Son Volt - Tear Stained Eye 

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I can't remember the last time a song nearly brought me to tears with its profundity, but this song reset the clock.

that water sure is

Yeah, it s up there,❤️

Your opinion is shared by me, personal it may be - but isn't life.

Its given me more purpose than them neon signs did

Jb Lala that’s not love than....

Farrars music is incredible

Beautiful

Jay farrar is a legend

Yes one of the best ever written

Thanks for putting this up!!

Verdade

Reid Smith . nu

Such a kind comment to make. Different songs can strike people different ways. This song for some reason makes me feel and think about my childhood as we were poor and moved around a lot. But then I thought about the people that really were hurt much more than me as my Mom had told me stories about her growing up during the Great Depression and how it was. I wanted my video to tell the stories of these children and their families that struggled through that time. I guess the message of the song to me is that there sometimes there is so much pain in life no one else can really understand or feel it, even the Saints. Again, I am humbled by your praise of this work. Thank you so much.

The lyrics are opaque, and are open to any number of interpretations, but your montage has 'fixed' the song's meaning for me - now I'll always associate this song with the Great Depression. Great job, btw.

Billy Joe Shaver, I'm Going To Live Forever is my choice.

"Haunting Melody"?? I must have missed that!

Thanks so much Steven.

Thank you so much for your kind reply. I really love this Son Volt song too. Songs I really love I attempt to find the imagery it evokes in me, and then I seek that imagery to go with the song. Jay Farrah is the singer in Son Volt. Before Son Volt, Jay was in a band called Uncle Tupelo. Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt are part of a genre of American music called "Alt Country". It is said that Alt Country began in America with the musician Gram Parsons in the 1968 Byrds LP. "Sweetheart of the Rodeo". Musicians like Jay Farrah are called "Descendants of Gram Parsons". The Alt Country music of the late 1960's were listened to by hippies and was also called " Long Haired Country". Some other 1960's bands introducing this music was Poco, which included two members of the original Buffalo Springfield, also The New Riders of the Purple Sage. The mood of the Alt Country music is most usually set by steel guitar, vocal harmonies,, stories in song about people's lives, and a mournful soulful sound. I highly recommend you check into Gram Parsons and his influence on music. I made a new friend recently in his mid 40's that is the head of the local university History Department, and he told me how he had just recently heard and found out about Gram Parsons and how he was blown away and loved it so much, and he wondered how he was just now finding it !!! Gram Parsons was a huge influence on Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. His influence helped to create the Rolling Stones songs "Wild Horses" and "Dead Flowers". Again, thank you so much for taking the time to make your kind comment. I will attach to your comment here a link to a RU-vid playlist of great Alt Country music to give you an introduction. A good bottle of wine and a pleasant evening with this playlist is Heaven !!

ru-vid.com/group/PLP__A0IV0jyazTIqpz6xxPEaUIng4jKvt

Don Winter , " the working class" really.. What a pompous thing to say. Maybe the Great Depression, devastation from acts of nature..

I'm not sure why my praise of the work was "pompous." The images are of working class people during the Great Depression. Soup kitchens. Bread lines. The greatest devastation wreaked by the Great Depression was from economic causes, and the hardest hit were millions of working class people.

Shan providers.

Old comment but as of 2018, Jay and Jeff have been in contact via email. (per an interview Jay did in March).

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@@TM-yn4iu thank you Very nice song