❤From one southern born Home Fry and reactor to another, this resonated with me too and I absolutely love that you didn't shy away from the meaning you took from the song. Also, just wanted to say that I always look forward to your reactions because your reminders to do what makes you happy always brighten my day!
ditto, I am a northerner (who undestands that Dixie is not limited to the south). I have often thought that in this song, Home Free offers to folks in Dixie (wherever it is) an important perspective on moving forward without denying the value of their roots, rather than clinging blindly to them. And this is somethng very much needed in theses days. Bur I am an outsider. What do you Dixie folks think? Also, I see this song as one in a group of other songs (Brothers in Arms, Go Rest High on That Mountain, Undivided, Don't Laugh at Me, Everybody Walking This Land, etc) that show WHO Home Free is.
This song shows once again how talented these guys are. What a fantastic song! Chris' guitar playing is great and makes the song perfect. And that Tim and Chance have great voices really doesn't need to be emphasized. Adam's restrained but wonderful no-monica and background vocals round out the whole thing. Another masterpiece from these fantastic guys!
Beautiful song about moving along in life and realizing that you can't take all of the past along with you. And, of course, a great job by all the guys. And I think Chris' guitar was perfect on this one.
Another great original song! This is such a beautiful heartfelt melancholy song. Tim's lead was awesome along with all the guy's harmonies & Adam's harmonica sounds were great as usual. I don't mind having an instrument played once in awhile in a song. It was tastefully done in the background without taking over. It added a nice element. Also like the scenery in Colorado.
Great original song with Chris Chatham on guitar. This is so beautiful but kind of sad. These guys are so amazing and so incredibly talented. Tim, Austin and Chris wrote the song.
Beautiful❣️🎼🥰🎶❤️ One of those songs whose "meaning" is open to interpretation by the listener, so there are many--a sign of a great song, accompanied by HF's masterpiece harmonies❣️
Yes, this was written by Tim, Austin, Adam Wakefield (Texas Hill) and Chris Chatham the guy playing the guitar. Totally enjoyed watching your reaction to this song.
Love this song - and I also liked the guitar. Very moving. I wish I could keep resubscribing - excited for the meet and greet! I know he’ll be great because you are.❤
This song is beautiful. Sad but hopeful and loving. I think alot of people can relate to the idea of moving on but embracing your roots/past. It just hits and makes you think. And when one of their songs make you chuckle like that, I know you liked it alot!
A soft, gentle, easy to sing along with …. words that pierce, and stay with you , hard not to remember. Being from Connecticut, I find saying New England instead of Dixie easy to substitute. Clink your glasses, a toast all round to more reflective excellence!
Every single person has reacted and found something special about this song. That is a mark of excellent writing, having lyrics that mean many different things to different people.
It's not just the south. I grew up in a northern plains state, and there is no way I could live in my hometown, now. Too many things have changed - both there and in me.
Another masterpiece. Really so beautiful. Great lead from Tim and Chance. The amazing guitar playing of Chris Chatham that just belongs to this song. Then Adam's modest but great no-monica, the background vocal sound, the bass and the incredible harmonies round it all off. All this in a wonderful environment. Top!
Yeah, they know how to make you dig deep don't they? Adam's Nomonica ..immediate lump in my throat. Chance singing bass ...Tim and he pass it back n forth so effortlessly. My favorite example of them handing it back and forth is Ain't Goin Down til the Sun Comes Up. It's absolutely flawless. I really hope Chance does more Bass leads he is SO darn good at it. It was Born in the USA that Chance plays guitar on. This song...they once again show us that they are super multi-talented. All of them songwriters, lyricists and vocalists. Home Free makes it hard not to be a music nerd when hearing them.
Long story short - I was brought up in a military family, so travelled around quite a lot. We finally settled in Northeast Mississippi(Iuka), where I spent the best part of my youth until I joined the US Air Force in 1965. I now live in the UK, but will always call Iuka my US hometown. Like you, I know, tghat because of the environment of the early 60's, I could never go back there to live. It was even difficult to visit. That being said, I would not trade my time there for the world. This song, besides being Home Free at their best, also holds a lot of meaning for me.
Just know that this fellow Mississippian loves your reactions and is proud to say we're from the same state. I've lived in South, North, and Central MS. Most of my extended family is in S MS and Louisiana. I'm still here and probably won't ever go anywhere though. ❤
It does, that's why this so is so great. it applies in some way to all of us North or South we all have been running to or from something that we need to pause reflect and learn so we can go forward stronger. LOVE this song more each time I hear it.
Love this song. Tim, Austin, Chris (Tim’s friend playing guitar) wrote this. It’s so moving. Yeah Chance played guitar in Born in the USA. They used a piano in Save the World, Maggie Baugh played violin in To the Moon and Back and a few others. They’re so good. I don’t mind an instrument either. For more on Chance try I Can’t Outrun You, Yours, and I love his channel (Adam Chance channel) where he collaborates with the Hound + Fox on Wayfaring Stranger, Hurt and others.
Seems to me that life is a one way street, and all of us reach a point where we have to acknowledge that we need to leave some things behind. Adam's harmonica sounds rip your heart out.
Chris Chatham is a masterful guitarist (and mandolin player) and it adds to much to this song. I've seen him in previous videos with Austin and/or Tim and he's one of the players in Tim and Austin's side project "Sweet and Low Music Co." (along with Ernie Hanks, Jeffrey East & Laurie Marion). This song is so good and says so much.
This is beautifully bittersweet. It heals an American hurt that’s difficult to express. The lyrics - they’re an intimate, personal expression of a single soul. There’s just something about these men and their music that touches the spirit. Home Free, somehow, has the ability to break the rules. They can add an instrument and still feel a capella. Chris Chatham on guitar was just the right bit to add. His playing was just enough to augment, but not too much to distract. Damn, these men are good.
I suppose it comes down to, I trust Home Free to do what's best for the song, and if that includes instruments, then I don't have a problem with it. And Chris Chatham is both a talented guitarist, and an experienced acapella singer in his own right, so he know what complements vocal harmony, rather than over-powering it.
I think Chance may have played guitar in 'Born in the USA.' Could be wrong. He definitely brings the 'rumble' in this. Adam, along with rockin' the bandana, hair and shades, gives his nominica bit of a slide effect. Another reactor thought they heard a bit of vocal 'strings,' at one point, thinking it might be Austin (he's done that high, prolonged tone before) or Adam layering it in. I'm not from Dixie, never been, but this melancholy melody brings up emotion every time. (Don't even mind it as ear worm, which it's been for days now.) Definitely belongs on the radio. The HR purists aren't keen on the guitar but I think it complements the feel. (This was filmed on cold day near Denver. Chris's fingers were numb. Gotta hand it to the guys for hiding their shivering. )
Some years ago, I was visiting my folks in south Alabama. I made a comment to my dad about moving back and I will never forget what he said. He said, "Honey, you would never be satisfied here again. You've been in the city too long to ever be comfortable in a small town again." And he was right. I no longer fit the small town South anymore. But sometimes, I still miss it.
Pappy I hear ya brother. Hauntingly beautiful. Chance played with his guitar in Born in the USA. This song resonates with me & my past as well. I was born & raised here in Miami, but I was raised as a Southerner...grew up going to a Southern Baptist Church (Flagler Street Baptist) and was indoctrinated with the Gospel, but also a lot of the underlying hate & sometimes subtle & not so subtle racism that the denomination carries with it, now & historically. But I broke free of that, and all the other hateful beliefs they continue even today to profess, which is their prerogative, but it's also mine to not follow. My father-in-law insisted I convert to Orthodoxy when I married Liza. You'd think they might be even more conservative in their thinking & preaching, and they are somewhat, but overall I find them more accepting of everyone, and truly espousing the Gospel of Christ, much more than my former SBC brothers & sisters. I know this is rambling, but I wanted you to know this song also evokes feelings in me as well. A little sadness and pain but a cleansing too. A renewal of my beliefs, that we are all God's equal children, black, white, Christian, non-Christian, Spiritual, Agnostic or Athiest, Straight or Gay...we are here to support & love each other, to nurture & help each other grow to our full potential. Bless you & your husband, let's get to 10k so I can see that feller ! 😎👍😉
Two other really beautiful songs by HF that I imagine you would like: "I've Seen" ("I've seen rain on the Mississippi Delta..."), which was also written by Tim, and their cover of John Mayer's "In the Blood." Also, people must have told you that you look a LOT like Chance!
This song has hit a lot of people pretty hard. Some of them really resonate with it, but there are also a lot of angry Southerners in their comment section.
👍👍👍👍👍 (Because I feel like 6 would have been excessive.) This is BY AND FAR my favourite reaction to this song, thus far. I've constantly been looking for a reactor who actually knew what "Dixie" meant/represented and...nada, until yoy. I'm a Canadian girl, born-and-raised in Texas though (my dad was in oil 🙄). And it can just be so dang hard to describe the open racism/sexism/homopobia/transphobia/islamabphobia/any other form of discrimination you can think of, which often exists there, to people who have never experienced/witnessed it - they literally don't believe it's still so REAL! They always think I'm just exaggerating.
When nothing ever stays the same and everything changes from day to day it makes me sad that human nature seems to always want to live in the past. We can't. What we can do is, as the beautiful lyrics of this song tells us, is to examine our inner selves and "learn from our mistakes". :) We can evolve. *We* can be the average American Citizens who begin to fulfill the promises made by this nation at it's inception and work on creating "Life, Liberty and Justice" for all Americans. Not just the rich ones. I wish we'd just make a Top Ten List of our most Common Failings or something and concentrate on improving the quality of the thoughts that exist between our ears and increasing the spirit of kindness that exists within our hearts. In the end, that's all that matters anyway.
Some people won't understand the meaning of this song. My husband was offered a high paying job in a Mid Eastern country but turned it down as it would have been hard for me and our daughters in that country and downright dangerous for our gay son.
@@nightthornkvala94132 Exactly, it's the "dixie" lifestyle, attitude. A LOT of people are tiptoeing around that and making up their own idea of what the guys are singing about but the guys from Home Free are unapologetically progressive, and they've proven that in their songs and their actions again and again. Another reason to love the heck outta them!!!
Mistakes on a personal level happen all through life. Thinking about the words "wrong way" has me a bit dismayed. If the mistakes are honest ones made from ignorance or misunderstanding, we should be forgiven. Then "It's time we start to learn from our mistakes." Don't we start learning from mistakes soon after we make them? The context of them, i.e., time frame and situation. This line is disturbing to many bc It's not clear at all who the "we" and "our" is. So, is this just band members or a larger group? The word Dixie in the title seems to imply a larger group -- those in Dixie. I think those who wrote this song and even the whole band to sit down with someone neutral for an interview.
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❤From one southern born Home Fry and reactor to another, this resonated with me too and I absolutely love that you didn't shy away from the meaning you took from the song. Also, just wanted to say that I always look forward to your reactions because your reminders to do what makes you happy always brighten my day!
ditto, I am a northerner (who undestands that Dixie is not limited to the south). I have often thought that in this song, Home Free offers to folks in Dixie (wherever it is) an important perspective on moving forward without denying the value of their roots, rather than clinging blindly to them. And this is somethng very much needed in theses days. Bur I am an outsider. What do you Dixie folks think? Also, I see this song as one in a group of other songs (Brothers in Arms, Go Rest High on That Mountain, Undivided, Don't Laugh at Me, Everybody Walking This Land, etc) that show WHO Home Free is.
Another beautiful song.. There's just not enough words to say how amazing Home Free is.. Love these Boys so much 💞💞💞🏡🆓🏡🍟
This song shows once again how talented these guys are. What a fantastic song! Chris' guitar playing is great and makes the song perfect. And that Tim and Chance have great voices really doesn't need to be emphasized. Adam's restrained but wonderful no-monica and background vocals round out the whole thing. Another masterpiece from these fantastic guys!
:D "No-monica" perfect name for it.
Beautiful song about moving along in life and realizing that you can't take all of the past along with you. And, of course, a great job by all the guys. And I think Chris' guitar was perfect on this one.
Another great original song! This is such a beautiful heartfelt melancholy song. Tim's lead was awesome along with all the guy's harmonies & Adam's harmonica sounds were great as usual. I don't mind having an instrument played once in awhile in a song. It was tastefully done in the background without taking over. It added a nice element. Also like the scenery in Colorado.
I absolutely love this song. Tim And Austin wrote it and Chris on guitar. It makes me tear up.
This one is haunting and really stirs something in my heart. Thank you! (And I like Chris Chatham showing up, too.)
Great original song with Chris Chatham on guitar. This is so beautiful but kind of sad. These guys are so amazing and so incredibly talented. Tim, Austin and Chris wrote the song.
Oh, I forgot, this was written by Tim, Austin, Adam Wakefield of Texas Hill, and Chris Chatham (the guy on the guitar here).
Yes, this is so beautiful!! Thanks fo being on this journey with us! I love your reactions!!❤ Can’t wait to see your husband reacting with you! 👍👍❤️
Beautiful❣️🎼🥰🎶❤️
One of those songs whose "meaning" is open to interpretation by the listener, so there are many--a sign of a great song, accompanied by HF's masterpiece harmonies❣️
I really enjoyed your reaction. I’m glad the song resonated with you. It’s a beautiful piece.
I grew up in Florien LA and I could not go back there either. This song hit home for me as well
Yes, this was written by Tim, Austin, Adam Wakefield (Texas Hill) and Chris Chatham the guy playing the guitar. Totally enjoyed watching your reaction to this song.
Great song, great album!!! Love ur reactions! ❤
Love this song - and I also liked the guitar. Very moving. I wish I could keep resubscribing - excited for the meet and greet! I know he’ll be great because you are.❤
This song is beautiful. Sad but hopeful and loving. I think alot of people can relate to the idea of moving on but embracing your roots/past. It just hits and makes you think. And when one of their songs make you chuckle like that, I know you liked it alot!
A soft, gentle, easy to sing along with …. words that pierce, and stay with you , hard not to remember. Being from Connecticut, I find saying New England instead of Dixie easy to substitute. Clink your glasses, a toast all round to more reflective excellence!
Every single person has reacted and found something special about this song. That is a mark of excellent writing, having lyrics that mean many different things to different people.
I understand what you are saying. I, too grew up in southern MS but feel much more at home where I am now.
It's not just the south. I grew up in a northern plains state, and there is no way I could live in my hometown, now. Too many things have changed - both there and in me.
Such a touching song! Thanks for the open and honest reaction.
This such an awesome song! Another awesome original! Love your reaction!
Another masterpiece. Really so beautiful. Great lead from Tim and Chance. The amazing guitar playing of Chris Chatham that just belongs to this song. Then Adam's modest but great no-monica, the background vocal sound, the bass and the incredible harmonies round it all off. All this in a wonderful environment. Top!
Loved your reaction. Chance has the most soothing mellow voice that I really enjoy. I can’t really name favorites though.
Yeah, they know how to make you dig deep don't they? Adam's Nomonica ..immediate lump in my throat. Chance singing bass ...Tim and he pass it back n forth so effortlessly. My favorite example of them handing it back and forth is Ain't Goin Down til the Sun Comes Up. It's absolutely flawless. I really hope Chance does more Bass leads he is SO darn good at it. It was Born in the USA that Chance plays guitar on. This song...they once again show us that they are super multi-talented. All of them songwriters, lyricists and vocalists. Home Free makes it hard not to be a music nerd when hearing them.
Long story short - I was brought up in a military family, so travelled around quite a lot. We finally settled in Northeast Mississippi(Iuka), where I spent the best part of my youth until I joined the US Air Force in 1965. I now live in the UK, but will always call Iuka my US hometown. Like you, I know, tghat because of the environment of the early 60's, I could never go back there to live. It was even difficult to visit. That being said, I would not trade my time there for the world. This song, besides being Home Free at their best, also holds a lot of meaning for me.
Just know that this fellow Mississippian loves your reactions and is proud to say we're from the same state. I've lived in South, North, and Central MS. Most of my extended family is in S MS and Louisiana. I'm still here and probably won't ever go anywhere though. ❤
Great reaction to this beautiful song . Chance played guitar in Born in The USA
Thanks Pappy D - always love your reactions. 🖤🍟
LOVE this song. Great reaction. Subbed for more Home Free.....and to make your husband appear 😄
It does, that's why this so is so great. it applies in some way to all of us North or South we all have been running to or from something that we need to pause reflect and learn so we can go forward stronger. LOVE this song more each time I hear it.
Love this song. Tim, Austin, Chris (Tim’s friend playing guitar) wrote this. It’s so moving. Yeah Chance played guitar in Born in the USA. They used a piano in Save the World, Maggie Baugh played violin in To the Moon and Back and a few others. They’re so good. I don’t mind an instrument either. For more on Chance try I Can’t Outrun You, Yours, and I love his channel (Adam Chance channel) where he collaborates with the Hound + Fox on Wayfaring Stranger, Hurt and others.
Another masterpiece from the boys!! Original from Tim, Austin, ,Chris and another gentleman. Chris's guitar is phenomenal!
Adam Wakefield from Texas Hill
Thanks for reacting to this song.
I love this song. One of my top 3 on the new album ✌️❤️
Seems to me that life is a one way street, and all of us reach a point where we have to acknowledge that we need to leave some things behind. Adam's harmonica sounds rip your heart out.
Chris Chatham is a masterful guitarist (and mandolin player) and it adds to much to this song. I've seen him in previous videos with Austin and/or Tim and he's one of the players in Tim and Austin's side project "Sweet and Low Music Co." (along with Ernie Hanks, Jeffrey East & Laurie Marion). This song is so good and says so much.
Just to clarify, it’s Ernie Halter and Louisa Marion.
This is beautifully bittersweet. It heals an American hurt that’s difficult to express. The lyrics - they’re an intimate, personal expression of a single soul. There’s just something about these men and their music that touches the spirit.
Home Free, somehow, has the ability to break the rules. They can add an instrument and still feel a capella. Chris Chatham on guitar was just the right bit to add. His playing was just enough to augment, but not too much to distract.
Damn, these men are good.
I suppose it comes down to, I trust Home Free to do what's best for the song, and if that includes instruments, then I don't have a problem with it. And Chris Chatham is both a talented guitarist, and an experienced acapella singer in his own right, so he know what complements vocal harmony, rather than over-powering it.
Same. I trust them to know if it's going to help or hurt a song.
And Chris also wrote the guitar part for this song.
@@susanhorn4325 Very true.
I think Chance may have played guitar in 'Born in the USA.' Could be wrong. He definitely brings the 'rumble' in this. Adam, along with rockin' the bandana, hair and shades, gives his nominica bit of a slide effect. Another reactor thought they heard a bit of vocal 'strings,' at one point, thinking it might be Austin (he's done that high, prolonged tone before) or Adam layering it in.
I'm not from Dixie, never been, but this melancholy melody brings up emotion every time. (Don't even mind it as ear worm, which it's been for days now.) Definitely belongs on the radio. The HR purists aren't keen on the guitar but I think it complements the feel. (This was filmed on cold day near Denver. Chris's fingers were numb. Gotta hand it to the guys for hiding their shivering. )
Yes, Born in the USA. That was it.
Some years ago, I was visiting my folks in south Alabama. I made a comment to my dad about moving back and I will never forget what he said. He said, "Honey, you would never be satisfied here again. You've been in the city too long to ever be comfortable in a small town again." And he was right. I no longer fit the small town South anymore. But sometimes, I still miss it.
It is a beautiful presentation, isn't it?
I’ve checked different comments … Am I the only one that hears the theme to the OLYMPICS when they all sing the oos along with the guitar solo?
These guys are redefining acapella with a song like this.
Chance is amazing
Thank you ❤️
Pappy I hear ya brother. Hauntingly beautiful. Chance played with his guitar in Born in the USA. This song resonates with me & my past as well. I was born & raised here in Miami, but I was raised as a Southerner...grew up going to a Southern Baptist Church (Flagler Street Baptist) and was indoctrinated with the Gospel, but also a lot of the underlying hate & sometimes subtle & not so subtle racism that the denomination carries with it, now & historically. But I broke free of that, and all the other hateful beliefs they continue even today to profess, which is their prerogative, but it's also mine to not follow. My father-in-law insisted I convert to Orthodoxy when I married Liza. You'd think they might be even more conservative in their thinking & preaching, and they are somewhat, but overall I find them more accepting of everyone, and truly espousing the Gospel of Christ, much more than my former SBC brothers & sisters. I know this is rambling, but I wanted you to know this song also evokes feelings in me as well. A little sadness and pain but a cleansing too. A renewal of my beliefs, that we are all God's equal children, black, white, Christian, non-Christian, Spiritual, Agnostic or Athiest, Straight or Gay...we are here to support & love each other, to nurture & help each other grow to our full potential. Bless you & your husband, let's get to 10k so I can see that feller ! 😎👍😉
Amen
Two other really beautiful songs by HF that I imagine you would like: "I've Seen" ("I've seen rain on the Mississippi Delta..."), which was also written by Tim, and their cover of John Mayer's "In the Blood." Also, people must have told you that you look a LOT like Chance!
I have not been told that, but thank you
This song has hit a lot of people pretty hard. Some of them really resonate with it, but there are also a lot of angry Southerners in their comment section.
I’m a Southerner and the last thing I am is upset with Home Free. I think this song is great!!! ❤️
I'm southern and I love it. It hits hard, but true. And I agree with the message.
@@robinmahan8814 I grew up in southern Indiana, which is kinda Southern-adjacent -- lots of Southern culture and people -- and I agree with it, too.
👍👍👍👍👍 (Because I feel like 6 would have been excessive.)
This is BY AND FAR my favourite reaction to this song, thus far. I've constantly been looking for a reactor who actually knew what "Dixie" meant/represented and...nada, until yoy. I'm a Canadian girl, born-and-raised in Texas though (my dad was in oil 🙄). And it can just be so dang hard to describe the open racism/sexism/homopobia/transphobia/islamabphobia/any other form of discrimination you can think of, which often exists there, to people who have never experienced/witnessed it - they literally don't believe it's still so REAL! They always think I'm just exaggerating.
When nothing ever stays the same and everything changes from day to day it makes me sad that human nature seems to always want to live in the past. We can't. What we can do is, as the beautiful lyrics of this song tells us, is to examine our inner selves and "learn from our mistakes". :) We can evolve. *We* can be the average American Citizens who begin to fulfill the promises made by this nation at it's inception and work on creating "Life, Liberty and Justice" for all Americans. Not just the rich ones.
I wish we'd just make a Top Ten List of our most Common Failings or something and concentrate on improving the quality of the thoughts that exist between our ears and increasing the spirit of kindness that exists within our hearts. In the end, that's all that matters anyway.
Yes and no. Tim for sure but I think also Austin It's about anything you leave behind really. taking the lessons forward with you.
Some people won't understand the meaning of this song. My husband was offered a high paying job in a Mid Eastern country but turned it down as it would have been hard for me and our daughters in that country and downright dangerous for our gay son.
I was thinking that it's not really saying so long to the South, but to the "Dixie" attitude. That's of the past.
@@nightthornkvala94132 Exactly, it's the "dixie" lifestyle, attitude. A LOT of people are tiptoeing around that and making up their own idea of what the guys are singing about but the guys from Home Free are unapologetically progressive, and they've proven that in their songs and their actions again and again. Another reason to love the heck outta them!!!
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💖💖💖💖
Chance- The Boss how do you forget Springsteen ? LOLOLOL
Wish I could subscribe again...
Mistakes on a personal level happen all through life. Thinking about the words "wrong way" has me a bit dismayed. If the mistakes are honest ones made from ignorance or misunderstanding, we should be forgiven. Then "It's time we start to learn from our mistakes." Don't we start learning from mistakes soon after we make them? The context of them, i.e., time frame and situation. This line is disturbing to many bc It's not clear at all who the "we" and "our" is. So, is this just band members or a larger group? The word Dixie in the title seems to imply a larger group -- those in Dixie. I think those who wrote this song and even the whole band to sit down with someone neutral for an interview.