that killed 29 of the 31 miners who were in the mine and injured the two survivors.. As part of the evidence, I reviewed pictures of the bodies in the mine as well as autopsy photos and reports. Shortly after, I was offered and accepted a position in a completely different industry, so I've been away from the coal industry for over a decade now. UBB will stick with me for the rest of my life though. Edit: They're referring to Cumberland, KY, in this song, a town in Harlan County. Harlan County has a particular significance among mining families and really everyone in this region. The "Harlan County War" or "Bloody Harlan" in the 1930s was an ongoing fight between coal miners and the companies. State and federal troops were brought in to suppress the violence and, to this day, no one is sure how many people--miners, mine owners and foremen, union representatives, sheriff's deputies, troops, hired thugs, and bystanders--died during that decade in Harlan.

“Coal Keeps the Lights On, My hometown keeps food on the spoon in my youngin’s mouth, Tires on the truck and a sundress on my baby girl,” beautifully encapsulates how the livelihood of these communities is sustained by the coal industry. The second verse delves into the harsh reality faced by coal miners. With decisions made in Washington to potentially close mines, Rose speaks up for the voices of those affected. He laments how these decisions disregard the “little man” and their calloused hands, symbolizing the hard work and sacrifice made by coal miners. The verse highlights the way of life that has been established for generations and the importance of preserving it.

There is Cumberland Gap on the Va./Kentucky border SW Appalachian mountains.

It's pronounced Appa-latch-ah

The Cumberland Gap is between Tennessee and Kentucky

This makes me want to rewatch Justified

Harlen is is the coal mining area of Kentucky eastern side of the state around Tennesse and West Virgina where the magjority of coal mines are.

Back in the 30s the Harlan county war happened it’s where miners rebelled against the government and fought federal troops it was the biggest uprising since the civil war

It's interesting to see MrLBoyd become emotional listening to music. There are times when he seems to completely misunderstand a song, but when he gets it, he really gets it; another great reaction was to the Stones Sympathy for the Devil, it's probably the best reaction to that song on RU-vid. Another live video is Patty singing with the bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley doing Pretty Polly. Stanley was in his 80s and still delivered a masterful performance with Patty; definitely a show piece between two of country music's national treasures. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WL-gBlCf0L8.htmlsi=Ce0hhQfoQEYmfla3

eastern kentucky my home i hate it and love it at the same time

Mountain soul music

Harlan, Kentucky, is southeast part of state, close to the area where West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee converge. Harlan (and surrounding areas) was the site of much strife and violence between coal miners and the coal companies. At one point our own state/federal officials used armed force of law enforcement and other military resources against our own, the miners. There are various books and movies that deal with this subject. "Harlan, Bloody Harlan!"

Cumberland mountains are in Kentucky

I love this performance

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Cumberland town is in harlen co. My motheres whole family is in the graveyard she talking about. Its called rosspoint.

As an ex coal miner this song always hit true to me. Most of my friends from the mines have passed on, and many of them younger than I am. We all knew how dangerous the work was but never gave much thought to how it would be rough years afterward.

Beautiful song!

As someone with Appalachian roots, albeit Southwestern Virginia instead of Kentucky, this song is amazing! Rough people came out of those hills and many never left there alive.

I went to Iraq with a guy that was from Harlan Ky. After we got back from our tour of duty he overdosed. It is part of the sound track of a show called "Justified". It's based off a book called Fire in the Hole. Deputy Raylan Givens has his own, Wild West-style methods of upholding justice, putting him at odds with the criminals he hunts and with his bosses in the U.S. Marshals Service. And an incident prompts his reassignment to the Kentucky district where he grew up. It's based in Harlan.