Being a Swede, travelling the US for the past 28 years, visiting 48/50 states so far - This is the United States to me, in music! God Bless! from Stockholm, Sweden
Been to Georgia? If you haven’t, Savannah is a must! It’s my hometown and such a great city. Amazing history and terrific terrific food especially at the local areas
I was born in SE Ohio, My mom and dad were born in WV. My dad had an 8th grade education. He worked in the coal mines during the day and ran moonshine for grandpa at night. I remember many times following grandpa to his still and having a sip even though I was only around 5 or 6.......Been a drinking ever since and that was in the mid 60's. Proud to be a hillbilly that's been an Okie for around 50 years that still drinks moonshine and and lives life to the fullest!
This version is from 2000. This vocal performance is what long time heavy crack use does to your voice. That and being hammered drunk at the same time. Since he's gotten clean and sober his playing and singing are absolutely top notch, like it was back in the early '80's before the crack and booze took over for a couple decades. He's very open about all that in recent public interviews so I'm certainly not making it up.
This song makes me fly. I can never afford to goto see the us being in India. I thank the guy who uploaded this music and than you youtube. Just love this. Thank you again
Saw Steve at the Diamond Club in Toronna on the Exit 0 tour. By that time my buddies and I were well-steeped in Steve's tunes...especially the stuff from Guitar Town. One of the greatest songwriters of our generation.
Having only known the studio version of this song up until now I just want to comment that it is amazing watching how he has changed this up to make it more interesting for himself over the years absolutely awesome
Man I love those percussions. This is how it should be. Many covers with the same tempo feel slow-ish and kind of empty. But here that cymbal play makes a huge difference. It makes the song feel like a fast moving locomotive.
Thats 💘 love and commitment, a true friend... Would love to go to his next show but my 22 yesr old car i dont think it would make it. Its a honda and drives like a batoutahell but dont believe i should take that kind of chance. Omg he looks like my mothers brother mike carter. Steve is my cousin. I realize how important family is now days. Ive lost sooo many family members and now i found out my son Ian is terminally ill. Steve has been thru alote. I love his strength and talent he is really an inspiration to me now that i have grown up. God Bless ✌ to all mostly Love.....
Dang I love the Wire! I know this song and the video but I've never seen this version before. He looks almost unrecognizable from the original video but still familiar to me. Now, thanks to you, it all makes sense. From what I'm reading from these comments Earle had his addictions which makes his role as Bubbles's mentor makes sense. Thanks again!
In Aussie i tell ppl, well i tell Australians verse for verse, i also explain what has become of burning whiskey. 🔥 Abolition Nascar & poppy seeds. Its reads like a good novel. We have a similar theme fosters froth. It cousres a generation of inbreads.
Charles Barber, that’s not a mandocaster. It’s a Jimmy Moon Model T mandolin. Mandocasters are solid body electric mandolins originally invented by Fender (hence the ‘caster name), that mandolin is obviously not a solid body but an acoustic electric as it has a sound hole. His main mandolin is now an A-style Gilchrist.
I live in the wettest county in the world, the Moonshine Capital of Virginia, and some very fine white liquor has been made on my creek. There are some bullet holes in my windows.
Holy cow. This is among my favorite songs of all time. However, this live versions sound like he had a clothes pin clamped on his tongue, or he was drunk, or something. Good music but vocals were lacking bad.
OK Beginning of song I was starting to think he had lost his voice. Than when he started singing it seemed like he was just fooling around. At the end you could see the old Earle come out.
These other posters are trolls. He has never had a stroke. He is fine, but was still smoking cigarettes at this point and has some lung issues from his earlier drug use. He's stopped smoking now but can still sound out of breath at times if he has a touch of a cold or allergies.
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