First heard this track in my scruffy little flat in Chester uk when the album came out. It blew my mind, I had never heard anything like it before. My pal said to me "you will not be listening to this music when you are 30".. Well here I am 73, still listening to Neil Young and listening to this brilliant version of a legendary song.

@deltavee

Жыл бұрын

Great tune but Molly made it timeless.

@freetomato

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing that sweet memory. I am a bit younger than you, and feel the same way about many songs. 🍻

@charleyhathaway2954

Жыл бұрын

Same age. Still love to play and sing this song in D. Molly Tuttle is so amazing. Saw her with Old Crow Medicine Show at the Ryman. Best concert I've ever seen. Cheers!

@junco477

Жыл бұрын

Amen. Clocking in at 76.

@olddoc4430

Жыл бұрын

Ditto at 76 ❤❤

No way that Neil Young ever thought it possible for this song to sound this damn good!

Everything Neil intended this song to be, Molly and band brought out.

Molly Tuttle is a virtuoso in so many styles of music, it seems she just transcends style. She is an American treasure.

@toddthing

10 ай бұрын

"transcends style"?! Yes. Music is what flows out of her.

@franksabatino7576

10 ай бұрын

Molly's a world treasure!

@jgibs6251

9 ай бұрын

I'm 76 and still listen to 60s & early 70s music 90% of the time.

@ledrose9177

9 ай бұрын

​@@jgibs6251 I'm 25 and still listen to the same music.☺

Someday Molly Tuttle, Gillian Welch, and David Rawlings will record a song and it will be the best recording in the history of recordings.

@suzannelawson9215

3 жыл бұрын

Very good singing and band. You have done this song great justice!

@phfranklor

3 жыл бұрын

Let's tell them. Great idea.

@HWingo

3 жыл бұрын

I'd love to hear a Molly Tuttle/Tyler Childers duet.

@rahang4126

3 жыл бұрын

Together with Brandi Carlile, of course !

@michaelkenna2024

3 жыл бұрын

👍

Blue Blue Windows behind the Stars ✨, Yellow Moon 🌕 on the Right, Big Birds flying across the Sky, Throwing Shadows on our Eyes, Leaves me Helpless Helpless Helpless. RIP Mom, it’s been one month today since my beautiful mom died and I am indeed Helpless Helpless Helpless

HUGE Neil fan here, and this cover is superb. Molly's no slouch on the strings and really plays some inspired links on this. Fiddle was on point too. Anyone who says there isn't any great music happening needs to hear this and shut it!

As a guy in a town in North Ontario, I wholeheartedly endorse this rendition.

@ty9884

3 жыл бұрын

If we hadn't beat Trump, I'd be asking for asylum right now.

@jeffgriffin9747

3 жыл бұрын

@@ty9884 I would reject it. We have enough liberals here now thanks

@ty9884

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeffgriffin9747 Yeah, but I make bitchen french fries and gravy.

@treke08

3 жыл бұрын

@@ty9884 Why do you people have to taint every nice thing with your politics?

@als1023

3 жыл бұрын

As a guy who was born and raised in a town in North Ontario, I follow your lead and add my vote of appreciation, and as a long time Molly fan, no suprise she nails it, and the band is superb !

1993 I got front row tix to see Neil in Austin, Tx. Ate a bunch of mushrooms before the show and was flying. The curtains open an Neil is playing the pipe organ and busts out this tune. A moment forever saturated into my melon

@erichughes2546

3 жыл бұрын

You know Neil doesn't mess around in concert. He goes all out. I saw him in 99 and he played one of the longest shows I have ever seen and I have seen a lot of shows.

@ellet4103

3 жыл бұрын

Back when Austin was cool. "Keep Austin Weird" is just a scary phrase right now. I go away for a few years and they just kill the place.

@blmrgtr

3 жыл бұрын

@@ellet4103 yea. fucking sad.

@bobjones6572

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for one of my favourite KZread comments.

@ellet4103

3 жыл бұрын

@@erichughes2546 Was this in Austin?

I didn't know Molly but this is actually the best version of this song I have ever heard. I love her voice and I'm going to listen more music from her

@TheInfluences

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to read this, she's spectacular. She's just released a album of all kinds of covers, and her own songs are great of course.

@laurentjacqui7760

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheInfluences She's amazing ; a star is born

@Almond2869

3 жыл бұрын

You won’t be disappointed

@josephfusko1864

3 жыл бұрын

I've heard a lot of her playing with Billy strings

@benjaminlaster3773

3 жыл бұрын

if you're a grateful dead fan check out her cover of "standing on the moon"

A MASTERPIECE at all levels. Great music is still alive thanks to brilliant performers like Molly Tuttle. Thank you Molly.

So many covers of this song and none compares with this. Molly Tuttle is such a huge talent in all aspects of her music.

MOLLY TURTLE'S VOICE IS SO PERFECT FOR THIS SONG. WELL DONE. BRAVO.

@MrVirgo54

3 жыл бұрын

TURTLE?!

Molly is such an incredible talent

Such a tasteful solo...what a musician! It fit the song so well...she's capable of absolutely ripping, but (to me) the restraint and note choice here demonstrate just how much she feels this song. Great rendition!

This is my FAVORITE Neil Young song, I am 74 and grooved to it in my teens in the 60’s. Great job on the vocal and the accompaniment just a good testament to Neil.

@radtek2

3 ай бұрын

78 here and remember that song well....I have a Neil Young fan from his early beginnings with Buffalo Springfield. I have been a fan Of Molly since her Rise release, she is so talented! This is the best cover I have heard of Neil's Helpless.

Molly’s rhythm playing here is so dynamic! This is how you illuminate a song. Wow.

Obviously, she's a great guitarist, but listen to her voice. She is an exceptional singer too!

Molly knocked this out of the park. You are so good. Probably better than you know. One of my favorites.

This is an excellent, moving version of the Neil Young classic. Thanks, Molly!

This band was made to do this song. Molly absolutely owns the guitar. Just awesome.

What a voice, what a song - and we can listen and see it for free, doesn't seem right...

That's some of the smoothest acoustic soloing i've ever saw.

Lucky to see her play Helpless solo in a bar in London.

What a lovely girl and voice! Says Gold Rush Drummer in Las Vegas's Premier Neil Young Tribute Band!

This is one of the songs that defined my teenage years. Wistful and lonesome, but still very soothing and cathartic. Molly really expresses the mood of this piece and the guys are true to it as well. Many of Neil's songs have a timeless quality and may remain relevant for many generations to come.

@lisaturowsky5805

Жыл бұрын

I would only add, many of Neil's song will remain relevant!

Her voice fits this song so well.

Jesus, that’s good. Best example I’ve heard of a band making the perfect space for a lead singer. I’ve heard Molly do this song live, solo, a few times & I’ve always loved it. Nice to hear it with backing that she and the song both deserve.

@vaughnmaurt5013

3 жыл бұрын

Simply awesome!

I'm a Neil Young fan, 59 y.o. and this cover is chilling...

Finally you-tube recommendations gets it right!

I hope Neal checked this out, I'm sure it would make him happy. Molly is incredible great picker and singer.

Not an easy song to do justice to. This is beautiful.

@michaelkenna2024

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. 👍

@vincentlussier8264

3 жыл бұрын

That's because she's Molly Tuttle!

Once the pandemic has passed, there will be long lines at venues across America to see and listen to performers who have honed their skills during this time.

@bozorgone

3 жыл бұрын

I am hoping for this renaissance.

@raywest1514

3 жыл бұрын

Amen!!!

@MeneerHerculePoirot

3 жыл бұрын

The pandemic will never pass. The world will forever be longing for the days of 2019. I'm not a cynic. Just a realist.

@jorgejohnson451

3 жыл бұрын

@@MeneerHerculePoirot You’re more likely right than wrong at this point. There are so many variables, though. Also consider that flu pandemics die out. Not after taking millions, to be sure. But they do die out.

I can never hear this song without hearing Joni Mitchel's sidestage backing vocals to Neil Young and The Bands rendition at the Last Waltz. This comes close. X

@jeanwillis7774

3 жыл бұрын

Yes,that’s right,and Neilly out of his head on dope...but it was fine..so fine...as is this xx 🇨🇦

@Ash-fm6ym

3 жыл бұрын

My most favourite concert/movie of all time, so good to get high too lol

@gurryshark6027

3 жыл бұрын

Neil Young will always be a big influence to all generations on this planet. I'm wonder'n if any Ontarions applaud at Molly's concert playing "Helpless", and the word Ontario comes up? Molly is a great guitarist and banjo player, so glad to find her and others shining amongst other type of musical genre?

@davidrushton2334

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Nice try. Comes close and it's good alright but the vocals don't make the hairs on the back my neck stand up like the version you mention.

@aegier

3 жыл бұрын

yep everytime!!😑

As a die hard Neil Young fan who bought his first 45 years many many years ago, this song has accompanied me on many adventures and good times. So good to hear you play it. Heart of Gold.

Molly Tuttle always seems to make the right choices rhythmically. She is a bad ass rhythmatist, as demonstrated here. She always nails tempos too. She pays attention to the right stuff. I'm endlessly impressed.

I've heard many covers of that excellent Neil Young composition, Molly's is the best, really a great performance.

Molly's covers are mind boggling. (And man can those guys sing!)

So underrated, She's a gem.

I only heard Molly for the first time just yesterday, a cover of She's a Rainbow. I can't think when I've been so moved by an artist, any artist of any kind, the piercing soulfulness... alacrity, love.

I do like minimalism in my music, and I like Molly Tuttle as a 'traditional' vocalist. So I give this one two upvotes.

DAMN, but this is a gorgeous rendition. I'm ashamed that I didn't know Molly Tuttle until now: her voice and guitar playing are heaven-sent, and she definitely knows how to make a song her own. Brava, Ms. Tuttle, bravi to the group.

Molly Tuttle's cover of this song really woke me up to the meaning of this tune for me. I'm 60 years old, and after living almost 31 years on my farm in northern Wisconsin, my reasons to stay here, wrong or right, have always been greatly influenced by this concept..."all my changes were there." I was a young city boy back then. My wife, my kids didn't exist for me at that time, but they do now. The beauty, the familiarity, the belonging... all have thrown shadows on my eyes to make a decision to leave. Thank you, Molly

@lindamacduff2566

3 жыл бұрын

You should consider writing. You said what you said so beautifully. Nice to meet you!

@ringsofsaturnn6153

3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful.

@johnfarmer4099

3 жыл бұрын

@@lindamacduff2566 Wow. I don't even understand what he said.

Thank you Molly, from a guy , in a town , in North Ontario!

@als1023

3 жыл бұрын

Same from a guy born and raised in a town whose name means land of the the wild goose in Ojibway. A very strong favourite amongst all who lived there, powerful songwriting, and an incredible version from a world class talent.

@johnmitrikas7303

3 жыл бұрын

Here here. I’m from Wawa , Ontario. This song just gets to me. I’m a huge Neil fan and this is beautiful.

One great song played by some fine musicians. Thanks a bunch Molly. I can't decide which one is best, if your singing or your guitar playing. As it even matters. You are the whole package. Man, what a gift for the ears and for the brain.

Neil Young is one of my favorite musical artists of all time, and I’ve always loved this song. Yet, with all do respect to Neil and his incredible recording of his song...I believe this version is now my favorite.

Beautiful - sat here in my kitchen and just had to sing along.

i actually am at a loss for anything that would even remotely do justice to her rendition of one of my favorite young songs. if angels could sing this is what they'd sound like.

Since a few weeks I'm 60 y.o. I've heard a lot; Neil Young, Jackson Brown, Joni Mitchell, Boni Rait, Linda Ronstadt, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, you name it. But this ....is so good... it's so powerfull, pure redemption

@notbraindead7298

3 жыл бұрын

Molly, Shawn Colvin, Allison Krause 😊

Awesome. A song that has been with me seemingly my whole life.

Almost beyond expression. This is how a song becomes yours.

Molly really knows how to work those dynamics

Wow!!! Molly, this is brilliant!!!! What a beautiful rendition of one of Neil's classics!!! Very nicely done by band and Harmony's too!!! Neil is not easy to do covers on, but you all slayed this,!!! BRAVO!!!✌️

@gaetanogiuliano357

3 жыл бұрын

concordo pienamente! Brano difficile da suonare e cantare senza scadere nel banale. Solo veri musicisti possono eseguirlo. La voce di Molly poi è meravigliosa!

you know, when your from north ontario, that first line really sends shivers and a little sadness down your spine. what a great rendition

Molly's opening notes are spectacular and done without even looking .

I grew up with this song..........ahh high school. I do love this version as well.

Some songs just never lose their relevance .. Beautifully done🙏💕

Goosebumps, emotions and joy, what a voice 👌👏👏👏 please come over to Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ❤

Thank you Molly Tuttle and Neil Young for this masterpiece ❤

Il grande NEIL YOUNG può essere solo che felice. GRAZIE MOLLY FANTASTICA...

Very well done. Uncle Neil would endorse this cover. Bravo!

This is beyond belief! I've always loved this song, but this brings it to a whole new level!

Best cover of this song ever. Molly off the dial, and Christian Sedelmyer fiddle, woof. If you EVER get a chance to see 10 String Symphony (his duo with Rachel Baiman) don't miss it

@thescowlingschnauzer

2 жыл бұрын

Do you know who the bassist and drummer are?

Sublime.............. Great vocals, backup vocals, musicianship. This version is so sweet, it almost makes me cry.

What a totally beautiful cover by Molly and her band of one of Neil Young's most beautiful songs. 👍 👍 👍 👏 👏 👏 👏

That guitar tone is so damned good’ totally bad ass performance

The raw evocation of Northern Ontario's landscape in this version is unique!

such grace and extending my faith with never bending a note when so much more is available. gorgeous.

@jules7471

3 жыл бұрын

Any relation to Alan?

What a stunning rendition of this song. Beautiful. An amazing array of musicians, thanks for sharing it!

Couldn’t get any better!

Aloha Molly, you sing this Neil Young song with fine expression and memorable arranging.

This wonderfully done and I can sure see her doing justice to Knocking on Heaven's Door

Yes, I agree, the best Cover of "Helpless" .... Hey Molly my brother and I saw you play in a Dresden church. We wouldn't like to miss your wonderful voice and guitar/Banjo play anymore. Hope you'll be back over here sometime!

Tears in my eyes- really sensitive interpretation ❤️ it

This is a great performance - thanks for posting. 5 string violin strummed and bowed and drummer who played only snare with brushes and a towel to damp. This is not your average band. I loved Molly dearly but there is enough talent to share some respect.

Absolutely beautiful.

Wow an Orville tee. Thank you Molly, very enjoyable.

She is the sweetest. Beautiful talent. I love her so much.

I came for her guitar playing. I stayed for her voice. Wow what a talent!!!

Such a great moody rendition. The drummer is there just chillin and a bit odd and setting the mood. He's cool. Fiddle guy is there being so competent but like when is my solo? He does kill it when it comes though. Bass guy is so solid and knows it and is glad to be there. Molly is amazing. More than amazing.

The Artist Still Known as Molly Tuttle

One of my favourite artists covering my favourite artist, went to see her a couple of times in the north east of England, if she'd done this I think my head would have exploded

Incredible cover of this classic song. Molly just keeps finding more ways to be great.

Magnificent Molly does it again. Her best vocals yet, and her cover choices are uncanny.

NIce job on that old classic.

What a rainbow you are Molly. Such a great touching performance.

lovely. got better after a minute or so, and then kept on going! lovely..

A True Artist

A wonderful rendition of a truly great song and I am sure Neil Young would really appreciate the way Molly delivers his great song writing.

It takes me back to my original listening, the initial wet-eyed response. That's so kind and wondful.

@garbb5611

3 жыл бұрын

Tasteful, respectful of the original while making it her own

@jeffdaniels1260

3 жыл бұрын

@@garbb5611 Absolutely agree. As well, her solo cover of the Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter song "Standing On The Moon" is equally stunning. Highly recommend!!! I can't stop listening to it....

Molly makes a classic new again. She owns it!

Molly - what a great version of this song - I realize your roots are in bluegrass music - I think you should do more of this sort of thing. It gives old guys like me something to lean on - we came up with these songs especially Canadians and we enjoy hearing them from a new fresh version. Thanks!

Beautifully done Molly.

This young lady just continues to make me smile. Every single song. Love her.

I’ve watched this video more than all the others by all the others combined. It reminds me of a scene from Lost in Translation only with the greatest music and musicianship you can imagine. Molly Tuttle plays and sings and transcends the original and herself.

Her guitar playing is extremely fluid (as always) and great cover.

Love the original and love this rendition equally❤❤❤

Thank you, Neil, for writing such a wonderful vehicle for the amazing talent like Molly to interpret. She and her band are is so in the zone. Looking at the facial expressions of them tells so much about the heart felt emotion put into bringing the lyrics alive. Wonderful.

What a pretty cover of a great song.

LLLLLLOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVEEEEEEE HER! Brilliant player, brilliant mind, brilliant heart...