For those not from the area, Meridian is a town in Eastern -Tennessee- Mississippi close to the border with Alabama. She is "a little South-East of Meridian", thus the references to "across the line", and why the "stars still fall in Alabama", also that's a reference to a historic meteor shower in 1833.
@@Elcap3044 I have a memory of an interview where she described diving through Alabama and the idea for the song came to her. Can't find it now. There is a bunch of Meridian placenames in Southern Tennessee, but I think I just wrote the wrong State name. My fault, I am just an ignorant NZer. Edited.
Willie once said: “There’s only 2 types of men in the world …. Those that love Emmylou and those that never met her.” I love this woman. Always have. Always will. 🌹🤍
I was blessed to meet her a few years ago as I was honored to cater her backstage before a concert. So humble and sweet. We discussed the MLB play off as she’s a big baseball fan and other events of the day. I was born in Alabama in 1957 so we had things in common. A precious soul.
Thank you for your special words and insight regarding ELH. This song was played at my cat Bandit’s funeral April 14, 2017. Utterly breaks my heart. I would give anything to meet her. Probably couldn’t say a word. Blessings. 🙏🏻✝️🤍
Emmylou Harris! Beautiful lady with a beautiful voice! My grandmother loved her music! RIP grandma! Mark Knopfler one of the true masters of the guitar!
Buster 928, "What a ... sad song ..." Sometimes I wonder if I had to pick the saddest song ever, which would it be? Lots of contenders. like: Marty Robbins' "El Paso", Johnny Cash's "Don't Take Your Guns To Town", Mick Hanly's "Past the Point of Rescue" sung by Hal Ketchum, Bruce Robison's "Travelin' Soldier", also performed by The Dixie Chicks, Pam Tillis' "Tequila Mockingbird", ... But whenever I listen to this song by Emmylou, I believe this just has to be it.
Emmy is simply exquisite in this version. Just her voice Carries this song. Mark steps back and let’s her voice do the rest. Emmy voice is so emotive that she gives this song life of its own. Just surreal.
Best version I've found of this beautiful song. I'm living in Austria these days and this gives me a sweet and sad little taste of home. Thanks, Emmylou.
There are so many red dirt girls in the world... this is powerful music, speaking across languages and cultures... Thank you Emmylou, you are beautiful.
I’m not a female but I do come from a red dirt town in north west region of Western Australia. And I 💯 agree with you about how this song reaches out to all the red dirt girls across the world with diverse languages and cultures. Every time I hear ELH sing this song, I think about all my female relatives living in my red dirt hometown.
"But one thing they don't tell you about the blues When you got em You keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom There ain't no end. At least not for Lillian" - This line just kind of slips up on you and then hits mighty hard... Bless you, Emmy. You are a treasure.
I have never ever experienced a concert like this must have been like. I can feel every word physicly in my boddy. This is something special performed by a very special group of people. Thank you for the wonderful music.
"One thing they don't tell ya 'bout the blues when you got 'em, you keep on fallin' 'cause there ain't no bottom, there ain't no end." -- One of the best descriptions of depression imaginable.
Saw Emmy-lou in Renfro valley so long ago. only wood bench seat for a few many brought blankets for the ground. Show started with WIlie Nelson the led act, Emmy-lou came on the crowd wasnt settled but not for long, Emmy began too sing! people sat stone still listened to the magic that came after. Wllie came out asked for Emmy-lou to join him on stage. A magical night!! for sure.. not ever seen anything like it. Those were the days.. I was 32 and lov-in life!
I have absolutely loved Emmylou’s interpretations of other people’s songs since I first heard her in the seventies. The album Red Dirt Girl showed her ability as a writer. I think that this is the best song on the album but there are many others that are almost as good.
I think of Emmylou Harris’ talents first as a powerfully evocative interpreter of other songwriters’ work, as soloist as well as (perhaps the best) harmonist. Well, I think of Emmylou Harris singing a lot: one of the joys of living in SF is having here come here, annually, a gift to us as the closer of every Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, free to everyone. But since “Wrecking Ball” wowed me a good decade ago, I’ve been appreciating her as a songwriter in her own right. “Red Dirt Girl” is one of her masterpieces, I think. It’s extra-devastating to think she may have grown up in Alabama with a Lillian. I knew good people from my childhood whose lives crumpled because of hard luck and hard times: I think we all know a “Lillian.” Emmylou’s natural grace and empathy comes through so clear here...she’s a “Red Dirt Girl” who flourishes and soars, and she’s got heart enough to look back and remember and put things in perspective. How lucky we are to have her in our music, still singing and inspiring.
Nobody knows when she started her skid She was only 27 and she had five kids Could've been the whiskey, could've been the pills Could've been the dream she was trying to kill But there won't be a mention in the news of the world About the life and the death of a red dirt girl Named Lillian Who never got any farther Across the line than Meridian
Emmylou was my first girl singer crush...years and years back in the 70's. I still love her. Come the 80's' I became enamoured with Maria Muldaur and her awesome blues. Today I'm all about Brandi Carlile. I'm excited about what music tomorrow brings.
So many beautiful comments I can see here, I feel all of this, too. In the wild days, her voice came across the sky from everywhere. Just the sound, the resonance, guiding the soul into the heart of courageous truth. You cannot but love her...
I think it was in the Ken Burns Country Music series where someone said "at some point it all comes back to Emmylou Harris........"---that's quite insightful. She's pretty amazing---along with Mark and this band its just almost too much to imagine!
Never be tired of listening to amazing and beautiful Emmlou Harris. And along with Mark Knopfler, music can not be better. To see them together in Norway, happiness will be accomplished.
2020, December...EMMYLOU HARRIS AND MARK KNOPFLER AMAZING MUSIC. EMMYLOU CREATE THE SONG RED DIRT...SONG ABOUT A WOMAN THAT HAD FIVE KIDS....SHE WAS ABLE TO CROSS THE LINE WITHOUT A SON IN THE REDDER DOWN.
Folks it don't get any better than this, regardless of what music you like or how old you are. I play it over & over and always shed tears. Maybe too close to home.
I have seen Emmylou in concert twice- once at Waterloo Village in New Jersey, and once at the World Financial Center in Manhattan. Great, priceless times.
Thank you for this video ,I Thank you God for everything and this video ,Thank you for sending Jesus who taught people ,who taught us to teach others how to be a human being truly in Christ Love and God, May we all be bless ,Amen.
We are all so blessed to live on this planet with Emmy Lou and her gifts. I lock music like this away in my memory bank of sweetness. I was there. I am here.
Used to pass her in the dorm at UNC-G, Moore Hall - she dressed funky like most drama majors. We spoke but she was shy back then. I was made housekeeping chairman - inspected her room only to find her sitting on the bed playing her guitar - cleaning her room not important! I did not ground her.
Donations to the channel USDT Tether TRC20:
TXMtDQqh9Z3EtULt5fsg5xE1DctCntvGm7
Thank you!
Sad and most beautiful tune from this Treasure of an American woman.
WHAT A WOMAN!!!!!! VOICE! MUSIC! COLOURS! SO VIBRANT SOULFUL AND AMAZING
super fantastic boss lady = gentle as a lamb and strong as forged iron = Queen of country .
So sad and soooo beautiful...That LADY is going to live for a long time... Just love her ..... T from Norway
For those not from the area, Meridian is a town in Eastern -Tennessee- Mississippi close to the border with Alabama. She is "a little South-East of Meridian", thus the references to "across the line", and why the "stars still fall in Alabama", also that's a reference to a historic meteor shower in 1833.
Meridian Is in Mississippi just across the Alabama line
@@Elcap3044 I have a memory of an interview where she described diving through Alabama and the idea for the song came to her. Can't find it now. There is a bunch of Meridian placenames in Southern Tennessee, but I think I just wrote the wrong State name. My fault, I am just an ignorant NZer. Edited.
Willie once said: “There’s only 2 types of men in the world …. Those that love Emmylou and those that never met her.” I love this woman. Always have. Always will. 🌹🤍
I was blessed to meet her a few years ago as I was honored to cater her backstage before a concert. So humble and sweet. We discussed the MLB play off as she’s a big baseball fan and other events of the day.
I was born in Alabama in 1957 so we had things in common. A precious soul.
@@bobbycox9541Thanks for your words and special insight. I would give anything to meet her. Don’t think I could say a word. Blessings. 🙏🏻✝️🤍
Thank you for your special words and insight regarding ELH. This song was played at my cat Bandit’s funeral April 14, 2017. Utterly breaks my heart. I would give anything to meet her. Probably couldn’t say a word. Blessings. 🙏🏻✝️🤍
Emmylou is one of the Most Beautiful Songbirds and writers there has ever been / I have adore her for many years .
Just the best female country voice ever. Never tire of listening of her unique interpretation of lyrics
Love EmmyLou! This performance is just sublime.
Thank you. Exquisite and lyrical. and with a beauty that is beyond all time and fashion.
Wonderful choice of words, Thomas. 💜
Always makes me cry, I love her, she’s an amazing artist, she can tell a story like none other.
I just thank God every day for Emily and her beautiful voice
Emmylou Harris! Beautiful lady with a beautiful voice! My grandmother loved her music! RIP grandma! Mark Knopfler one of the true masters of the guitar!
From the 2000 year old Arena di Verona. Terrific concert at a great venue. Verona was the setting of Romeo and Juliet.
What a beautiful, sweet sad song...sung with the voice of an angel... Always brings a tear to my eyes...
Buster 928,
"What a ... sad song ..."
Sometimes I wonder if I had to pick the saddest song ever, which would it be? Lots of contenders. like:
Marty Robbins' "El Paso",
Johnny Cash's "Don't Take Your Guns To Town",
Mick Hanly's "Past the Point of Rescue" sung by Hal Ketchum,
Bruce Robison's "Travelin' Soldier", also performed by The Dixie Chicks,
Pam Tillis' "Tequila Mockingbird", ...
But whenever I listen to this song by Emmylou, I believe this just has to be it.
The Queen of Country! Beautiful voice,soulful.
Emmylou can sing me a phone book, and it will still tear my heart out....
Without doubt!!
John Hartford said the same.
So true
Ever since her first album, she has brought me through many places.
I'd love to see her and Mark do more collaborations, they are natural together.
Emmy is simply exquisite in this version. Just her voice Carries this song. Mark steps back and let’s her voice do the rest. Emmy voice is so emotive that she gives this song life of its own. Just surreal.
Thank-you, what a song-writer and a voice of an angel...
Her voice pierces my soul! Touches a place in me that i can't explain.
I imagine that's what angels in heaven sound like.
...so sad , but still a comfort for us. What a beautiful voice...
Terri Brooks, you have a sister fan in Emmilou!
does that to my wife, too. makes her cringe.
I feel Emmylou Harris one of the best Country singers ever and still going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guille Alonso Ann Siri og presley og anns
Totalty agree !!
The only ones that I know that like country music is you and Izzy.😘
@@jeanneosterndorf6954 Not correct
I am not sure I would classify her as country, as anything, she just is!
I was there! No words to explain the fantastic concert!
I've seen Emmylou live three times ... she has a wonderful presence that can be felt ... a joy
Best version I've found of this beautiful song. I'm living in Austria these days and this gives me a sweet and sad little taste of home. Thanks, Emmylou.
I'm 52 now. She has been giving me the goosebumps on my arm's since I first discovered her at 15. I love her!!!!!
As an old Alabama Southern dog, 40 years hence, she still waters my eyes!! I grew up in that red dirt! Iron ore rich!!
Emmy Lou has aged like a vintage and very fine wine. Still sounding great, and looking like a major babe.
There are so many red dirt girls in the world... this is powerful music, speaking across languages and cultures... Thank you Emmylou, you are beautiful.
Coucou.
I’m not a female but I do come from a red dirt town in north west region of Western Australia. And I 💯 agree with you about how this song reaches out to all the red dirt girls across the world with diverse languages and cultures. Every time I hear ELH sing this song, I think about all my female relatives living in my red dirt hometown.
Lol no, fuck off.
"But one thing they don't tell you about the blues
When you got em
You keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom
There ain't no end.
At least not for Lillian" -
This line just kind of slips up on you and then hits mighty hard...
Bless you, Emmy. You are a treasure.
Kate Winthrop I also listen to Emmilou everyday! I love her! Talented, gracious, kind and beautiful! That’s Emmilou!
Proof that an angel does walk among us. A voice for the ages.
FUCIN LIBERAL, IN DISGUISE.
Sie ist eine Top Sängerin ich liebe ihre Musik aber auch Mark der sie begleitet,danke weiter so!
The voice of an angel!
I have never ever experienced a concert like this must have been like. I can feel every word physicly in my boddy. This is something special performed by a very special group of people. Thank you for the wonderful music.
"One thing they don't tell ya 'bout the blues when you got 'em, you keep on fallin' 'cause there ain't no bottom, there ain't no end." -- One of the best descriptions of depression imaginable.
You're still here....as am I. Keep on keeping on, Brother. -Veteran '66-68
Saw Emmy-lou in Renfro valley so long ago. only wood bench seat for a few many brought blankets for the ground. Show started with WIlie Nelson the led act, Emmy-lou came on the crowd wasnt settled but not for long, Emmy began too sing! people sat stone still listened to the magic that came after. Wllie came out asked for Emmy-lou to join him on stage. A magical night!! for sure.. not ever seen anything like it. Those were the days.. I was 32 and lov-in life!
That voice cuts like knife, gave me goosebumps live, not to mention the wonderful sound of the J 200.
That voice! It has been sending chills through my body for 30 years. She's a musical treasure.
50 years for me.
One amazing song it makes me cry
loved her when I was young
love her now I'm old
when will I ever stop loving her?
dasgellendehorn Never. True love never ends.
This woman has one of the most beautiful voices i have ever ever heard. it's so full of everything.
It is a song which sneaks into your soul and never leaves. It is truly beautiful.
Emmylou was my first girl crush. I still love her!
"Tonight she finally laid that hammer down....without a sound.....in the red dirt ground." I weep. Every time.
Vagn aage nielsen.
We all do.
BAL
I don't even make it that far. When she gets the telegram about her brother.... that's when I lose it.
This is one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. Just broke me down the first time I heard it and I got to that line.
Such a beautiful song love Emmylou ❤❤
Touching story in the sweet voice of this woman
Incredible writing and performing.
That band sounds like velvet, even in a sports arena. Just incredible. And Emmylou cuts like a knife through butter.
I feel that I've been searching for something tonight and not finding it, until I came upon this video, this song. Just beautuful.
I have absolutely loved Emmylou’s interpretations of other people’s songs since I first heard her in the seventies. The album Red Dirt Girl showed her ability as a writer. I think that this is the best song on the album but there are many others that are almost as good.
Emmylou's live videos are as good if not better than her studio recordings. No lip sync, no auto tune just perfection.
I think of Emmylou Harris’ talents first as a powerfully evocative interpreter of other songwriters’ work, as soloist as well as (perhaps the best) harmonist. Well, I think of Emmylou Harris singing a lot: one of the joys of living in SF is having here come here, annually, a gift to us as the closer of every Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, free to everyone. But since “Wrecking Ball” wowed me a good decade ago, I’ve been appreciating her as a songwriter in her own right. “Red Dirt Girl” is one of her masterpieces, I think. It’s extra-devastating to think she may have grown up in Alabama with a Lillian. I knew good people from my childhood whose lives crumpled because of hard luck and hard times: I think we all know a “Lillian.” Emmylou’s natural grace and empathy comes through so clear here...she’s a “Red Dirt Girl” who flourishes and soars, and she’s got heart enough to look back and remember and put things in perspective. How lucky we are to have her in our music, still singing and inspiring.
This has to be the most realistic,sad,but yet hauntingly beautiful songs ever written!
she is so beautiful
"...One thing they don't tell you about the blues
When you got 'em you keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom
And there ain't no end..."
Nobody knows when she started her skid
She was only 27 and she had five kids
Could've been the whiskey, could've been the pills
Could've been the dream she was trying to kill
But there won't be a mention in the news of the world
About the life and the death of a red dirt girl
Named Lillian
Who never got any farther
Across the line than Meridian
Emmylou was my first girl singer crush...years and years back in the 70's. I still love her. Come the 80's' I became enamoured with Maria Muldaur and her awesome blues. Today I'm all about Brandi Carlile. I'm excited about what music tomorrow brings.
No one sings as gracefully and beautifully as you, Emmylou. i listen every day
Mit Emmylou Harris singen zu dürfen,ist Wow Mark..👍👍👍👍👍👍
What a sweet and lovely voice,what a great and a beautiful woman.
Love Emmylou:)
So many beautiful comments I can see here, I feel all of this, too. In the wild days, her voice came across the sky from everywhere. Just the sound, the resonance, guiding the soul into the heart of courageous truth. You cannot but love her...
Pretty song....
So deep this song.
And the great Mark Knopfler making it even better!
Emmylou, I always have been a fan of her and I like all those sings and it's a soul of many people who love her
Both her and Mark are master story tellers. Such deep knowledge of the lives of real people.
Yes, both of them are exceptional story tellers and lyricists. They should be together ;)
Emmy laid a lotta pipe...and was a wonderful singer songwriter..and beautiful...
Oh my, I just long for some live concerts during this Covid time. Life is sterile.
Love this song and Emmylou. Beautiful.
Such a terribly sad song but Emmylou still manages to make it sound beautiful
Bedankt voor je betoverende muziek Emmylou, ik hou van je
Extremely sad song. Yet she can pull you in and you listen to the whole story.
This song always chocks me up, a lot of songs she plays are really dark and melancholic
Thank you Gram Parsons (RIP) who supposedly taught Emmy Lou how to sing country folk music!
A beautiful voice and a beautiful lady. I have enjoyed her music since Gliding Bird first came out, (I'll not say how many years ago that was!).
Hj
Superbe balade Emmylou... One of est song! From France
It was Willie who said there are two types of people in this world.... Those who are in love with Emmylou... and those who who have not met her yet.
c'est joliment dit et repris
... well I think Willie was right.
I think it was in the Ken Burns Country Music series where someone said "at some point it all comes back to Emmylou Harris........"---that's quite insightful. She's pretty amazing---along with Mark and this band its just almost too much to imagine!
Oh I'm definitely in love with Emmylou 😍
Im in love with her, so…
Emmylou, the legend. Beautiful lady, everything about her, is pure lady.
One of the better ...and sad song of Emmylou... from France .
What a voice great guitar player
Infinitely sad and beautiful
I LOVE this woman. She is just the best Country Singer - ever.
Liz Ross
Never be tired of listening to amazing and beautiful Emmlou Harris.
And along with Mark Knopfler, music can not be better.
To see them together in Norway, happiness will be accomplished.
this is my lullabyl many nights... love it ..aaaahhhhhhhhhh
She’s talented, beautiful and kind!
Beautiful voice, beautiful woman
Brava! She is just such a beautiful, beautiful woman.
Absolutely! Is this your favorite song?
An Icon of Americana Emmylou Harris
She speaks to your very soul.
2020, December...EMMYLOU HARRIS AND MARK KNOPFLER AMAZING MUSIC. EMMYLOU CREATE THE SONG RED DIRT...SONG ABOUT A WOMAN THAT HAD FIVE KIDS....SHE WAS ABLE TO CROSS THE LINE WITHOUT A SON IN THE REDDER DOWN.
Absolutely beautiful. Thanks for sharing this wonderful music.
Folks it don't get any better than this, regardless of what music you like or how old you are. I play it over & over and always shed tears. Maybe too close to home.
Love everything that she does and I think she can do no wrong.
+Ann Peterson I believe the same.
Ann Peterson av d
I can relate to her songs...she sings with great depth ...love you sweetie Emy.
I have seen Emmylou in concert twice- once at Waterloo Village in New Jersey, and once at the World Financial Center in Manhattan. Great, priceless times.
Thank you for this video ,I Thank you God for everything and this video ,Thank you for sending Jesus who taught people ,who taught us to teach others how to be a human being truly in Christ Love and God, May we all be bless ,Amen.
We are all so blessed to live on this planet with Emmy Lou and her gifts. I lock music like this away in my memory bank of sweetness. I was there. I am here.
Emmylou Harris & Mark Knopfler ...this couldn't go wrong, and it didn't...wonderful !
Used to pass her in the dorm at UNC-G, Moore Hall - she dressed funky like most drama majors. We spoke but she was shy back then. I was made housekeeping chairman - inspected her room only to find her sitting on the bed playing her guitar - cleaning her room not important! I did not ground her.
Thank you for sharing that memory. So glad that shy girl found her way onto a stage!