Hey folks, I don't get on here enough to reply to comments, but thanks for the kind words that have been left. Glad you enjoyed the music. josiahappleseed@gmail.com
@@benygames7399 Normally I would agree with you but frogs are actually really good at picking out and distinguishing sounds. Fun fact, frogs _never_ interrupt each other, so when you hear them constantly ribbiting back and forth to each other at night, they aren't just randomly calling out to make sound, they are quite literally _talking_ to each other. Doubtful they are talking about anything very interesting, but you cannot deny it's a complex form of communication, especially for amphibians. It stands to reason a species that understands language to some degree would also understand harmony and rhythm - the two key components of music. Especially when a lot of their calls are themselves quite harmonious and rhythmic.
My dad had a O Brother How Art Thou soundtrack CD in his car and my little brother would make him play it over and over again. This is my favourite track
No way, this song is on the soundtrack!? I have to watch this movie again, haven’t seen it since I was a youth, before I had an appreciation for Americana blues bluegrass country etc.
This man is livin. You sir have a view I truly long to have. This is where I want to be, very peaceful and have always loved the song. God bless from ole Carolina.
Stumbled on this video. My dad passed away in 2016 and this was his favorite song. He sang it with my sister on his death bed and I’ll never forget that moment. Please make more videos. Thank you.
I think its really interesting how many people resonate with this song. Its about living a simple life in an outdoor paradise and not having a job is kind of all at the center of it.
Meanwhile whats truly genuinely happening in this song is homeless trainhopping men would proposition the singer, harry mclintok while he was a train hopping child with grandious tales of lands of paradise. They were attempting to molest him, and mclintok had to prove in court he wrote the song, by bringing in an original verse he never recorded: "The punk rolled up his big blue eyes and said to the jocker, “Sandy, I’ve hiked and hiked and wandered too, But I ain’t seen any candy. I’ve hiked and hiked till my feet are sore, I’ll be God damned if I hike any more, To be buggered sore like a hobo’s whore In the Big Rock Candy Mountains"".
I don't know why RU-vid keeps recommending me banjo videos. Never watched one a day in my life until now. Gotta say, I'm glad I finally gave it a chance.
Oh - i forgot to mention. Did ANY of you hear the frog croaking away next to him at 1:00 mark? it sings with him the whole time - on time. It literally keeps key. You have to listen hard for it but yea - its there. This man made the FROGS sing. Seriously - 1:00 and good stereo - the frog is there singing. Lol - if this guy can make a frog sing - i'd take the JOB! Someone that made the frog sing? how can you not trust that? :D You are truly blessed, sir.
Animals feel vibration too which is all music is…vibration. Actually they feel it more than we do….they just experience it in a different way. They may appear unimpressed but they feel the vibes
this makes me so happy. I'm a 17 year old from the bustling and competitive Silicon Valley / San Francisco Bay Area, and my paradise is in the mountains (thanks to my dad, who introduced me to the great outdoors at a super young age). This song makes me so happy... My dream future residence is a cabin in the middle of the mountains, be it the sierras, appalachians, or blue ridge mountains.
I’ve so many memories of this song with my grandma and brother. When we were kids we would always listen to this on cassette in the car while we were on a road trip up to camp and going through the mountains. My grandma lived to be 88 and just passed away a few months ago. This video got recommended to me and I took it as a sign from my grandma saying hello.
As a girl, my grandpa had the O Brother Where Are Thou soundtrack on a cassette tape that we’d listen to in his old Jeep Cherokee. When he’d take us up to the Catskills, he’d sing this song for us. His memory is starting to fade, but I hope he never forgets this song and the wonderful memories of those trips.
Thanks, brought memory of my uncle Leonard gathering all the cousins around his old record player to play the original. He told us,"Listen to the words,aren't they nice " Never forgot the experience.❤ Peppermint trees.
my mom had a o brother how art thou cd in her old black honda ridgeline and i miss that truck so much. we listened to that cd all the time on pretty roads while driving around to different barns and on vermont backroads while visiting my grandparents. i haven’t heard this song in a few years and longer since ive heard it in my moms old truck, but for a moment while listening here, i felt like i was there again :’)) thank you
Every morning for a couple weeks, now, I've been finding songs people post on youtube to practice my jaw harp with. Had a lot of fun accompanying your rendition this morning. God bless.
Lovely. Forgot the last two verses in the final stanza: “there ain’t no short handled shovels…no axes saws or no picks… I’m gonna stay where ya sleep all day…where they hung the jerk that invented work in the Big Rock Candy Mountain.” Terrific tenor banjo work. Thanks😊
Haven’t heard this song in a very long time well done brought back good memories miss the hills in Wolfe Holler where I was raised Mount Baldy or my pa And I would sit and you could see the whole River Valley thanks again
So simple it makes it GREAT! Most people have lost touch with real music played by real people with real musical instruments these days. No digital nonsense here just pure grassroots music 🎶 👍🏻. Keep it alive my friend!
This made me tear up. Family is from Kentucky/Tennessee backwoods, and I live in california. This reminded me o home, real home where there are actually 4 seasons. Thank ya for this beautiful recordin!
Anyone remember this song during music class in elementary class? Or maybe it was during regular class in kindergarten? I don't remember why we had to learn it. Still, I think this was one of my favorite songs that we had to learn. This is nice nastolgia of childhood for me. Thanks, dude!
Going through alot in my life rn... this made me so nostalgic and i teared up. it makes me wanna go up into the mountains and never come back to modern life, leaving everyone i know behind to shrink as i climb.
