When I was young and innocent I never thought I would find older women attractive. Now I find women like these attractive. That's an aside, I love this music and these artists.
First off, I'm a fan of Iris DeMent. Second of all just yesterday I found it my xfife is I'll with cancer. She must get to a senior living facility close to her family, which means she has to mow from her lifetime home where she has been for 75 years. Yes, she is reluctant, but this will be the song that I hope she thinks of and the last day she moves out of town.
Reminds me of every U.S. Air Force base I grew up on that has since been demolished and plowed over never to exist again. All my hometowns are gone. I can only revisit the place as a dirt patch or what modern buildings are there now but can never revisit the time.
I completely agree. I cry every time I hear it. Each character in that show was perfect within the role they played. The bittersweet feeling of the show ending breaks my heart every time, and I feel compelled to join them again in Cicely just one more time. I'm truly crying as I listen to the song again.
whenever I hear this song it makes me weep. My mother loved this song so much. I bought it for her when it first came out. She played it over and over again. She has been gone now for 6 years. I can close my eyes and see her little self busying around her kitchen listening to this. God bless you my mommy. I love you and miss you. And I remember 'Our Town'
This song reminds me of my wife who died in 2005. I listened to this In maybe November or December 2005 after she died at 35 years old from breast cancer. RUclips was new and not a lot was on it but this was. I found it because it was used in the finale of Northern Exposure, a show she loved. Time flies. If you’re young then good on you and make the most of it, please.
Won't say sorry because as a recent widow, I know that saying that just doesn't 'help' much, but funny how songs we liked but didn't think about a whole lot change into wonderous, sad, all-encompassing messages from the people we loved who are no longer with us . . .
@@CaveatLector so...anything you dont understand... You just say, "doesnt matter"?... What kind of brain is that? Doesnt it make sense to instead ask why I asked that ?
somebody asked Merle Haggard in a mag interview a few years before he died who he thought had the most authentic country music voice he's heard and he said Iris Dement.
Listening to this in a rural part of Ireland and it resonates with the small villages in ireland,great song by two American beauties greetings from Ireland.
Greetings from Limerick Ireland also. This song resonates with me also especially when I'm thinking about the small villages here. Limerick has changed an awful lot. I can totally get the sentiment in this wonderful song. Just love it 😍☺️😊🇮🇪🍀
High praise from Ireland. Both of these singers are carrying on the tradition from the Isles. Yours and our Sinéad gave us some wonderful music. Folk singer Malvina Reynolds said "You could drop a net in any Irish pub and come up with a great quartet. Don't get me started on your writers!
I've come back so many times to hear Iris sing this song. It never grows old. It's always brand new every time I hear it and touches my soul. Thank you Iris.
I first heard Iris and "Our Town" late at night, by myself, on car radio on a return trip, after passing through a number of shuttered up little towns in Mississippi and Alabama. Had no idea who she was but that voice and song gave immediate meaning to all those closed stores and old homes no longer lived in. Found out who belonged to that incomparable voice and the feeling it evokes and have been an Iris DeMent fan since.
I feel like such a winner tonight, hearing this song for the first time in my 68 years. I gotta a lot of catching up to do - and looking forward to it.
Me too! But… I had never heard of Iris Dement! So it’s the same as the first time I ever heard of Karen Dalton. Do you know of her? ruclips.net/video/zNIHvRKzpD0/видео.htmlsi=IheTai09nFHfQWBw
Iris de ment, emmylou Harris, lovely fiddle, and everyone else involved here, and such a beautiful song.. what more could a person ask for. Just wonderful. Larry.
This is very true, But I think what you’re referring to is “folk”. Not to get too semantic.. I was telling the wife they just don’t make ‘‘em like her anymore
I saw her in the movie Songcatcher. I don't know what is about her and her voice but I have been hooked ever since. I had to find out who she was and I'm glad I did.
In a Bar Bradford, Shipley (West Yorkshire)…I lost all in the 90s, my late Mother gave me a cassette by Miss Dement…my Mother, Miss Dement got me through those bad times…remarried my wife R.I.P…reconnected with my children, basically I pulled back from the brink I did! Am I happy yes, biggest price paid was losing the only person I truly loved! Rest-in Peace EMO…I feel the years lost, yes, but our last years (11) were as good as when first married! Never find anyone better than my lovely class English Lady…I I’ve my memories, isn’t that all we have 5:01 …PS I’ve had 4 beers, which is a gargle to an Irishman! Home soon! Bless all! 🇮🇪
This song makes my cry every time I hear it, I lost my baby sister 1 year ago today and this was one of her favorite songs. In her happier days before she got sick she lived in a small town called Paldi, on Vancouver Island, Canada. Paldi was her town , everyone came to Paldi to see her, she was the queen of Paldi. Sadly they bulldozed Paldi for bigger things, which never happened and my sister had to leave her town, it always made her very sad to know she had to leave her town, sing it Lorrie
This was the closing song that said goodbye to the fictional town of Cicely, Alaska (actually Roslyn, Washington) in the beautiful 1990s TV series, Northern Exposure. Everytime I hear it, it brings tears. I even bought the DVD set so I could go back to Cicely.....
At first I'm thinking her voice is kind of shrill but it just gets better and better the more you listen. I miss her performances with John Prine. Thanks Iris and of course Emmy Lou. Songs that make you feel a melancholy.
I know this is old, but I just started listening to country music and it's a pretty diverse genre, you just gotta find what you're into. Try Townes van zandt, Guy Clark, John Prine , Lucinda Williams and Magnolia Electric Co.
Iris Dement has the most beautiful voice I have ever heard, I don't generally like country music but her voice is just so pure and angelic that it just makes me want to cry whenever I hear it
I watched True Grit tonight and looked at the credits to see who sang Leaning on the Everlasting Arms. I had NEVER heard of Iris DeMent. I feel like an ostrich with its head buried. What an amazing, God-given talent. I am glad I stayed up late listening to several songs by her. Beautiful music, beautiful lyrics, and a BEAUTIFUL voice. Thank you, Iris for sharing your beauty with the world, and I’m sorry it took me so long to discover you.
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms is a hymn that was written long before this woman was born, while she does a great job with it, it clearly is not her song.
I performed this song at my mother's wake. Everytime I hear it, I can smell the scents of Pioneer County in California, which is where my parents lived the last ten years of their life (and what became my second home). That was a long time ago now, but this song transports me back to that time like a time machine.😢
If EmmyLou Harris bringing nothing but coffee and donuts to a recording to simply make a song better she would. She cares about her craft not her ego. Incredible collaboration of talent.
That's because Iris Dement is the greatest folk/country singer of our time and one of the very best of all time. On top of that, the incomparable Emmy Lou and the incredible musicianship of the band. This is a truly awesome video.
Yes... and of course the incomparable fiddling of Aly Bain! SIX years ago I commented "I love Aly Bain" and NOT ONE PERSON in FOUR MILLION viewers gave me a like because NOT ONE person knows who Aly is or what a genius he is on the fiddle.
@@Kinkle_Z You saying he's always playing second fiddle?:) True, I never heard of him, but never heard of this lady and barely even heard of emmylou harris, thats the sad result of too much radio, not enough music searching. My bad. I do love fiddle music but honestly can't really distinguish good from bad. I'm listening to 'bonapartes retreat', pretty good stuff.
Oh Grandad, I am so sorry my generation and my kids said Good bye to our home town. Its gone now and the sun has set far fast. The time is gone to little home towns and simple farm memorys. Im the old guy here, its not the same now nor willit be ever again. Just respect every one you meet friends.
It makes this 44 year old male cry like a 4 year old with a skinned knee. My dad passed away when I was a kid, my mum doesn't have long to go. The town I grew up in, where they met, got married, bought a house and started a family is dying. I want to leave because I want to remember it the way it was, not how it is.
I already loved Iris' music by the time I watched the final episode of Northern Exposure. But now, when I hear this song, I can just see the moose walking down the empty street, and that image haunts me to my very soul.
Iris is a national treasure. From my Texas roots to my life in the fast lane in California this song pulls at my heart strings more than any song I've listened to. It was fitting that it was the last song played on the epic TV show 'Northern Exposure'.
Beautiful song, however it dawned on me why my boomer father who grew up in the central valley of California loves it so much. It is a great metaphor for how that generation on the left looks at the world. They are ready to burn it all down with their passing and offer no hope for the future generations. I refuse to look at things that way. May heaven help me, my children will succeed and thrive beyond what I had.
I had never heard of Iris Dement before until I started looking for something by Emmylou Harris. All I can say is that this is fabulous - what a fabulous song and what a voice
Emmylou is so comfortable singing backup, that's one of the things that makes her so great - not needing to be front-and-center all the time. The best put the music ahead of ego. (And yes, Douglas and Bain are doing the same.)
Reminds me of a comment about Lead Belly. When playing lead with another guitarist, he wanted you to think he was the best guitarist in the world. But, when playing support to another lead, he wanted you to think the other was the best in the world.
Ditto to others comments. I am not a fan of country music but I love this one. I cry every time. Loss is a grief that never heals. It becomes an old wound felt time and again as the world passes by.
I watched this on transatlantic sessions which was recorded in Scotland, and to my regret I had never heard of her before. She appeared on subsequent of this series, thank christ.
Every time I hear Iris Dement, she sets off the tuning fork in my soul. You just can't listen to Iris, you have to watch......the intensity in her eyes! .....A religious experience!
I have lived behind my father for almost 7 years, my daughter is 13 she grew up in our current apartment. We're moving at the end of the month and it feels like I'm leaving home for the first time. "I don't want to go" this song puts into words how i feel
I did not know of Iris before a few days ago, when John Prine passed away. I went to listen to some of his songs, and of course "In Spite of Ourselves" came right up. I listened to that one, and now I am hooked. I really like the folk sound of their music. I look forward to listening to many more of both artists.
zombiesneedluv21-Same for me! I followed John Prine down a rabbit hole and ran into Iris DeMent. The first song of hers alone really grated on my ears. I almost turned off of her completely but her videos kept popping up in my feed, so I gave her another try. Now I am mesmerized.
Christycat35 , she’s just so gorgeous and I love that almost perplexed look she gets sometimes, when she’s singing. Regarding her voice, I think the recording levels were wrong on this recording. That’s why it sounds fuzzy and staticy when she the high notes. Milo
When I hear this it reminds of the small country town near our farm in Colorado. My mother grew up near the town & went there for groceries & shopping since the 1930's as a child. She's gone now. I moved away after college. There's not much left to the downtown any more except a couple of bars, the library, 3 churches & empty buildings. The elementary school is still there, but the high school is consolidated & is in a neighboring town. The streets never used to be paved except for the highway that ran thru the middle of it. It now bypasses it. It's melancholy to me when I hear this & when I go there, which is seldom today. Great song & singer.
I discovered this song on the last episode of Northern Exposure. It made me cry as this song is about the inevitable life transitions that occur rather we want them to or not. To children leaving the nest for good, to the death of parents, the discovery/lost of love, and even evolving from the person you used to be. The sun can and will set on many phases throughout our lives; it is our responsibility and duty to embrace them all for the fleeting moment(s) they are either in our possession and/or presence. If they are humans we only are blessed with their presence; as we never really own one another. Goodnight.
I first heard this song on the final episode of Northern Exposure. Three years later, my parents sold our family home. I sat in the backyard and played this song over and over. It was the perfect farewell to the decades we spent in that house.
I left "my town" over 50 years and have not been back much. These lines from Iris Dement bring my youth back and bring a tear to my eye every time I hear it when I think back to those day, to "out town" where my parent lay by a petty hedge.
First discovered Iris on Transatlantic Sessions, singing Sweet is the Melody. Made a VHS tape to listen to again and again. When RUclips came along, I found it along with all her other music. Brilliant.
I'm here in 2025 wishing the best to everyone listening to this beautiful song. All the best and look after those around you.
I wish you all the very best, I love Irises singing, she is great.
Thank you ❤❤❤❤ kindly ❤❤
When I was young and innocent I never thought I would find older women attractive. Now I find women like these attractive.
That's an aside, I love this music and these artists.
That's probably because they are talented, accomplished,,, and beautiful
I love the way older ladies hair turns naturally grey, very attractive !
Feel like an old fool, sitting here with a dog in my lap and tears running down my face.
not a fool..... just someone with pure class!
This one always gets to me.
metoo ❤
Not alone 😊
No dog, but salty water steaming.
Absolutely beautiful.
Who's listening in 2024?
👇 Peace and love to all ❤
I am
@@rhondawilkinson3922 me too
@@rhondawilkinson3922 AWESOME ❤️
Am listening and always will
From Salem, Oregon. Gearing up to see Iris in July!❤
When you know you have to leave your home...it makes me cry.
I simly adore this video, it is on my "favourite" list of all time.
First off, I'm a fan of Iris DeMent. Second of all just yesterday I found it my xfife is I'll with cancer. She must get to a senior living facility close to her family, which means she has to mow from her lifetime home where she has been for 75 years. Yes, she is reluctant, but this will be the song that I hope she thinks of and the last day she moves out of town.
Reminds me of every U.S. Air Force base I grew up on that has since been demolished and plowed over never to exist again. All my hometowns are gone. I can only revisit the place as a dirt patch or what modern buildings are there now but can never revisit the time.
☮️
I cannot imagine a more fitting musical farewell for the last episode of Northern Exposure.
It was heartbreakingly beautiful and bittersweet
I completely agree. I cry every time I hear it. Each character in that show was perfect within the role they played. The bittersweet feeling of the show ending breaks my heart every time, and I feel compelled to join them again in Cicely just one more time. I'm truly crying as I listen to the song again.
I totally agree with you!
OMG yes!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
That’s what brought me here. I just finished series and what a perfect song to end it all.
@@antonetteallen2194 during the closing scenes while this song is playing, the shot of the dogs running down an empty street is the heaviest
whenever I hear this song it makes me weep. My mother loved this song so much. I bought it for her when it first came out. She played it over and over again. She has been gone now for 6 years. I can close my eyes and see her little self busying around her kitchen listening to this. God bless you my mommy. I love you and miss you. And I remember 'Our Town'
Always such a moving rendition
yes i am the same lost my wife 6years also i see her every minute of day am sorry my total love miss you so much john
That she was able to listen to it is the best gift you could bring. She is still grateful.
You’ll never forget. My mother has been gone 40 years!
Mine does too.. still does.
This song reminds me of my wife who died in 2005. I listened to this In maybe November or December 2005 after she died at 35 years old from breast cancer. RUclips was new and not a lot was on it but this was. I found it because it was used in the finale of Northern Exposure, a show she loved. Time flies. If you’re young then good on you and make the most of it, please.
Did she use antiperspirant from a teenager onwards?
Won't say sorry because as a recent widow, I know that saying that just doesn't 'help' much, but funny how songs we liked but didn't think about a whole lot change into wonderous, sad, all-encompassing messages from the people we loved who are no longer with us . . .
@@AMEER-114-doesn’t matter.
@@CaveatLector so...anything you dont understand...
You just say, "doesnt matter"?...
What kind of brain is that?
Doesnt it make sense to instead ask why I asked that ?
She brings me to tears
I will always choose Iris' style over mainstream country every day.
I couldn't have said it better. Such a unique, lovely voice.
Iris IS mainstream country. I don't know what all that radio/arena shit is...
I agree with ...you* It's so sweet and soulful*
Music as opposed to musak.
somebody asked Merle Haggard in a mag interview a few years before he died who he thought had the most authentic country music voice he's heard and he said Iris Dement.
This song does absolutely everything it sets out to do with stunning success.
Listening to this in a rural part of Ireland and it resonates with the small villages in ireland,great song by two American beauties greetings from Ireland.
Greetings from Limerick Ireland also. This song resonates with me also especially when I'm thinking about the small villages here. Limerick has changed an awful lot. I can totally get the sentiment in this wonderful song. Just love it 😍☺️😊🇮🇪🍀
High praise from Ireland. Both of these singers are carrying on the tradition from the Isles. Yours and our Sinéad gave us some wonderful music. Folk singer Malvina Reynolds said "You could drop a net in any Irish pub and come up with a great quartet. Don't get me started on your writers!
She is American as bourbon and apple pie.
Same as that from the beautiful north coast. Love Iris.
We're all saying goodbye to our town presently
I've come back so many times to hear Iris sing this song. It never grows old. It's always brand new every time I hear it and touches my soul. Thank you Iris.
Sounds like the Cape Cod Army Air Corps base where VF-81 trained before going to the Pacific for service on the Wasp. It is a nature area now.
I first heard Iris and "Our Town" late at night, by myself, on car radio on a return trip,
after passing through a number of shuttered up little towns in Mississippi and Alabama.
Had no idea who she was but that voice and song gave immediate meaning to all those closed stores and old homes no longer lived in. Found out who belonged to that incomparable voice and the feeling it evokes and have been an Iris DeMent fan since.
I feel like such a winner tonight, hearing this song for the first time in my 68 years. I gotta a lot of catching up to do - and looking forward to it.
Enjoy it! It's going to be a fun ride!
You have lot of catching up to do, indeed. Enjoy the ride.
There's so much great music out there that most people haven't heard of. This is a good start. Tbe rest is up to us searching around.
She is so pretty! Thank You.
I remember the first time I heard her ....ain't nobody like I R I S
Discovering a beautiful singer as Iris Dement in my 70's is a real treat. Thanks to John Prine!
I also found way here from john Prine
Me, too.
Me too! What a gift
One of those 'perfect' songs, in my humble opinion..
来自中国的留言:我今年32岁了，我19岁上大学时每次往返两座城市之间都会坐火车，我会习惯性在火车上面听这首歌，沿路的大自然风景，那时在家乡有我心爱的女孩，所以这首歌赐予我的意义是很牵挂点
That's so sweet....😊❤
It’s so delightful to see that aspects of our culture resonate with people all around the world
I was teary eyed when this song was played in the last scene of Northern Exposure. The perfect song for the ending of the show!
Me too!
But… I had never heard of
Iris Dement! So it’s the same as the first time I ever heard of
Karen Dalton.
Do you know of her?
ruclips.net/video/zNIHvRKzpD0/видео.htmlsi=IheTai09nFHfQWBw
This song is shockingly sad and reminds us of the times we've had to reluctantly leave a place we
loved to better ourselves ?
Iris de ment, emmylou Harris, lovely fiddle, and everyone else involved here, and such a beautiful song.. what more could a person ask for. Just wonderful. Larry.
I was wondering if anyone else recognized Emmy Lou
She has the “True” country voice that not many have. What a real talent, love her and this song
This is very true, But I think what you’re referring to is “folk”. Not to get too semantic.. I was telling the wife they just don’t make ‘‘em like her anymore
Her voice transcends categorization. It’s music- that’s all.
Hank Williams' granddaughter.
Appalachian.
Bluegrass
'I buried my Momma and I buried my Pa, they sleep up the street beside that pretty brick wall...' gets me every time. Beautiful.
I can't believe this has slipped under my radar for 45 years. This is the most beautiful musical performance I've ever heard.
I had the pleasure to hear her “live” in a small venue. Her voice is incredible.
I saw her in the movie Songcatcher. I don't know what is about her and her voice but I have been hooked ever since. I had to find out who she was and I'm glad I did.
Amen
Did you catch her in the movie the Song Catcher?
The wonderful Jerry Douglas on Dobro.
So proud they had to come to Scotland to make this sound! And what a beautiful girl?
Since first hearing Iris Dement when this song came out loved her singing.Still do...
There is a depth of voice; a beauty of expansion of love and pain. I am honoured, that my daughter has witnessed, all your talents. Thank you.
I grew up in a small town. I feel this very deeply...
241 persons who do not know real music. This is beautiful, thank you ladies & Iris!
Good to see dear old Aly Bain. What a difference that boy makes to a wonderful song.
Love watching a collection of great artists treat Iris Dement's song with reverence
Two beautiful woman with such beautiful voices. Extraordinary!
I just lost the home dad built in what was a small rural town. Every word in this song rings true.
18 years gone, the towns as we knew them are all but extinct now. And this song brings a tear no matter how many times I hear it.
Loved this song since I first heard it on Northern Exposure Chris in the morning on KBear
Listening to this from rural France and saying it never seems old even after "n" times.
I love the sweet voice of Iris DeMent!
As a musician I am humbled by the perfection of this song.
In a Bar Bradford, Shipley (West Yorkshire)…I lost all in the 90s, my late Mother gave me a cassette by Miss Dement…my Mother, Miss Dement got me through those bad times…remarried my wife R.I.P…reconnected with my children, basically I pulled back from the brink I did!
Am I happy yes, biggest price paid was losing the only person I truly loved! Rest-in Peace EMO…I feel the years lost, yes, but our last years (11) were as good as when first married!
Never find anyone better than my lovely class English Lady…I I’ve my memories, isn’t that all we have 5:01 …PS I’ve had 4 beers, which is a gargle to an Irishman! Home soon! Bless all! 🇮🇪
Revisiting in honor of John Prine. I can always come back to this home.
This song makes my cry every time I hear it, I lost my baby sister 1 year ago today and this was one of her favorite songs. In her happier days before she got sick she lived in a small town called Paldi, on Vancouver Island, Canada. Paldi was her town , everyone came to Paldi to see her, she was the queen of Paldi. Sadly they bulldozed Paldi for bigger things, which never happened and my sister had to leave her town, it always made her very sad to know she had to leave her town, sing it Lorrie
That is a great tribute to your sister.
Very sad
I'm so sorry about your sister. This song makes me cry too, and I'm not even sure why.
I lost my brother the same month he was born
This song really does make you tear up.
A few songs bring tear to my eyes. This is one.
Listen to " No time to cry " by Iris
This was the closing song that said goodbye to the fictional town of Cicely, Alaska (actually Roslyn, Washington) in the beautiful 1990s TV series, Northern Exposure. Everytime I hear it, it brings tears. I even bought the DVD set so I could go back to Cicely.....
Me, too.
Isn't it weird to feel homesick for a fictional place? It is, but that's how I feel. I'm just weird I guess.
@philphilips1020 no, I feel the same way. I watched all the episodes and feel like the people were actually friends. This song at the end was so sad.
such beauty and emmy lou backing
Gold
At first I'm thinking her voice is kind of shrill but it just gets better and better the more you listen. I miss her performances with John Prine. Thanks Iris and of course Emmy Lou. Songs that make you feel a melancholy.
I've never really been a big fan of country music but this is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve had privilege to hear.
It will grow on you if you give it a chance
It's the polished manufactured country that is lame. This sincere country folk style is timeless.
Trampled by Turtles did a very good cover of this song. Worth checking out
I know this is old, but I just started listening to country music and it's a pretty diverse genre, you just gotta find what you're into. Try Townes van zandt, Guy Clark, John Prine , Lucinda Williams and Magnolia Electric Co.
This isn't really country. It's a folk song.
Iris Dement has the most beautiful voice I have ever heard,
I don't generally like country music but her voice is just so pure and angelic that it just makes me want to cry whenever I hear it
This song was used in the closing sequence of the last episode of Northern Exposure. A beautiful song.
very emotionall song by iris a true legend in country folk music
This has me weeping and i don't know why.
Thank you Iris, you and John Prine are soothing me during horrible times. xx
I watched True Grit tonight and looked at the credits to see who sang Leaning on the Everlasting Arms. I had NEVER heard of Iris DeMent. I feel like an ostrich with its head buried. What an amazing, God-given talent. I am glad I stayed up late listening to several songs by her. Beautiful music, beautiful lyrics, and a BEAUTIFUL voice. Thank you, Iris for sharing your beauty with the world, and I’m sorry it took me so long to discover you.
Same here !
I've just discovered Iris too. Isn't she marvellous?
Iris DeMent lives under my skin. Her voice resonates within, like a never ending echo.
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms is a hymn that was written long before this woman was born, while she does a great job with it, it clearly is not her song.
Celtic Connections…..fiddle maestro Aly Bain, Emmy-Lou, and that gorgeous Iris deMent voice…it’s win, win .🥰
Don't forget the most virtuoso of all instrumental virtuosos, Jerry "10 Million Notes In and Never Missed One" Douglass.
Transatlantic Sessions was the name of the BBC TV series. Celtic Connections is the magnificent live music festival held in Glasgow every year.
I performed this song at my mother's wake. Everytime I hear it, I can smell the scents of Pioneer County in California, which is where my parents lived the last ten years of their life (and what became my second home). That was a long time ago now, but this song transports me back to that time like a time machine.😢
If EmmyLou Harris bringing nothing but coffee and donuts to a recording to simply make a song better she would. She cares about her craft not her ego. Incredible collaboration of talent.
So right Ron. She's a treasure. 💜
Thats all Iris
I love both their voices. Emmylou is such a pretty name.
@@BJLp79 …nope. Emmy’s singing the harmony.
Song writer to song writer respect
Bring a tear to your eye.. so real and beautifully sung❤
That's because Iris Dement is the greatest folk/country singer of our time and one of the very best of all time. On top of that, the incomparable Emmy Lou and the incredible musicianship of the band. This is a truly awesome video.
Yes... and of course the incomparable fiddling of Aly Bain! SIX years ago I commented "I love Aly Bain" and NOT ONE PERSON in FOUR MILLION viewers gave me a like because NOT ONE person knows who Aly is or what a genius he is on the fiddle.
@@Kinkle_Z You saying he's always playing second fiddle?:) True, I never heard of him, but never heard of this lady and barely even heard of emmylou harris, thats the sad result of too much radio, not enough music searching. My bad. I do love fiddle music but honestly can't really distinguish good from bad. I'm listening to 'bonapartes retreat', pretty good stuff.
Oh Grandad, I am so sorry my generation and my kids said Good bye to our home town. Its gone now and the sun has set far fast. The time is gone to little home towns and simple farm memorys. Im the old guy here, its not the same now nor willit be ever again. Just respect every one you meet friends.
This song both hurts my heart and heals it. I don't think I have ever listened to it without crying.
Same!!
Same here. Always makes me cry. Music is art. This song paints a picture that is unforgettable.
Same
love to hear her sing
It makes this 44 year old male cry like a 4 year old with a skinned knee.
My dad passed away when I was a kid, my mum doesn't have long to go. The town I grew up in, where they met, got married, bought a house and started a family is dying. I want to leave because I want to remember it the way it was, not how it is.
I already loved Iris' music by the time I watched the final episode of Northern Exposure. But now, when I hear this song, I can just see the moose walking down the empty street, and that image haunts me to my very soul.
I love this song close your eyes and drift with the music
Iris is a national treasure. From my Texas roots to my life in the fast lane in California this song pulls at my heart strings more than any song I've listened to.
It was fitting that it was the last song played on the epic TV show 'Northern Exposure'.
Iris a talent to behold. Surely the voice of an Angel. Everything she does is awesome.
Just love watching you girls sing, what a comfort, great voice Iris Dement, I would marry you just for your voice in my life!
Beautiful song, however it dawned on me why my boomer father who grew up in the central valley of California loves it so much. It is a great metaphor for how that generation on the left looks at the world. They are ready to burn it all down with their passing and offer no hope for the future generations. I refuse to look at things that way. May heaven help me, my children will succeed and thrive beyond what I had.
I had never heard of Iris Dement before until I started looking for something by Emmylou Harris. All I can say is that this is fabulous - what a fabulous song and what a voice
I can't get one minute into this song without crying. Hauntingly beutiful.
Emmylou is so comfortable singing backup, that's one of the things that makes her so great - not needing to be front-and-center all the time. The best put the music ahead of ego. (And yes, Douglas and Bain are doing the same.)
Reminds me of a comment about Lead Belly. When playing lead with another guitarist, he wanted you to think he was the best guitarist in the world. But, when playing support to another lead, he wanted you to think the other was the best in the world.
This song is the very definition of: "greater than the sum of its parts".
She kind of specializes in singing harmony, you know that?
That's how I feel about Dolly, as great as she was her backup singing was just fantastic.
Those two organized all of these great Sessions
this is pure class!
Ditto to others comments. I am not a fan of country music but I love this one. I cry every time. Loss is a grief that never heals. It becomes an old wound felt time and again as the world passes by.
It's a bittersweet memory living in the same small town your whole life
First comment I ever made on youtube...this is a life-changing song and performer!
The song is somewhat generic but.....however, Iris has her beautiful readily identifiable singing voice.
One of the most beautiful songs ever written and sung by a talented and beautiful person.
Every once in a while you discover something wonderful on youtube. Iris Dement and Emmylou Harris; thank you youtube.
+Dave K There is a lot of rubbish on RUclips but as you point out something wonderful pops up - fantastic!!
"DAS BUS" film set Kansas City Missouri final credits theme song, circa 2003? or so? Wonderful.
I watched this on transatlantic sessions which was recorded in Scotland, and to my regret I had never heard of her before. She appeared on subsequent of this series, thank christ.
Check out John prine
Thank the guy who uploaded it!
So beautiful lovely harmonies. American women country singers have an endearing touch so lovely😎
First time I heard this was at the end of Northern Exposure and it has been a favorite ever since.
5 minutes of unqualified beauty and I enjoyed every second of it. I'll be returning to this one a lot.
I keep coming back to this too. It's breathtakingly beautiful.
She has the perfect sad voice for this song
Here I am, back again. This is certainly tear worthy and rejuvenates the spirit. Won't be long Momma, I'm on my way.
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Wonderful.. Wonderful.. Wonderful.
Every time I hear Iris Dement, she sets off the tuning fork in my soul. You just can't listen to Iris, you have to watch......the intensity in her eyes! .....A religious experience!
I have lived behind my father for almost 7 years, my daughter is 13 she grew up in our current apartment. We're moving at the end of the month and it feels like I'm leaving home for the first time. "I don't want to go" this song puts into words how i feel
I did not know of Iris before a few days ago, when John Prine passed away. I went to listen to some of his songs, and of course "In Spite of Ourselves" came right up. I listened to that one, and now I am hooked. I really like the folk sound of their music. I look forward to listening to many more of both artists.
Same here
zombiesneedluv21-Same for me! I followed John Prine down a rabbit hole and ran into Iris DeMent. The first song of hers alone really grated on my ears. I almost turned off of her completely but her videos kept popping up in my feed, so I gave her another try. Now I am mesmerized.
making Paragould AR proud...
Christycat35 , she’s just so gorgeous and I love that almost perplexed look she gets sometimes, when she’s singing. Regarding her voice, I think the recording levels were wrong on this recording. That’s why it sounds fuzzy and staticy when she the high notes. Milo
@@rebekahmartin5992 look at her now. That's old video. Voice is still there tho
Just heard this on the "Beau" episode of The Big Door Prize... Made me cry.. Beautiful song.
What memories of northern exposure. magnificent song to end a magnificent series.
When I hear this it reminds of the small country town near our farm in Colorado. My mother grew up near the town & went there for groceries & shopping since the 1930's as a child. She's gone now. I moved away after college. There's not much left to the downtown any more except a couple of bars, the library, 3 churches & empty buildings. The elementary school is still there, but the high school is consolidated & is in a neighboring town. The streets never used to be paved except for the highway that ran thru the middle of it. It now bypasses it. It's melancholy to me when I hear this & when I go there, which is seldom today. Great song & singer.
Had the pleasure of seeing Iris Dement at Glastonbury in the acoustic tent 1994. Beautiful song
It doesn't get better than this. Brilliant and gorgeous in equal measures.
I’ve loved this song since I first heard it. What a joy to see Iris perform it live with backing by EmmyLou and Jerry Douglass.
Sure do love Iris's songs. Such great lyrics with her unique vocal style.
I discovered this song on the last episode of Northern Exposure. It made me cry as this song is about the inevitable life transitions that occur rather we want them to or not. To children leaving the nest for good, to the death of parents, the discovery/lost of love, and even evolving from the person you used to be.
The sun can and will set on many phases throughout our lives; it is our responsibility and duty to embrace them all for the fleeting moment(s) they are either in our possession and/or presence.
If they are humans we only are blessed with their presence; as we never really own one another.
Goodnight.
Gooose...Bumps - so pure and sincere. Both ladies & friends.. Thks for uploading
I first heard this song on the final episode of Northern Exposure. Three years later, my parents sold our family home. I sat in the backyard and played this song over and over. It was the perfect farewell to the decades we spent in that house.
I left "my town" over 50 years and have not been back much. These lines from Iris Dement bring my youth back and bring a tear to my eye every time I hear it when I think back to those day, to "out town" where my parent lay by a petty hedge.
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This beautiful song was one of my dad's favorites.Like always I am tearing up.My dad passed away May 3rd,1999.I miss him terribly.
Sorry for your loss.
Late night John Peel played this many many moons ago.. Brought tears then and now Feb 24
First discovered Iris on Transatlantic Sessions, singing Sweet is the Melody. Made a VHS tape to listen to again and again. When RUclips came along, I found it along with all her other music. Brilliant.