JUDY COLLINS & ERIC ANDERSEN - "Thirsty Boots" 2002
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Judy Collins and Eric Andersen, joined by Tom Rush and Arlo Guthrie, on the classic "Thirsty Boots," first recorded by Judy in 1965. This is a clip from the DVD Judy Collins Wildflower Festival, available on Amazon.
To all you young people out there...this song is about being part of something that is bigger than just your self, about believing, about looking to those around you "for the morning in your eyes"...Take a stand, try to make a new world...whether you succeed or fall short you will be forever changed and elevated by the effort. The world changes by tiny degree, but give it your all and, in the end, when you are old (as I am) you will look back and realize that your song has not been failed.
tb30486 I could not have said it better. True that.
For those of us who went down to Selma in '63, and who were not certain what we did mattered at all, Eric told us we had. A million thanks to everyone who ever sang this song.
My dad was there.
Pangael Bless you. Still good people in the world.
Pangael I was 11 and was not allowed to go to Selma. I did get to see Dr King when he spoke in Detroit. You have my deepest respect.
Peter Gerstenzang b
Now instead of a Great Man of Peace and Compassion like Dr. King, we have a divisive Hate Group like BLM funded by Multi-Millionaieres and whose heads of BLM live in Mansions. BLM was created to divide the Races while Dr. King wanted to unite everyone.
Saw Eric playing in a Montreal coffee music club in 1970. He was twanging with a quarter since he didn't have a pick. I had one so I gave it to him.
I saw him in Denver. His voice has traveled with me over the decades since then.
This song, along with the rest of the great songs on a Judy Collins album I got while I was in Vietnam, helped to get me through some pretty tough months during my 2nd tour. I picked up a suitcase record player in Manila during an R&R and brought it back to Nam with me, joined Columbia Record Club, and was off to the races. It stayed behind with my buddies when I rotated home and I figure it was carried into Hue when they went there in Oct. '67.
Eric Andersen is a wonderful songwriter. I've been singing his songs since the 60's. RIP Phil Ochs. Phil was also a wonderful talent. Doesn't get much better than this.
I met Phil for the first time in 68. I was 16 and working my butt off for Gene McCarthy. Phil was playing the rally. After the songs and speeches, Phil came down and talked to the kids working the rally. I saw him many more times at demonstrations and a few actual concerts. I was living in Dublin when he died. It was as if something uniquely American was gone.
Tears are flowing... this song is appropriate for today as it was back in the day.
Judy has a voice from the angels... still does.
I have always loved this song. This version is special. Anne Schwerner was my biology teacher and her son's thirsty boots never came home
Eric Margolis bless her. She raised a brave son.
I like this because they don't try to oversing it. Eric Anderson was introduced to me by a boyfriend who played all his songs.
This song makes me cry....always has. John Gorka and John Denver covered it so well but this is PRIMO!
This is also the song that inspired me to walk across the country (USA) on foot. The most awesome experience of my life was sleeping in the rain.
A wonderful and under appreciated song. What it was all about back then.
What an incredible performance. Judy was the very first person I ever saw perform live (with Arlo Guthrie in 1968).
This song immortalizes Eric. Regretably, I found him to be quite aloof and distant when I met him once. I hope it was just me.
Was always told that this song was for Phil Ochs. Tom Rush, Arlo, Judy, and Eric doing this together lifts my spirits. Kindness & Compassion triumphs over despair and dismissiveness.
I continue to hope so.
Once again I am sobbing. What a powerful intricate beautiful song.
"Yes and all of this and more, my friend, your song shall not be failed"....Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, George Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, Bernie Madoff, Enron, Dick Cheney...sometimes it's so hard to believe in this, but God help my empty soul if I can no longer hear the song...God help us all.
Thank you.
Here I am, 61 years old, and this video has me wet with tears of happiness and nostalgia at the beauty of these four whom I saw so many times so many years ago, and not in many years. This is absolutely beautiful. Thank you very much to whoever put it up for all to see and hear.
Mark Sukoenig
Hello Mark. I caught sight of your post from long ago and I feel the same. This song used to drift across the campus when I was at Uni , so long ago and as we are very similar in age, I just hope you’re in good health in these difficult times.
@@californiadreamin8423 Hello California Dreaming, I'm continuing the thread here. I caught sight of your post, and also used to "...drift across campus at the Uni", playing songs at Hootenanies like "Thirsty Boots" and, much more recently, Phil Och's, "Pleasures of the Harbor". Shelter From The Storm, I extend to you good health from all us '49ers as we make our way through this age of the pandemic, extreme politics, and Natural disasters. I reach for a partial mental remedy for all that, and think of Neil Young's song, "Don't Let It Bring You Down, it's only castles burning; find someone who's turning, and you will come around."
@@codybluetarp Good Morning from across the pond. You gave me an instant laugh with your Croissant Sandwiches video. We certainly share similar taste in music, when I looked at the other music on your channel. Although I studied engineering, I think I gained more musically, folk groups, my Guild (Rhode Island) Dreadnought , finger picking, concertinas, fiddles, pipes, good music, which still keeps me going every day. 😊 All the best.
@@codybluetarpYes...only castles burning after all.
One of the best renditions!
FROM marylamb1: this song is actually more beautiful today when you think it was written in the 60's about the civil rights movement and today we have a brilliant black man running for president we owe thanks to the brave song writers like eric andersen who tried to point us in the right direction when it wasn't easy. God bless Eric!
What a pleasure. What a group. What musicians. It don't get better than this.
Eric Andersen's wonderful , hope-filled paean to those who fought in their own way for social justice in the 60s. This song still brings tears to my eyes.
I remember seeing Eric and so many others at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr, PA. Bonnie Raitt, America, James Taylor, etc.
Brings tears to my eyes.
FROM mindheartspeak: I am glad I found this and have a glimpse of judy's live performances. she's just so natural and yet so beautiful; and the voice-nothing quite like it. I'll never get tired listening to her. I wish to see her in one of her performances. That is my fervent prayer.
"I just love this", it is so much fun to sing along with, the harmony in it is just wonderful.
thats really great, really great! Collin's voice is so sweet.
Bravo ! stay with us !
Been listening to Eric since the sixties. Not a big Judy Collins fan, but like Eric’s solo part.
The sincere lyric and beautiful melody go simply straight to our heart timelessly
This is wonderful
FROM niborenyap: I have loved Eric Andersen's music for three decades. To hear him sing this 'landmark' song with Judy Collins is out of this world. I once saw him sing it live, but I think she's added a new dimension to it in this 'video'. Fantastic !
FROM chastalard: Such a beautiful song...one of Judy's signatures.... I am loving it!!!
FROM arlens47: I have loved Judy's music since the 60's. Her voice is undiminished. Keep on singing Judy!
FROM brokenlampshade: I learned how to finger pick listening to Eric on an old mono record player and saw him 20 years ago at the Iron Horse in Northampton. His stuff stands the test of time. Classic!
Unforgettable
FROM folkmusicgirl: Just incredible to see these folk music legends all on one stage together singing this song that stands the test of time. Judy, Eric, Tom & Arlo all started their careers in the early to mid 60's & still recording or performing after all these years!
I started listening to folk music at 16 & 17 years old as this music was so meaningful to me. Thanks so much for posting this video!
Her voice--along with the rest of her--HAS aged very well. Pay no attention to the post below this one
Wonderful, wonderful
Great Duet. Beautifully sung.
i recall in Haifa, Israel, me and Helen would stay up all night singing these songs. She could play hundreds of songs and this was one of them. I would sing along. I think this was our personal favorite.
they never age
our heros
Wonderful video--and there's Arlo Guthrie, singing with them. What a great trio!!!
FROM 2rainbowed: Judy must be something else-- to have so many men fall for her. I wish I had it! :)
FROM hbailen: This song ought to be taught to every child...it's about friendship, struggle and justice - and will get them ready for what's ahead. Help to make them better adults.
FROM lightsnowovernight: I recall very fondly my first date - we went to hear Eric Andersen at Le Hibou in Ottawa in 1969....it's nice to see this again
They don't write 'em like this anymore!
All that I can possibly say is, "I just love this"
Beautiful, important song. John Denver sings it lovely too.
Judy's playing a 12- string and I love that!
Eric wrote this for the Late Phil Ochs, a war protestor who unfortunately took his own life feeling he couldn't make a difference. He wrote hundreds of protest songs, perhaps best known for "I ain't marchin' anymore." I only wish he could have seen the end to the Vietnam war.
Jack, many performers are "aloof and distant" when they are off-stage. Perhaps it's a hazard of performing, but the contrast can be quite disconcerting. I've seen it a thousand times. Hard to accept but the music is beautiful, none-the-less. Love this grouping! Really fine.
This is such a classic SPECIAL song! I have been a long time fan of Eric Anderson's and this song is one of my all time favorites. I used to hear him at the Boarding House in San Francisco. Thirsty Boots takes me back into the 60's!
Thanks for having this available for us older fans to hear again. I love Judy and Arlo (I am sorry Tom, but was never too familiar with your music - no disrespect intended at all))
Sorry, Eric AndsersEn
Tom: ruclips.net/video/Vk9QFRvVQQ0/видео.html
Excellent video, by two people who should be singing this, with great backup 😍🌈❤️🥰❗️Thanks so much !
What a find! Nice...
Lots of memories....
It was a great plesure after the first recording in Judy's fiftth album. 5 stars ! Great thanks !
A talented and gentle murderer's row of musicians doing this timeless song. My sympathies to the eleven Justin Bieber fans who voted this down.
The first version of this I heard was by John Denver, but this is wonderful too!
Great stuff... would liked to have seen and heard more of my favorite (next to Judy) Tom Rush!
Thanks, I needed this smile today. No class here either.But I do have a Marine Band Hohner in G.
guess we are getting older, this sort of thing no longer resonates, "this isthe end"
Beautiful!
Tim Hardin, the song's writer, was a beautiful soul who could not live happily in this world. R.I.P. tIM
+Wayne Barr
Eric WROTE THIS!
Come On man, please research first before you make yourself look silly on RUclips in front of 7.3 Billion people!
I am truly humbled that 7.3 billion people read my post and after74 and one half years, it is a joy to be alive enough to be both embarrassed and dead wrong. I have written personal apologies to each person and Eric, of course. Thanks MC I for your most gentle chide in the spirit of the days when we thought peace, equality, harmony and mutual respect were more than just pipe dreams..
@lateniterev 7 months later, I need to comment. Phil did see the end of Vietnam. The last "up" of his bipolar depression was planning the War Is Over rally in Central Park. He sang a couple of songs with Joan Baez. Soon after that rally, he descended into psychosis and dissociation and called himself John Butler Train for a while before "recovering," only to feel so guilty about what he did to his friends during that time that he hung himself in April 1976.
I saw Phil at a benefit concert for the birth of GreenPeace in Vancouver, BC October 1970. I was thrilled to see Joni Mitchell and James Taylor together at that concert, and unlike some in the audience I was a big fan of Phil, too --- had all of his albums and I had learned to sing and play a few of his songs. So I was just as thrilled to see Phi live for the first time. The whole concert blew my mind, and for years afterwards I was haunted by one unfamiliar song that Phil sang --- "No More Songs." It finally came out on a record, years later. We didn't have RUclips or the internet back then, so things like that moved at glacial speed. (Another example was Joni's "Urge for Going" song that was only released as the flip side of a single --- I was searching for that song for years; finally found it in a Golden Oldies record store in the late '70's). After about 40 years, a long-hidden tape of the GreenPeace "Amchitka" concert that I attended was released on a double CD, including Phil's performance. It was not a bootleg tape, it was recorded with the consent of the artists and the GreenPeace co-founder had simply filed it away until it found the light of day again. Phil had quite an effect on many of us who were around for the Civil Rights and Vietnam War struggles, and "Thirsty Boots" takes me back to that time of idealism, frustration, futility, and ultimately optimism for a better world.
1st song to make me shed a tear in quite a long while..surprised that I was not familiar with it before ,or maybe I heard it an didn't listen to the words
Odd that we didn't hear it from singers along with the release of the Selma movie.
Eric used to say he had never been down south to see the civil rights problems so he wrote this song about coming back
♥ thank you
as good as ever it was
FROM longred: When I was a teen visiting Greenwich Village I saw Eric perform and fell in love with the voice as well as the man. Now, seeing this video brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for posting!
FROM mungo911: I used to see him in Boston and the Blues Bag in P-town back in the 60's. Stole alot of his tunes by sitting down front to see how he did some of them :). Like him alone better.
FROM djackhorner: This song always makes me think of Jesus and his disciples, their feet and sandals dusty from the desert sand, relentless in their quest to bring hope,
and the possibility of love to a world drenched in hate for those bearing the same image and likeness of the Creator..
FROM ttomassean: Makes me think of some young sweet girl who finds some poor, travel weary guy, and decides to give him a little "relief" from his travels; if just for tonight.
FROM coacjk:
Eric, Arlo, Tom Rush, and Judy. WOW! Thank you whoever posted this. you made my day. ED.K
FROM mountainwmnvt: What a treat! I saw Judy and Eric both about 9 or 10 yrs ago (not at the same time), and they actually even look better now! Both bring back such memories...and a few tears...I hope to see them both live again! Thanks for the video!!!!
yea I can well believe we wrote the last verse on the train on a match box and time was running out, honestly cant make much sense of it.
This was an anthem of the civil rights and anti war movements.
And by the way; she's over 70 years old now
fabulous! Judy's voice is stunning and this song has always been a big fave of mine, and so nice harmonies and nice ending! Were they a couple at some time? But whats wrong with Tom? He looks so out of it?
I don't think Tim Hardin wrote this. Eric wrote it for fellow songwriter extrodinaire Phil Ochs.
I believe Eric wrote it for Judy Collins. She talks about it at the end of this video, and that he wrote the last verse on the train--Eric says he wrote it on a matchbook cover.
is just a diehard folkie.
@tubesteak2go @tubesteak2go Actually, Mr. "tubesteak2go", your guesses are a little off the mark. I am, in fact, a multimillionaire and a registered independent. I own a home in Los Angeles, a beach house on the coast, five automobiles and an airplane. What a person has or doesn't have means nothing...recognizing what is right and true is what's important. As to "class"...I would never claim to have any, but let's allow the folks reading these comments to be the judges.
John Denver's version of the song is the best.
Better than CSNY
I suspect that you are a liar ,no self made person ever has to validate their possessions,i appologize if I am wrong.