Not only is she legnedary as a song writer, but I can't get enough of that ancient guitar sound.

I’ve listened to many versions of this brilliant song. This is the best. Emmy is just incomparable. She is the queen of country and after this version I realise why. She is just brilliant in this version.

Beautiful performance of one of the saddest songs ever written. "There won't be a mention in the news of the world/of the life and death of a red girl named Lillian/who never got any further across the line than Meridian" is just a heartbreaking lyric.

This beautiful gift from God brings tears to my eyes without effort, just like she performs. Long may you live Emmylou Harris...

Now in 2022, a true classic... From France.

Buddy Miller on guitar in this was MAGNIFICENT!!!!

That guitar and her voice 🤌🤌🤌

Beyond beautiful!

Breathtakingly Beautiful....and Buddy Miller’s playing and Harmonies are Sublime

I knew many Lillians back in Hobbs, NM and the dirt is red there near the Texas line. One of my favorite Emmylou songs!

@beckyknight1219

3 жыл бұрын

My aunt lived in Hobbs when I was growing up.

This is so beautiful Emmylou Harris. thank you, from Ireland

Drop dead gorgeous and a voice to match

This song crushes me.

There's something about emmylou Harris. She's just wonderful, to listen too and watch thanks for posting this recording.

Wow. What a channel you have. I looked at the rest of the channel….Debbie Harry is also one of my all time favorites. What a collection!

This song can be about anyone who never got a chance to live a full life. My brother died when he was 11 years old in a swimming accident and I knew a kid with whom I went to school who was hit by a car. He dropped some change and stooped down to pick it up. Another young woman I knew was killed in a car accident in her twenties. Unfulfilled destinies are the hardest to understand. Sometimes when I see lights on in a house at night, I think, “I wonder what stories are going on there.”

@timward276

2 жыл бұрын

So sorry to hear about your brother.

Masterful songwriting and performing.

Every song begins with with a hand reaching into the soul of "man". There are not many performers who can capture the spectrum of humanity as Emmylou Harris does...she has covered the mournful loss of kindred love to the exuberance of southern life to the broad linkage of every American region. Be advised: Emmylou Harris is a picture of the southern soul with and artistry of grace and empathy for life played on a big Gibson guitar.

Great channel. I 1st heard this song in prison and watched down from the mtn.doumentary on video With the legend John Hartman was m.c. I cried. First and only time I cried since my parents died. Emmy Lou. We Love you❤

superwoman, super performance, ... SUPER song

Oh Emmylou, so many times you made life make sense. I grew up in a little red dirt town in Carolina. I can see your heart in every song...a celebration of every facet of life and love.

Such an honest, intimate performer...I am once again a captive held by my eyes and ears with Emmylou's voice and compositions and stage presence...entranced once again by a country star in this digital universe...

flawless

Makes me cry every time

Can words of a song touch the humanity of small town southern America better than this? Such a beautiful song capturing the sad, soulful reality of the era. An angel touching your heart remembering the people we lost in the war and the suffering remnants of their families. I grew up in a "red dirt" small town world in South Carolina during Vietnam.

@miguelmarquez4192

5 жыл бұрын

Part of the genius is this song isnt a true story. To her. To so many it really sums it up. She did a great job with this song.

Emmylou Harris is absolutely one of the greatest! Such a pure voice which is matching the lyrics 100%. She's done a whealth of great performances and many can be found here on the Tube, thanks for sharing.

she's fantastic

Chills.

Her hair is so pretty.

@julianlewis1792

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I like it too :) She's beautiful.

My mothers families last name was Glass,somewhat dysfunctional and they lived on a red dirt road.Always wanted to write a song called broken glass on the red dirt road Carry on

@julianlewis1792

2 жыл бұрын

"Broken Glass" -- that would be a great title.

Wonderful video ! Congratulations and thanks for sharing ! Best regards !

Superb, what a talent.

Drove tractor-trailer early '80s outlaw...no state permits,running scales because over length and over weight. EmmyLou my soundtrack. Even went through Meridian...zheez. Tickets to see her Jan 31 here in Toronto...my life come full circle. Unless Covid interrupted...

One of the saddest songs ever written. And Emmylou will tell you she's not really a song writer. And her Spyboy Band line up was superb (Buddy Miller, Daryl Johnson and Brady Blade).

@timward276

2 жыл бұрын

She didn't write that many songs, but my goodness did she knock it out of the park with this one.

@brianwebster1705

10 ай бұрын

@@timward276 she sure does I've never realy listened to her music having been brought up with L ronstadt but after listening to this and michangelo think I might go and get a couple or 3 of the cds

I have seen the exact person she is singing for but in Alberta Canada... I still think about her often. I would have taken her out of there but hey, we choose for our own life. I could have NOT done anything for her. I hope she is fine and well :)

Haunting and holy

Happy birthday!

honestly. can it get any better?

My best friend Robin was murdered 4 years ago tommorow. This was our song. She missed the train on the way to visit me. 😥 Emmylou Harris. Thank you.

@melodiefrances3898

4 жыл бұрын

I am so sorry 💔

@adriannekucich8836

4 жыл бұрын

I’m so sorry! I just found my best friend in her bed this year. I still cry everyday!

@adriannekucich8836

4 жыл бұрын

Kimberly La Rue, you’re in my prayers!

@adriannekucich8836

4 жыл бұрын

That’s so tragic! Kimberly La Rue, I feel for you and I will pray for you to God to ease your pain! I just found my best friend this year and I still cry every day for losing her. I know that’s selfish of me. She’s with her family and God now.

@adriannekucich8836

4 жыл бұрын

Murdered though, bless you, that is so tragic! I’m so sorry!

A great American anthem.

53 years old belle

😢

Sehr schön! ╰დ╮❤╭დ╯

Dam! The brother and Vietnam verse is killer in so many ways

Would someone care to explain the meaning behind this beautiful song.

@newastro1

4 жыл бұрын

no. “We think too much and feel too little.” ― Charlie Chaplin

@johnludgate1820

4 жыл бұрын

Emmylou said in a concert or interview that she was driving on a state highway heading to New Orleans and saw the signs to Meridian and was also thinking of people with sad lives touched by the tragedy of war, poverty, abuse and so on. And out of all this she wrote what I consider one of the best songs she as ever done and written by herself. Her prowess as song writer (check out Beat the Drum Slowly) is rarely recognized.

@melodiefrances3898

4 жыл бұрын

Simply put, It's about someone with dreams trying to rise above their rural poverty and getting dragged down instead... It could have been written about my childhood best friend 💔

@julianlewis1792

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnludgate1820 Yes, I only have come to appreciate Emmylou Harris fairly recently, but she is VERY good at lyric-writing. I love her voice too!

@rainieresguerra4780

2 жыл бұрын

Broken dreams. Broken life Sad and unnoticed life and death.

আমি এবং আমার সেরা বন্ধু লিলিয়ান............ Me and my best friend Lillian And her blue tick hound dog Gideon, Sittin on the front porch cooling in the shade Singin every song the radio played Waitin for the Alabama sun to go down Two red dirt girls in a red dirt town Me and Lillian Just across the line and a little southeast of Meridian. আমি এবং আমার সেরা বন্ধু লিলিয়ান এবং তার নীল টিক হাউন্ড কুকুর গিডিয়ন, সামনের বারান্দায় বসে ঠাণ্ডা ছায়ায় রেডিও বাজানো প্রতিটি গান গাই আলাবামা সূর্য ডুবে যাওয়ার জন্য অপেক্ষা করুন লাল ময়লার শহরে দুটি লাল ময়লা মেয়ে আমি এবং লিলিয়ান শুধু লাইন জুড়ে এবং মেরিডিয়ানের একটু দক্ষিণ-পূর্বে। She loved her brother I remember back when He was fixin up a '49 Indian He told her 'Little sister, gonna ride the wind Up around the moon and back again" He never got farther than Vietnam, I was standin there with her when the telegram come For Lillian. Now he's lyin somewhere about a million miles from Meridian. সে তার ভাইকে ভালবাসত আমার মনে আছে যখন তিনি একটি '49 ভারতীয় ফিক্সিং আপ ছিল তিনি তাকে বললেন, 'ছোট বোন, বাতাসে চড়বে চাঁদের চারপাশে উপরে এবং আবার ফিরে " তিনি ভিয়েতনামের চেয়ে বেশি দূরে যাননি, টেলিগ্রাম আসার সময় আমি তার সাথে সেখানে দাঁড়িয়ে ছিলাম লিলিয়ানের জন্য। এখন সে মেরিডিয়ান থেকে প্রায় এক মিলিয়ন মাইল দূরে কোথাও পড়ে আছে। She said there's not much hope for a red dirt girl Somewhere out there is a great big world Thats where I'm bound And the stars might fall on Alabama But one of these days I'm gonna swing My hammer down Away from this red dirt town I'm gonna make a joyful sound তিনি বলেছিলেন যে লাল ময়লা মেয়েটির জন্য খুব বেশি আশা নেই কোথাও একটা বিরাট বড় পৃথিবী আছে আমি যেখানে আবদ্ধ এবং তারা আলাবামাতে পড়তে পারে কিন্তু এই একদিন আমি সুইং করতে যাচ্ছি আমার হাতুড়ি নিচে এই লাল ময়লার শহর থেকে দূরে আমি একটি আনন্দময় শব্দ করতে যাচ্ছি She grew up tall and she grew up thin Buried that old dog Gideon By a crepe myrtle bush in the back of the yard, Her daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard Got in trouble with a boy from town Figured that she might as well settle down So she dug right in Across a red dirt line just a little south east from Meridian সে লম্বা হয়েছে এবং সে পাতলা হয়ে উঠেছে সেই বৃদ্ধ কুকুর গিডিয়নকে কবর দেওয়া হল উঠোনের পিছনে একটি ক্রেপ মার্টেল ঝোপের কাছে, তার বাবা খারাপ পরিণত এবং তার মা হার্ড leaned শহরের একটা ছেলের সাথে ঝামেলায় পড়েছিলাম ভাবলেন যে সেও বসতি স্থাপন করতে পারে তাই সে ঠিক ভিতরে খনন করল মেরিডিয়ান থেকে একটু দক্ষিণ-পূর্বে একটি লাল ময়লা লাইন জুড়ে She tried hard to love him but it never did take It was just another way for the heart to break So she dug right in. But one thing they don't tell you about the blues When you got em You keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom There ain't know end. At least not for Lillian সে তাকে ভালবাসতে অনেক চেষ্টা করেছিল কিন্তু তা কখনই লাগেনি এটি হৃদয় ভাঙ্গা জন্য অন্য উপায় ছিল তাই সে ঠিক ভিতরে খনন করল। কিন্তু একটি জিনিস তারা আপনাকে ব্লুজ সম্পর্কে বলবে না যখন আপনি তাদের পেয়েছেন তুমি পড়তে থাকো কারণ কোন তলা নেই শেষ জানা নেই। অন্তত লিলিয়ানের জন্য নয় Nobody knows when she started her skid, She was only 27 and she had five kids. Coulda' been the whiskey, Coulda been the pills, Coulda been the dream she was trying to kill. But there won't be a mention in the news of the world About the life and the death of a red dirt girl Names Lillian Who never got any farther across the line than Meridian. কেউ জানে না কখন সে তার স্কিড শুরু করেছিল, তার বয়স মাত্র 27 এবং তার পাঁচটি বাচ্চা ছিল। হুইস্কি হতে পারে, বড়ি হতে পারে, হতে পারে স্বপ্ন যে সে হত্যার চেষ্টা করছিল। কিন্তু বিশ্বের খবরে উল্লেখ থাকবে না একটি লাল ময়লা মেয়ের জীবন এবং মৃত্যু সম্পর্কে নাম লিলিয়ান যিনি কখনই মেরিডিয়ানের চেয়ে লাইন জুড়ে কোন দূরত্ব পাননি। Now the stars still fall on Alabama Tonight she finally laid That hammer down Without a sound In the red dirt ground এখন তারা এখনও আলাবামার উপর পড়ে আজ রাতে তিনি অবশেষে পাড়া যে হাতুড়ি নিচে শব্দ ছাড়া লাল ময়লার মাটিতে

This is the American dream. Disappointment