Very powerful song! My father was born on a wind swept Kansas farm in 1930. Dust bowl, the depression and eight other kids to feed. And the rain came down,Thank GOD!
My hero, I gave up the devils buttermilk many years ago. Alcohol is the worst drug on this planet. I lost the first 40 years of my life but it won’t get the next 40,
Glad to hear you won your battle against alcohol, but opioids are really the worst of all drugs. I know. I struggle with it everyday. I'm a broken man.
Beautifully done song representing the little man that built an America we enjoy today My Ancestors down to my parents were farming folk A very real song to me The crushing blows that were endured when crops failed and we were left with nothing but scars and broken bones and only hope that next year'll be better
Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us like the rain, as the spring rains that water the earth.” -- Hosea 6:3
Truly one of those songs and videos where it's impossible to imagine the thought process that someone went through to click the thumbs down button. What the hell? Amazing piece of work from a classic story teller and song writer.
The pictures are that era, but the song is inspired by Earle's ancestor who homesteaded in Texas in the 1800s. Then it goes through to later generations of the family, though his family did not actually lose the land. It is about the disappearance of small family farms today more than migrant workers. Of course some of those migrant families did lose family homesteads.
Saw Steve last night, naturally didn't sing this one, but I would've given all other 23 songs to have just heard this one. My all time favorite! Great lyrics. Americana at it's best!
My folks left Dirtpoor KY on the Hillbilly Highway. For 34 years Pops was an engineer and hauled rattlers from Detroit to Toledo and around Detroit. Amazingly black lung got him even though he escaped the coal mines. Diesel soot from the locomotives. Mom got a $3000. dollar check from the class action suit.
Steve Earl showed me that country music is great. I grew up on Rock'n Roll Jimi Eric and all that stuff but during the 1980s I was burned out, country music was way way too strait for this old hippy However as a musician I knew that those good ole boys could really play, they didn't hide mistakes behind a bank of Marshalls with lots of fuzzzz. One Christmas my missus gave me Exit O and Steve Earl and the Dukes dragged me into Country music kickin' and screaming and God bless her for it. I saw him and the Dukes playing in Sydney and they were awesome, I even bought a T-Shirt.
My Grandad came west in 1906 and settled down hard on a govt. Grant. Just as he was starting to make it the dust bowl and depression came along. His neighbors packed up but he stayed on and planned it back in. We still have the "ole Homestead" in the family.
Good video. The first time I heard Steve Earl was back in early 86 when he put out guitar town. I was in the Air Force then. I was at Andersen AFB on the Island of Guam sandblasting bombs.
Was homesick for Ky..living in Florida ..Florida was great,but this song made me feel like my old Ky Home..beautiful writing and performance from the one and only Steve Earle!
Nice work MLW, very well put together. 'Exit 0' (the album this cut is from) was the second CD I ever purchased back in '87 when they first came out, only for the song, 'I Ain't Ever Satisfied,' which my local station was playing. I later got head deep into Springsteen and John Hiatt and rarely pulled it off the shelf, and if I did, it was usually just, 'Satisfied.' I've been revisiting some of my old CDs recently and got to, 'Exit 0.' To borrow a quote from Ebeneezer Scrooge, in, 'A Christmas Carol,' "God forgive me for the time I've wasted."
I'm a big fan of Bruce & John too! Steve Earle is also a bug favorite of Mine. I enjoy all his CD's. I'm glad you enjoyed my little video. I enjoyed making it and was hoping I did it justice.
well done on the images....over the years i have collected interesting original photographs, cdv's, ambrotypes, tintypes, albumen prints and daguerreotypes, etc....these images were well thought out and placed in a flowing sequence...again....well done.
Im 25 and im a hay farmer and when it rains it fucks a lot of shit up especially when you just cut it and it starts to rain ya it sucks because you can lose eveything you worked so hard for and it sucks
Steve is one of the most underrated musicians around. This man’s music is American history. Been listening to him since 1988
I agree from rock to country to bluegrass and everything else.
The man is brilliant and actually in a class by himself.
He’s never been underrated by millions of us
Amen brother. 👍
@@thejigantics2641 Great answer 👍
Then someone please xplain to me how he can have this type of music but not represent the country folks any better than he does.
Steve is a total legend. Never gave an inch. Never sold out.
I've been listening to Steve Earle since the early 80s, and I firmly believe he is the poet of our generation.
Very powerful song! My father was born on a wind swept Kansas farm in 1930. Dust bowl, the depression and eight other kids to feed. And the rain came down,Thank GOD!
This song brings me to tears ‘cause folks are tryin’ to steal my Tennessee land. Please help me Lord. You ain’t takin’ my land!!!!!
Bruh we love TN from all over the states
Many prayers, this world is going to get us all.God Bless
Prayers for you.
Getting tickets to see him in Kingston, Ontario for July...YAY!
Cool! I got tickets to see him in July at Halifax! YAY!
Steve Earle is the man. Listened to his songs for 30 years. Says it as it is, year after year.
As a songwriter Earle is up there with Neil Young and Springsteen as one of the finest of the last 40 years
He's better than both of those guys!
@@jervistubemaybe but not quite as good as Shane Macgowan
No
@@jervistubedo you find the song ‘goodbye’ to belong in that category of ‘ better than other prominent talents’….because I wrote it..?
One of the greatest songwriters of this generation. The man is brilliant. Been a fan from the begging. His music has changed my life for sure
For sure!❤
My hero, I gave up the devils buttermilk many years ago. Alcohol is the worst drug on this planet. I lost the first 40 years of my life but it won’t get the next 40,
Glad to hear you won your battle against alcohol, but opioids are really the worst of all drugs. I know. I struggle with it everyday. I'm a broken man.
I agree completely I want to stop but I can't
As a 5th generation farmer in Illinois this song hits home big time I’m sure any farmer can relate love Steve Earle lyrics great songwriter
Steve Earle is the best storyteller song writer ever.His songs break my heart and inspire me at the same time.Heres to you. Steve!!!
This song and "Rain on the Scarecrow" bring me to tears every time. God bless the farmers!
He’s up there with Dylan, Springsteen, Petty, Seger, Isbell. One I have missed, but I hope to see Steve before I’m gone.
Steve earl will always be a legend in his time doesn’t get the credit he deserves
Steve Earle still rocks after it all good and bad come on let's give it up for the man
Amen brother that's the truth. He's going to be ine of the legend mentioned throughout history. Just amazing musician
Beautifully done song representing the little man that built an America we enjoy today My Ancestors down to my parents were farming folk A very real song to me The crushing blows that were endured when crops failed and we were left with nothing but scars and broken bones and only hope that next year'll be better
Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us like the rain, as the spring rains that water the earth.” -- Hosea 6:3
Truly one of those songs and videos where it's impossible to imagine the thought process that someone went through to click the thumbs down button. What the hell? Amazing piece of work from a classic story teller and song writer.
They must be some kind of genetic fuck up.
The thumbs down are just a product of bad taste and inbreeding
Pathetic result self centered disrespectful generation
71 souless wall street bankers.
@@dylandream2248 A Monsanto hybrid.
Powerful line about the banker can have my machine...but you can't have my land.
being raised on a farm this song hits home. Great song
Great video. My grandpa had his Sheriff's sale on Feb 14, 1938. Tough times.
Green Summers Band has been doing this since the beginning very special song..
This is about the Dust bowl and grapes of wrath .. read the book or find the movie...I am so impressed.
The pictures are that era, but the song is inspired by Earle's ancestor who homesteaded in Texas in the 1800s. Then it goes through to later generations of the family, though his family did not actually lose the land. It is about the disappearance of small family farms today more than migrant workers. Of course some of those migrant families did lose family homesteads.
Saw Steve last night, naturally didn't sing this one, but I would've given all other 23 songs to have just heard this one. My all time favorite! Great lyrics. Americana at it's best!
I'll be going to see Steve on Sept 8th in Ft Lauderdale.
I had never even heard of this guy until I listened to this song just now, a song that I love both for the lyrics and the beat. Really great!
Hope you went down the rabbit hole, there's a lot of ground to explore. 🤙
2019....More Farms lost in America than any year in history. Timely little ditty. Thanks Steve.
guess its just time
My grandfathers (and grandmothers) are always beside me, as they were meant to be...these things have always been so.
the most important people there are, and hard work should always be rewarded and respected
Love you so much thanks to you and helping me grow roots in my own family
One greatest song and video. My mom parents were farmers.
Mine also. Really cool song. Beautiful.
Yes, farming and education for me. Building strong foundations.
can't get tunes like this anymore 😟😕😕😕😕😕 classic!!!!
My folks left Dirtpoor KY on the Hillbilly Highway. For 34 years Pops was an engineer and hauled rattlers from Detroit to Toledo and around Detroit. Amazingly black lung got him even though he escaped the coal mines. Diesel soot from the locomotives. Mom got a $3000. dollar check from the class action suit.
Like an angel comin’ down from above.
You ain’t takin’ my land
Save our farmland ✌️ Take your land and grow.
miss these days in his musical career
God damn, this song makes me fucking cry every time I listen to it.
A song made for FARM AID. Awsome song. Steve Earle and Chris Knight should do a song together at Farm Aid.
one of the best songs ever written.. thanks SE !
Steve Earl showed me that country music is great. I grew up on Rock'n Roll Jimi Eric and all that stuff but during the 1980s I was burned out, country music was way way too strait for this old hippy However as a musician I knew that those good ole boys could really play, they didn't hide mistakes behind a bank of Marshalls with lots of fuzzzz. One Christmas my missus gave me Exit O and Steve Earl and the Dukes dragged me into Country music kickin' and screaming and God bless her for it.
I saw him and the Dukes playing in Sydney and they were awesome, I even bought a T-Shirt.
Love him! I listen to this song every time it rains. Jumped up on stage with him,way back when...❤🌏🔥🎵
I don’t agree at all with his political views, but Steve Earle is a wonderful and talented musician and American poet!
Yes, let's thank all those farmers out there!!! Were would we be without them!!!
Love this song, the lyrics. It's so real, this probably was a story about somebody's life.
Shit no rain no food ....!
My Grandad came west in 1906 and settled down hard on a govt. Grant. Just as he was starting to make it the dust bowl and depression came along. His neighbors packed up but he stayed on and planned it back in. We still have the "ole Homestead" in the family.
@Steve Earle Thank you Sir
4@Steve Earle Nice to make your acquaintance
A poets poet... what stories he tells...
That's for sure. He can drive the message home!
TIMELESS SONGWRITING AND ARRANGING
It takes time to make history and you are historic
Steve Earle is a giant in American music. Americas Van Morrison and Guitar Town is Country Musics "Astral Weeks"
Da rain came down....ur da best always ray ...
Seeing the great man in London on the 29th can't wait
One of my favorite songs I have ever heard in My 60 years.
this one always gets me
He was sooo perfect ❤
I grew up with his music...so sorry Islam got him. He is infected right now 💔🇺🇸
The best song writer of all.
Come back. Bill Marshall and Great Uncle Cole are still out searching for Alvin the murderer. Its been too long. Come help me.
Brilliant images set to one of my favorite songs - period.
Glad You Enjoyed it
Great song. And to honor American history.
Good video. The first time I heard Steve Earl was back in early 86 when he put out guitar town. I was in the Air Force then. I was at Andersen AFB on the Island of Guam sandblasting bombs.
maineville prepper I was at Andersen in 86, 43 oms. holler at me joe harris on fb or jsh64joe@aol.com
Over 30 some years and still putting good tunes out
Heard JJ Cale on Andersen AFB during Bullet Shot 72-73 got me through time on the Rock.
Another Steve Earle classic
Thanks for the upload Moonlit, I like both the tune and photo's !
Thanks for the lyrics . that's time I appreciate it .hats off to you brother.💪
grew up listening to Steve earle and also my kiddos love his songs too. thanks for posting
The Grapes of Wrath !
Top 50 songs EVER written.
Best comes when you live it.
Early Classic Earle!
him and Nanci are the best
Hurts. My poor heart. ❤ but I'll watch it.
Awesome been a fan since early 80s driving on the continent kept me going legend as I said awesome!!!
Steve Earle keeping John Steinbeck alive.
The wire brings me to Steve Earle 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Better late than never !! Check out Townes van Zandt an Blaze Foley. They are great also
song fives me chills
The true American icon
✌🏽
Right from the heart and soul of country life
Great work on the video!
I think I have played this a thousand times. Exit 0 the best album. Copperhead road 2nd
Was homesick for Ky..living in Florida ..Florida was great,but this song made me feel like my old Ky Home..beautiful writing and performance from the one and only Steve Earle!
The Hard Way 3rd?
Nice work MLW, very well put together. 'Exit 0' (the album this cut is from) was the second CD I ever purchased back in '87 when they first came out, only for the song, 'I Ain't Ever Satisfied,' which my local station was playing. I later got head deep into Springsteen and John Hiatt and rarely pulled it off the shelf, and if I did, it was usually just, 'Satisfied.' I've been revisiting some of my old CDs recently and got to, 'Exit 0.' To borrow a quote from Ebeneezer Scrooge, in, 'A Christmas Carol,' "God forgive me for the time I've wasted."
I'm a big fan of Bruce & John too! Steve Earle is also a bug favorite of Mine. I enjoy all his CD's. I'm glad you enjoyed my little video. I enjoyed making it and was hoping I did it justice.
Living is just wasting time, And God knows I have wasted most of mine. TVZ
well done on the images....over the years i have collected interesting original photographs, cdv's, ambrotypes, tintypes, albumen prints and daguerreotypes, etc....these images were well thought out and placed in a flowing sequence...again....well done.
Cheryl Ewart Thank You
"I'll wash you away, then there ain't never enough."
Great song,always movesme - images fit fine - thank you.
One of my favorites
I get it!!! 64 Sam Hut fans listen to this and it didn't register. This is what country music is. Bless your heart, yall tryin!
Good one
PUT MY NAME IN THE HAT LORD---LET IT RAIN. TELL 'EM STEVE EARLE SENT ME!
One of the greats
EXIT 0! THINK ABOUT IT! GREAT GREAT LP!
Good tune
So I'm out in Texas when you're and he is the best dude period
If country music considers you too rock and rock music considers you too country where do you get radio play?
I'm from Iowa. I get it.
This is my theme song. They ain’t steal in’ my Tennessee land
The faithful shall stay . AMEN
So don’t you come ‘round here tryin’ to steal my land
🎶🎵❤️🎸🔥💯..love all your songs
Steve Earle is the best there is
Luv all his songs
Bren John
Me too
What an farmers song about things coming right in fought country been though this year
Lovely song
Salt of the Earth
Im 25 and im a hay farmer and when it rains it fucks a lot of shit up especially when you just cut it and it starts to rain ya it sucks because you can lose eveything you worked so hard for and it sucks