Anything Geoff has my attention...thanks!

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Filmed this at the same ranch as parts of Man of Constant Sorrow, and Voiceplay's covers of Daddy Sang Bass and Can't Help Falling in Love. All four are Geoff's arrangements. BTW, watch Our IVF Journey on Geoff's channel, then Daddy Sang Bass. Have tissues handy.

Well, the thing to remember, even an average bass can sing up to an E4 or so, which is only 3-4 semitones lower than a typical baritone. Geoff sings up there quite a bit, but has the thickness of a bass when he does. Bass singers (of which I am) can sing a lot higher than you'd think. And, many bass singers can sing into lower tenor territory... that's actually more common than you'd think, too... Geoff just pushes the envelop beyond even that.

@GroovyLavaSquirrelMedic

2 ай бұрын

Nice. I can’t but some people are amazing!

Desert Divas,

The cat and cows totally video-bombed this one!

@GroovyLavaSquirrelMedic

2 ай бұрын

True🐿️

Never knew you were a fellow Texan, Groovy. Greetings from North Padre Island (Corpus Christi). You're in Texas & love cows... sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Lol. Texas has a whole lot more geography than those plains, though. Just realized today that I actually hadn't subscribed like I had thought, so that's now been remedied. Loved your reaction to Geoff's version of this John Denver classic, which was part of my childhood. I love both versions. It's just a great song & both of them sing it so well. I'm sure John would have loved this & sure do wish he was still with us. Oh yeah...early congratulations for 20 years with your wife. That's a big anniversary & I'm happy for you both.

That land looks a lot like the countryside around Orlando. I passed that way to get to see my fellow in Gainesville. I lived at Cape Canaveral. We settled in Gainesville until his job went to China and we did not. We did move to near Tallahassee 22 yrs ago.

Love Geoff's rendition of this classic. 🌹🕊

I agree; it's awesome. And I appreciate letting the entire credits play.

I'm not sure if you're planning on continuing Geoff week but I highly recommend Geoff's versions of Jack's Lament, Unshaken and Monster Mash. They're all absolutely unbelievable. I mean, of course they are it's Geoff and that man's voice is, whoa, something else :) love the reactions

I met and married husband the summer this was released in 1971. I had just turned 17 and he was 23. Now we are old with birthdays coming up. He will be 76 and I will be 70. WOW 52 years what were we thinking.

@GroovyLavaSquirrelMedic

2 ай бұрын

Love!🐿️

think you missed the kitty cat!

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Mountain momma - referring to West Virginia as the mother of the people who live there (I always assumed). FYI - from someone who spent a good portion of her childhood and teen years herding cattle - cows are really dumb. Calves are cute but then they grow up into really dumb cows.

@GroovyLavaSquirrelMedic

2 ай бұрын

Sooooooooweeeeee!!!! I moved a lot of cows in my time!🐿️

Not a country music fan, but this man can do no wrong. At least to my ears anyway… 😄

@johndeeregreen4592

2 ай бұрын

I would put John Denver as more of an American folk artist than country, to be honest. I cannot stand most country music either.

@GroovyLavaSquirrelMedic

2 ай бұрын

He can pull it all off!🐿️

@bjspeck4337

2 ай бұрын

I married the love of my life at 21 in 1972. We got in our Triumph Spitfire, left Florida for a couple of days and went up the Blue Ridge Parkway and listen to this song.

West Virginia is smack dab in the middle of the Appalachian mountains, a sect of which are called the Blue Ridge, in the Shenandoah River Valley "Mountain Mama" refers to the wives of (mostly) coal miners, who lived up in the mountains, working through the incredibly difficult times keeping kids clothed and fed and schooled on next to no money. So yes, the song gave it a mention, but not in a negative way, but a tribute to those women who must have been so strong.

Love Geoff! How about Avi Kaplan week? He was bass for Pentatonix.

WV is a mountain mama. the mother of mountains.

@GroovyLavaSquirrelMedic

2 ай бұрын

Oh good I thought it was talking about a lady hillbilly or something 😂 🐿️

@huldradraco

2 ай бұрын

@@GroovyLavaSquirrelMedic 😂

@Gael4ce

2 ай бұрын

As someone living 5 mins from WV on the MD side, but also in the mountains, it made me bust out laughing to have him singing about “mountain mama” walking through the flattest damn place Ive ever been seen outside of a parking lot. Florida just isn’t known for its mountains.

@Gael4ce

2 ай бұрын

@@GroovyLavaSquirrelMedic lol, no. West Virginia is 100 percent Appalachian, from any border to any border. Nothin’ but mountains. Hulda has it right, mountain mama refers to the state itself.

@huldradraco

2 ай бұрын

@@Gael4ce well, he IS singing about longing home to WV, far from home. 🙂

Oh, this one is excellent! Totally on par with the original! John Denver would be proud! Also first comment, first like, first view!💙

@GroovyLavaSquirrelMedic

2 ай бұрын

Rock on!🐿️

I always thought Mountain Mama was referring to his woman. She was a woman of the mountains and people call women Mama wether they're mothers or not.

You have cotton cuties in Texas. ❤

@GroovyLavaSquirrelMedic

2 ай бұрын

Yeah we do!🐿️

Google definition Mountain Mama... The mountain mamas are guided by our commitment to organize, inspire and activate Mamas across the Rocky Mountains to advocate for our climate, clean air and water and public lands. Represent and amplify ALL voices who identify as Mountain Mamas. Why is it called mountain mama? The writers refer to West Virginia as Mountain Mamas. This is an example of personification or the human representation of a non living thing. The reference humanizes West Virginia and suggests that it is the mother of mountains.