Just found this due to Willie Nelson releasing it. I have to tell you I love me some Rodney Crowell and some Willie Nelson! Both versions are beautiful.

@josephtroy374

3 ай бұрын

Same here, saw Willie Nelson's youtube and had to find out more. Great song, strong and straight forward.

@artcflowers

3 ай бұрын

Rodney's newest album is good, bluesy. Chicago Sessions. Enjoy! He covers a townes tune on it, too.

Heard the Willie version first. Crazy good song!

What an amazing story teller. Love me some Rodney Crowell

Willie brought attention to Rodney and to Townes and so many songwriters

@leonstancliff7218

2 ай бұрын

Rodney had been writing hits as a contract writer and playing in Emmylou Harris' Hot Band years before Willie recorded any of Rodney's work. As for Townes, he was another product of the Emmylou machine of the early 70s. He was a legend among the Nashville and Texas songwriters from the early '70s on.

The best song writter. Great melodies, great voice, great words. Very smart man who has been very successful.

Thanks Rodney, so well said, only way to add to it would be to have Emmy Lou put some vocal harmonies on it.

@lylewright9363

Ай бұрын

Great idea, she enhances, and enchants every thing she does, and whoever she works with just ices the cake every time.

Rodney Crowell is a Global Treasure / Exceptional Human ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you for this Rodney- we have forgotten these people with all that's going on these days.

Willie brought me here! Great song :) . . . (Willie makes the song better with added mexican ambience)

Rodney Crowell is a regular visitor to Ireland...he is a great singer and musician.....

@bluesky5587

3 ай бұрын

Ireland has a border

Gently powerful and moving on a level that is submerged in many people.

I never heard this song before, it's fantastic also his voice... Thanks for sharing🥰🥰🥰

The Best Living TEXAS SINGER SONGWRITER PEACE 🕊️☮️

Whoa..solid songwriting...seriously awesome the way he brings such visuals and emotion to his lyrics. Love this!!

Dang them poets! Making us think and feel and hope for a more peaceful just future... Music is syrup for the soul... ☮️&❤️4ALL!!! Glenngineer.

Great song! My son just married a Maria so the song real came at a special time for my family. And the fact you and Willie worked together on this song is the best memory. This song will not leave your mind lyrics and melody is what I like in my life and my mind. Thank you for your professionalism.

beautiful the more you listen to it the deeper it gets, wow

Love it.... Rodney is a treasure

Fantastic music, Well done. Looks like a Childers.. touch of the Cash.. classic that will never be. Sad state of modern music.

A gem of a man

That's a keeper.

Another great one! Thanks Rodney.

There is no one better.

Love this

So classy!

Love ya' Rodney. ❤ Regards from Britain. 🇬🇧🤠

GREAT.....THANK YOU !!!!

What a living legend he is..

A sensational version by Willie...Willie is an amazing man..a great singer, a great musician, and a unique human being... comhgairdeas leat a Liam ❤

@KevinKennedy-ys3gk

3 ай бұрын

Willie's version is good but you realize that Rodney wrote it and performed it first, right?

heard his name in one of Steve Lukathers interview and have to say its beautiness just blows me away

magnifico

Captured that one....

Heard this on the Satellite Radio Outlaw Channel at work today, very profound song in my opinion.

@mcdainty4202

3 ай бұрын

Me too, only after a grocery run and a new gummie!

Can't believe I ran across this one the day after it was posted. Very nice.

thankful from germany ... 🌻🌻🌻

Love this Rodney has always been a favorite.

Banger!

I saw these 2 guys last night in Ponte Vedra. It was a great show and I never heard the mandolin player make any mistakes. The tone was great. They had another guy on acoustic lead and it sounded full and fabulous. I never missed bass and drums for a single minute.

@frankstein5967

2 жыл бұрын

: ) looking back I don't know why I felt qualified to critique the mandolin player... never played a mandolin. But it was a great show.

Absolutely love Rodney's song writing and voice. I have a life long dream to write and record with him. Vince James

Rodney is Americana Country

God Bless All

Love this song, love this artist, love this cover. It’s a musical hat trick.

@pudge9161

3 ай бұрын

He co wrote it.

@dennisboyd1712

3 ай бұрын

This is not the cover, Willie Nelson's is the cover, just saying, it's a great song.

Willi thats is it!!!!!!!!

Love this song!! And I LOVE my LR Baggs in my Custom Martin 🙏

The consummate storyteller.

Good ol Houston boy right there!

Wonderful x

Great job guys!

I can imagine Joe Ely singing this song. A Ely style ballad. Lets see if Joe Ely does a cover version too.😄

🤩

another thumbsup

Used to have a few Rodney Crowell cassettes way back when. I guess I’m dating myself. Oh well good music.

nice

I heard Willy sing it first and it was just way out of character for him! Glad my cousin is a songwriter and musician he told me who wrote this song 👍🤠

Thanks for the mandolin @ 4:00, Eamon McLoughlin.

Aw c'mon, a credit for the mando player please! (Compelling song Rodney!)

Great song 🎵 Rodney ! Is that a OLD SILVERTONE guitar

Eamon!

Mandolin player shat all over this tune at the end. If you’re gonna make an interest then make sure you’ve got your shit together! Great song though. Lovely.

Who are the two people who went to Federal prison he sings of?

@octopusfly

4 ай бұрын

Maybe?...Border Patrol agents Ignacio “Nacho” Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean were involved in an incident where they fired their service pistols at a fleeing illegal alien drug smuggler near the United States-Mexico border. This event led to their arrest, trial, and subsequent conviction for shooting the suspect and obstructing justice by defacing the crime scene. They were sentenced to 11 and 12 years in prison, respectively, but their sentences were later commuted by President Bush in 2009 and they were granted full pardons by President Trump in 2020 ~ An American in Korea 🇰🇷

Wow

fire that mandolin player! 4 mistakes in one solo. Get John Jorgenson for this performance ( just like on the album)

@richardlanahan8089

3 жыл бұрын

He is fantastic fiddler with the voice of an angel.

@thermality

4 ай бұрын

Also 2 octave strings out of tune.

@Musicstet

3 ай бұрын

Lot of pressure walking in like that. He wasn't too shabby

Who's the guy who comes in on the guitar? Is that L.R. Baggs?

Is this Willie Nelson's song?

Willie just covered this it's on his new album

@daviddickinson1993

4 ай бұрын

And yet he endorsed Biden in 2020 and the party that has fought Texas every step of the way… I wonder if his cover represents a change of heart, or simply an opportunity to sing such a moving song.

@truckerkevthepaidtourist

4 ай бұрын

@@daviddickinson1993 thank God he hasn't had a change of heart. His views are still great. Blue Wave all the way He's just doing this cuz he likes Rodney their old friends.

@daviddickinson1993

4 ай бұрын

@@truckerkevthepaidtourist I take it you have a bifurcated brain. If Willie is that blue, it’s pretty disingenuous to sing a song about the plight of men who work on a border the left pretends doesn’t exist. No border patrol in your family? Then why give a shit, right?

@mcdainty4202

3 ай бұрын

@@daviddickinson1993 Crawl back under your rock, trump-lover.

❤ This is great story telling beautifully done. I heard Willie Nelson do this from his new album and thought it was brilliant. I had to see who wrote it and performed it and it blows you away. I loved both versions. But if you write songs and stories like this you really have to work to screw it up. Absolute corker. That means bloody brilliant in case a few U. S. boys take offence. Just fantastic.

God bless!

Thanks Rodney, so well said, only way to add to it would be to have Emmy Lou put some vocal harmonies on it.

Thanks Rodney, so well said, only way to add to it would be to have Emmy Lou put some vocal harmonies on it.