Amazing cover. Cried like a baby. Hank's version hits me so hard, but this cover amplifies it. My mother passed away in 2020 and life has been all sorts of lonesome so far though I'm managing it day by day. Songs like this one help me heal. Music is such a powerful thing.
I needed to hear this song, but I wanted it sung right, so I endured versions by Elvis, Randy Travis, Winona judd, Bernadette Peters, Terry Bradshaw, and Hank Williams himself, none of got the job done. Then I stumbled into this guy. He gets it, man. He really gets it.
My beloved Shirley fell asleep on 25th April 2017,, just two days before our wedding anniversary; Steve sums up how i feel. Thank you Steve, you are amazing.
you will join her hopefully when your time for sleep comes too. hold on to the memories you both had together, the wedding you had that i'm sure was absolutely beautiful, every single little thing that made you truly love her. hold on to those things because i know she wouldn't ever want you to stop loving her. keep the memory alive and she will be too in one way or another. if you ever need to talk you can reach out to me, you're never truly alone. I love you, & keep hanging in there being an incredible person.
Driving home alone in the fog on an old highway in upstate New York in a rusty 23-year-old Chevy. I think it's always going to feel this way, and it hurts, but it hurts a little less because of this song
Seasick Steve has an okay voice and is an okay guitar player, what he has is a huge amount of soul and passion which makes him so much more special, talented and wonderful than modern artists who have skill and can make a hit song
There are people why try to sing this song and just sing it. Then you have people like him who actually feel the loneliness and it comes from their soul.
New to the Channel! This performance cuts through any pretense and simply becomes the lyrics in a way that only someone who has felt these things in the deepest part of their being can bare! Thumbs up for finding and sharing this amazing performance brother ~
This is the best cover for Hank's song, in my opinion. The use of the pauses, the silence between the melody, the dry seriousness of his soft delivery is what most becomes this beautiful piece.
Great original song and beautiful cover. A lot of covers change the pace too much (either faster or slower). Steve here however has done a beautiful job.
A story a song a poem casually American perfection for anyone who cares to hear and thanks to you tube to for us all to see. Steve is the best of what a song and real man can be. You won't see Steve on the voice for a panel of judges that wouldn't know talent from a bulls fart. He ain't ac D.C. And he isn't some panty waist performer want a be. Not just anyone with a guitar can pull this music off. I've been playing guitar all my life and tryin to sing I'm ready know to throw my guitar in the trash and never cat call another tune because this guy nails it the way I never will.
THIS IS THE SADDEST SONG EVER PENNED BY A HUMAN BEING, THERE WILL NEVER, EVER, BE ANOTHER HANK WILLIAMS, PERIOD - BBBUUUTTT, THIS OLE BOY DUN IT REEL GOOOD - BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!
best cover i've ever heard of this song. The only one that can compare is Hank himself, although Waylon did a pretty good job on it. steve's voice is perfect for a D chord on an old guitar. I blow my G harp along with him on this tune and it gives me bumps. your rare steve.
That has got to be at least my 2nd favorite version of that song...if not my favorite. Trying not to disrespect Hank, but damn, that have me goosebumps from head to toe and may have been my favorite. Almost made me cry! That's talent when you can evoke emotions in someone. That's what real music is about!
Simply stunning ....had the great pleasure of seeing him at the Mangawhai Tavern in New Zealand ...and even better with my son ..who was 25 at the time. How cool is it to have Dad & son both say one of the best shows they have ever seen.
He's been everywhere and done everything. It takes a person with a truly painful story to make you feel it. im a lucky sob and so even if I had Steve's talent, I couldn't portray it in the same way.
Seasick Steve gets even with his best voice this number up to the more perfect it. Great that you think of yourself even better than usual and proof it can. A real blues man from his heart, and American roots ...
Sea Sick Steve’s version of the lyrics (other than the original, the best yet) Do you hear that lonesome whiperwhill, He sounds too blue to fly, That midnight train on a winding road, I’m so lonesome I could cry. Did you ever see a night so long, Where time goes crawling by, That moon just went behind the clouds, To hang his head and cry. Did you ever see a robbin weep, As leaves begin to die, That means he’s lost the will to live, I’m so lonesome I could cry. The silence of the falling stars, lights up the purple sky, And as I wonder where you are, I’m so lonesome I could cry, And as I wonder where you are, I’m so lonesome I could cry.
The more I read about Hank, and the more of his music I hear, the more convinced I become that this is how Hank wrote the song to be played, but was constrained from doing so. His doubts about whether or not his words and meaning would be understood or misunderstood, to me, add weight to the proposition. Well done Steve. The best cover of this song I've ever heard.
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill He sounds too blue to fly The midnight train is whining low I'm so lonesome I could cry I've never seen a night so long When time goes crawling by The moon just went behind the clouds To hang it’s head and cry Did you ever see a robin weep When leaves begin to die? Like me, he's lost the will to live I'm so lonesome I could cry The silence of a falling star Lights up a purple sky And as I wonder where you are I'm so lonesome I could cry
It just can't get better than this! One man with a marvelous voice performing some marvelous picking, coveying genuine, deep rooted feelings. Best rendering I've ever heard of this great HW song. .
My heart aching, my body swaying... this is so special... seasick steve is full of life lessons and soul. We are so blessed to have this awesome version of Hank's timeless gift.
I truly never liked the song, even the Hank Williams version never "did" anything to me. untill the day i first stumbled across seasick's version.... and man, from the first note played it gaves me a chill across my whole spine... just look at his eyes when he is singing, and you can feel the pain that a song with a title like this one should pull out from every inch of bone i have in my body... even my 6-year old boy, who is usually running across the house, came to sit with me quiet for 3.30
hey you make fun of us for that but them damn aleins are commming mark my words :D nah those 7 people who disliked it just didnt have any business looking up seasick steve cause if you like him as a musician then you have respect for this song.... im a punk and anybody who looks at me can tell but yet im not too cool to hit like now and then
A it's like a delta bluesman, that could've made success in the 60's in his 20's years old... but he was frozen in time and only in 2000's discovered, and making a massive success yet! The guy already played with John Paul Jones... man... success... oh, fuck...
i could rabbit on ALL night how he is the best muso since elvis or such(haha thats a stevism)but instead i'll just say that he square kicks ALL artists today in the nuts.thats with a big fucken capital ALL
yea that was pretty interesting. i thought at first it would be like the White Stripes version of Tennessee Border when you said rougher. its an interesting spin on the song tho
You cant beat the origional because it did not exist before but with this song it was real and seasick steve gets there this is real elvis got close but the others did not nice job seasick
In these times of war, of anger, of global crisis, people just want to get back to what is 'real'. Steve is as real as it gets. Just look how this simple song, sang by a simple man, has made you feel. It's made you happy, made you cry...all from a simple song. The days of thinking that money is going to save you are over...it's the simple things in life that matter. "Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." Peace...
this is the kind of music you hope to hear one night as you are walking down a dimly lit street around midnight with litening bugs flitting around & the smell of bourbon in the air. hopefully there will be a pretty young woman swaying back & forth on the front porch & an old huntin dog laying beside the artist. i guess we all dream , right???
25,000 people came here and none dared to click the dislike button. that's pretty rare for a community as screwed up as youtube :o) seasick steve is our 21st century window into the good old country blues, that's what he is.
