phenomenal stuff. It was incredible to begin with...James and the Chicks just adds another layer to it. Lovely hearing Natalie singing it with James backing... : ) simply doesn't get any better.
James Taylor is a national treasure. Hearing Natalie's sweet pure voice on lead on this song is so hugely moving! I am so proud of the Dixie Chicks and their music and their getting together so well with JT.
I was thinking the same thing. I love singing and listening to harmonies. And it blows my mind the one he figured out for this song. Even though he wrote this I can't find any version of his using this harmonic approach . Not only was this beautiful and original it also tells me he was very inspired to play with these young ladies.❤️👍
I can remember listening to James Taylor on my parent’s 8 track on the way to nursery school. I still love him! 40 years later. Whenever he is in Baltimore I am there.
When the lists of top ten songwriters are given, James is never on the list. He should be. This song is perfection. Songs like this don't just happen, they're crafted, line by line.
In response to many earlier anti DC posts, if Natalie's voice was as poor as you suggest, there is just no way James Taylor would have shared the stage with them for a number of songs.
James Taylor's versions of ALL of his own songs are ALWAYS the best, but he is such a gentleman, and so generous, in singing seconds to his own hit - this song. He goes up in my estimation - if that is possible. Love the man !!!
If you like James singing harmony, take a listen to him and his brother singing City Lights. It's hard to tell who's singing which part since their voices are similar, but who cares, it's beautiful! ruclips.net/video/vKHznZf2WGI/видео.html
How the album this was on changed my whole life in 1970. There is no other LP that blew things apart and put them back together, the way that record did.
@@terrystorey5331 About the time when you libtards who didn't give a shit about this band decided you were going to jump on their coattails for PC. I've seen her, up close, middle of the day, just before she got her shot (thanks to daddy) at being part of the DC's. Nothing but a barfly drunk at noon giving a poor waitress a hard time. A total bitch and pig ugly. Her daddy had a contract with the DC's, and when their lead singer said she was going to leave, Lloyd Maines had the leverage to push her into that group. IF he had held them to their recording contract rather than let the development deal go forward with Sony, Sony would have found another band to be the flagship group for their new label, and the DC's would have lost their own shot. It was "take my daughter or miss this shot". It took megalithic Sony with all its resources an entire year to make her ready for the stage. The sisters were already there, touring and opening for some of the biggest names in C&W. Nat needed guitar lessons so she could play a few chords. Their best sound man to put the multiple effects together to get her sounding better (her daddy had a recording studio since Maines was at least three years old. He never recorded her until she needed a tape for Berkley School of Music. He never recorded a single solo by her prior to that, nor used her as a backup singer, and he had handled and recorded a lot of people who went on to the major labels. Sony bought into her being the "rebel" to add spice to the group, but they had their hands full keeping her from getting shit faced before performances and recordings. Even big dog Sony couldn't stop Nat's mouth from burying them with the very fan base that made them A list entertainers in the first place. Yeah, she's ugly and not just on the outside. She's a spoiled fat ass bar fly who's daddy gave her a golden ticket.
@@galenwarren3579 so sorry it took you so many lines to express your opinion. You are a fallen human being with so much anger and judgement and you know it. But regardless of MY OPINION of you I don't want to waste my time. Natalie's singing this song with James was wonderful and I loved every second of it!!
RUclips knows if it sends me this in my feed I will watch it. Best version of his. The guitar playing is magnificent. The lead is just perfect. Makes me joyful and sad at the same time.
No one in the public has really heard Natalie Maines real voice. Sony assigned their best Sound Engineer to the group during their run specifically to deal with the inadequacies of her voice. The mixing to improve her voice was described by that Engineer publicly, so Sound Engineers since can deal with the squawking chicken.
@@sune8641 country twang? Yes. That's NOT what Natalie Maines has. She has a bad voice for singing. Even her father, a famous studio owner in Lubbock , never recorded her as a backup singer or as a soloist until he set her up to attend Berkeley School of Music. A recording was required. She registered, but never attended a class because her father called her home and set her up with the original DC's. Sony, who had signed a development contract long before Natalie showed up, was stuck with her. So, they put their best engineer on the job and it took a YEAR to prepare her for the stage. They only really created two original songs. The rest were covers, because it simply wasn't feasible to teach her how to do anything but mimik previous songs and singers.
You write what you know... James was never on a cattle drive... Sweet baby James is his nephew... the Mass turnpike is in Massachusetts ... Stockbridge is in western MA.. Boston is on the Atlantic coast... poetic license.. I love it... Thank you, James.
Pattie McDonald - not quite sure what you're asking, but they played a fantastic gig in New Zealand a year or two ado and were alive, well and harmonious
I would not have thought to put this combination together, but sure glad someone did because apparently it produces solid gold and diamond fairy dust 😲 ✨ just . . bloody . . wow 💫
There's a kind of humility & self forgetfulness about it .. The way Natalie & James allow heaven to come down .. It reminds us of why we're made .. Thank you, JT
@MusicMadMaurice Of course, 12 years later, if I sang along to anything in the car, he'd say, "Mom! You're embarrassing me!" I'd say, "We're the only ones here!"
I love James Taylor and have given him more positive comments than I can remember. With that said, James was an excellent backup singer for the Dixie Chicks! Remember the Band's song "The night they drove old Dixie down?" In France on March 5th, 2003 as Natalie was introducing the Dixie Chicks' latest single, "Travelin' Soldier," she said, "Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas." Country music and mainstream groups around the country turned against the Dixie Chicks and it ultimately ruined their career. It was ugly. "That surely was the night they drove old Dixie down." The "Mob", now hating the French for hosting the Dixie Chicks also put out an edict that French Fries were forever to be called freedom Fries. Many uncomfortable truths are now known about the 2nd invasion of Iraq. Was Natalie wrong in what she said? Great job Natalie, great job Dixie Chicks. You were and I'm sure currently remain a massive inspiration and role models to junior High, high school girls and female college students around the country. Well Done.
I'm not sure their careers were ruined, but since between them they've got 9 kids, they had to slow down a little. When they were here in concert a few years ago, I couldn't get two seats together because the tickets were just about sold out. (I agreed with Natalie."
Right wingers are always pissed off about something or other. With so much religion around, kinda makes a body wonder why so much anger. They’re always blattin’ about the “good news” from Jesus they’re bringing us. Think I’ll pass. If those folks are living their dream, I’m not having any part of their fucking nightmare. Life’s too short for that kind of nonsense and bull shit.
@@Joannakathryn So did I which back then made the uproar in the states so confusing. I guess that was my first introduction to the MOB mentality that is so destructive currently. I'm glad to hear the storm ultimately passed and they are doing well. Thanks for the update!
Their careers were ruined for exercising their right to free speech. George Bush was a puppet President and he was wrong about Iraq. Either way, the country music establishment decided that they were through. That's a shame, because they were at the top at the time.@@Joannakathryn
I adore the fact that JT is so gracious and appreciative of others singing his songs and always has been.
A gracious and kind man.
I saw them in St Louis together. James lit up like a Christmas tree, performing with the Dixie Chicks. It was precious.
James is completely content here as the song writer and backup musician for his own song...and Natalie doesn't disappoint...great stuff.
This never gets old. You can see how much fun they are having doing it
I'll never get tired of this version ❤
Natalie along with her fellow Dixie Chicks do a beautiful job here. JT is as generous as ever.
I'm getting old now with grown children and grandchildren. But long ago, I used to sing this lullaby to my babies.
Music like this is part of what keeps life nice.
phenomenal stuff. It was incredible to begin with...James and the Chicks just adds another layer to it. Lovely hearing Natalie singing it with James backing... : ) simply doesn't get any better.
No one else seems to mention the violin fills, which are so beautifully composed and performed to add to the ambience of the song.
yeah...absolutely...such great stuff.
Marty is a spectacular fiddle player!
What an honour to be able to sing this with the master himself.
James Taylor is a national treasure. Hearing Natalie's sweet pure voice on lead on this song is so hugely moving! I am so proud of the Dixie Chicks and their music and their getting together so well with JT.
Wow James' harmony to this song... man I don't think anyone on CSN could choose better notes
I was thinking the same thing. I love singing and listening to harmonies. And it blows my mind the one he figured out for this song. Even though he wrote this I can't find any version of his using this harmonic approach . Not only was this beautiful and original it also tells me he was very inspired to play with these young ladies.❤️👍
Thank you, Sheriff, for sharing this sweet rendition. From Tokyo 🎸🎻🪕😊🙏🏻
I can remember listening to James Taylor on my parent’s 8 track on the way to nursery school. I still love him! 40 years later. Whenever he is in Baltimore I am there.
This was a brilliant concert. James and Chicks blended so perfectly.
Tear up everytime. Thank you so much!
When the lists of top ten songwriters are given, James is never on the list. He should be. This song is perfection. Songs like this don't just happen, they're crafted, line by line.
He's eleventh.
He 's written songs that should be regarded as standards. Great songwriter.
In response to many earlier anti DC posts, if Natalie's voice was as poor as you suggest, there is just no way James Taylor would have shared the stage with them for a number of songs.
definitely agreed...she's spot on.
James Taylor's versions of ALL of his own songs are ALWAYS the best, but he is such a gentleman, and so generous, in singing seconds to his own hit - this song. He goes up in my estimation - if that is possible. Love the man !!!
Mike, I could not have said it better myself
May Goh
She handles the song very well esp with her superb wocal chord this for shaving
It's such a great song it sounds excellent with Natalie singing the lead as well.
YESS
If you like James singing harmony, take a listen to him and his brother singing City Lights. It's hard to tell who's singing which part since their voices are similar, but who cares, it's beautiful! ruclips.net/video/vKHznZf2WGI/видео.html
How the album this was on changed my whole life in 1970. There is no other LP that blew things apart and put them back together, the way that record did.
The Dixie Chicks nailed this one!
Yep, but nobody has ever topped Highway 101's studio cut of this song - not even James Taylor himself.
A rare combination,a lady who is gorgeous and can sing,fabulous version of this classic james taylor hit.
Sweet Baby James and a fabulous Natalie Maines.
Maines is neither gorgeous nor a good singer.
@@galenwarren3579 When did you go blind ?
@@terrystorey5331 About the time when you libtards who didn't give a shit about this band decided you were going to jump on their coattails for PC. I've seen her, up close, middle of the day, just before she got her shot (thanks to daddy) at being part of the DC's. Nothing but a barfly drunk at noon giving a poor waitress a hard time. A total bitch and pig ugly. Her daddy had a contract with the DC's, and when their lead singer said she was going to leave, Lloyd Maines had the leverage to push her into that group. IF he had held them to their recording contract rather than let the development deal go forward with Sony, Sony would have found another band to be the flagship group for their new label, and the DC's would have lost their own shot. It was "take my daughter or miss this shot". It took megalithic Sony with all its resources an entire year to make her ready for the stage. The sisters were already there, touring and opening for some of the biggest names in C&W. Nat needed guitar lessons so she could play a few chords. Their best sound man to put the multiple effects together to get her sounding better (her daddy had a recording studio since Maines was at least three years old. He never recorded her until she needed a tape for Berkley School of Music. He never recorded a single solo by her prior to that, nor used her as a backup singer, and he had handled and recorded a lot of people who went on to the major labels. Sony bought into her being the "rebel" to add spice to the group, but they had their hands full keeping her from getting shit faced before performances and recordings. Even big dog Sony couldn't stop Nat's mouth from burying them with the very fan base that made them A list entertainers in the first place. Yeah, she's ugly and not just on the outside. She's a spoiled fat ass bar fly who's daddy gave her a golden ticket.
@@galenwarren3579 so sorry it took you so many lines to express your opinion. You are a fallen human being with so much anger and judgement and you know it. But regardless of MY OPINION of you I don't want to waste my time. Natalie's singing this song with James was wonderful and I loved every second of it!!
I’m Canadian....I have always loved James Taylor ,but I adore the Dixie Chicks..."...........Donna in Toronto
James is one of the greatest keep safe my dear peace be with you always ✌🙏🕊
Wow a wonderful thing to have these amazing ladies singing your song, and you are backing them up. It’s amazing!
Love the harmonies.
Another place , another time...sweet memories of a day gone by.
JT and the chicks need to release an album together!
Love this song. I sang this to my grandson James Landon when I babysat him when he was a baby. It was "our" lullabye.
Her live Voice is awesome
Awesome rendition! ❤️ Why there are so many critics pretending to be voice geniuses?
Lovely singing Natalie
RUclips knows if it sends me this in my feed I will watch it. Best version of his. The guitar playing is magnificent. The lead is just perfect. Makes me joyful and sad at the same time.
JT does harmony about as well as anyone in the business.
Ogni ascolto, è un'emozione nuova...brano ed interpretazione meravigliosi 🤩🤩
Increíble que hace 11 años subí este video y sigo recibiendo notificaciones. Gracias a todos. Es muy bella esta versión.
I just love this. This is one of the first songs I remember from my childhood (JT"s version, which I adore), and Maines sings it so well.
Simply stunning.
Holy fish, this is good! Natalie's approach is lovely and captures the poignant mood of the song.
Natalie's dad, Lloyd Maines, on the slide guitar. Cool!
No way! cool.
Cool.
Pedal steel. Slide guitar is a different animal.
Team legend in heart for ever
what a beautiful version of an all-time great song
Look no one is better than James Taylor, but this version with Natalie Maine’s singing lead is awesome.
just like nobody can out do alan jackson johnny cash elvis or randy travis
No one in the public has really heard Natalie Maines real voice. Sony assigned their best Sound Engineer to the group during their run specifically to deal with the inadequacies of her voice. The mixing to improve her voice was described by that Engineer publicly, so Sound Engineers since can deal with the squawking chicken.
@@galenwarren3579 That's the country twang. Don't you like country?
@@sune8641 country twang? Yes. That's NOT what Natalie Maines has. She has a bad voice for singing. Even her father, a famous studio owner in Lubbock , never recorded her as a backup singer or as a soloist until he set her up to attend Berkeley School of Music. A recording was required. She registered, but never attended a class because her father called her home and set her up with the original DC's. Sony, who had signed a development contract long before Natalie showed up, was stuck with her. So, they put their best engineer on the job and it took a YEAR to prepare her for the stage. They only really created two original songs. The rest were covers, because it simply wasn't feasible to teach her how to do anything but mimik previous songs and singers.
Absolutely agree!
You write what you know... James was never on a cattle drive... Sweet baby James is his nephew... the Mass turnpike is in Massachusetts ... Stockbridge is in western MA.. Boston is on the Atlantic coast... poetic license.. I love it... Thank you, James.
No, you write what you imagine. Always more important than what you know.
Outstanding performance. What the hell happened to music.?
indeed ...
Music is still there ... but this is too
What the he'll happened to the Dixie chicks? Beautiful violin
Pattie McDonald - not quite sure what you're asking, but they played a fantastic gig in New Zealand a year or two ado and were alive, well and harmonious
I agree with Kevin L.
It's still there. Larkin Poe, Molly Tuttle, Tyler Bryant, Mike Seal, Dori Freeman, Darlingside, Lucy Rose, to name a few.
Lloyd Maines steel playing is spot on!
How generous is James Taylor? "I'll take the high harmony. All good."
Oh the gift to hear the past...so much beauty I missed...Oh God let me catch up so much...the voices that make life so rich...
they are bloody awesome together perfect
This makes my cry...
that is beautiful!!
Natalie's dad, the great instrumentalist and producer, Lloyd Maines, on lap steel guitar.
sweet. ..
Greetings from IRELAND 😉 salamat for this gem
Proof that music is transcendent...
I heard this first in the Tetons. 🌸🐌💙🌙
Early 70s. Never forget that first time.
Goose bumps...Standing hair...Exquisite!
Great to see James singing harmony!
I cried!
Those vocals were on point. I'm almost a little surprised that James nailed his harmony part so well. Good stuff.
He's great at harmonies.
A good singer should be able to sing back up as well as singing the lead parts and James Taylor can do it all
James Taylor is a very beautiful talented musician. So are the Dixie Chicks.
So glad I came across this version, fantastic.
I also love these awesome singers
James Taylor and the Dixie Chicks................magic.
Pure Perfection.
Great music from real talented people
I would not have thought to put this combination together, but sure glad someone did because apparently it produces solid gold and diamond fairy dust 😲 ✨ just . . bloody . . wow 💫
I love the CHICKS not only for their music but for their politics, too!! So glad they dropped DIXIE.
Sweet baby James!!!
I don't have the words for this...i am crying...
There's a kind of humility & self forgetfulness about it .. The way Natalie & James allow heaven to come down .. It reminds us of why we're made .. Thank you, JT
Music at its best ....
I must have rocked a thousand miles, singing this to my son when he was a baby.
@MusicMadMaurice Of course, 12 years later, if I sang along to anything in the car, he'd say, "Mom! You're embarrassing me!" I'd say, "We're the only ones here!"
This is just wonderful.
I love my Debbie...this song is so important to my life...
Thanks
fantastic. new england, mixed with cowboy and country
Fantastic. Nothing more to say!!
beautiful
Why hasn’t this been put on an album or itunes
Love this so much!
I love these people
Natalie magic as always!
just excellent
Beautiful......
that's Adam Steffey from the original Union Station on mandolin, isn't it? : )
Stunning, man just stunning...
Few years ago I could watch this entire show on RUclips, now I can’t find it any place. Anyone with a link?
This isn’t just a cowboy lullaby, it’s THE cowboy lullaby.
JT awesome never die song 1000 years
Love you Dixie Chix - dude aint bad
I honestly do not understand how you can listen to this and not have a grin from ear to ear and a tear in your eye. Maybe it's just me. Probably not.
I love James Taylor and have given him more positive comments than I can remember. With that said, James was an excellent backup singer for the Dixie Chicks! Remember the Band's song "The night they drove old Dixie down?" In France on March 5th, 2003 as Natalie was introducing the Dixie Chicks' latest single, "Travelin' Soldier," she said, "Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas." Country music and mainstream groups around the country turned against the Dixie Chicks and it ultimately ruined their career. It was ugly. "That surely was the night they drove old Dixie down." The "Mob", now hating the French for hosting the Dixie Chicks also put out an edict that French Fries were forever to be called freedom Fries. Many uncomfortable truths are now known about the 2nd invasion of Iraq. Was Natalie wrong in what she said? Great job Natalie, great job Dixie Chicks. You were and I'm sure currently remain a massive inspiration and role models to junior High, high school girls and female college students around the country. Well Done.
I'm not sure their careers were ruined, but since between them they've got 9 kids, they had to slow down a little. When they were here in concert a few years ago, I couldn't get two seats together because the tickets were just about sold out. (I agreed with Natalie."
Right wingers are always pissed off about something or other. With so much religion around, kinda makes a body wonder why so much anger. They’re always blattin’ about the “good news” from Jesus they’re bringing us. Think I’ll pass. If those folks are living their dream, I’m not having any part of their fucking nightmare. Life’s too short for that kind of nonsense and bull shit.
@@Joannakathryn So did I which back then made the uproar in the states so confusing. I guess that was my first introduction to the MOB mentality that is so destructive currently. I'm glad to hear the storm ultimately passed and they are doing well. Thanks for the update!
Their careers were ruined for exercising their right to free speech. George Bush was a puppet President and he was wrong about Iraq. Either way, the country music establishment decided that they were through. That's a shame, because they were at the top at the time.@@Joannakathryn
Can someone please explain the little bumps on my arms ? This is so beautiful ....
Gonorrhea?
Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose.
Natalie songs it beautiful.
CHICKS NAILED IT
It doesn't get any better than this.
Thanks woody.
Someone I care about got through a home birth, her first child, with only a friend to help her, singing this song!