Patty and Chris both sing with an Eastern Kentucky/ Western West Virginia accent. Pure Appalachian.

As a fellow Eastern Kentuckian, this song always brings a tear to my eyes, my Grandpa died of black lung back in 1988, and I lost an uncle to the coal mining industry in 2020 due to an accident in Pikeville Kentucky ! The accent is pure Appalachian, sounds just like my Grandma !!! It's always been said, "you can take the boy outta the holler" but, "you can never take the holler outta the boy" !! I only get to go home twice a year...Easter and Thanksgiving and the occasional funeral !! Lord I get so homesick sometimes !! I'm from the same town as Chris is from !!!

The writer of this song, Darrell Scott, is the guy on the far right of the stage playing the dobro! You should check some of his stuff out too.

I love her keening. Three generations of my family lived together on a farm down in Stick Springs Hollow ( pronounced holla/holler). Every sundown we read the bible and prayed together. Sometimes afterward we'd move outside, under the cedar tree, grandpa would play the guitar and we'd sing bluegrass and old time gospel. I was taught that keening was an heartfelt way to weave sorrow into music, an acceptable way to communicate pain and grief. You don't hear it much anymore in music. I've been a widow for 6 years, its just me and my 3 children, but I still carry on the tradition of Bible, prayers, bluegrass and old time gospel.

Her tone is like Sunday church mixed with a lil Saturday night juke joint. It has all the right haunting notes while keep the hrit needed to convey the message. She makes you feel it whether you lived it or not. Chris just adds a haunting note that makes it feel like a premonition impo. I just adore them period.

When you live down in the hollows the sun clears the ridges about 10 in the morning and goes behind them about 3 in the day. Chris' Dad was a Coal Miner and Patty's Grandfather died of Black Lung so this song is very personal to them.

@chlupl

5 ай бұрын

I don't think I've seen hollers typed out that way.. it's correct, but just seems so off. 😅

@hollynonya6991

Ай бұрын

That's what my mom said, I have never been there but my grandfather came to Detroit for the Auto Jobs from Pineville

@hollynonya6991

Ай бұрын

My mother said he would buy 20 pairs of news shoes different sizes , every 6 months and hand them out to his kinfolk in Bell County - Pineville

Patty Loveless has one of the best voices not only in country music but in all music

I was born in Harlan. This song is home.

Patty had retired for over 10 years and back on the CMA stage so maybe a little nervous. BUT….she was giving a masterclass to today’s stars on what is called the “high lonesome sound”. Bill Monroe on mule skinner blues or Ralph Stanley on O Death are two other amazing examples.

Patty is a legend. She's a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.... And has some of the biggest hits in Country music .. She's known around the industry as a singer's singer.. Every country female Artist, Love and respect her,,

May god bless my home town of Harlan. I miss and long for the mountains. I will go home to rest and become apart of it in the end.

Harlan is a city in southeastern Kentucky. Yes, there is a lot of coal mining in that area. That part of Kentucky borders Virginia and Wast Virginia. My family comes from Eastern Kentucky, but from further north and they were farmers. The lyrics said the family "moved out west to Pineville" which to somebody who is from Kentucky sounds a little odd. Pineville is east of practically everything in Kentucky except Harlan and Pikeville. You have to be at the far Eastern end of the state to be able to get to Pineville by going west 😂. Yes, the sun comes up late and goes down early - not because the mountains are high, but because the hollows are so deep and narrow. The sky gets light, but you don't get as much direct sunlight. My grandma, who came from there, said they called the time when the sky was still light but the sun went down behind the hill "when the shade comes over". She said they saved some chores for that time, and had trouble when she moved to Ohio getting used to the fact that there would be no shade coming over.

My husband was a coal miner across the mountain from Harlan in Virginia and died after his 5th heart attack at the age of 49.... After his death they diagnosed him with black lung.

Loretta's Lynn father Ted died at the age of 52 from a stroke four years after relocating with her mother and younger siblings to Wabash, Indiana. He had also been battling black lung disease at the time of his death.Patty is actually related Loretta Lynn

@iamnotgoldenhar8645

6 ай бұрын

Yes...I wasn't sure if someone mentioned this.

Patty is now inducted in the "Country Music Hall of Fame"

You should see the “Justified” series with Timothy Olyphant!!! And you will learn everything about Harlan County!! 💥💥💥

@BrittReacts both Chris & Patty are from east Kentucky which song is speaking of. Chris’s father was also a coal miner. He passed away a few years ago. This performance was actually at the “2022 CMA Awards”. Chris asked Patty to come sing this song & 1 other song with him at the CMA’s. This was Patty’s 1 st performing at CMA’s in years. They 1st sang this song & the other song (which I’m totally going blank on name of song) but he asked her to perform w/him prior to CMA’s at a benefit concert in Kentucky for flood victims. Patty talks about Chris calling her and asking her to come sing w/him when she got on stage at Benefit! Great song by 2 legends & so is othè song if I could remember the name of it!

A song in a similar vein would be John Prine's 'Paradise'. His ancestral home was in Muhlenberg County, Ky. A place named Paradise. In the song he asks his father to take him back to where he grew up but that's no longer possible because "Mr. Peabody's coal train done hauled it away."

It's one of those rare songs thet leaves you thinking of your own ancestral heritage of those that came before you and their struggles. ❤

You mentioned that Patty looked a little nervous and perhaps she did. She had actually been retired for a number of years and was sitting in her backyard with her husband when Chris called and asked her to perform a number of songs with him for this event, which was a benefit for victims of a Kentucky flood. "I can never say no to Chris, y'all," she said later. So they got together with almost no time to rehearse this and several other songs they sang together, so I think Chris and Patty and Morgane were all just kind of winging it. That's why they were kind of looking back and forth at each other. But it sounded beautiful anyway, because they are all very talented and very professional artists.

@whatiwasgoingtosay

6 ай бұрын

This was the CMAs. They had rehearsed. She just hadn’t sung on national TV in a long time.

Patty's family was also a coal mining family, the story she told before her video explained her Dad having Black Lung Disease from mining. But, I knew that you would love this version of Patty, Chris and Morgan! This is such a powerful song, and the voices of the three of these are pure perfection!!! I can never get enough of them. May want to try a more upbeat dong by Patty Lovelace.... Blame It On Your Heart. And another absolutely beautiful song is How Can I Help You... ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@rickwiles8835

6 ай бұрын

I'll add when Patty, first tried to sing this song she she had trouble she just couldn't project the feeling the song deserves. So the producer placed a photo Patty's father on a stand and said to her, "Sing it to your Daddy." She often introduces the song saying, "This is for my Dad and Granddad and all coal miners" then she pours her heart out in the song...

This is a mourning song. Mourning for all the suffering & death visited upon the people of coal country by the mining companies. BTW, if you live in a "holler" (hollow/valley between mountains, the sun may well not rise above the eastern peak until 10:00 in the morning & will disappear behind the western peak by 3:00 in the afternoon.

@bertblue9683

4 ай бұрын

I had wondered if this was the true meaning. My other guess was 3pm was a shift start time when they go in the mine.

There's an Irish term in singing called "keening." I feel like this is her bluegrass version 😍

Thx. for liken them, grew up with this...Much love

My grandparents met in Harlan where my grandpa was a coal miner during the Bloody Harlan era. Idk what happened but he refused to go back there. (We live in Cincinnati) My aunt and uncle did end up moving back to Harlan (Loyall) and they never left Harlan alive.

I just want to say that I appreciate your attention to detail, and your perception of tone and lyrics. You are the only person I've seen that is not from here in Eastern Kentucky, who actually pulled the word "grief" from this. You are 100% correct, and I was so impressed with your reaction.

This is from a benefit concert for victims of catastrophic flooding in Kentucky. Patty Loveless and Chris Stapleton are both natives of Kentucky.

@davidoriggan

6 ай бұрын

This one is from the CMAs. That is a different version

@gk5891

6 ай бұрын

Chris' dad was also a Coal Miner so they both have a real connection to this song.

@jeffstumpf9129

6 ай бұрын

Where is Morgane’s family from?

@davidoriggan

6 ай бұрын

@@jeffstumpf9129 she's from Nashville

@gk5891

6 ай бұрын

@jeffstumpf9129 Yep, she pretty much grew up in Nashville wanting to be a songwriter. I think these were the most successful she was lead writer on. "Fire Away" Chris Stapleton "Don't Forget to Remember Me" Carrie Underwood. She has more song writing credits for TV and film than Chris.

My 1st husband's family was all from Letcher Co, KY and his dad left by joining the Air Force during the Vietnam War and retired from it as he didn't want his children in the mines. His grandpa had black lung from working down in the mines as did many of his family members.

They play this at Kentucky football games. It’s haunting.

Another great version of this song is by Kathy Mattea - she did a whole album of coal mine songs at one point. She has a really unique voice, very low. Some other great songs by her are "Time Passes By", "455 Rocket", "18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses"

Lol Morgane Stapleton stalked him lol she knew she wanted some-no-ALL of that man lol and got it done … thankfully for all of us! Patty is so raw, so unadorned naked stripped and pure… the sheer ragged edges of her notes have been pulling the feels from me when I was locked up inside since I was a youngin … she’s legacy country

Patty is timeless.....powerful

This is completely off topic but for some reason when I looked at this thumbnail I thought it was The Judds. I bet you would love them. They got that girl power thing going on and beautiful blood harmony. I don't think I've ever seen them reacted to but I don't know why. They were 'one of the most successful acts in country history'.

Sheesh You are an unexpected breath of fresh air!

Morgan does a beautiful version of You Are My Sunshine. Really worth a reaction.

Dang!! Thanks for reminding me of one of my old time favorites! 1:40 I don’t drink wine, but one time a buddy of mine in Georgia took me up to meet his granddaddy. That old boy gave me a mason jar filled with the sweetest stuff I’d ever tasted. There’s an old country song that talks about how a girl is as sweet as strawberry wine. I think Pattys voice was as sweet and powerful as Georgia moonshine. 😂😂

love Brit's reactions she really loves and understands good music

Just bought a bottle of Travelers whisky with Chris' name on the label. Definitely in the top 5 drinks I've ever had.

Expeditiously is a great word.

If you would like to learn a bit about coal mining -not far from Scranton PA. is the old Lakawanna coal mine, they are no longer mining. but if they are still open they do tours where you ride down to about 350 feet below the surface for a tour of some of the workings-some of the guides are former miners so they really know what they are talking about-one that I had had been witness to several people being killed in the mine. on the same tour was a group of active salt miners on vacation from Poland-made for some interesting conversations !

The sun comes up about ten in the morning!!!

It's really True My grandma is from Pineville She said you couldn't see the sun because of the Mountains The town it literally in hollow between huge mountains

Well, she admires Morgan and Cris so much and she hasn’t sang in a while so I’m sure she was probably a little nervous probably want to do is as good as she could you know be up there singing with them and so that’s that would be understandable. actually God bless her, but she sounded as good as she ever did.

If this song doesn’t touch your soul Well you don’t have one I have been listening to Patty ever since she started singing country music But her and Chris can grab you by your heart and tear it right out of you Patty and Ricky Skaggs can sing gospel and blue grass so good it’s crazy You should listen to Patty and Ricky sing or sang Daniel Praise to God

6:43 she said 10 in the morning to 3 in the day. Makes sense with the coal mines being inside very close mountains, those block the sun quite well, much like sky scrapers. Also makes growing/farming in the area difficult

I really think Patty’s voice gets better with age! I am a country music historian I put her in the top 5 of every one!

@Brandn43

6 ай бұрын

Why?

Patties kin spent their days working in the cole mines, so she knows how how hard life is.

You have to do Pretty Polly... Live song with Patty Loveless and Ralph Stanley

Oh man! Love this song SO MUCH! Their voices together on Patty’s song. She’s still got it!

it's in a valley, you get a very short period of daylight between the mountains.

Still sounds Great!!!

Tabacca is one of the closest pronunciations you'll hear of the word. It was Baccer where I grew up.

To explain, the sun comes up at ten in the morning and the sun goes down at three in the day, the tall mountains and the deep valleys of Eastern Kentucky create a false horizon, and actual sunlight doesn't pierce to the valley floor until it crests the peak of the mountain, which is sometimes ten in the morning. The narrow valleys are the only suitable place to live given the steep mountain sides. This line is meant to signify the isolation and despair one would feel living in such conditions, being both physically and economically trapped. 6:31

Icon of any kind of music.

Thank you you are special young lady I enjoy listening

The song was written by Darrell Scott.

Patty didn't write it, but in many ways it is her family's story as well so she certainly relates.

She basically retired at the end of 2009. That is partly why her voices remains the way It does. but she still does cameos like this a few times a year.

Harlan is a coal.mining town in the bottom of a valley. He said Pineville. I am amazed you have 3 powerful voices and they blend in harmony and none truly stands out 3 as one it is heavenly.

A really fun one of Patti's is "I Try To Think About Evis"!

She is from the same area this song was written about... Southeast Kentucky.

If you want to hear a beautifully sad song, “How can I help you to say goodbye”, by Patti Loveless. ❤

New sub here was wondering if you have reacted to Chris Stapleton and H.E.R. Singing H.E.R. Song hold on? It was on a country awards show I think. It’s amazing!! They are both incredible artists!! Loving your content by the way!! ❤

The one line is "The sun comes up , about 10 in the mornin' and the sun goes down, about 3 in the day." When you live in a deep holler the sun stays behind the mountain til then in the a.m., and the reverse is true in the evening, it disappears quickly. As an aside, "the man from the Northeast" never left (was k*lled) because of the deep distrust of outsiders then. I mean, a man making promises , waving hund'erd dollar bills couldn't have been up to any good, right? Plus he was offering it for their land , which was what they considered their most prized possession. Great react as always , Britt! ❤

Need too check out Chris video FIRE AWAY

Neither Patty or Chris wrote this but they both lived it.

It's supposed to be sad because in the early days of coal mining and in fact until relatively recent times, between black lung disease and mine collapses most coal miner's died young. To illustrate Loretta Lynn's father who was a coal miner died of the black lung at about 45 or 50 years of age.

Beyond Awesome ❤️‍🔥

Please listen and react to Dolly Parton's live version of Stairway to Heaven from about 20 years ago. She did a folk/bluegrass version of the song. It (to me) sounds way better than her new version on her Rockstar album. Dolly's vocals on that live version are shockingly wonderful. And the song was on her album Halos and Horns.

It's not 3 in the mormin it's 10 in the mornon ' Where the sun comes up about ten in the mornin' And the sun goes down about three in the day And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinkin' And you spend your life just thinkin' of how to get away

listen to Chris and Pink Love me anyway

Hey Britt, not sure if you've heard Patty Loveless and George Jones sing live their duet song: "YOU DON'T SEEM TO MISS ME!!" I know you love you some George J & Patty L music Collab girl....thanks for the great uploads!!❤❤❤

Patty's age About 65 here, about 44 on the first one.

I was hoping you would do this!! Ive been commenting since you posted the first patty loveless song. Thanks britt!

I really like your reviews. Patty is beyond awsome! You should do a review of Susan Tedeschi. Maybe start with Midnight in Harlem. Susan is in a league of her own also.

Mountain music !!

Right there With loretta lynn and crystal gale

@iamnotgoldenhar8645

6 ай бұрын

Makes sense. They are related. Lol

He wrote a song and it’s on that new album and it’s solely about her and he dedicated it to her It Takes A Woman. That’s the name of the song and yes her name is Morgan.

@gk5891

6 ай бұрын

Spelling correction "Morgane" No criticism intended.

This version is pretty good but Darrell Scott live in north carolina album version is my favorite. Its so dark.

Please do a dive into the song “Shimmer” by Shawn Mullins (at the Bing lounge). There is such a message in the song and his voice is like butter.

Hey girl just dropping in to show sme love

Chris got Patty to come out of retirement

Brit,no disrespect but you are a Beautiful human,u make me smile 🐧🐧😁

You missed it. When the sun comes up around 10 in the morning. It’s because of the mountains being so high that you don’t get actual direct sun until up in the morning , and then you lose the direct sunlight early in the afternoon. You have to live it to understand it .

Hey sweetie, her accent, as is many of ours, is an Appalachian accent, not a southern 'bell's'. NOT trying to be rude or controversial; but, research the difference.

@Paladin70

6 ай бұрын

Maybe after you research the difference between a southern “bell” and a southern “belle.” 😁😂

They nasty.... in all in glorious-ness.

There's my girl, I just went to jelly row Man he's powerful. I hope you're doing well

honestly, review some fleetwood mac. maybe silver springs to start, and then follow your heart

Darrell Scott wrote this song.

Jr the first thing 😊❤❤❤❤❤❤

I'm with you on the nasal thing. I love country,blue grass, blues, rock , Christian, contemporary, classical .. the works but I can't do it when it gets so boogery😅😢😮😂🎉😅

Don't ever mess with some Patty Loveless.. her voice has not been given the accolades it deserves... FACT. Love Chris but he has stated he wouldn't be as good as he is without his wife.. and don't even get it twisted.. Patty can sing on her own amazingly.. but she is the best harmonizer ever.. listen to her and Vince Gill.. just love me some Patty Loveless.. and if I'm not mistaken.. she's a cousin of Loretta Lynn's

@iamnotgoldenhar8645

6 ай бұрын

Yes she is. She used to go on tour with her during the summer time

Patty's dad was a coal miner who died from black lung disease

She is a distant cousin of Ms. Loretta Lynn. Did you know this Britt??

Ok, first time watching you (I think) but if you like 3 part harmony, watch Brandi Carlile with the twins in her band

I bring my wife to work. I am a school bus mechanic. I talked her into driving a bus part time, so I can see her more.

Patty hasn’t missed a step.

Chris connects to everybody. I can't see Justin Timberlake on stage with Patty Loveless (though it would probably be awesome!) Check out Patty Loveless singing "Pretty Polly" - she hits one note that lasts for. EVER. Here, I feel like Patty was expecting Chris to jump back in, but Chris, being an amazing human being, let her have more of the spotlight. Also, I feel like Chris might have put his own parents or grandparents in the first verse of this song.

BRITT,,,,I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU NEED A BACKBOARD WHERE YOUR VIDEOS SHOW!!!!!! YOU KEEP TELLING US ABOUT WHO YOU ARE SHOWING, WE CAN NOT SEE IT!!!!!!!!!

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