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. 🙏🏻✝️🤍
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.
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.
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!
"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.
Alabama. Red dirt, forests, rivers, lakes and streams, wonderful summers and chilly winters, and music such as hers. My Alabama. My forever lost childhood. Forever mine. And hers.
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.
I've been listening to her since 1971 when she was an unknown folk music singer in DC and Bethesda, Md bars. I knew she would hit it big some day because her voice...even back then before she met Gram Parsons was like gold. It was Gram who taught her how to use her voice as she explained in an interview. He taught her Country Rock and they perfected in the duets she sang with him. I have the only two albums they cut together. Had he lived longer they would have made much more beautiful songs together. I just adore her all these years. Love ya Emmy.
"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.
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 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.
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!
I have loved her since I was a young girl. When I started listening to her she only sang backup vocals! I used to say she needs to be out front with her own band. She's definitely my favorite singer, hands down!
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.
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.
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 is a wonderful person. I got to know her when she performed at a coffee house in the Arlandria neighborhood of Alexandria, VA in the 70's. In those days the performers circulated in the audience between sets. My wife and I got to know her a bit. She was totally "undiscovered" at that point but obviously a talent. She used to greet me by name ... probably has forgotten by now.
i wrote her this poem. Hope you get it Emmylou. Her Voice is heard around the world, the cosmos & celestial planets dance & play in a merry go round her beautiful singing of songs. Reflecting upon a time I’m sure in her arms her family’s love & friends embraced with a request O please sings us a song. In a wishing well I put in a dream mixed with prayers & tears of hope’s her angelic voice she would sing a joyful song to my special child at the time he was turning one. Her Angelic voice reflecting beauty of radiant tones she is Heavens own. May Love and Happiness long life of Health combined with the spinning of time her beautiful voice she shares, her Graceful voice is like sun shine stretching out on mountains around the world reflecting sparking diamonds on warm aqua seas & oceans of blue, her footsteps trails a path gracefully at the entrance way inside Heavens Sanctuary where she takes her rest a special place that welcomes her Lovely name. Every flower as they start to bloom joyful colors sings her songs, her joyful laughter as soft as velvet roses equal her unforgettable name, her presents as comforting as white gardenias, and her voice is more sweeter than ice cream. GOD’ garden called paradise, the Garden of Eden, as for myself a time frame generation behind it remains her Lovely sweet voice Emmylou We Love You.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
Sad and most beautiful tune from this Treasure of an American woman.
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. 🙏🏻✝️🤍
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.
super fantastic boss lady = gentle as a lamb and strong as forged iron = Queen of country .
Just the best female country voice ever. Never tire of listening of her unique interpretation of lyrics
WHAT A WOMAN!!!!!! VOICE! MUSIC! COLOURS! SO VIBRANT SOULFUL AND AMAZING
Emmylou is one of the Most Beautiful Songbirds and writers there has ever been / I have adore her for many years .
So sad and soooo beautiful...That LADY is going to live for a long time... Just love her ..... T from Norway
Always makes me cry, I love her, she’s an amazing artist, she can tell a story like none other.
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.
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!
"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
Love EmmyLou! This performance is just sublime.
Alabama. Red dirt, forests, rivers, lakes and streams, wonderful summers and chilly winters, and music such as hers. My Alabama. My forever lost childhood. Forever mine. And hers.
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.
I'd love to see her and Mark do more collaborations, they are natural together.
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!!!!!
Thank you. Exquisite and lyrical. and with a beauty that is beyond all time and fashion.
Wonderful choice of words, Thomas. 💜
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.
Emmy Lou has aged like a vintage and very fine wine. Still sounding great, and looking like a major babe.
That voice! It has been sending chills through my body for 30 years. She's a musical treasure.
50 years for me.
I've been listening to her since 1971 when she was an unknown folk music singer in DC and Bethesda, Md bars. I knew she would hit it big some day because her voice...even back then before she met Gram Parsons was like gold. It was Gram who taught her how to use her voice as she explained in an interview. He taught her Country Rock and they perfected in the duets she sang with him. I have the only two albums they cut together. Had he lived longer they would have made much more beautiful songs together. I just adore her all these years. Love ya Emmy.
It is sad that Gram passed so young
From the 2000 year old Arena di Verona. Terrific concert at a great venue. Verona was the setting of Romeo and Juliet.
"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.
Emmylou's live videos are as good if not better than her studio recordings. No lip sync, no auto tune just perfection.
I just thank God every day for Emily and her beautiful voice
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!
The 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.
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.
As an old Alabama Southern dog, 40 years hence, she still waters my eyes!! I grew up in that red dirt! Iron ore rich!!
I've seen Emmylou live three times ... she has a wonderful presence that can be felt ... a joy
I was there! No words to explain the fantastic concert!
This has to be the most realistic,sad,but yet hauntingly beautiful songs ever written!
The Queen of Country! Beautiful voice,soulful.
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.
When Mark Knopfler is sitting back with the band playing rhythm guitar for your song.
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…
Thank-you, what a song-writer and a voice of an angel...
How can anyone give a thumbs down to anything that she does. Everything she does is so emotional. Great story. Lots of nostalgia
I have loved her since I was a young girl. When I started listening to her she only sang backup vocals! I used to say she needs to be out front with her own band. She's definitely my favorite singer, hands down!
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.
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.
"...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
Been listening to this wonderful lady for last 30 + years ... 😉
One of the purest voices on our Planet ...💙💜💛
😊
Emmylou is a wonderful person. I got to know her when she performed at a coffee house in the Arlandria neighborhood of Alexandria, VA in the 70's. In those days the performers circulated in the audience between sets. My wife and I got to know her a bit. She was totally "undiscovered" at that point but obviously a talent. She used to greet me by name ... probably has forgotten by now.
Oh my, I just long for some live concerts during this Covid time. Life is sterile.
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.
Such a beautiful song love Emmylou ❤❤
Thank you Gram Parsons (RIP) who supposedly taught Emmy Lou how to sing country folk music!
No one sings as gracefully and beautifully as you, Emmylou. i listen every day
This woman has one of the most beautiful voices i have ever ever heard. it's so full of everything.
i wrote her this poem. Hope you get it Emmylou.
Her Voice is heard around the world, the cosmos & celestial planets dance & play in a merry go round her beautiful singing of songs. Reflecting upon a time I’m sure in her arms her family’s love & friends embraced with a request O please sings us a song. In a wishing well I put in a dream mixed with prayers & tears of hope’s her angelic voice she would sing a joyful song to my special child at the time he was turning one. Her Angelic voice reflecting beauty of radiant tones she is Heavens own. May Love and Happiness long life of Health combined with the spinning of time her beautiful voice she shares, her Graceful voice is like sun shine stretching out on mountains around the world reflecting sparking diamonds on warm aqua seas & oceans of blue, her footsteps trails a path gracefully at the entrance way inside Heavens Sanctuary where she takes her rest a special place that welcomes her Lovely name. Every flower as they start to bloom joyful colors sings her songs, her joyful laughter as soft as velvet
roses equal her unforgettable name, her presents as comforting as white gardenias, and her voice is more sweeter than ice cream. GOD’ garden called paradise, the Garden of Eden, as for myself a time frame generation behind it remains her Lovely sweet voice Emmylou We Love You.
@thekeyboard warrior Thank you for reading it & Thank You for your kind words.
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.
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!
Most be one of the most beautiful and saddest song ever 😍😍
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.
I LOVE this woman. She is just the best Country Singer - ever.
Liz Ross
Emmylou was my first girl crush. I still love her!
I am a red dirt girl so is my sister love this song
Melody Dent P
Proof that an angel does walk among us. A voice for the ages.
FUCIN LIBERAL, IN DISGUISE.
"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.
Kate Winthrop I also listen to Emmilou everyday! I love her! Talented, gracious, kind and beautiful! That’s Emmilou!
That band sounds like velvet, even in a sports arena. Just incredible. And Emmylou cuts like a knife through butter.
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.
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.
Beatiful music i love your songs ftom South Africa 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
That voice cuts like knife, gave me goosebumps live, not to mention the wonderful sound of the J 200.
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 really love Emmylou Harris' music! Some of the best!
Emmy laid a lotta pipe...and was a wonderful singer songwriter..and beautiful...
One amazing song it makes me cry
Extremely sad song. Yet she can pull you in and you listen to the whole story.
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...
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.
TOO, TOO DIFFICULT to understand there are down votes for this song and the magical performance of Ms. Harris.
No way that anybody could downvote ELH, but this is a pretty crap recording.
respect top 10 female country singers
Love everything that she does and I think she can do no wrong.
+Ann Peterson I believe the same.
Ann Peterson av d
This Lady is the Queen of country
Just another way for the heart to break. You keep on falling cause there aint no bottom. What a song! Beautiful!
love
Well said!! VERY well said!!
she is so beautiful
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 ;)
Beautiful voice, beautiful woman
One of the better ...and sad song of Emmylou... from France .
Sie ist eine Top Sängerin ich liebe ihre Musik aber auch Mark der sie begleitet,danke weiter so!
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!
Such a terribly sad song but Emmylou still manages to make it sound beautiful
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
Incredible writing and performing.
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
Emmylou, the legend. Beautiful lady, everything about her, is pure lady.
her voice is the best
could listen for 1K yrs
So deep this song.
An Icon of Americana Emmylou Harris
Love this song and Emmylou. Beautiful.
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.
Brava! She is just such a beautiful, beautiful woman.
Absolutely! Is this your favorite song?
And the great Mark Knopfler making it even better!
Touching story in the sweet voice of this woman