BILLY GRAY - Nora Brown

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  • čas přidán 22. 04. 2022
  • Doing a version of Norman Blakes - Billy Gray while visiting in Nashville - April 19,2022
    Doing a show tonight April 23 at Songbyrd Music Hall in DC if anyone is in town. Will be joined by Stephanie Coleman on fiddle! 8:30pm
    songbyrddc.com/event/nora-brown/
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Komentáře • 55

  • @theartofMaggie
    @theartofMaggie Před 2 lety +20

    I know you love the banjo, but it is so nice to hear you on a guitar too!

  • @jdgee1600
    @jdgee1600 Před 2 měsíci

    An incredible performance. Thank you.

  • @JakeWilder0
    @JakeWilder0 Před 2 lety +7

    I love that old Epiphone. You play and sing with the sounds of a time long passed where memories are the only legal tender....

  • @jcrow62
    @jcrow62 Před 2 lety +6

    I love what you do. Thank you for sharing your light with the world.

  • @rongplanet
    @rongplanet Před 5 měsíci +1

    Wonderful combination of a pretty tune, nice picking and a lovely voice.

  • @djdollase
    @djdollase Před 2 lety +8

    Longtime fan of “old timey” and this is fantastic. First heard this song on an old album years ago. Thanks for keeping the flame burning for all us fans of this music!

  • @davmets86
    @davmets86 Před 2 lety +8

    It absolutely blows my mind that Nora, a teenager from Brooklyn, sings and plays like a grown woman from Depression era Eastern Kentucky.
    She is following in the footsteps of other.musical prodigies such as Sierra Hull, Molly Tuttle and Billy Strings.
    Nora, you are making Brooklyn proud!

    • @deluxeexpress786
      @deluxeexpress786 Před 5 měsíci

      Brooklyn, that's where she was groomed by Shlomo at age 6 🤢.
      I like her music, she's cool, but knowing Shlomo has been involved makes me think twice.
      What a damn shame. 😢

  • @papanovembermusic
    @papanovembermusic Před 2 lety +3

    The fire crackling is just a great backing, like pops in old vinyl.

  • @zkafel
    @zkafel Před rokem +3

    Beautiful. Playing by the hearth. Love your voice so much, you've been my favorite artist for awhile now. Enjoy watching your progression, and can't wait for more! Keep playing from your heart.

  • @johnmorrissey1675
    @johnmorrissey1675 Před 8 měsíci

    Great song, lovely singing, covered on this side of the pond by Christy Moore 🇮🇪☘️👏

  • @jarobary
    @jarobary Před rokem

    surest way to bring an old man to tears

  • @sibelius4230
    @sibelius4230 Před 9 měsíci

    Got this version just pinned in the browser to replay. Have had it in my head for a week! Its perfect

  • @magua-zf4md
    @magua-zf4md Před 2 lety +2

    At a moment I closed my eyes and thought the guitars must have been two! Such a neat separation between melody and rithm...and the voice just wispering as a windy afternoon. Nora looked even more intense than usual here... thank you so much from a moved listener from overseas.

  • @muttandjeff5213
    @muttandjeff5213 Před 2 lety +1

    Beautiful! Great job Nora! Thanks for sharing this with us.

  • @matthewsapio4863
    @matthewsapio4863 Před 2 lety +1

    This is just incredible

  • @johnfranks5030
    @johnfranks5030 Před 2 lety +1

    You’re an amazing inspiration to all of us musicians out there! Keep up the great work

  • @MrArjanvT
    @MrArjanvT Před 2 lety

    Brough me straight home, and I’m not even from the country. Beautiful, thanks Nora!

  • @neiltrotter5933
    @neiltrotter5933 Před 2 lety +2

    Love the picking. Loving the voice even more, despite being a little low on this audio (appreciate it's not a studio recording), it's been showing hints of some real special things to come :-)

  • @barrylitchfield8357
    @barrylitchfield8357 Před 7 měsíci

    Great job! You're a really good picker. Thanks for sharing 😊

  • @user-wv4xc1us6u
    @user-wv4xc1us6u Před 2 lety

    Thanks for this.

  • @IexoPeoa
    @IexoPeoa Před měsícem

    Lyrics:
    Billy Gray rode into Gantry back in '83
    Where he did meet young Sarah McCray
    In that wild rose of morning, that pale flower dawning
    Herald of springtime in their young life that day
    Well Sarah, she could not see the daylight of reality
    In her young eyes, Billy bore not a flaw
    Oh, knowing not her chosen one was a hired gun
    Wanted in Kansas City by the law
    Oh, and then one day a tall man came ridin' 'cross the badlands
    Lyin' to the north of New Mexico
    He was overheard to say he was lookin' for Bill Gray
    A ruthless man and a dangerous outlaw
    Well, the deadly news came creepin' to Billy Gray, fast sleepin'
    There in the Clarendon Bar and Hotel
    He fled toward the old church, and there on the outskirts
    Thinkin' he'd climb to that old steeple bell
    Oh, but a rifle ball came flyin', face down he lay dyin'
    There in the dust of the road where he fell
    And Sarah, she ran to him just cursin' the lawman
    Acceptin' no reason knowing he was killed
    Sarah lives in that same old white frame house
    Where she first met Billy some forty years ago
    And that wild rose of morning, she's faded with the dawning
    Of each day of sorrow the long years have sown
    And written on a stone where the dusty winds have long blown
    Eighteen words to a passing world say:
    "True love knows no seasons, no rhymes, nor reasons
    Justice is cold as the Granger County clay"
    Oh, true love knows no seasons, no rhymes, nor reasons
    Justice is cold as the Granger County clay

  • @orgorocampiobicultutdruchi5790

    Lovely 🔥❤️

  • @georgemanno1976
    @georgemanno1976 Před 2 lety

    WOW!

  • @joshuatell
    @joshuatell Před 2 lety

    thank you

  • @gaylordfrazer8708
    @gaylordfrazer8708 Před 2 lety

    Love this little lady.

  • @StoneUFO
    @StoneUFO Před 9 měsíci

    beautiful

  • @markk3877
    @markk3877 Před 2 lety

    Lovely job!

  • @cloudwatcheruno
    @cloudwatcheruno Před 2 lety

    🖤🖤🖤

  • @MrJbaker7
    @MrJbaker7 Před 2 lety

    Very nice Nora...Jack Baker NYC/NJ

  • @nicdelmundo5687
    @nicdelmundo5687 Před 5 měsíci

    love the vocals

  • @burlingtonbill4687
    @burlingtonbill4687 Před 2 lety

    Love this! That guitar is special and you play it well. Keep up the splendid work.

  • @aldarimana1743
    @aldarimana1743 Před 2 lety

    Lovely. Subscribed. Like it!!!

  • @orchidlove-kz2ky
    @orchidlove-kz2ky Před 2 lety

    Hello, friend. Nice to meet you. I'm watching your video. I like the music. I support you.

  • @oldtimetinfoilhatwearer
    @oldtimetinfoilhatwearer Před 9 měsíci

    Nice

  • @paulyoung5327
    @paulyoung5327 Před rokem

    Great Rendition.

  • @nadasonic6
    @nadasonic6 Před 2 lety

    👍👍👍

  • @JohnESmith-tw9br
    @JohnESmith-tw9br Před rokem

    Uh, the wowness factor is right up there with Gillian. 🎶

  • @diocletianrecords1089
    @diocletianrecords1089 Před 2 lety

    Added to A Global Rockstar playlist.

  • @tudormiller887
    @tudormiller887 Před 2 lety

    I'm a brand new subscriber watching from London UK 🇬🇧❤️

    • @tudormiller887
      @tudormiller887 Před 2 lety

      What guitar are you playing ? Gibson ? Martin ? Taylor ? Yamaha ? Beautiful sound, gorgeous voice.

  • @victorcocco8033
    @victorcocco8033 Před 2 lety

    Bono Vox Nora Brown .

  • @user-dj7vg1rf3o
    @user-dj7vg1rf3o Před 5 měsíci

    Das wird eine ganz Grosse!

  • @stevenvanasperen163
    @stevenvanasperen163 Před rokem

    Nice.

  • @Sally-2520
    @Sally-2520 Před rokem

    Black & White video most apropos (50 shades of GRAY).

  • @cannonsmith157
    @cannonsmith157 Před 2 lety

    yey ye ye yey eyeye yeye yeyeye yey eyeyeye yeyey e

  • @iskandertime747
    @iskandertime747 Před 2 lety

    Funny looking banjo, but great song! (That's a joke)

  • @bn16fan
    @bn16fan Před 2 lety

    FIRST

  • @fennarios
    @fennarios Před 2 lety +2

    Can you imagine this girl after she've been made love and f up by life in a few years? I really hope I'll live enough to see the force of nature she will become

  • @alankuntz6494
    @alankuntz6494 Před 10 měsíci

    She gives me a feeling of hope for humanity. Not all young kids are making noise and tatooing them selves all over.God shes so much talent and has so much heart.I'm hoping she has a enough strength to not succumb to such cheap social nonsense.

  • @X976V3T
    @X976V3T Před rokem

    Beautiful guitar - think you were reincarnated to be a girl in Brooklyn from where you were in your former life - deep in those Appalachian hills? Just wonderin'

    • @X976V3T
      @X976V3T Před rokem

      be nice to see a smile once in awhile ;-)

  • @donbond8727
    @donbond8727 Před rokem

    Such a pretty voice .an a really pretty girl. Cause an old man to fall in love Again.