This song hits harder when you start getting older. The last few times I've gone to my old home, is to bury someone. That home starts to look a lot more strange and desolate the more of your friends and family leave this world.
Yes it does hit closer to home the older we get. ive lost 2 parents and 2 good friends in 8 months time.. hopfully they;ll be waiting for me on the white crystal shore!!!
His tears probably came from missing family and friends, some of us drifted way too long and came home to nothing and this song brings out a lot of sadness.
Back in the late 60’s early 70’s my dad would play a 1930 era acoustic guitar and we would sing this in the little Free Will Baptist church on Sunday night.Dad’s been gone 34 years.Hard to believe sometimes.
RIP Cumberland Gap. Goodbye Nanny and Papaw, our tobacco farm, churning butter, canning the bounty of the garden, hunting deer, picking and singing on the porch and detesting “ brought on bread “ A moon pie and a Mountain Dew was a fancy city treat. I will see you when I cross the river Jordan. Farther along we’ll know more about it.
Or splitting wood in the fall so you could stoke the woodstove in the basement and feel that good old wood heat, or the simple joy you would get from a freshly sliced watermelon and a shaker of salt, searching for 4 leaf clovers, climbing trees or catching lightning bugs or even June bugs which you might have tied to a string and fly 'em around, playing cards, etc, etc., there are just so many things that we just don't do anymore and these things are what make up the majority of the most memorable/enjoyable moments in all of my memories/life
@@davesheil7454 Wow! You told him! Good job, mate. Any music with any mention of Christianity should be outlawed. 5 CENT FREDOS!!! You fucking Euro tart.
My dad served 2 tours in Vietnam. He told me that this song is how he felt when he returned home. So much had changed and would never be the same again😢
most vets had a hard time coming over the trauma from their tours and battles, those scars are there forever. but i always felt bad for the homeless and disabled vets. and the song makes a good point. mostly i searched it up, its about a civil war vet feeling like a stranger its mostly the moral. but i think the song can hit hard emotionally
When I got out of army hospital and made my way home ? I felt cheated! I served my country with honor just to still being called murderer !take me home lord I’m hurting so badly
Yes been serving the lord since I was 14 My entire family is Christians. Thank Christ Jesus for Salvation thur repentance. I study the KJV , I like it the best. Have a nice day.
I want to put "They were all like rank Strangers to me" on my mother's grave marker, she's buried by my father and share a grave stone. My father was very beloved in the community we lived in (Gordonsville VA where Charlie Waller lived and is buried in the same cemetery).. my father was an old farmer and a scholar.. he was well sought out for his knowledge of animal husbandry and farming expertise.. people came from all around yearly to pay their respects to him. The visitors were always greeted with the best cooking and hospitality by my dear sweet mother. My father unfortunately took his own life after many years of declining health.. the funeral home could not accommodate the people who turned out for his funeral.. the streets of Gordonsville were lined that day with people my mother had made welcome in her home for years.. my father died November 3rd 1994... December 24 1995 my mother who was still grieving her loss busily made her home ready for an onslaught of visitors who normally came every Christmas Eve.. no one bothered to come see her without him being there.. little did they know or understand all that she did to make him the man that he was.. he definitely was a lucky man. My mother lived 7 years beyond my dad's death and every Christmas she prepared her home for the Christmas Eve visitors who never came again.. Rank Strangers indeed.
I feel the same way. Once loves ones and friends have passed, it doesn't feel like home. But I'll always be a coal miner's daughter from Eastern Kentucky and very proud of it.
I used to come home from middle school and listen to bluegrass music , it was like a refuge at the time, these songs and melodies were so comforting - I had such a rough time in middle school , then i learned how to play guitar - and one of the first songs i ever learned was "man of constant sorrow" I could find validation and comfort in the words of those music more than i could the people around me - it helped to give me a better piece of mind - i also started praying more and looking into the word of god . It helped me relax .
George Shuffler is grossly under rated. The man was a master of playing exactly what the song needs, and not overplaying or showboating. He's one of those guys who can step up, nail it in 8 bars and not take away from the focus of the song. It's a fine art, and Mr. Shuffler deserves a lot more consideration than he gets.
There is only one God, He has multiple names we cannot see him, but He can see us. He has no children or wife ; He is the creator of everything, including humans. He cannot have sons, and He is not a man. He has multiple names, but we all call Him Allah. May He guide you on the path of belief, paradise, and Islam
I'm goin' back to those beautiful Eastern Tennessee mountains where I was born to be reunited with those I've lost.A quiet little place along Roseberry Creek,near the little town of Mascot.This beautiful bluegrass music used to play all day from a wood radio sitting atop an ammonia fridge.
My Dad just passed away and he was a country singer. Our last Father's Day weekend before he passed away I videoed him singing this as his all time favorite song he sang at Cowboy Church in Farmer City, Illinois. R.I.P DAD. NO MORE RANK STRANGERS AGAIN. Normand D. Barnes Sr.
This song hits me hard. I have lost 299 family and friends since 1990. All of the previous generation are gone and almost all of my generation. My home community is almost empty - only 8 people where almost 300 lived. Miss them.
"Perhaps the most dramatic moment in all the Stanley Brothers' hundreds of recordings occurs in the chorus of "Rank Strangers." After Carter sings the verse, Ralph enters with the words 'Everybody I met/ Seemed to be a rank stranger' in a voice that stabs like an icepick. He raised the tension in the Stanley Brothers' music to the nearly unbearable: singing above Carter's melody, he would hang on a dissonant note in anticipation of the chord that was about to arrive. Over time, these harmonies became wilder, more edgy and attention-getting - a separate drama that didn't cozy up to the melody but defied it before an ultimate reconciliation." - David Gates, The New Yorker, Aug. 20-27, 2001
The harmonies, the call and response, Rank Stranger is bluegrass at it's very best. I never grow tired of hearing this song, and the Stanley Brothers had the best version of the song.
I wandered again to my home in the mountains Where in youth's early dawn I was happy and free I looked for my friends but I never could find them I found they were all rank strangers to me Everybody I met seemed to be a rank stranger No mother or dad not a friend could I see They knew not my name and I knew not their faces I found they were all rank strangers to me Now they've all moved away said the voice of a stranger To a beautiful home by a bright crystal sea And some day I'll meet them all up in Heaven Where no one will be a rank stranger to me
Retired from USMC (1978) and went back home to MA. These words describe what my heart felt. Knew no one.. Friends moved or died (Vietnam). Felt so alone and lost. No matter who sings the song, the feelings remain the same.
Your post has blessed me. From the first time I ever heard the song it made me think of soldiers coming home with PTSD... the story of one of my world War II friends who came back to his rural home in Ohio in the middle of the night... And laid down on his feather tic. he said when he woke up people just acted like he never left and he never had the heart to tell them what he'd been through in the War. another one of the veterans that I was blessed to listen to had three daughters and a wife... He was in Europe for almost a year-and-a-half after the war building barracks for the Germans that killed his only brother. He said " since the war, my life has been filled with beautiful girls. They want me to talk to them about the war. But how can I live with myself if I visit that Hell upon them?" I gave my second son the middle name "Leighton" because that was his battle-dead brother's name. He cried when I told him and brought my baby boy to him. God bless you Vietnam Vets. And Korea and all the wars since including the invisible ones still ongoing. Thanks and Love 😍.... pg 🙏✝️❣️🤗
Of all the great and famous lead singers that performed with Doctor Ralph over those many years, NOBODY was as good as Brother Carter. He was such a natural. I feel honored to hear his voice one more time today. Thank you
My absolute favorite by the Stanley’s…Carter had such a beautiful voice , something really special about him. The world was made much better by the Stanley’s.
This song touches a spot in me, I left my home an what little family and friends I had at a very young age, first the Army, then roaming the world, just could not find peace . After 30 plus years I came "home' and everybody had died or moved away so I understand being a Rank Stranger and never connected again.
Yes I had the same experience. Left home early @16 joined the Army. Seen the world 🌎 returned back to my childhood home. No one recognize me, or they all moved away.
@@barrypowell829 I know what you mean, after Vietnam I was restless so some guys I served with talked me into going to South Africa where we worked training kids to fight. I worked on a freighter all over the world , time just flew by. Being the baby of family time I returned everybody was gone.
Don’t know where in the world you are Jay Walker but you ain’t alone brother, Stay strong, it can be a hard lonesome road and we don’t get an answer to the question ‘why ?’. Gary from England.
Such authentic music! Being from the Ouachita Mountains on the Arkansas-Oklahoma line, this music sounds like home. This is what church music and “ singin’s” sounded like when I was a little girl ( and I’m only 43)…it’s a sound and an art that has, sadly, lost popularity Brumley worked hard, and (even today)serves as a great example of what one can achieve-regardless of the small, rural area they may come from. I only wish more of the original Hartford Music Company had been preserved.
I relate to this so much! Arkansas gal here (Murfreesboro), and this really *was* what church sounded like when I was little. I know people poked fun at us, because we seemed like we were 30 years behind the times, but I *SO* loved singing harmony in choir and with groups. All those old-time tunes like "I Saw the Light", "Everybody Will Be Happy" , and "Just a Little Talk with Jesus" and so many more. What a precious heritage we had!
I moved far away from my homeland in search of prosperity. It is always best at home, where the heart is. And everytime I hear this song, I break down in tears becouse "one beautiful day ill meet them in heaven, where no one will be a stranger to me".
This song hits hard. I come from central Kenya Which is mountainous. Every time I go back so much has changes. My childhood friends already moved out to cities and the old people are no more.
I was looking at the music chart breakers and all of them seemed to go to the Globalist In Great Britian and nothing to the U.S. Talented Bands! Nothing.
Ralph's voice. Just does something to you. If I could pick anything that represents everything deep and meaningful about bluegrass music, it would be the voice of Ralph Stanley.
My dad grew up running the mou tains of Dickinson County, Va, my Papaw never missed a conversation with Ralph and Carter, bor a show if they were local. We just recently made it to the Home on the Hills Festival and watched 2 play. Everytime I hear a banner or fiddle I think of the great men that once roamed those mountains of Dickenson County. It will always be home to me.
“To a beautiful home by the bright Crystal Sea” - I actually saw this in the most vivid dream I ever had several years ago. I’ll never forget that dream. It’s just this side of Heaven.
I power walk 1hour a day and listen to this song 2 times every time because it has such a touching feeling to it and sends chills down my 61 yrs old back
My wife rode with Ralph on their final trip. Was holding her when she passed, with the voice of Ralph's ODeath playing in my head. Learned an hour later than Ralph left at the same time, 6-23-2016, he 79 and her 59. It was the greatest feeling of peace I could have had. Jane Hilaire played the Alto Flute, the "high lonesome" of the flute family.. The only titled alto-flute chair caries her name, and am sure they play together.
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This song hits harder when you start getting older. The last few times I've gone to my old home, is to bury someone. That home starts to look a lot more strange and desolate the more of your friends and family leave this world.
I couldn’t agree more!
Yes it does hit closer to home the older we get. ive lost 2 parents and 2 good friends in 8 months time.. hopfully they;ll be waiting for me on the white crystal shore!!!
@@tapertom1351 The older we get often we know more dead folks than alive, this song really hits home with me.
Thomas Wolfe was right - you can't go home again.........
Rejoice oh young man in thy youth.
If this song don't grab you, you ain't got a handle.
I remember my daddy listening to this song, and he would cry, I never understood as a child. Now daddy has gone up ahead, I understand...
His tears probably came from missing family and friends, some of us drifted way too long and came home to nothing and this song brings out a lot of sadness.
Something like that
I'm 72 years old now...this was my grandma's favorite song....I know exactly how it is..its sad
Absolutely
Back in the late 60’s early 70’s my dad would play a 1930 era acoustic guitar and we would sing this in the little Free Will Baptist church on Sunday night.Dad’s been gone 34 years.Hard to believe sometimes.
RIP Cumberland Gap. Goodbye Nanny and Papaw, our tobacco farm, churning butter, canning the bounty of the garden, hunting deer, picking and singing on the porch and detesting “ brought on bread “ A moon pie and a Mountain Dew was a fancy city treat. I will see you when I cross the river Jordan. Farther along we’ll know more about it.
Me too
Let's not forget the great apple butter makin in the fall and the self canning of the harvest.
Or splitting wood in the fall so you could stoke the woodstove in the basement and feel that good old wood heat, or the simple joy you would get from a freshly sliced watermelon and a shaker of salt, searching for 4 leaf clovers, climbing trees or catching lightning bugs or even June bugs which you might have tied to a string and fly 'em around, playing cards, etc, etc., there are just so many things that we just don't do anymore and these things are what make up the majority of the most memorable/enjoyable moments in all of my memories/life
May God bless your memories And keep them with you forever ❤️
People who give it a thumbs down clearly is a rank stranger to music.
I agree 100 percent...
@@looleescrogg3170 who cares?
@@davesheil7454 Wow! You told him! Good job, mate. Any music with any mention of Christianity should be outlawed.
5 CENT FREDOS!!!
You fucking Euro tart.
@@davesheil7454 lol
People is plural. They are.
My dad and mom are in heaven but I I remember them still 😢
My dad served 2 tours in Vietnam. He told me that this song is how he felt when he returned home. So much had changed and would never be the same again😢
most vets had a hard time coming over the trauma from their tours and battles, those scars are there forever. but i always felt bad for the homeless and disabled vets. and the song makes a good point. mostly i searched it up, its about a civil war vet feeling like a stranger its mostly the moral. but i think the song can hit hard emotionally
This isn’t home. We’re just visiting. God rest your father’s soul. He’s home now.
amen@@louisbiederman620
When I got out of army hospital and made my way home ? I felt cheated! I served my country with honor just to still being called murderer !take me home lord I’m hurting so badly
Some say the song is about a civil war soldier returning home. But I think it applies to so many situations and that’s what makes it a beautiful song
Parents were married for 65 years 10 children. We grew up listening to this song. Daddy and Mama both are in heaven now. TY Stanley Brothers
Have you been born again?
Yes been serving the lord since I was 14 My entire family is Christians. Thank Christ Jesus for Salvation thur repentance. I study the KJV , I like it the best. Have a nice day.
I want to put "They were all like rank Strangers to me" on my mother's grave marker, she's buried by my father and share a grave stone. My father was very beloved in the community we lived in (Gordonsville VA where Charlie Waller lived and is buried in the same cemetery).. my father was an old farmer and a scholar.. he was well sought out for his knowledge of animal husbandry and farming expertise.. people came from all around yearly to pay their respects to him. The visitors were always greeted with the best cooking and hospitality by my dear sweet mother. My father unfortunately took his own life after many years of declining health.. the funeral home could not accommodate the people who turned out for his funeral.. the streets of Gordonsville were lined that day with people my mother had made welcome in her home for years.. my father died November 3rd 1994... December 24 1995 my mother who was still grieving her loss busily made her home ready for an onslaught of visitors who normally came every Christmas Eve.. no one bothered to come see her without him being there.. little did they know or understand all that she did to make him the man that he was.. he definitely was a lucky man. My mother lived 7 years beyond my dad's death and every Christmas she prepared her home for the Christmas Eve visitors who never came again.. Rank Strangers indeed.
@@sharonturner6480my grandmother was Eva Stanley & she married Worley Rose. They had 9 survived children. Are we related?
God bless you all
I feel the same way. Once loves ones and friends have passed, it doesn't feel like home. But I'll always be a coal miner's daughter from Eastern Kentucky and very proud of it.
Carter Stanley was the master. Gone too soon.
We went from this to people rapping about cornbread in 60 years.
I used to come home from middle school and listen to bluegrass music , it was like a refuge at the time, these songs and melodies were so comforting - I had such a rough time in middle school , then i learned how to play guitar - and one of the first songs i ever learned was "man of constant sorrow" I could find validation and comfort in the words of those music more than i could the people around me - it helped to give me a better piece of mind - i also started praying more and looking into the word of god . It helped me relax .
George Shuffler is grossly under rated. The man was a master of playing exactly what the song needs, and not overplaying or showboating. He's one of those guys who can step up, nail it in 8 bars and not take away from the focus of the song. It's a fine art, and Mr. Shuffler deserves a lot more consideration than he gets.
Agree, 100% Folk would go to a concert just to get a glimpse of George doing his cross pick.
He was the perfect accompanist to The Great Stanleys, in the later period of their recording and performing career, before Carter left this World.
True. And of course that applies to his singing as well as his guitar playing.
I met George at Wintergrass in the '90's, real nice guy. Was playing with Jim and Jessie at the time I believe...
When i was a little girl i heard my daddy sing this pretty song❤
That skipping fiddle bow after Carter says "They've all moved away" gives me chills every time.
Yessir
Carter and Ralph Stanley are the true Godfathers of Bluegrass music.
Buddy it can't get any better this that.
RIP BOYS UP IN THEM HILLS OF HOME
American folk. Never forget who we are or what we once were. God and family.
Family. The so called religion is rank.
How can there be any thumbs down??? Thank the good Lord for the Stanley Brothers!!!Beautiful!!!!
There is only one God, He has multiple names we cannot see him, but He can see us. He has no children or wife ; He is the creator of everything, including humans. He cannot have sons, and He is not a man. He has multiple names, but we all call Him Allah. May He guide you on the path of belief, paradise, and Islam
It’s songs like this that makes me love bluegrass music and makes the world a better place for everyone
Nobody Answered Me. Is another great song by The Stankey Brothers. It's on RUclips.
this song sends chills up my spine. one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs I have ever heard.
My too brother
It's a good one.
Try "Angel band". Oooh, it will get ya!
I'm goin' back to those beautiful Eastern Tennessee mountains where I was born to be reunited with those I've lost.A quiet little place along Roseberry Creek,near the little town of Mascot.This beautiful bluegrass music used to play all day from a wood radio sitting atop an ammonia fridge.
High lonesome!
My Dad just passed away and he was a country singer. Our last Father's Day weekend before he passed away I videoed him singing this as his all time favorite song he sang at Cowboy Church in Farmer City, Illinois. R.I.P DAD. NO MORE RANK STRANGERS AGAIN. Normand D. Barnes Sr.
Hello freedom
This song hits me hard. I have lost 299 family and friends since 1990. All of the previous generation are gone and almost all of my generation. My home community is almost empty - only 8 people where almost 300 lived. Miss them.
"Perhaps the most dramatic moment in all the Stanley Brothers' hundreds of recordings occurs in the chorus of "Rank Strangers." After Carter sings the verse, Ralph enters with the words 'Everybody I met/ Seemed to be a rank stranger' in a voice that stabs like an icepick. He raised the tension in the Stanley Brothers' music to the nearly unbearable: singing above Carter's melody, he would hang on a dissonant note in anticipation of the chord that was about to arrive. Over time, these harmonies became wilder, more edgy and attention-getting - a separate drama that didn't cozy up to the melody but defied it before an ultimate reconciliation."
- David Gates, The New Yorker, Aug. 20-27, 2001
Thank you, David Gates/Peter Cady.
I understand why David writes for The New Yorker and I try to come up with something clever for RUclips.
David Gates: If I cant dazzle them with brilliance, I’ll baffle them with BS…
Um.... yeah. Kinda sorta.
... and I love every single second of it.
This song makes me cry don't know why
Then in that case, you better not listen to 'Sweet Flowers Will Bloom' by Ralph. I sob every time I hear it.
i know exactly why i weep when i hear this. it describes hell on earth.
That’s how you know it’s real shit 💯
No Body Answered Me by the Stanley Brothers is a tear jerker also ! It on RUclips .
This performance is a work of art.
My sweet Daddy used to play and sing this all the time, I hear it now and I just cry!! (We had it played at his funeral)
THE GOLD STANDARD OF BLUEGRASS GOSPEL MUSIC
One of the best Bluegrass gospel numbers ever.
Wonderful!
I'm 26 an I was raised on this music and still listen to it
The harmonies, the call and response, Rank Stranger is bluegrass at it's very best. I never grow tired of hearing this song, and the Stanley Brothers had the best version of the song.
Love the Stanley brothers!
Oh my! I have no words to try and explain to people that don’t listen to bluegrass how out of this world crazy good this is!
the perfect mingling of Carter's emotional lead and Ralph's ethereal tenor.
One of the best songs ever written.....
I wish I could listen with my mother one more time
A new definition of hell on Earth, with high lonesome harmony.
This music was before my time but I can listen to it all day it never gets old. These brothers were so talented just beautiful music and harmony.
I wandered again to my home in the mountains
Where in youth's early dawn I was happy and free
I looked for my friends but I never could find them
I found they were all rank strangers to me
Everybody I met seemed to be a rank stranger
No mother or dad not a friend could I see
They knew not my name and I knew not their faces
I found they were all rank strangers to me
Now they've all moved away said the voice of a stranger
To a beautiful home by a bright crystal sea
And some day I'll meet them all up in Heaven
Where no one will be a rank stranger to me
Thanks for adding the lyrics. I heard the next to last line as "Some beautiful day I'll meet them in heaven."
Song poetry of heavenly beauty
This was one of my faves before I was saved
Retired from USMC (1978) and went back home to MA. These words describe what my heart felt. Knew no one.. Friends moved or died (Vietnam). Felt so alone and lost. No matter who sings the song, the feelings remain the same.
My younger bro is 100% DAV. 26 surgeries. Army medic Vietnam era. Other brother DAV same time, father died in VA
Thank you for your service. You have a home in heaven and a friend in the Lord.
Your post has blessed me. From the first time I ever heard the song it made me think of soldiers coming home with PTSD... the story of one of my world War II friends who came back to his rural home in Ohio in the middle of the night... And laid down on his feather tic. he said when he woke up people just acted like he never left and he never had the heart to tell them what he'd been through in the War. another one of the veterans that I was blessed to listen to had three daughters and a wife... He was in Europe for almost a year-and-a-half after the war building barracks for the Germans that killed his only brother. He said " since the war, my life has been filled with beautiful girls. They want me to talk to them about the war. But how can I live with myself if I visit that Hell upon them?" I gave my second son the middle name "Leighton" because that was his battle-dead brother's name. He cried when I told him and brought my baby boy to him. God bless you Vietnam Vets. And Korea and all the wars since including the invisible ones still ongoing. Thanks and Love 😍.... pg 🙏✝️❣️🤗
Bless you
my dad had that feeling after 4 years 41-45 Came hyome . knew no one.
This was one of my Daddy s favorite songs, God, how I miss him
This song brings back so many memories The Stanley Brothers are the best
I do not care what music you are into.... this high lonesome bluegrass oldtime music is one of the best. Especially Ralph's tenor
This song haunts my soul,after all the other folks that play this I always end up back here
This is one of the best country songs of all time ....there talent blows me away
Perfect harmony. Beautiful. High Lonesome Sound Bluegrass is my favorite.
perfect harmony ?
@@boanerges149 you dance with tina.
Play this song at my daddy's funeral,Carter an bill stanley live n my home town,we talk daily,ralph is their uncle Carter is their daddy
Legends.Carter been gone a long time.now Ralph as joined his brother
So sorry for the infringe on your privacy. Beautiful song. Hello
Of all the great and famous lead singers that performed with Doctor Ralph over those many years, NOBODY was as good as Brother Carter. He was such a natural. I feel honored to hear his voice one more time today. Thank you
What a beautiful voice..
I met Ralph Stanley at a concert in St. Paul, Minnesota. What a Good Ole Boy! I'll never forget that evenin'. (brush with greatness.)
After Carter died, the greatest lead singer in Ralph's band was Roy Lee Centers.
My absolute favorite by the Stanley’s…Carter had such a beautiful voice , something really special about him. The world was made much better by the Stanley’s.
This song touches a spot in me, I left my home an what little family and friends I had at a very young age, first the Army, then roaming the world, just could not find peace . After 30 plus years I came "home' and everybody had died or moved away so I understand being a Rank Stranger and never connected again.
Bless you
I'm your friend brother
Yes I had the same experience. Left home early @16 joined the Army. Seen the world 🌎 returned back to my childhood home. No one recognize me, or they all moved away.
@@barrypowell829 I know what you mean, after Vietnam I was restless so some guys I served with talked me into going to South Africa where we worked training kids to fight. I worked on a freighter all over the world , time just flew by. Being the baby of family time I returned everybody was gone.
Don’t know where in the world you are Jay Walker but you ain’t alone brother, Stay strong, it can be a hard lonesome road and we don’t get an answer to the question ‘why ?’. Gary from England.
God watch over please hard times are here help me do what I need to do and not I want to in your name I pray waf
Beautiful ol time music...much meaning behind it...I'm so lonesome in this world...
The High Lonesome sound is by far my favorite Bluegrass style.
There is something so powerful and so peaceful about this song that sets comfort to the soul it is in the powerful force of music 🎼✨️💛🙏🏼
I'm 26 an I was raised on this music and still listen to it
Thank Goodness, these treasured masters are captured on film
There are few that equal the Stanley Brothers. This song is a classic example of the beauty of their talent.
So true, and yet the judges of the country Music Hall of Fame continue to overlook them. Shame on them!
I love this song so much I have to hear it just about every day. The Stanley Brothers were the best. 🪕
Yes sir, AMEN
Such authentic music! Being from the Ouachita Mountains on the Arkansas-Oklahoma line, this music sounds like home. This is what church music and “ singin’s” sounded like when I was a little girl ( and I’m only 43)…it’s a sound and an art that has, sadly, lost popularity
Brumley worked hard, and (even today)serves as a great example of what one can achieve-regardless of the small, rural area they may come from. I only wish more of the original Hartford Music Company had been preserved.
I relate to this so much! Arkansas gal here (Murfreesboro), and this really *was* what church sounded like when I was little. I know people poked fun at us, because we seemed like we were 30 years behind the times, but I *SO* loved singing harmony in choir and with groups. All those old-time tunes like "I Saw the Light", "Everybody Will Be Happy" , and "Just a Little Talk with Jesus" and so many more. What a precious heritage we had!
I moved far away from my homeland in search of prosperity. It is always best at home, where the heart is. And everytime I hear this song, I break down in tears becouse "one beautiful day ill meet them in heaven, where no one will be a stranger to me".
simple, calm, intense, pure story-telling
This song hits hard. I come from central Kenya Which is mountainous. Every time I go back so much has changes. My childhood friends already moved out to cities and the old people are no more.
Haunting song that makes me sad, but I cannot stop listening. It is part of my life.
Good music cannot be denied. This is powerful stuff.
I put it right next to Mahalia Jackson.
Gospel music that touches the soul.
This song is about my life. Can't believe it took my until 41 yrs old to understand this song.
holy Christ , what talent. This IS REAL American music. No effects, filters or help...just your voice and the guitars and banjo.
I was looking at the music chart breakers and all of them seemed to go to the Globalist In Great Britian and nothing to the U.S. Talented Bands! Nothing.
This was one of my dads favorite song s i played this song at my dad's funeral great song this song is a tear jerker for sure.
I love there singing
Some beautiful day I'll meet 'em in heaven, where no one will be a stranger to me.
Thank you Albert E. Brumley!
I was just scrolling down here wondering who wrote this incredible song... one of my very favorites! Many thanks, indeed!
Stanley Brothers were awesome. The best old-timey band of all time! Rams forever.
Ralph's voice.
Just does something to you.
If I could pick anything that represents everything deep and meaningful about bluegrass music, it would be the voice of Ralph Stanley.
Love the Stanley brothers ❤👍
Some of the greatest meaning words ever uttered. God be with us.
So sorry for the infringe on your privacy. Beautiful song. Hello
It comes naturally to just join in and sing, I love it
OMFW these guys were so good! People in our age do not understand how hard it is to get that kind of harmony.
I do understand, Bub. Part of the magic is how effortless they make it seem.
Listen to bill monroe s version
WHUTS HARD
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Unbelievable. They were at their best in this period. Powerful Appalachian song.
8 years later I had to bring you back 😉
@@jeremyscorpio4170 Thanks . I can't believe it was that long ago that I first saw this video. I come back and watch it all the time.
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Time flies but bluegrass will never die ❤
One of the most beautiful songs ever to be written on the english language.
Carter had a beautiful voice - left us to soon
I have heard this song thousands of times, and never tire of it
Grew up with my wonderful Daddy singing this song...miss him and all the wonderful times in Church.
Now thats how ya sang it! Carter could grab a note and just wring every ounce of emotion from it. There aren't many that can do that.
This song is so real.
I have loved this song since I was a child. Thank you for playing it again.
Carter Stanley is the greatest!
My dad grew up running the mou tains of Dickinson County, Va, my Papaw never missed a conversation with Ralph and Carter, bor a show if they were local. We just recently made it to the Home on the Hills Festival and watched 2 play. Everytime I hear a banner or fiddle I think of the great men that once roamed those mountains of Dickenson County. It will always be home to me.
Bluegrass music doesn't get much better than this. What a great clip & thank you for posting.
Hell yes I cheated
Bluegrass music is so amazing. Thank you for kind of music..gotta luv it!!!
I love this song. So beautiful.
Sure is
The heart and spirit that were in the blue grass songs and music can never be replaced. I believe it touched the soul .
I love how it ends, and then they step back, and the guitar player just picks up again, and they go into part 2
Carter definitely had a distinctive and amazing voice. He and Ralph blended perfectly together.
Awesome
I love this song it brings tears to my eyes. Ralph Stanley / brothers r one of the best bluegrass singers. R.I.P Mr Stanley 🎶😭
Me and mama used to listen to this all the tine
Now she is with jesus
“To a beautiful home by the bright Crystal Sea” - I actually saw this in the most vivid dream I ever had several years ago. I’ll never forget that dream. It’s just this side of Heaven.
I power walk 1hour a day and listen to this song 2 times every time because it has such a touching feeling to it and sends chills down my 61 yrs old back
R.I.P. Ralph, my mom went to school with Ralph and Carter,though they have gone on, we have memories and music that will carry on....
And I'm his 3rd cousin
Hey Will, my father and all of his siblings went to school with Ralph and Carter (and apparently your mom too).
This song says you can’t go home again
My wife rode with Ralph on their final trip. Was holding her when she passed, with the voice of Ralph's ODeath playing in my head. Learned an hour later than Ralph left at the same time, 6-23-2016, he 79 and her 59. It was the greatest feeling of peace I could have had. Jane Hilaire played the Alto Flute, the "high lonesome" of the flute family.. The only titled alto-flute chair caries her name, and am sure they play together.
Maybe best music video ever, for many reasons. 4 talented angels. Flawless performance. Maybelle.
A wonderful song and performance...evocative of a time gone by...a sad time
love this song can hear it over and over excellent song
This is the best. Reminds me of my Great Grandparents. How I miss them. Some beautiful day I'll meet them in Heaven. God Bless Everyone
This is glorious American music.
Ralph. Goosebumps, man. Goosebumps.