I am. I recently discovered Gregory Alan Isakov and I love every one of his songs. I've never been able to say that about any musician. This one is my favorite though.
I feel that I, at the age of 60, may just be one of Isakov's oldest new fans. What a talent this young man is. He speaks to something inside that's so rudimentary to who we are that it resonates in the soul. How refreshing in these tumultuous times.
This song takes me to a rainy dreary Portland, Oregon morning. Blowing out all the candles in my tent I used to keep warm. This song and few others gave me the perspective to work towards a day where I was clean, free of a ball and chain to a damned needle. I'm at 17 or 18 months cool from such junk. Its strange to have so much hatred and love for the same minutes where I felt so lost. No real grasp of who I was or any real tangible relationships, on top of being years estranged from my family and childhood friends, In many ways I have always felt like a guest or visitor (just passing through) on this planet. I'll never understand why at particular times in my life I feel so fucking unworthy of a quality existence. Thanks to Mr. Isakov and other artist for there selflessness in sharing who they are with complete strangers, like you and I. It seems truly with out boundaries the volume of impact a song or piece of art can make on anyone of us lonely people. If anyone is actually still reading this shite.......may you find days filled with a balanced spirit, a full belly and a full mind. A prayer without any action is merely a wish.
definitely therapeutic. Even though I heard it for the first time during one of the most stressful times in my life (graduate school) and it still calms me when I hear it.
This song reminds me of frosty mornings in a cabin in Montana where my mom is brewing coffee and humming to herself. It reminds me of South Dakota sunsets as we speed along the highway, my grandparents smiling as I try to count as many antelope as I can. It makes me think of my brother, getting lost in the mountains somewhere. There's just such a beautiful nostalgia about this song. I always find myself coming back here.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but I'm an old man and I believed really good music was dead, gone to a better time back long ago...but now I've found artist like this young man and other groups like Mandolin Orange, who are producing some outstanding new music that's got that same heart and spirit of the older songs. It has renewed my faith in this generation of music artist and I can't get enough!
I'm from Africa ... this song reminisces me of my early days when I was a kid going upcountry in buses traveling and seeing the verge forests and animals going on with their lives oblivious of anything surrounding them... it was so peaceful and a sight to behold ... now the trees and animals are gone to pave way for industries and houses ...you can say this is my nostalgia song :)
remember when our songs where just like prayers. like gospel hymns that you called in the air. come down come down sweet reverence, unto my simple house and ring… and ring. ring like silver, ring like gold ring out those ghosts on the ohio ring like clear day wedding bells were we the belly of the beast or the sword that fell…we’ll never tell. come to me clear and cold on some sea watch the world spinning waves..like some machine now i’ve been crazy couldn’t you tell i threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell now i’m covered up in straw, belly up on the table well and sang and drank, and passed in the stable. that tall grass grows high and brown, well i dragged you straight in the muddy ground and you sent me back to where i roam well i cursed and i cried, but now i know…now i know and i ran back to that hollow again the moon was just a sliver back then and i ached for my heart like some tin man when it came oh it beat and it boiled and it rang..its ringing ring like crazy, ring like hell turn me back into that wild haired gale ring like silver, ring like gold turn these diamonds straight back into coal
This is how I get my soul back... mmmm. Brings me back to a cold morning sunrise in a high Colorado mountain valley. Solitude, mountain goats, and this song stuck in my head before starting a big alpine climb. Love it.
This is crazy but I had an almost identical feeling. (...I'm from Colorado and grew up and had my early adulthood backpacking all across Colorado wilderness, often in complete solitude.)
Mark Kreidler my mom is about to turn 60 in June and this is one of her favorite songs. You should check out Hozier, she saw him on TV and ended up liking every song he's made
I'm not sure what this young man experienced that led him to these lyrics, but there are several events, or combination of events, in my past that I am reminded of when I listen to this song. Some of the memories in combination with this beautiful song bring sadness, elation, & a few tears when I listen to it. I can never listen to it just once. I am 63 as well. I don't know if age has anything to do with it, maybe. Maybe at our age we have experienced things that the song just fits.............
My husband and I had a house along the Ohio River. We are no longer there (or together 😢) but that line always makes me remember a time sitting on the porch swing in the summer air, so happy together and the wind from the river blowing through our breezeway. I miss that time so much. My heart still aches.
it reminds me of the years I was stationed at Ft Riley KS, summers spent swimming at the lake, driving past miles of farm land on dirt roads to get to pilsburry crossing which was our favorite swimming spot on the river.
I live in Chicago and want to take Route 66 all the way to California, then drive the Pacific Coast Highway north and then go back east...driving through Wyoming and Montana...with this music. After that...I want to conquer the south lol :)
Yes, and there are so many great artists. So many of the songs I enjoy are close to 10 years old. But we really are in a great time in music, technology has made it so we easily can find music in the same vibe of a song. All this music we would be unaware of when I was young, if a song didn’t make the top 40 we didn’t know about it.
I play this sing for my little parakeets and they love it! It calms them and they close their little eyes as they listen to it. It's my favorite of Isakov's songs. I love this man so much.
I went to see Gregory Alan Isakov in concert with someone I was in love with. A few weeks later he decided he wasn't. Now I have this on repeat until I can forget him..
ah, you should listen to 'To a Poet' by First Aid Kit. That song is the perfect medication for a broken heart. (make sure you read the lyrics as well) :)
this song brings me back to the summer of 03 when i was stationed in ft riley kansas (that tall grass grows high and brown) we later that fall went to Iraq for a year and úpon our return i had an appreciation for life especially life on the great plains that i had not previously experienved.
This song never fails to hit me in the feels every single time. There is something haunting and bueatiful in it. It reminds me of the midwest farms that are my roots and are my people. For me it tells a story of wondering from and longing for the place that made you who and what you are. This guy is an amazing talent!
I first heard this song on Pandora, while taking a walk. It is one of those that immediately grabs you by the heartstrings and won't let go. What an exciting young talent!
I've lived on a farm my whole life. The other day, I was in our old horse barn. My eyes trailed across the old bits and harnesses hanging on the wall. Above each, my dad, many years ago, had penciled in the names of each horse of whom it belonged- many of whom have since passed. This song reminds me of that. Old America, farming, a wood-heated home.
@Adra Tawusi Melech My Granddaughter is autistic too. She is thirteen, even though she doesn't want (refuses) to get older. Her artwork reflects her surroundings, space interests (Wall-E & Eve drawing), Geoffrey portrait with herself (Toys 'R' Us), a Picasso like self portrait. Teen music, art, skating & the violin are her interests. Timely homework submission and high honor grades are her forte. Art & music seem to keep her content.
This is the song I chose to incorporate into a story I wrote about two people falling in love, before one learns she has health problems and passes. They sing this to each other when they meet, and again at the funeral. It's tragically beautifully, a gorgeous song.
Never liked country music or folk music...But this artist, and this song in particular, are incredible. I think THIS is the best example of real, American music. Heh, and he's not even a born American. Love it.
I'm sure someone has already mentioned that this happened in the comments, but Patti Smith covered this song in Chicago in April this year. It was one of the most beautiful moments of the show.
This song. It's just so beautiful and lulling and sad. So many emotions. So well written. So much imagery. I love it. The art behind it is just overwhelmingly great.
No matter how many times I listen to this it gives me chills. I always imagine I'm drinking coffee in a log cabin that I built on a crisp October morning.
I love when artists inspire each other. Woody Guthrie wrote the lyrics "Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key", Billy Bragg was asked to write music to go with them, and now Isakov has written some of the most hauntingly beautiful lyrics to the same melody line. If you're a budding musician, DON'T GET STUCK ON BEING ORIGINAL! Everybody starts by covering somebody else. It'll grow and adapt if it's meant to.
I remember being under the stars in Joshua tree with this guy I loved and listening to this song. He was the only the other person I knew who knew who Isakov was but at the time I didn't know it. So when he put music on for us to fall asleep to in our tent and this song came on, I felt like I was listening to it for the first time and I knew in that moment that he was someone I could spend the rest of my life with. I could never forget that feeling of how connected I felt with him that night. And it's funny when this video was published...that date is a very significant number to me. The universe always knows what its doing.
I feel like this guy has an old soul. Love this music!!!!!!!! My son Ryan (an awesome musician himself and just 20 years old) showed me this song yesterday. So glad to see the younger generation have an appreciation for this genre of music. It's like poetry put to music. Might I also suggest Noah Gundersen.....
I remember playing and teaching my ex how to play this song. We spent a couple nights at it until she finally got the main chord progression. This song always brings me to one of the happiest places I've ever been.
This song came on the night that my daughter was born. We had some time when it was just in the room, when I held her skin to skin on my chest, and in the silence of our dim lit room, I rocked her in the rocking chair to this beautiful song. Everytime I listen to this song since, I can still feel her soft sensitive skin against mine and I remember the smell of her hair.
This song reminds me of being younger with my best friend who moved away. I remember listening to songs like this, and playing in the woods all day more than we played inside. And sledding in the winter (one time he got his foot stuck in a fence while sledding 😂).
Life is so good! It's full of so much pain and love and beauty and unspeakable violence. It's like watching a 30' wall of fire destroy every single living thing in a cedar stand while camping on the bank of the Animas under a full moon; as bats murder water-striders on the surface of the river and you sip whisky from the bottle with a cute girl you met at a youth hostel. Yeah, life is just like that.
if I were you, i wouldn't be so loose lipped about those murderous bats. they murder and start fires, sure, but what comes next... what I'm trying to say is that diapers aren't just for infants. they're sick, those bats. god dann.
I just heard this song for the first time from some movie trailer and I can't believe I've lived this long without ever coming across this beautiful song. What else have I been missing out on I wonder.
Gregory is the only artist whose every song I love. Every single song Gregory sings, I love it. He has a rare musical talent that you just don't find very often anymore. The guy sounds amazing on his album, and live. This guy is talented. His music literally makes you feel what he's singing about. It's perfect.
This song makes me think of cold frosting mountains in the morning. Coffee brewing in the pot, rolls baking in the oven, and listening to birds and coyotes outside. It doesn’t matter how bad of a day I’ve had this song brings peace.
I just became a GAI fan at age 70; so glad I lived long enough! Can you imagine if he and the late Townes Van Zandt could have collaborated on a song? Oh my......
To me, this song sounds like late fall in the great plains. When harvest is finished and the dew turns to frost. The smell of freshly turned soil and a brilliant dusty sunset. Drinking a whiskey on the porch with my grandpa after a long day of work, looking over the willows and the still mirror pond. Sore but humbly satisfied. His low voice discussing yields and markets, that is my happy place.
+camilo andres lugo lozano Hola, Camilo. ¿Cómo descubriste esta música? Quiero encontrar música hispana de tal calidad pero solo encuentro pop hispano. ¿Qué recomiendas?
First time I encountered Gregory Alan Isakov I was so hypnotized by the music I paid no attention to the lyrics. After a few listens I started remembering my misguided youth when I struggled to delude myself I was hetro. Learning later I was gay and only able to fall in lust & love with another man . Years after this I learnt G A I is G A Y. Approaching a senile 78 I’m still able to get butterflies in the stomach over this exrtordinary musician.
This song still gets me every time. Oh of my favorites. Who’s listening in 2020?
I am. I recently discovered Gregory Alan Isakov and I love every one of his songs. I've never been able to say that about any musician. This one is my favorite though.
Gregory's music is so soothing to my wounded burning soul
I am sounds great dont it?
It's because it's literally the perfect song.
Listening right now, while writing!
I feel that I, at the age of 60, may just be one of Isakov's oldest new fans. What a talent this young man is. He speaks to something inside that's so rudimentary to who we are that it resonates in the soul. How refreshing in these tumultuous times.
Well said sir.
+Marc Iwata !!
+Marc Iwata xoxo
+Edd Campbell Sweet man.
+Edd Campbell, well said, sir. I am 40 and heard this song for the first time just a few weeks ago. Your comment is spot on.
Someone asked Isakov what this song was about. He replied, "Everything".
Yeah, everything it is
I don’t feel as lonely with a song like this, especially with some of these comments. I feel a little more connected to the universe today.
Cheers mate. This has always been a de-stressing song for me. It's nice to see it seems to attract good hoomans.
We are here man 🥰
I heard this song in the movie "Peanut butter Falcon" (2019) and now I am so much in love with all the songs of Gregory Alan Isakov
Is this the one when they're dancing by the fire? Just saw this movie. It was awesome
@@bmack7762 You got it mate 👍🏻
Me too
Same here 😋
Me too...)))
This song takes me to a rainy dreary Portland, Oregon morning. Blowing out all the candles in my tent I used to keep warm. This song and few others gave me the perspective to work towards a day where I was clean, free of a ball and chain to a damned needle. I'm at 17 or 18 months cool from such junk. Its strange to have so much hatred and love for the same minutes where I felt so lost. No real grasp of who I was or any real tangible relationships, on top of being years estranged from my family and childhood friends, In many ways I have always felt like a guest or visitor (just passing through) on this planet. I'll never understand why at particular times in my life I feel so fucking unworthy of a quality existence. Thanks to Mr. Isakov and other artist for there selflessness in sharing who they are with complete strangers, like you and I. It seems truly with out boundaries the volume of impact a song or piece of art can make on anyone of us lonely people. If anyone is actually still reading this shite.......may you find days filled with a balanced spirit, a full belly and a full mind. A prayer without any action is merely a wish.
This comment was a prayer for me. I love you and I am damn proud. Blessings my friend.
5 years later, and I'm not even slightly sick of this song. It's calming to the point where I would say it's therapeutic.
It speaks to the soul unlike most...
The upmost therapeutic. It's amazing.
definitely therapeutic. Even though I heard it for the first time during one of the most stressful times in my life (graduate school) and it still calms me when I hear it.
Well put, totally agree.
Same! V soothing
This song reminds me of frosty mornings in a cabin in Montana where my mom is brewing coffee and humming to herself. It reminds me of South Dakota sunsets as we speed along the highway, my grandparents smiling as I try to count as many antelope as I can. It makes me think of my brother, getting lost in the mountains somewhere. There's just such a beautiful nostalgia about this song. I always find myself coming back here.
Catherine Miner thank you for your comment...I really loved it
Catherine Miner reminds me of the cool morning Wyoming mornings and the big horn mountain peaks. nothing beats that beautiful area of the world.
I feel the same. Thank you for putting it into words:') Beautiful.
ah the imagery
Nice description
This 5 minutes and 57 seconds just made my life worth living. Words cannot describe the beauty of this song.
These are the kinds of comments Gregory needs to read.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but I'm an old man and I believed really good music was dead, gone to a better time back long ago...but now I've found artist like this young man and other groups like Mandolin Orange, who are producing some outstanding new music that's got that same heart and spirit of the older songs. It has renewed my faith in this generation of music artist and I can't get enough!
“I ached in my heart like some Tin Man” gets me every time... ❤️
"I threw stones at the stars but the whole sky fell,"
Mayah W best line!
I been crazy couldn't you tell
That hit me hard🙂
I have this lyric tattooed on me 💜
Indeed. That’s an incredible line 😌
What a hauntingly beautiful painful simple elegant song. This is why God the Father created the hearing sense. This is true beauty.
This song came on my ipod while I was reading "All the Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy. It was a spiritual experience.
This is how I escape, from life and all the elements. Anyone else feel that way?
yeah, up in my treehouse.....
100%
Yep! And everything else just fades away :)
Spot on.
Love it. 👍
jackstest it really does help me relax
I'm from Africa ... this song reminisces me of my early days when I was a kid going upcountry in buses traveling and seeing the verge forests and animals going on with their lives oblivious of anything surrounding them... it was so peaceful and a sight to behold ... now the trees and animals are gone to pave way for industries and houses ...you can say this is my nostalgia song :)
Well said!
The world and all of its wonder and splendor🤙
Wow, what a memory and what a heartbreaking anecdote to describe what is happening to our world. Thank you for sharing! I too love this song.
This comment really hit close to home. In several different dimensions.
This artist is from South Africa..so you are close to home my friend!
Thanks for sharing Petrichor. it has a sweet nostalgic meaning for me as well
I love how this song begins as an invocation - asking if we remember when songs were prayers and hymns - and it feels so much like one to me.
Makes me think of Homer asking the Muse to "sing in me" and make him a great storyteller...it worked!
remember when our songs where just like prayers.
like gospel hymns that you called in the air.
come down come down sweet reverence,
unto my simple house and ring…
and ring.
ring like silver, ring like gold
ring out those ghosts on the ohio
ring like clear day wedding bells
were we the belly of the beast or the sword that fell…we’ll never tell.
come to me clear and cold on some sea
watch the world spinning waves..like some machine
now i’ve been crazy couldn’t you tell
i threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell
now i’m covered up in straw, belly up on the table
well and sang and drank, and passed in the stable.
that tall grass grows high and brown,
well i dragged you straight in the muddy ground
and you sent me back to where i roam
well i cursed and i cried, but now i know…now i know
and i ran back to that hollow again
the moon was just a sliver back then
and i ached for my heart like some tin man
when it came oh it beat and it boiled and it rang..its ringing
ring like crazy, ring like hell
turn me back into that wild haired gale
ring like silver, ring like gold
turn these diamonds straight back into coal
This is how I get my soul back... mmmm. Brings me back to a cold morning sunrise in a high Colorado mountain valley. Solitude, mountain goats, and this song stuck in my head before starting a big alpine climb. Love it.
This is crazy but I had an almost identical feeling. (...I'm from Colorado and grew up and had my early adulthood backpacking all across Colorado wilderness, often in complete solitude.)
great comment, it helped put me there!
This song always reminds me of Colorado too!
Skye Lingenfelter Same but for Idaho. Something can be said for this music and those mountains.
For me, this music sounds like the West. Definitely Colorado, and New Mexico too. It's clear we are on to something here.
I'm 63 years young what a talent this young man has. awesome voice and lyrics
I'm also ;))
why does it matter how old you are
I am 58, and it gives me great assurance that new music is created that the next generation can enjoy.
Mark Kreidler my mom is about to turn 60 in June and this is one of her favorite songs. You should check out Hozier, she saw him on TV and ended up liking every song he's made
Sadly, artists like him are heavily underappreciated in my generation.
This man brings you into a whole new world.
Possibly the most underrated song of all time
I'm not sure what this young man experienced that led him to these lyrics, but there are several events, or combination of events, in my past that I am reminded of when I listen to this song. Some of the memories in combination with this beautiful song bring sadness, elation, & a few tears when I listen to it. I can never listen to it just once. I am 63 as well. I don't know if age has anything to do with it, maybe. Maybe at our age we have experienced things that the song just fits.............
Carmon Colvin perfect!!!!
I was called an old hippie on here for loving this song. It touches my soul. At 66, I guess I can still be an old hippie - whatever that means.
Your statement is incredibly prudent within my life
@@Travelight10 Rock on Linda, I love this song....
@@comtns111mts5 still rockin!!
This song...so beautiful😪
Every once in a while a song is so good...that you wonder where it's been all your life.
A dear friend took his life years back. He never listened to Gregory but this song always reminds me of the time we lost Gus. I know he’s at peace.
I get shivers every time I hear that line, "Ring out those ghosts on the Ohio". Brilliant line, brilliant song. Masterpiece!
My husband and I had a house along the Ohio River. We are no longer there (or together 😢) but that line always makes me remember a time sitting on the porch swing in the summer air, so happy together and the wind from the river blowing through our breezeway. I miss that time so much. My heart still aches.
Who are the soulless 563 people that disliked this song? I hope you find peace in life.
This song reminds me of driving across America. Cold Desert mornings shrouded in fog at reststops outside of El Paso, Texas
that must've been amazing
it reminds me of the years I was stationed at Ft Riley KS, summers spent swimming at the lake, driving past miles of farm land on dirt roads to get to pilsburry crossing which was our favorite swimming spot on the river.
When American was only mildly crazy... ah my youth.
never experienced it .. but listening to the song and reading your words I have almost been there.
I live in Chicago and want to take Route 66 all the way to California, then drive the Pacific Coast Highway north and then go back east...driving through Wyoming and Montana...with this music. After that...I want to conquer the south lol :)
Gregory Alan Isokav is above any mere classification. He is an old soul, keep singing my friend
I love how I just stumble by chance onto the greatest undiscovered singers in the world!
I feel the same rn
Yes, and there are so many great artists. So many of the songs I enjoy are close to 10 years old. But we really are in a great time in music, technology has made it so we easily can find music in the same vibe of a song. All this music we would be unaware of when I was young, if a song didn’t make the top 40 we didn’t know about it.
Songs like this keep me in this loop of knowing I shouldn’t leave quite yet cause I’m not alone
I’m in the belly of the beast these days too
Misery loves company brother.
Never alone, and find comfort in the hope of beautiful days ahead. IMUA
Don’t leave
Ring like silver, Ring like gold. Turn these diamonds straight back into coal.
I play this sing for my little parakeets and they love it! It calms them and they close their little eyes as they listen to it. It's my favorite of Isakov's songs. I love this man so much.
I went to see Gregory Alan Isakov in concert with someone I was in love with. A few weeks later he decided he wasn't. Now I have this on repeat until I can forget him..
Im very sorry to hear that. It will work though
ah, you should listen to 'To a Poet' by First Aid Kit. That song is the perfect medication for a broken heart. (make sure you read the lyrics as well) :)
+Marie
I really hope you're ok now xx
+Freckled Jesus died for Jean's sins what-the- f%#& kinda name is that?
Sorry, don't forget life goes on and it's ok!
Forever and always, Gregory Alan Isakov. Hypnotic, deeply, slowly permeating into my heart. ♦Turn those diamonds straight back into coal ... hmm
this song is what I would say to my dad. 4 1/2 years after I lost him.
That's so sweet. I'm sorry about your dad:-(
this song brings me back to the summer of 03 when i was stationed in ft riley kansas (that tall grass grows high and brown) we later that fall went to Iraq for a year and úpon our return i had an appreciation for life especially life on the great plains that i had not previously experienved.
I'm glad you came home. 💕
The song of the century.
This song never fails to hit me in the feels every single time. There is something haunting and bueatiful in it. It reminds me of the midwest farms that are my roots and are my people. For me it tells a story of wondering from and longing for the place that made you who and what you are. This guy is an amazing talent!
Passenger led me to his songs and I can never thank him enough.
WHAT A PURE MAGICIAN OF STRING AND SONG......LEONARD COHEN IS NODDING YOU ARE AN INSPIRATION; RAW AND TRUE....YOU HAVE MY HEART AND EARS.
I first heard this song on Pandora, while taking a walk. It is one of those that immediately grabs you by the heartstrings and won't let go. What an exciting young talent!
I've lived on a farm my whole life. The other day, I was in our old horse barn. My eyes trailed across the old bits and harnesses hanging on the wall. Above each, my dad, many years ago, had penciled in the names of each horse of whom it belonged- many of whom have since passed. This song reminds me of that. Old America, farming, a wood-heated home.
@Adra Tawusi Melech My Granddaughter is autistic too. She is thirteen, even though she doesn't want (refuses) to get older. Her artwork reflects her surroundings, space interests (Wall-E & Eve drawing), Geoffrey portrait with herself (Toys 'R' Us), a Picasso like self portrait. Teen music, art, skating & the violin are her interests. Timely homework submission and high honor grades are her forte. Art & music seem to keep her content.
This is the song I chose to incorporate into a story I wrote about two people falling in love, before one learns she has health problems and passes. They sing this to each other when they meet, and again at the funeral. It's tragically beautifully, a gorgeous song.
I feel like I've been there. Thanks
Never liked country music or folk music...But this artist, and this song in particular, are incredible. I think THIS is the best example of real, American music. Heh, and he's not even a born American. Love it.
I'm sure someone has already mentioned that this happened in the comments, but Patti Smith covered this song in Chicago in April this year. It was one of the most beautiful moments of the show.
This song. It's just so beautiful and lulling and sad. So many emotions. So well written. So much imagery. I love it. The art behind it is just overwhelmingly great.
HAPPY TOM
THIS SONG... makes me cry so hard...
+Wade Nowlin Grow some testes!
+Doug Perkins it's a beautiful song and only true men aren't afraid to cry every now and then
Wade Nowlin me too!
LOL
No matter how many times I listen to this it gives me chills. I always imagine I'm drinking coffee in a log cabin that I built on a crisp October morning.
Just heard this on a small local station in grand haven Michigan. Really like it
Dirty Beef Curtains I cannot take your comment seriously with that name 😂
Nick Snow hahaha gosh damn right
I live five min from there
Listening to this on the way to Muskegon . Great song for a long drive!
Ayyo fellow Michigander 👋🏻. I’m from GR. Heard this for the first time in “Peanut Butter Falcon”
I love when artists inspire each other. Woody Guthrie wrote the lyrics "Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key", Billy Bragg was asked to write music to go with them, and now Isakov has written some of the most hauntingly beautiful lyrics to the same melody line. If you're a budding musician, DON'T GET STUCK ON BEING ORIGINAL! Everybody starts by covering somebody else. It'll grow and adapt if it's meant to.
I remember being under the stars in Joshua tree with this guy I loved and listening to this song. He was the only the other person I knew who knew who Isakov was but at the time I didn't know it. So when he put music on for us to fall asleep to in our tent and this song came on, I felt like I was listening to it for the first time and I knew in that moment that he was someone I could spend the rest of my life with. I could never forget that feeling of how connected I felt with him that night. And it's funny when this video was published...that date is a very significant number to me. The universe always knows what its doing.
I feel like this guy has an old soul. Love this music!!!!!!!! My son Ryan (an awesome musician himself and just 20 years old) showed me this song yesterday. So glad to see the younger generation have an appreciation for this genre of music. It's like poetry put to music. Might I also suggest Noah Gundersen.....
I remember playing and teaching my ex how to play this song. We spent a couple nights at it until she finally got the main chord progression. This song always brings me to one of the happiest places I've ever been.
Old soul tunes traveling through the guitar strings & vocals to other old souls like you and me.
This song came on the night that my daughter was born. We had some time when it was just in the room, when I held her skin to skin on my chest, and in the silence of our dim lit room, I rocked her in the rocking chair to this beautiful song. Everytime I listen to this song since, I can still feel her soft sensitive skin against mine and I remember the smell of her hair.
Ring like silver, ring like gold
Turn these diamonds straight back into coal
Gregory's music is my getaway from life
My first time hearing this. Amazing!
This song reminds me of being younger with my best friend who moved away. I remember listening to songs like this, and playing in the woods all day more than we played inside. And sledding in the winter (one time he got his foot stuck in a fence while sledding 😂).
This may very well be the best song ever written
It reminds me, when i was accompanied my father in the hospital.
One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. I want to make a movie, just to add this to it. So soulful and calming ❤
So much goodness going on here. This guy is the real deal. Very soulful.
So glad I've ran across this song.
Amazing.
How did I not hear this before today? Love it so much.
This song is Colorado to me. Soft, soothing, sad, beautiful...
+Linda Charmaine Gregory lives in Boulder. See a show sometime :)
+Jack Reynolds I have family in Colorado, so I will definitely try to arrange for a chance to see him perform!!!!!
Shut up hippie!
+bm ak Why so rude? This song obviously reminds her of something in her life. Why not let her enjoy that?
+Alec Backy Thank you!
It's beautiful.
God, it's so beautiful.
Life is so good! It's full of so much pain and love and beauty and unspeakable violence. It's like watching a 30' wall of fire destroy every single living thing in a cedar stand while camping on the bank of the Animas under a full moon; as bats murder water-striders on the surface of the river and you sip whisky from the bottle with a cute girl you met at a youth hostel.
Yeah, life is just like that.
lmao
if I were you, i wouldn't be so loose lipped about those murderous bats. they murder and start fires, sure, but what comes next...
what I'm trying to say is that diapers aren't just for infants. they're sick, those bats. god dann.
Long ago (30+ years) I lived and camped by the Animas, and I agree.
Music is timeless no need to ask if I'm listening to this in 2020
I just heard this song for the first time from some movie trailer and I can't believe I've lived this long without ever coming across this beautiful song. What else have I been missing out on I wonder.
i only discovered him a couple of years ago... check out all his albums hes one of the most underappreciated musicians out there.
One of the most profound songs I've ever heard.
i love this. just discovered this amazing artist today. thank you for this music and these lyrics.
Gregory is the only artist whose every song I love. Every single song Gregory sings, I love it. He has a rare musical talent that you just don't find very often anymore. The guy sounds amazing on his album, and live. This guy is talented. His music literally makes you feel what he's singing about. It's perfect.
That mandolin is SWEET !!!!!!!
"And I ached for my heart like some tin man."
This song makes me think of cold frosting mountains in the morning. Coffee brewing in the pot, rolls baking in the oven, and listening to birds and coyotes outside. It doesn’t matter how bad of a day I’ve had this song brings peace.
It's the banjo that really gets me! Real down home folk singing.
This song is what I live my life for
This song makes me weep so much...
i think he has his own unique style. its comforting
It reminds me of cool summer camp nights as I sat by the water watching the sun go down by myself. Such a simple but powerful moment.
Reminds me of nights in a little cabin with my family just off the shore of Lake Michigan.
Thanks Pandora!
+DoggyB22 I found this song on Pandora too.
+DoggyB22 i aswell found this on pandora. on alabama shakes
Ben Nichols pandora for me
+bm ak Oscar Isaac and Marcus Mumford for me.
+DoggyB22 My sister gave me the This Empty Northern Hemisphere album
I just became a GAI fan at age 70; so glad I lived long enough! Can you imagine if he and the late Townes Van Zandt could have collaborated on a song? Oh my......
These lyrics take me to a time and place I've been in dreams. This song should be a background for a movie. Wonderful words and powerful music.
It was... Peanut butter Falcon
I was led to this song from We Are The People station on Pandora...
I listen to this mans songs and think the world is all good again
To me, this song sounds like late fall in the great plains. When harvest is finished and the dew turns to frost. The smell of freshly turned soil and a brilliant dusty sunset. Drinking a whiskey on the porch with my grandpa after a long day of work, looking over the willows and the still mirror pond. Sore but humbly satisfied. His low voice discussing yields and markets, that is my happy place.
i´m from colombia, and i love indie, i´m wanna live in USA or in Canada only for this music.
+camilo andres lugo lozano Hola, Camilo. ¿Cómo descubriste esta música? Quiero encontrar música hispana de tal calidad pero solo encuentro pop hispano. ¿Qué recomiendas?
Él es el portugués, pero Nacao Zumbi tiene mucho talento. No sé de muchos cantantes hispanos fresco.
Gracias, Matthew Herr!
I'm from Colombia too! I now live in AZ.
hey my name is martha it was my bday yesterday
"Remember when our songs were just like prayers? Like gospel hymns that we called in the air.."
Such a beautiful song. So glad it found its way to me, so calming and peaceful sounding.
Everybody needs to cool it with the banjo. Except you, Steve Martin, you're cool.
I love this track. Lockdown 2020 still it works. 🖤❤ ALL NOSTALGIC
I had totally forgot about this song. Hello memories.
Reminds me of a road trip up to the Pacific Northwest, a trip my father would have enjoyed had he not passed on before.
His voice is like a warm blanket. Aaaaah.
When i go driving through old places in Nth Carolina (Bethania, Old Salem) with my better half, this is what fits best
Whenever I'm having a bad day, I just come to listen to this song in order to cheer up:-)
First time I encountered Gregory Alan Isakov I was so hypnotized by the music I paid no attention to the lyrics. After a few listens I started remembering my misguided youth when I struggled to delude myself I was hetro. Learning later I was gay and only able to fall in lust & love with another man . Years after this I learnt G A I is G A Y. Approaching a senile 78 I’m still able to get butterflies in the stomach over this exrtordinary musician.
Thanks bike wanderer for this recommendation!