If a country band wants to make an impression in our house, doing a seven-minute cover of a Richard Thopson classic like "1952 Black Vincent" is a Hell of a good place to start.
So unfortunate that David A ran out of gas and left the band. Saw Reckless with David about 10 years ago in Boston with Micky & the Motorcars. Both bands were fantastic. Saw Reckless without David a couple years ago... Willy still rules, but just not the same without David.
They’re so great. Him and his brother (micky and the motorcars) performed at the state line in Idaho and it was hands down the best concert I’ve been to. Small venue. Just incredible music.
David rocks this song so hard. Definitely miss him at their live shows. Saw Micky and the Motorcars, Reckless and their dad at Albany MO a few years ago. Hands down the best concert I have ever been to.
Im a 50 year old dude. There are two songs in their world that ring true I’m my heart - Leonard Cohen’s “hallelujah” and Richard Thompson’s “52 Black Lightning.” If you’re going to cover either tune, you had better nail it. It is not easy to honor either song and make it unique without being tacky or cliche. These dudes just hammer it. Bring it home. Blend in a gospel feel to the song with the country. Holy crap bro, bring a tear to my eye. I’m not crying’, you’re crying,
One of the greatest songs about THE greatest motorcycle. When I used to live in England I went to Stevenage and visited the building where they were made. Not much left these days. Just a plack, but the legend of the Vincent transends time. Reckless by far has THE best rendition of the song.
As a Redhead and a lover of motorcycles … a former unofficial “Ugly” and an Honorary “Red Emerald”. I LOVE THS SONG! And Reckless Kelly!!! Back in the late the 80s I worked a gig at Cain’s…. Life has been good….. God Bless America!
Seen this live several times always the same emotion put into this song never a disappointment..redhead and leather will always be my favorite color scheme..
I’ve had motorcycles in my life all my life and this has been my favorite motorcycle love song the whole time. I listen to this version at least once a day.
For years this was their closer. Last time I saw them it showed up in the middle of the set. Not sure where it is now, but I hope it's still in the rotation.
Agreed. The only song I can think of that I love equally by different singers. My top three are Richard Thompson, Del McCoury Band and Reckless Kelly. I so wish they’d get further west.
@@dianethornhill3651 They typically hit the west coast in August around their family reunion tour in Idaho...I've seen them in Seattle and Alaska, but it's been years...
Great cover of a great song and very impressed that they didnt mess with the words Box Hill is ofter changed for Knoxville but Box Hill was a biker haunt just south of London back in the day
I am pretty sure that Richard Thompson is happy to have been gifted with this HOLY song, whoever is going to cover it! Nonetheless this one is pretty awesome
Sam Bissell, "... next favorite version ..." I can't pick a favorite from the originals and so many excellent covers, so I just listen to a bunch of them and enjoy them all: "Music: Vincent Black Lightning, 1952" -- Playlist, ArcoZakus ruclips.net/p/PL187Ne8GR4V6bEMO9mD4bHksPbhGtu6gb
F-Yeah !!! Damn you for Keeping it Alive !!!!!! This song and the romance of the sentiment shall ride on forever as long as someone is singing the words of this legend composed by Richard Thompson ....... Ride on you Beautiful Bastards...........
My grandpa had a Vincent Black Shadow. He died in 1964 when mom was 9, so I obviously didn’t know him. Grandma did sell the bike after a year or two. She needed the money to raise mom on her own. I was born in 1980. All I have is a few photographs and my grandmother’s memories that she shares with me throughout our conversations. I lost her in 2015. She’s with grandpa in heaven on the back of that Vincent.
Thank you! My Dad's mom sold his Norton while he was off to the Navy in 1947. He told me he had always wanted a Black Shadow. I came home from the NY Motorcycle show one year and told him they were lining up to see a Black Lightning on display and asked if he'd ever heard of it. He said it was the holy grail...
Red Molly is band of Ladies ......Version that is Great... with a Red Headed Singer.... This is a the American Country Version..,. I don't think there is a bad version of Richard Thompson Riff This is Too over done A simple song with a simple story
Given Richard Thompson's work with Fairport Convention, I suspect he would enjoy this version. I remember Richard playing in Santa Monica back in the 70's with Fairport and the band tore up the stage with improvisation.
I love this version .... a lot of the others are way to bluegrass for my liking. The Reckless Kelly boys rock this song. And i like this better than the Richard Thompson version.
I grew up with a father born in 45 and built and raced bikes and cars. This song is my favorite song and they give such a good rendition. I cant wait till they come back to north florida, dying to see them live
Fucking Hell!! I'm an Englishman and live 5 miles from where they made the legendary Vincent Black Shadow "The fastest production motorcycle in the world" ... so doubly possessive of tgis song and our proper music in general (not the pop shite ... the real stuff). I am always a bit reluctant to see/hear our better stuff getting covered by American bands .... just as I'm sure lots of Americans feel the same way when a British artist covers a well liked quintessentially American song. Theres been some covers that are as good as the original but many that were far worse. But this ... well this is ... and I feel traitorous saying it ... this is better than Richard Thompsons original to my ear. It could be that the original is decades old and musicians, instruments and sound technology has advanced so much but I dont think it is. I think it's because these guys feel it and I guess I shouldnt be surprised and should broaden my outlook. This is truly fucking awesome. I hope my neighbours like too cos they're going to hear it for a while.
There's also bluegrass version on RUclips by the Del McCoury Band. He changes the lyric slightly in one place--Boxhill becomes Knoxville. I realize that Richard Thompson is RIchard Thompson, but versions like this have a bit more energy to them that I like. And, even though I know a lot of singer-songwriters, I often prefer bands to solo acts.
Here's to being the Redheaded girl & the red Dirt roads... ours is kinda a black dirt road, but still the same! Worked a few gigs at Cains back in the 80's love a great ole music hall!
Love it. Great interpretation. To the R Thompson fans who can't see anything to like in an RT cover -- get over it, I'll bet Richard wouldn't be as provincial as you
On all the cover versions of this song I have watched on RUclips, I have yet to see a negative comment from a Richard Thompson fan. As a long time RT fan, I love this version, and it's right up there with the best. I still think Sean Rowe's cover is absolute killer, and likely brings a tear to RT's eye as it's that frigging good.
Ah, the *Mounted Hard Man* -- an archetype that's been setting female hearts aflutter ever since the first horsemen stormed out of Central Asia 10,000-odd years ago. The image just took on new power with the invention of the motorcycle. This is the best cover of the Richard Thompson song I've yet heard.
The Braun bros are from Stanley, ID, where they performed as the Braun Brothers in the '70s and '80s. It's difficult to pin down whether Reckless Kelley was formed in Idaho or in Bend, OR. Whichever it was, Reckless Kelley was formed before they moved to Austin in October 1996. Or was it 1997? They have an unfortunate way of giving more than one answer to the same question.
I have been encased by this song and RK's versions of it since the first time I heard it . Now a huge RK fan and Texas Red Dirt. Nn'duh- folks who don't know about Red Dirt, welp, they don't.
@Biomed Aggie Agreed; much more energy and life (despite the irony of the song ending in a death), and having multiple singers gives it a fuller, richer sound that a soloist just can't bring to bear.
seen these guys 11 years ago at a little seafood joint that had a stage outside off Nebraska Ave in Tampa FL. Man, we got hammered drunk and they kicked ass!
idridcole Yes! Wasn't sure if that was the same fiddler until they went close up, and...it is. Jammed with him in the parking lot of a club called the Varsity in busted flat Baton Rouge, La. right beside their bus.
Grandpa had a Vincent Black Shadow after the war. He put a sidecar on it so as to transport my grandma and my mom whilst a child. He then died of lung cancer in 1964 while mom was 9 and grandma 33. Grandma didn't know shit about bikes after he died and sold it for cheap. Poor girl. When I first saw the pics as a teenager, and figured out what I was looking at, I cried.
Who also is here in 2023 still jamming on this tune! They killed it.
and now 2024! so many great covers of this great song and this one is one of the best
If a country band wants to make an impression in our house, doing a seven-minute cover of a Richard Thopson classic like "1952 Black Vincent" is a Hell of a good place to start.
Most country bands don’t give a shit about making an impression in YOUR house dude
@@kiethstone9400don’t be a jerk.
Grown man crying here, not because of the sad lyrics, but because of the musicianship. Good Lord, what a band! My new favorite band.
So unfortunate that David A ran out of gas and left the band. Saw Reckless with David about 10 years ago in Boston with Micky & the Motorcars. Both bands were fantastic. Saw Reckless without David a couple years ago... Willy still rules, but just not the same without David.
They’re so great. Him and his brother (micky and the motorcars) performed at the state line in Idaho and it was hands down the best concert I’ve been to. Small venue. Just incredible music.
Saw them do this live in Bowling Green with Micky & the Motorcars and it is still the greatest live performance I've ever witnessed live.
Watch the original live. 10x more emotional. But a good version. Very good
David rocks this song so hard. Definitely miss him at their live shows.
Saw Micky and the Motorcars, Reckless and their dad at Albany MO a few years ago. Hands down the best concert I have ever been to.
I’ll never get tired of this song
“Red hair and black leather my favorite color scheme” Just brilliant.
One of the greatest lines ever set to song.
Im a 50 year old dude. There are two songs in their world that ring true I’m my heart - Leonard Cohen’s “hallelujah” and Richard Thompson’s “52 Black Lightning.”
If you’re going to cover either tune, you had better nail it. It is not easy to honor either song and make it unique without being tacky or cliche.
These dudes just hammer it. Bring it home. Blend in a gospel feel to the song with the country.
Holy crap bro, bring a tear to my eye. I’m not crying’, you’re crying,
Reckless Kelly is very underrated. Nice smooth voice, easy to listen to.
Same, l agree
@SoftserveSodium What you really said was you don't know shit about red dirt or pop country.
@SoftserveSodium need your ears checked
Not on this song, he is good ! @@harrisonlollar7240
This is my favorite live version.
Richard Thompson wrote the song, but these boys owned it tonight
One of the greatest songs about THE greatest motorcycle. When I used to live in England I went to Stevenage and visited the building where they were made. Not much left these days. Just a plack, but the legend of the Vincent transends time.
Reckless by far has THE best rendition of the song.
that's debatable
No one does it like RK
RT?@@floridafreeman3638
I could listen to this a hundred times and still play it again.
we opened for these guys on a club date on this tour. I was blown away. Such a great arrangment and execution. I love this band.
I can't believe I never heard of this song until today!
I only just heard it today, brilliant !
@@lollypton4572 For the longest time, I thought Reckless Kelly was an Australian bank robber.
As a Redhead and a lover of motorcycles … a former unofficial “Ugly” and an Honorary “Red Emerald”. I LOVE THS SONG! And Reckless Kelly!!! Back in the late the 80s I worked a gig at Cain’s…. Life has been good….. God Bless America!
Seen this live several times always the same emotion put into this song never a disappointment..redhead and leather will always be my favorite color scheme..
I’ve had motorcycles in my life all my life and this has been my favorite motorcycle love song the whole time. I listen to this version at least once a day.
WOW that first three part harmony had me SOLD....send it boys!
This is a fantastic version. I also love the Sean Rowe version equally as well.
Seans version is fantastic.
50 years in Idaho. David is the best. Idaho forever.
I saw this live at Helix, OR summer of 2019 and it moved my soul; I haven't got it out of my mind since.
This screams finale to the show...anybody seen them live that can say yes or no?? Love this song from so many different artists...
For years this was their closer. Last time I saw them it showed up in the middle of the set. Not sure where it is now, but I hope it's still in the rotation.
Agreed. The only song I can think of that I love equally by different singers. My top three are Richard Thompson, Del McCoury Band and Reckless Kelly. I so wish they’d get further west.
@@dianethornhill3651 They typically hit the west coast in August around their family reunion tour in Idaho...I've seen them in Seattle and Alaska, but it's been years...
@@mnswamp Of course it was because everything else they do sucks. Gotta steal someone else's work and put a shitty country rock spin on it.
Sean Rowe - no contest..... all credit to Richard Thompson ;-)
Sean Rowe, yes!
Hard to say but he owns it!
Reckless does it better. Sean Rowe is great, but Reckless does it better. Fight me.
Rowe, in his version; is like the Vincent, not technically brilliant, but the soul of a champion...
Great cover of a great song and very impressed that they didnt mess with the words Box Hill is ofter changed for Knoxville but Box Hill was a biker haunt just south of London back in the day
I’ve wondered what box hill was lol
Richard Thompson would be happy with this rendition ---
I am pretty sure that Richard Thompson is happy to have been gifted with this HOLY song, whoever is going to cover it! Nonetheless this one is pretty awesome
@@yccmzimmy b
Maybe with the check.
I gotta go with this one.
Man I started seeing this band live in 1998, and everytime they play anywhere around me I ALWAYS GO! RECKLESS KELLY 4 LIFE
My next favorite version to Richard Thompson's original....So. Well. Done!
Sam Bissell,
"... next favorite version ..."
I can't pick a favorite from the originals and so many excellent covers, so I just listen to a bunch of them and enjoy them all:
"Music: Vincent Black Lightning, 1952" -- Playlist, ArcoZakus ruclips.net/p/PL187Ne8GR4V6bEMO9mD4bHksPbhGtu6gb
@@ArcoZakus Thanks for the link. Much appreciated.
F-Yeah !!! Damn you for Keeping it Alive !!!!!! This song and the romance of the sentiment shall ride on forever as long as someone is singing the words of this legend composed by Richard Thompson ....... Ride on you Beautiful Bastards...........
My grandpa had a Vincent Black Shadow. He died in 1964 when mom was 9, so I obviously didn’t know him. Grandma did sell the bike after a year or two. She needed the money to raise mom on her own. I was born in 1980. All I have is a few photographs and my grandmother’s memories that she shares with me throughout our conversations. I lost her in 2015. She’s with grandpa in heaven on the back of that Vincent.
Thank you! My Dad's mom sold his Norton while he was off to the Navy in 1947. He told me he had always wanted a Black Shadow. I came home from the NY Motorcycle show one year and told him they were lining up to see a Black Lightning on display and asked if he'd ever heard of it. He said it was the holy grail...
No one can play this as good as Richard Thompson the master
That's just a matter of opinion, nobody's right and nobody's wrong just different tastes, I prefer this over the original
Best rendition I've heard. Guy's got a great voice. Throws that gravel in like Mickey Newbury could and often did do.
I kind of like this guys voice too, but he is no Mickey Newbury.
Check out Sean Rowe's version... Unbelievable
@@shoottheship126
!!! Caution -- the Sean Rowe performance may change your DNA !!!
Now that's how you do the song with a full band! Richard would like it.
This is Brilliant! I have heard a few covers of this and this is the BEST
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Red Molly is band of Ladies ......Version that is Great... with a Red Headed Singer.... This is a the American Country Version..,. I don't think there is a bad version of Richard Thompson Riff This is Too over done A simple song with a simple story
Given Richard Thompson's work with Fairport Convention, I suspect he would enjoy this version. I remember Richard playing in Santa Monica back in the 70's with Fairport and the band tore up the stage with improvisation.
I still get chills when this comes up in my rotation!!
the best version of a great tune
Bad ass song!
I love this version .... a lot of the others are way to bluegrass for my liking. The Reckless Kelly boys rock this song. And i like this better than the Richard Thompson version.
I grew up with a father born in 45 and built and raced bikes and cars. This song is my favorite song and they give such a good rendition. I cant wait till they come back to north florida, dying to see them live
Fucking Hell!! I'm an Englishman and live 5 miles from where they made the legendary Vincent Black Shadow "The fastest production motorcycle in the world" ... so doubly possessive of tgis song and our proper music in general (not the pop shite ... the real stuff). I am always a bit reluctant to see/hear our better stuff getting covered by American bands .... just as I'm sure lots of Americans feel the same way when a British artist covers a well liked quintessentially American song. Theres been some covers that are as good as the original but many that were far worse.
But this ... well this is ... and I feel traitorous saying it ... this is better than Richard Thompsons original to my ear. It could be that the original is decades old and musicians, instruments and sound technology has advanced so much but I dont think it is. I think it's because these guys feel it and I guess I shouldnt be surprised and should broaden my outlook. This is truly fucking awesome.
I hope my neighbours like too cos they're going to hear it for a while.
There's also bluegrass version on RUclips by the Del McCoury Band. He changes the lyric slightly in one place--Boxhill becomes Knoxville. I realize that Richard Thompson is RIchard Thompson, but versions like this have a bit more energy to them that I like. And, even though I know a lot of singer-songwriters, I often prefer bands to solo acts.
This is by far the best cover of this song I've heard. Had to miss them live a couple weeks ago, do hope they come back to east central Illinois
Who sang it first? And who wrote it?
@@rexvarner3455 A great British artist Richard Thompson wrote and recorded it. Check his version out. Also a good version by Del Mc Croury.
Best concert I’ve been to. Maybe 100 people down in Tucson AZ but they rocked the joint! HELLUVA show. And this rendition live…fantastic.
I need LIVE music soon!
Well let’s organize a concert and tell the virus loving libtards to go screw themselves.
@@holsteinsanddiesels7758 i would prefer to die listening to live music than living just watching the Fouc king tube
@@holsteinsanddiesels7758 You mean Donald Trumps virus, correct!
I live in Victoria t.x seen them live here and in Austin
Fantastic version of the song
Hey, from Idaho Willie & Cody. Once I hear this song "Vincent Black Lightning" or "Idaho" I have to play them over and over and...
reckless Kelly gets me through my grit and struggles and poverty
Saw them perform this all acoustic in Colorado Springs in 2021, it was amazing. That's also how my dog ended up named Mona LOL
I love everything about this song forever ❤🎸❤🎸❤
Interesting to hear how such a very southern English song works in a totally different genre of music
Awesome! One of the best songs ever written done perfectly! Thanks!
I completely forgot about Reckless Kelly until right now.
Here's to being the Redheaded girl & the red Dirt roads... ours is kinda a black dirt road, but still the same! Worked a few gigs at Cains back in the 80's love a great ole music hall!
Ha! I was in the audience during this performance. Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa OK
America's best venue
did it sound as good on the floor as it does cherry-picked off the board?
This is fucking amazing.
What music is supposed to be! Great song by a Great band! Never stop boys!
I love reckless kelly shows
The best, never gets old
Amazing version of an incredible song. Love the vocals and drums.
Love it. Great interpretation. To the R Thompson fans who can't see anything to like in an RT cover -- get over it, I'll bet Richard wouldn't be as provincial as you
On all the cover versions of this song I have watched on RUclips, I have yet to see a negative comment from a Richard Thompson fan. As a long time RT fan, I love this version, and it's right up there with the best. I still think Sean Rowe's cover is absolute killer, and likely brings a tear to RT's eye as it's that frigging good.
luv the arrangement. well done.
I absolutely love this live version, and the intro is EPIC 😍
OK I listened to it one time, wont bother again
well, that sound part, i mean the one after "died" really help to "break" the intensity.... a lot! and sublimate the moment
Ah, the *Mounted Hard Man* -- an archetype that's been setting female hearts aflutter ever since the first horsemen stormed out of Central Asia 10,000-odd years ago. The image just took on new power with the invention of the motorcycle. This is the best cover of the Richard Thompson song I've yet heard.
Outstanding!
Always been a damn good band. Used to go see them back in 1985-86 in St Louis.
+Taco Gillespie
This band didn't form until 1997....
Saw them as kids in Challis Idaho in early 80's
The Braun bros are from Stanley, ID, where they performed as the Braun Brothers in the '70s and '80s. It's difficult to pin down whether Reckless Kelley was formed in Idaho or in Bend, OR. Whichever it was, Reckless Kelley was formed before they moved to Austin in October 1996. Or was it 1997? They have an unfortunate way of giving more than one answer to the same question.
GONNA SEE THEM 01-18-20 IN OK THEN 02-07-20 IN TEXAS! WILL BE SHOW 4 AND 5 FOR US... LOVE YOU GUYS!
love this intro
Gosh dang, son! Good job, brothers. I have shared this across the world and it blows minds. Thank you. Off to find me a Vincent. To ride. 🤘
you'd🙂 better have a million dollars in your wallet then .....
I saw our boys last they played Hoots in Amarillo, I know I wasn't the only one there, where yall at
Great song awesome
Wonderfull video thanks
Great Richard Thomas song.👍
Rick Bullock Thompson, not Thomas....
Great arrangement and performance ....
Seeing them 8/6 @ Nashville North, Idaho Stateline!
Very nice! love tne build up, and down.
I have been encased by this song and RK's versions of it since the first time I heard it . Now a huge RK fan and Texas Red Dirt. Nn'duh- folks who don't know about Red Dirt, welp, they don't.
What about hicks that don't know shit about British "Ton Up" culture or the genesis of the Cafe racer?
Every bit as good as the original.
bradj568 I don't think so.
Better, IMHO. This version has David Abeyta, Joe Miller, Jay Nazziola, Willy Braun, and my personal favorite, Cody Braun.
@Biomed Aggie please check out Sean Rowe's version if ya haven't already:)
@Biomed Aggie Agreed; much more energy and life (despite the irony of the song ending in a death), and having multiple singers gives it a fuller, richer sound that a soloist just can't bring to bear.
One of my favs
Best cover
My hat off to you. Gave me goosebumps
breathtaking guitar
seen these guys 11 years ago at a little seafood joint that had a stage outside off Nebraska Ave in Tampa FL. Man, we got hammered drunk and they kicked ass!
Skipper’s Smokehouse?
Funny Seeing this comment here as I don’t live too far from there 😆. RUclips is a small world it seems.
AHHH, OUI!!!!
Love these guys! In fact wearing their t-shirt now. It cries FREEDOM!! Sean Rowe does an at least equally awesome version. Check it out!
Sean's version has got more bollocks, this version is also great, Del Mccorys version is crap.
nothing like a lil Amazing Grace on the intro......
Killed it!!!!
These guys opened for Robert Earl Keen many years ago....I've been a fan ever since...I think it was the Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill, NC
Goddamnit these boys get after it, right? Not many get it. No one knows, it seems, but we all meet at the shows...
idridcole ojjjjyhbht
idridcole Yes! Wasn't sure if that was the same fiddler until they went close up, and...it is. Jammed with him in the parking lot of a club called the Varsity in busted flat Baton Rouge, La. right beside their bus.
No need to damn God about it
Best damn band that nobody have ever heard of. Incredible musicians and vocalists.....
Awesome dude. Here's to seeing you at my next shindig.
Sweet songs
Awesome! How fortunate you are to have legends on your program like these gentlemen.
What a fabulous band
Outstanding work my lads….really , REALLY well doon….!
Opening with such Awesome acoustics !
Well done! You really captured the spirit of the song. Not many bands who cover this song captures the spirit of this song. Great job!
Reckless Kelly is the only cover I've heard that gets the importance of the way Thompson sings "RRRRRRRIIIIIIDE"
A timeless tune.....
Grandpa had a Vincent Black Shadow after the war. He put a sidecar on it so as to transport my grandma and my mom whilst a child. He then died of lung cancer in 1964 while mom was 9 and grandma 33. Grandma didn't know shit about bikes after he died and sold it for cheap. Poor girl. When I first saw the pics as a teenager, and figured out what I was looking at, I cried.
Great cover!
Damn Cal Ford, Thompson and all the others....
Really give it all ya got Hathee Bros. really like being able too understand the singers words...with al;l the r&r in that hillbilly sound...carry on
i should have said these guys are fantastic