I ambushed Kevin Kinney outside a radio station in Florence S.C. Told him I was fan and asked if he would sign my copy of whisper tames the lion. He did, he also sat down on these concrete steps, pulls out his guitar and says "what would like to hear?" Mannnn, I wouldn't trade that memory for all the interweb in the world!
Lol I graduated in 1993 and I remember majority of our class going to seem them play in Jacksonville, Alabama at the collosium. Fast forward 15 or so years later and seen them many times at Brother's Bar in Jacksonville... fun times!
Exactly. I loved grunge but it was too blown up to the point where anything that came to be compared to it was left in the shadows and that is always unfair and this happens b/c the ones in the mainstream doing the comparing always do it by using the stereotypical Monolith model to compare it to and that is immature and myopic and even unnatural. We need to be able to compartmentalize and stop all the conflation. All things (and people too) need to be judged on their own merits - not unfairly measured against standards that don't fit or adhere to their own unique individual facets and features. There are all kinds of beauty in the world and when the mainstream masses limit that definition of beauty to a one-size-fits-all monolith, we are in serious trouble. Just look at the Covid mess now - not all medicine fits all ppl either. We need nuance and plenty of it! Let us 'FLY COURAGEOUS' from the despair of communism and how close we've come to it here in USA!
@@kaitlynkarol4600 Excellent comment. I enjoy most types of music...but it was a shame some of those '80's guitar virtuosos were swept aside in the early 90's for guys that barely knew 4 chords. The media forms the opinions of most people sadly. Now you have people asking for communism totally unaware of it's horrors. You can vote it in, but you have to shoot your way out of it.
I was 17, sheltered ain't the word. I had promised these slightly older girls from "town" that my country ass could buy them beer anytime. They decided to try me out. I walked in store grabbed nat light suitcase, then we ended up in a local cemetery listening to D n C. 1989 I think it was. Music changed for me that night. And I was the hero that somehow managed to not get carded. Fun times in Alabama. God bless you all.
They may not have become the most famous group, but those that are in the know, recognize they are a real gem of a great band! Love their albums and they are great live too!
I don't know about the rest of the world, but this song does not get played on any rock stations in my area like it deserves to be. This song was an instant classic to me the first time I listened to it at 12 years old back in the early 90's. It still sounds as amazing and fresh as it did back then for me. MASTERPIECE!
This only reminds of an EX who broke up with me while we were living together in 1996. I never heard of these guys until she was playing their CD or it came on a radio or something. Same thing with Alice n Chains, except I can still listen to Alice, lol. I already knew about alice, just never listened to them much before she was around. Oh, why did she break up with me? Cause I broke my collar bone and couldn't work for about a month! It's ok, there were hotter women in the sea after her, lmao. I turned 21 that year, 1996. Oh, she told me that I wasn't reliable as far as keeping a job. Well the job I started when I broke my collar bone, I kept it for 22 more years lol, and now I've worked 5 years at the county, so screw her!
This song in particular has always been a popular radio song on classic rock themed stations in the Southeastern USA. If I recall, the band is from Georgia and they still have a decent following although this is probably the one and only song of theirs that got much radio or television play. I think they are still a band and play regularly although with a different lineup than the one in this video.
I remember singing this song at karaoke about 4 years ago. No one ever heard of the song and when I finished the whole place erupted. I sung it again later in the night. The next week I heard from at least 15 people that they bought the album. The song is just awesome!
I sorta agree but they was on one of the late night shows If I remember it was letterman and I believe he said this was one of his personal favorite bands
I was 5 when my parents bought this cassette as soon as it was released in Germany. My dad was just sent off to the Gulf War so at the time it was my mom who jammed out to this in the Camaro. I mean with her stone washed jean jacket and banana comb in her hair teased like hell to raise it to Jesus with Aquanet. My sister and I in the backseat watching mom crank the volume up on the Audubon, especially to this song! Man...My parents are cool as hell. Thank you for the awesome childhood!
Can't believe 14 years ago I got on stage with these guys they started my life long dream of being a musician thank you Kevin it's shaped my whole life I'd love to rock out with you guys some day
Met these guys in a tiny bar in Huntington wva . Drove from Virginia Beach to see them on our way home to Ohio. They were so nice and down to earth. Love this song the beat is home for my soul. My 16 year old son perked up when he heard me playing this he loves it.
After listening to this song for 30 or more years or so, and knowing the words to this song... its weird that people saw this as a pro-war song. To me, a lot of the metaphors and lines used actually seem to be about being lulled into a state of conflict and then realizing it too late and wishing to escape from that situation
RIP Buren Fowler... I'm good friends with his step son, Mike Parkinson, they lived right down the road from me. I used to talk about guitars all the time with Buren. He was a great guy and an amazing musician!
I remember those days before you could download music. You had to buy the album and hope every song was as good as the one on the radio. This was one of those rare albums that just was awesome. Fantastic!
tune never gets old -- still is one of the last truly great rock songs from back in the day--soooo good to have youtube around so i don't have to listen to all the total crap being put out these days-thanks for posting
There's actually a TON of proper rock music coming out. You just won't hear it anywhere unless you dig a little. Such is the way of the music industry in 2020. It's hilarious that I have to explain this to boomers so often.
@@garysala5441 again. Not true. Dig deeper. Proper rock still exsists it's just not on terrestrial radio anymore. The music indistry is dead, music is NOT.
My friend's and I use to go to their shows in Jackson Mississippi back in the day many times. They were awesome. This song had very heavy airplay in the southern states back then. Great Band. Bad timing. Hope they're playing some nowadays.
oh, yes! great memories of senior year college -- first apartment, crazy roommates, and music like this -- the simple nostalgic things that make life so remarkable. 1991 was the best!
Drivin n cryin will be in my hometown ( Ringgold , GA ) July 17th!!! And I can’t fkn wait. I’ve always felt I was born in the wrong era. I’m an old soul. Classic rock has always been my go to in music!!!!!!!
listen to straight to hell, if you haven't. Probably Kevin's best song writing. There was a lot of good music coming from Atlanta around this time. Michelle Malone and drag the river, Follow for Now, and a couple more I can't think of.
I'm finding all of these songs and bands I forgot about... the fkn 90s was the best time to be a teenager and in my early 20s ...turned 22 in 2000... puro GenX
This is where it all started for me back in 1991 and now I have everything they released plus I have been to over 100 shows and plan on seeing many more. They are my favorite band.
When I first heard this, amongst the flood of music at the time, I thought, this is good song. All these years later hearing it, it is absolutlely genius in every way. Eleven out of ten.
Just facts. There was a thousand things going on in 1991 for a music nerd. And my music appreciation has grown since I was so young. I can give this song a fair listen now. I stand by my evaluation.@@ChrisFerguson-zm4gt
First heard this song driving to work and was completely blown away. Could hardly wait until lunch to go buy the CD. Thank you youtube for bringing it all back like it was just yesterday.
First time I heard this sitting in my all night duty station aboard USS Dwight D Eisenhower on another dark sweltering night making circles in the Persian Gulf, VF-142 Ghostrider IWT shop... don't remember who the guy was playing it (one of the youngster AE's I think) but he still has my gratitude! This still rocks!
They are loaded,with so many,many great songs I been a true fan since 1991,love see them,yeah now that I'm 60 clean n sober,they would be on stage anywhere,love DNC!!!
Unfortunately, iheart radio may have removed their Drivin N Cryin radio station. I just favorited Drivin N Cryin radio on iheart the other day, but now, I can't get any songs to play from their Drivin N Cryin station. At least, I still have youtube and other sites to hear this and other great Drivin N Cryin songs.
I remember the first time I heard this song on some obscure FM radio station & it absolutely blew me away! Thought it was something totally new & was shocked to find out it had already been out for a year. I couldn`t believe it & that I`d never heard of this band. They should have had huge airplay of this amazing song from coast to coast. Went out the next day & bought the CD.
"Fly Me Courageous" is the title track of the album by the same name. Atlanta based Drivin' N' Cryin' released the record in 1991 during the start the Persian Gulf War. It struck a patriotic chord with Americans at the time and lifted the band's 4th studio album to heights previously unseen. Perhaps some people didn't listen closely enough to the song though, because some of the lyrics seem to indicate opposition to some of America's foreign policies. Regardless of how you perceive the song, it still rocks and its all American. The imagery painted by the lyrics is epic and inspires bravado... "Wrap me high in the sky...Circle me with stallions...She flew from peak to peak...With the freedom of an eagle...So fly me courageous!"
I missed this song the first time around. No one else seems to be talking about it's use of the Icarus & Daedalus myth...maybe if I scrolled back far enough through the comments?
I have noticed the lyrics suggesting skepticism, to say the least, of American foreign policy, particularly this line, which opens the second verse: "Mother America is brandishing her weapons She keeps me safe and warm by threats and misconceptions." This may be yet another example of Springsteen syndrome (see "Born in the USA"), where a song critical of America's wars gets misunderstood as an expression of fervent patriotism.
I worked as a bouncer back in the day. I found it highly entertaining to deal with problems while this sort of thing banged its way out of the jukebox.
I've got you on the loose I left you groovin' I've got you on the beat I left you broken But won't you take my place Since long ago I wandered Way out on a cliff With the brilliance of an angel So fly me courageous So fly me courageous Mother America is brandishing Her weapons She keeps me safe and warm By threats and misconceptions So if you break the chains You'll have to shake me And if you break my heart You'll have to take me Whoa lady won't you take it easy Push me out of Whoa won't you take it easy lady Push me out of Whoa won't you take it easy lady Push me out of So fly me courageous I heard your whispers From the bottom of the canyon It's not so hard to hide The rattlesnakes confusion Wrap me high in the sky Circle me with stallions She flew from peak to peak With the freedom of an eagle So fly me courageous Fly me courageous So fly me courageous
Went to school in WV many years ago, and became friends with a local kid that turned me onto this band as well as many others. Hope you are doing well Jaad M.
I remember exactly where I was when I heard this on the radio the first time for some reason. Some songs did that back then. I went and bought the CD. Still have it. Decent rock only had a few more years years of life after the time this came out. I'm so glad I was young in the 70's, 80's and half of the 90's. Best music ever....
gunjunky7520 yup...was running a random playlist here....they came up and I seen the band name....and I like...they play this song I remember...and this is it ....good song
Drivin' N Cryin' -Buren Fowler - Guitar ,Kevn Kinney -Guitar, Vocals Tim Nielsen - Bass, Mandolin, Vocals (Background) Jeff Sullivan - Drums, Percussion. Drivin' N' Cryin', : Fly Me Courageous is the fourth studio album by the Hard Rock/Southern Rock band Drivin' N' Cryin', released on January 8, 1991 by Island Records.The album is the band's most commercially successful release, in part due to the title track striking a patriotic chord with the United States during the start of the Persian Gulf War. In 1995, Fly Me Courageous was certified gold."Fly Me Courageous" reached #15 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.
I remember recording this onto a mixtape off the radio in like 91 or 92 , so many bands disappeared into the void of time. The 90s ruled , the last great decade of art, musical expression minus a corporate influence
Basic - Dec 89 ....don't forget the next line: Mother America is brandishing her weapons She keeps me safe and warm by threats and misconceptions Fascism and propaganda, deceit and murder .... let there be rule of law soon. Justice and liberty 4 all
Great song that I recently thought of and looked up. Just ordered the album. This band was just before the big move to modern rock via the grunge scene.
I ambushed Kevin Kinney outside a radio station in Florence S.C. Told him I was fan and asked if he would sign my copy of whisper tames the lion. He did, he also sat down on these concrete steps, pulls out his guitar and says "what would like to hear?" Mannnn, I wouldn't trade that memory for all the interweb in the world!
What state
Kevin, comes to Asheville NC, about twice a year.
Sometimes with DnC, sometimes Solo.
I try to catch him when he's in town 🙂👌
I saw Drivin n Cryin in Charlotte N.C. Kevin took a selfie with me . This fricken band is amazing. Not a song I don’t like.
Dude...That's epic. Congrats!
Kevin is awesome
2024?? Anyone?
Hell Yes!!! Ga Southern Univ 1988
Fuck yes. Love this song😮
I haven't heard this song in at least a decade if not two plus & the lyrics come right back. These guys were good 👍
Still sounds amazing in 2024!
Always ! ❤
I had this album in 1991. I can't believe it's been 25 years.
Kirk Patrick I still have it!
LOL funny thing is ...I think this is the most modern CD in my collection
Lol I graduated in 1993 and I remember majority of our class going to seem them play in Jacksonville, Alabama at the collosium. Fast forward 15 or so years later and seen them many times at Brother's Bar in Jacksonville... fun times!
Make that 28!
Lol..still have it on cassette.
One of the early 90s rock bands that fell victim to the grunge movement. Great tune I had forgotten about... Back in the Playlist!
They was folk .. this song has a grunge sound it's why it was so mainstream.
fuck grunge
Exactly. I loved grunge but it was too blown up to the point where anything that came to be compared to it was left in the shadows and that is always unfair and this happens b/c the ones in the mainstream doing the comparing always do it by using the stereotypical Monolith model to compare it to and that is immature and myopic and even unnatural.
We need to be able to compartmentalize and stop all the conflation. All things (and people too) need to be judged on their own merits - not unfairly measured against standards that don't fit or adhere to their own unique individual facets and features.
There are all kinds of beauty in the world and when the mainstream masses limit that definition of beauty to a one-size-fits-all monolith, we are in serious trouble. Just look at the Covid mess now - not all medicine fits all ppl either. We need nuance and plenty of it! Let us 'FLY COURAGEOUS' from the despair of communism and how close we've come to it here in USA!
fuck grunge is right! that depressing crap helped kill rock
@@kaitlynkarol4600 Excellent comment. I enjoy most types of music...but it was a shame some of those '80's guitar virtuosos were swept aside in the early 90's for guys that barely knew 4 chords. The media forms the opinions of most people sadly. Now you have people asking for communism totally unaware of it's horrors. You can vote it in, but you have to shoot your way out of it.
I was 17, sheltered ain't the word. I had promised these slightly older girls from "town" that my country ass could buy them beer anytime. They decided to try me out. I walked in store grabbed nat light suitcase, then we ended up in a local cemetery listening to D n C. 1989 I think it was. Music changed for me that night. And I was the hero that somehow managed to not get carded. Fun times in Alabama. God bless you all.
Sounds like a night in Kansas 1984, music friends and cold brew still good times even 2024🎉🎉
They may not have become the most famous group, but those that are in the know, recognize they are a real gem of a great band! Love their albums and they are great live too!
Saw them at an NC State frat party years ago. Left a lasting impression.
Man lots of bands back on the late 80s got dumped. In Detroit we had bitter sweet alley. The almighty strut. Halloween. But never got picked up
I don't know about the rest of the world, but this song does not get played on any rock stations in my area like it deserves to be. This song was an instant classic to me the first time I listened to it at 12 years old back in the early 90's. It still sounds as amazing and fresh as it did back then for me. MASTERPIECE!
This only reminds of an EX who broke up with me while we were living together in 1996. I never heard of these guys until she was playing their CD or it came on a radio or something. Same thing with Alice n Chains, except I can still listen to Alice, lol. I already knew about alice, just never listened to them much before she was around. Oh, why did she break up with me? Cause I broke my collar bone and couldn't work for about a month! It's ok, there were hotter women in the sea after her, lmao. I turned 21 that year, 1996. Oh, she told me that I wasn't reliable as far as keeping a job. Well the job I started when I broke my collar bone, I kept it for 22 more years lol, and now I've worked 5 years at the county, so screw her!
lucky enough to hear it on my local rock station today...great song
This song in particular has always been a popular radio song on classic rock themed stations in the Southeastern USA. If I recall, the band is from Georgia and they still have a decent following although this is probably the one and only song of theirs that got much radio or television play. I think they are still a band and play regularly although with a different lineup than the one in this video.
@@cougaressa4675 same
Kevin Kinny, unfortunately he passed away some years ago. I went to high school with him in Sussex Wisconsin.
Still rocking it in 23!! 🤟
'24...😂
@@1SWEETSERENADER 2025....
This song was killer from the minute it came out until right now. 💪
No repeat offenders
So is gen X 🤦♂️🤣 They shouldn't have came here... Forward ROW!!! 🫶
What is funny is I been waiting on dick bags that never could show up.🤣
I remember singing this song at karaoke about 4 years ago. No one ever heard of the song and when I finished the whole place erupted. I sung it again later in the night. The next week I heard from at least 15 people that they bought the album. The song is just awesome!
whos still rockin this in 2020?
Bennett White Saw em in Athens last night. Was great!
Hell yeah,I am!
Yep
Lol yeah
Heck yeah😊👍
One of the greatest guitar riffs in rock and roll…
calm down
Without a doubt.
@@guins99 get lost
A very underrated and underappreciated band. The rock and roll pentatonic riff is fundamental to all things blue, and the lyrics are real poetry.
I got this and 11(?) other from. remember Columbia House? Don’t know if I still owe them!
@@JohnLemay-xz1yui sure do
One of the many hidden gems...
Kevin Breese
Yasssss!!
Amen 👍
Haha don’t wanna rain on your parade but it does have 1.6 million views. I wouldn’t say it’s too far off the beaten path
I sorta agree but they was on one of the late night shows If I remember it was letterman and I believe he said this was one of his personal favorite bands
Haven't heard this song in YEARS. Great tune!
2019....man I miss this good stuff. Music made today lacks great guitar riffs
Found this band thru my mom gof rest her soul thanks mom
I was 5 when my parents bought this cassette as soon as it was released in Germany. My dad was just sent off to the Gulf War so at the time it was my mom who jammed out to this in the Camaro. I mean with her stone washed jean jacket and banana comb in her hair teased like hell to raise it to Jesus with Aquanet. My sister and I in the backseat watching mom crank the volume up on the Audubon, especially to this song! Man...My parents are cool as hell. Thank you for the awesome childhood!
Good shit right there...are you from Az...that's how we roll in the desert.. Mammoth Arizona
...banana comb
@@muddymay5729 Im from Iowa 😊
YES! Still listen to this on CASSETTE!
Dang straight.
I'd rather have cassette than CD.... For one thing.
I've never dropped a cassette on the floor and had it never play again.
So do I, love it
Me 2
Still listen to them and jam out just like I did in early 90s,I have cassette too! Always has to be LOUD!
Why?
Can't believe 14 years ago I got on stage with these guys they started my life long dream of being a musician thank you Kevin it's shaped my whole life I'd love to rock out with you guys some day
You lucky
@@SorbetthekindUbuyina2ndhandsto I was like 7 years old I can send you then video just look up driving n crying drunk guy on stage honey suckle blues
Met these guys in a tiny bar in Huntington wva . Drove from Virginia Beach to see them on our way home to Ohio. They were so nice and down to earth. Love this song the beat is home for my soul. My 16 year old son perked up when he heard me playing this he loves it.
She keeps me safe and warm with threats and misconceptions. Tremendous...
After listening to this song for 30 or more years or so, and knowing the words to this song... its weird that people saw this as a pro-war song. To me, a lot of the metaphors and lines used actually seem to be about being lulled into a state of conflict and then realizing it too late and wishing to escape from that situation
Mother America…..
@@neilpatrickhairless it’s about revolution or it’s a plea against oppressors. But a battle nonetheless…
ITS GIBBERISH! great song but GIBBERISH
Loved this song!!! Teenager in the 90's was the Best!!!
Yes it was.
Think about it daily
Mustang GTs ,GTA trans ams,5.7 iroc Camaro, me in my 72 Nova listening to this song...still have the Nova!
Remember rolling through the mountains in high school jammin' to this....How I miss those days...What memories!!!!
Me to brother, the mountains of southwest va
If you like this band, you have amazing taste,true Metal head, giving you all props ❤
🤟🤟You have amazing taste in music 🎶 my metal friend 🤟🤟
This band had great songs and were so unique and original....still sounds 🔥 30+ years later.
This song has tonal qualities that I would love to hear more out of musicians
RIP Buren Fowler...
I'm good friends with his step son, Mike Parkinson, they lived right down the road from me.
I used to talk about guitars all the time with Buren.
He was a great guy and an amazing musician!
Everything will be fine. Don't worry
Was his hair real? Not being funny, just curious.
God speed to him.
Yo, same!
I remember those days before you could download music. You had to buy the album and hope every song was as good as the one on the radio. This was one of those rare albums that just was awesome. Fantastic!
It was always three good songs on the album certified it as a “good” one. 😅
Damn I forgot just how well written this is!!!
I remember jamming to this song while heading to Iraq in the 1st gulf war
obxsocom thank you for your service
God bless you and Thank You for Your service.
Thank you for your service, brother.
Thanks for your service 👍
@@Discordkittenbixh NAVSTA ROTA SPAIN 1990/1992 sectacforce Thank you for your service brother
tune never gets old -- still is one of the last truly great rock songs from back in the day--soooo good to have youtube around so i don't have to listen to all the total crap being put out these days-thanks for posting
The Screaming Cheetah Wheelies was another TOTALLY Under-rated Bands back in the day
There's actually a TON of proper rock music coming out. You just won't hear it anywhere unless you dig a little. Such is the way of the music industry in 2020. It's hilarious that I have to explain this to boomers so often.
I agree!...today's music is nothing but crap! We need bands playing good music like this again!
@@garysala5441 again. Not true. Dig deeper. Proper rock still exsists it's just not on terrestrial radio anymore. The music indistry is dead, music is NOT.
@@HomeOnDeranged Proper lmao rock is improper
My friend's and I use to go to their shows in Jackson Mississippi back in the day many times. They were awesome. This song had very heavy airplay in the southern states back then. Great Band. Bad timing. Hope they're playing some nowadays.
Me 2 brother. Magee ms.
I grew up in South Jackson...best times ever!! Long live the 80s ❤😢
oh, yes! great memories of senior year college -- first apartment, crazy roommates, and music like this -- the simple nostalgic things that make life so remarkable. 1991 was the best!
Drivin n cryin will be in my hometown ( Ringgold , GA ) July 17th!!! And I can’t fkn wait. I’ve always felt I was born in the wrong era. I’m an old soul. Classic rock has always been my go to in music!!!!!!!
2019 how have I never heard of this band before today, this is awesome
Seriously? Gotta ask your age... ?
Were you living under a rock jk to bad you never saw them in concert
ive heard first at 90`
Me too
listen to straight to hell, if you haven't. Probably Kevin's best song writing.
There was a lot of good music coming from Atlanta around this time. Michelle Malone and drag the river, Follow for Now, and a couple more I can't think of.
Love the guitar riff in this song.
Simply outstanding love this song!
Come on who doesn't know driven n cryn love the band.one of my favorite songs.
Great song!
R.I.P. Van Buren Fowler, Drivin' N' Cryin' guitarist.
Damn, has it been 5 years already? Feels like just yesterday I got misty eyed reading about him.
No shit wow
He was a great guitarist RIP
What happened to him?
Seriously? Damn, R.I.P.
I'm finding all of these songs and bands I forgot about... the fkn 90s was the best time to be a teenager and in my early 20s ...turned 22 in 2000... puro GenX
I heard Drivin N Cryin play with Neil Young when this album was brand new and it's been a favorite ever since.
I'll love this jam till the day I die!
Rock on
Fucking a right buddy
This was the first complete song I learned on the guitar. 🎸
Me too!!
And I figured that out in moments by ear. Tab is lame.
This is where it all started for me back in 1991 and now I have everything they released plus I have been to over 100 shows and plan on seeing many more. They are my favorite band.
Saw em tonite and every year on Jekyll
still love this song
This takes me back running through Atlanta in the late 90's. Good band..
When I first heard this, amongst the flood of music at the time, I thought, this is good song. All these years later hearing it, it is absolutlely genius in every way. Eleven out of ten.
It is great....but it probably sounds better now because of how bad music sucks today
@@ChrisFerguson-zm4gt Well....maybe mainstream wasn't all that great when this was released.
@@ankhor9252 that makes no sense
Just facts. There was a thousand things going on in 1991 for a music nerd. And my music appreciation has grown since I was so young. I can give this song a fair listen now. I stand by my evaluation.@@ChrisFerguson-zm4gt
First heard this song driving to work and was completely blown away. Could hardly wait until lunch to go buy the CD. Thank you youtube for bringing it all back like it was just yesterday.
My 6×9 speakers loved this song
Still playing with cars
This song is very good, but then so is the whole album this song came from. Excellent!
I never knew why they couldn't write more songs in this vein. This song is a Goddamn masterpiece.
The perfect segue from 80’s rock to 90’s grunge.
a couple of my friends turned me onto this Song around "90-91".... We are the " Class' of' "88"..
First time I heard this sitting in my all night duty station aboard USS Dwight D Eisenhower on another dark sweltering night making circles in the Persian Gulf, VF-142 Ghostrider IWT shop... don't remember who the guy was playing it (one of the youngster AE's I think) but he still has my gratitude! This still rocks!
The gulf? What, were you like 40 back then?
They are loaded,with so many,many great songs I been a true fan since 1991,love see them,yeah now that I'm 60 clean n sober,they would be on stage anywhere,love DNC!!!
Unfortunately, iheart radio may have removed their Drivin N Cryin radio station. I just favorited Drivin N Cryin radio on iheart the other day, but now, I can't get any songs to play from their Drivin N Cryin station. At least, I still have youtube and other sites to hear this and other great Drivin N Cryin songs.
Love this song still in 2020!
Still rockin' since 1989. I estimate I've seen DNC/Kevn Kinney about 125 times.
Hey. Listen to Lunatic Fringe by Red Rider and tell me that's not relevant today
@@statickiller6501 so true.
I remember the first time I heard this song on some obscure FM radio station & it absolutely blew me away! Thought it was something totally new & was shocked to find out it had already been out for a year. I couldn`t believe it & that I`d never heard of this band. They should have had huge airplay of this amazing song from coast to coast. Went out the next day & bought the CD.
"Fly Me Courageous" is the title track of the album by the same name. Atlanta based Drivin' N' Cryin' released the record in 1991 during the start the Persian Gulf War. It struck a patriotic chord with Americans at the time and lifted the band's 4th studio album to heights previously unseen.
Perhaps some people didn't listen closely enough to the song though, because some of the lyrics seem to indicate opposition to some of America's foreign policies.
Regardless of how you perceive the song, it still rocks and its all American. The imagery painted by the lyrics is epic and inspires bravado...
"Wrap me high in the sky...Circle me with stallions...She flew from peak to peak...With the freedom of an eagle...So fly me courageous!"
Wars we fight are immoral
I missed this song the first time around. No one else seems to be talking about it's use of the Icarus & Daedalus myth...maybe if I scrolled back far enough through the comments?
I have noticed the lyrics suggesting skepticism, to say the least, of American foreign policy, particularly this line, which opens the second verse:
"Mother America is brandishing her weapons
She keeps me safe and warm by threats and misconceptions."
This may be yet another example of Springsteen syndrome (see "Born in the USA"), where a song critical of America's wars gets misunderstood as an expression of fervent patriotism.
I think u didnt listen close enough...Its a great song but its GIBBERISH!
@@bilbobaggins4710what are u 14?
I was a bouncer in 94 at a pool hall this was on the CD jukebox awesome song another great is straight to hell same band
I worked as a bouncer back in the day. I found it highly entertaining to deal with problems while this sort of thing banged its way out of the jukebox.
I've got you on the loose
I left you groovin'
I've got you on the beat
I left you broken
But won't you take my place
Since long ago I wandered
Way out on a cliff
With the brilliance of an angel
So fly me courageous
So fly me courageous
Mother America is brandishing
Her weapons
She keeps me safe and warm
By threats and misconceptions
So if you break the chains
You'll have to shake me
And if you break my heart
You'll have to take me
Whoa lady won't you take it easy
Push me out of
Whoa won't you take it easy lady
Push me out of
Whoa won't you take it easy lady
Push me out of
So fly me courageous
I heard your whispers
From the bottom of the canyon
It's not so hard to hide
The rattlesnakes confusion
Wrap me high in the sky
Circle me with stallions
She flew from peak to peak
With the freedom of an eagle
So fly me courageous
Fly me courageous
So fly me courageous
Awesome thanks I used to make up my own lyrics to this back in 91 turns out I was really close!
Thanks!
@Becky & Gary Edwards Yes. It's absolutely an anti war/anti nationalism song.
Thanks for the lyrics I knew some of them luckily my local radio station didn't beat this one in the ground.
Whoaoo baby, woantchoo take it easy!!!
Went to school in WV many years ago, and became friends with a local kid that turned me onto this band as well as many others. Hope you are doing well Jaad M.
Excellent use of cowbell.
More cowbell pls...
Rattle snake, stallion and eagle all in one verse. Wow, big Richard energy
Awesome band! Highly underrated. One of the top '80s bands, IMO.
I remember exactly where I was when I heard this on the radio the first time for some reason. Some songs did that back then. I went and bought the CD. Still have it. Decent rock only had a few more years years of life after the time this came out. I'm so glad I was young in the 70's, 80's and half of the 90's. Best music ever....
I love this song. It can be a terrible day and this makes song turns it around and my day it gets better!
i still remember seeing this on mtv when it first came out.
Wow! I let this s cool tune slip out of my radar, it popped up randomly, excellent rockin' song !
Being a Georgia boy I absolutely hated this band at first! I heard this song and Build a Fire it changed my whole perspective!! Hell yeah!!
I had almost forgotten this song. Brings back so many memories.
gunjunky7520 yup...was running a random playlist here....they came up and I seen the band name....and I like...they play this song I remember...and this is it ....good song
They don’t make songs like this anymore 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Yes "they" do, you're just not listening to the right music.
@@kurtp8833 probably
Wow forgot all about this!!! Brings back alot of memories!!!
Garner.
And I'm 60! Peace out!
✌️🧐🙏🐐
First saw this on MTV’s 120 Minutes in late 1990, and was the first episode of it that I saw.
Drivin' N Cryin' -Buren Fowler - Guitar ,Kevn Kinney -Guitar, Vocals Tim Nielsen - Bass, Mandolin, Vocals (Background)
Jeff Sullivan - Drums, Percussion. Drivin' N' Cryin', : Fly Me Courageous is the fourth studio album by the Hard Rock/Southern Rock band Drivin' N' Cryin', released on January 8, 1991 by Island Records.The album is the band's most commercially successful release, in part due to the title track striking a patriotic chord with the United States during the start of the Persian Gulf War. In 1995, Fly Me Courageous was certified gold."Fly Me Courageous" reached #15 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.
I remember seeing them so many times when I was in college at Ole Miss in the early 90’s. This brings back so many memories of them in the Grove.
I am so jealous! 😋😋😊
I really like this song. Me & my friend saw this band in milw, in 92 at an old theatre , The audience went crazy we had a blast ..
I remember recording this onto a mixtape off the radio in like 91 or 92 , so many bands disappeared into the void of time. The 90s ruled , the last great decade of art, musical expression minus a corporate influence
It's not the late 80's/early 90's hair metal without a half-naked girl slithering on something. Miss those days.
Was hoping someone could clear that up. As in, "Were Drivin' N' Cryin' a hair band, or an early grunge band?"
Neither. All of the critical stuff I've read says "jangle pop, country, & hard rock". Sounds right to me.
@@dz9589 Mud. Lol. Not clear, whatsoever, now. Thx
I call them alternative rock.
I still get going to it today and I'm 50
I remember this song from my Basic Training..."Mother America is brandishing her weapons..." Fuck Yeah! Still rocks my face off at 40+.
Yeah! It reminds me of Navy boot camp in Orlando! I was there at the end of '91.
C School in Pensacola- Corry station when this hit the air. I love me some P-Cola...
Basic - Dec 89 ....don't forget the next line:
Mother America is brandishing her weapons
She keeps me safe and warm by threats and misconceptions
Fascism and propaganda, deceit and murder .... let there be rule of law soon.
Justice and liberty 4 all
nowonyuno
That's a great song.
she keeps me safe and warm, with threats and misconceptions. you can't take half the line Tiffany. still a great tune-
This is southern rock at its' best!!!
First time I heard this tune on the radio in 1991 I was stoned... I was blown away... Loved it ever since.
Just bc you get stoned does not mean you don't love America, justice, your kids, and the right to bear arms
Or the right to share that "blown away" experience
Holy shit! I didn't know this was Drivin' n' Cryin'... awesome song!
Love it…my life was so much simpler when this came out.
omg!!! I was in several cover bands in the 90s and EVERY SINGLE ONE played this song!!!!
Saw these guys open for R.E.M. 89-90, went out the next day and bought everything they had out at the time. Still a huge fan.
WHEN I PLAY THIS SONG..MY NEIGHBORS LOVE IT LOUD AS MUCH AS I DO
Loved this song when it came out and still listen to it today.LONG LIVE DRIVING AND CRYING.
Tom Wolak that's right
I just had to listen to this song this evening. I love it!
Hi Tammy,hope you’re okay ?
This song is so in between 80,s hair and 90,s alternative! I love it!
Flying courageous in 2019 into 2020!!
the local bar/bull riding venue here always plays this when one of the riders manages the 8 second ride
@ stephy Yeah, that was some deep stuff right there. Profound.
I was in college at Ole Miss in the early 90's and this band used to play in a local bar then I loved it!!
I'll be drivin and cryin til I die.
Love this song. I just heard it for the first time on iheartradio. Oldie but a goody!
Definitely one of the most incredible songs from the magical days of intense memories and incredible musicians
STILL AND ALWAYZ ROKKIN THIS AND THE BAND
Still rockin this one in 2023 🎸
2024🎉 Have loved them since 1989 Ga Southern University
Great song that I recently thought of and looked up. Just ordered the album.
This band was just before the big move to modern rock via the grunge scene.