Steve Earle, "The Mountain", performed by Benjamin Tod of Lost Dog Street Band // GemsOnVHS™
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- Опубликовано: 30 ноя 2016
- A compilation of footage we shot out in Wyoming and South Dakota. The train line is the Union Pacific's overland. The portion taped is between Cheyenne and Green River, Wyoming. This is the first transcontinental railroad in the history of mankind. Ben plays a favorite Steve Earle song in Cheyenne, Wyoming in front of the Chief Washakie statue at the state capitol. The song is not in its original arrangement.
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I met Ben on the glen highway I happened to pull over to pick up a hitch hiker on my way out to homer Alaska. It was him. I already knew his music at that point and he wasn't to well known. I feel like he's one of the greatest country singers in our generation and actually brings credibility back to the genre in a way he reminds me of Waylon Jennings. We sang every word Hank Williams ever wrote on that car ride. Ben is a man that carries himself with honor and stands by his word for that he has my respect. Good luck to you brother.
Ben is my good friend, just asked him about this and he said he doesn't remember such a thing
folk singer?
@@oFLUXo680 Ben is with my right now, iv just asked him, he doesn’t know you
@@27walker27 lies. Ben is my brother, he said he’s never heard of any of you or your made up stories
@@FEEFS. 😅
The only song that settles my 5 week old daughter down,thank you for the beautiful music from Scotland
Oh dad as I sit in this old abandoned house I took over after u died here on this off grid Mesa where only the strong survive but to come here at 83 u knew it was over soon for u but saw this was my place to live as we Ben homless since I was born
I got a banjo because of this song, I've nearly got it down now, god bless Benjamin Todd and all his friends and family, he doesn't have a fraction of the recognition that he deserves
What’s the chord progression?
Bits really good innit
Please post and show us.
Me too! Inspired me to sing as well.
Chords can be found on youtube.
Damn good thing he’s still going!!!
I showed this to my grandfather. His father died in a mine when he was just a boy. He appreciated this work of art and said that it’s one of the greatest tributes to the Appalachia’s that he’s ever heard. I wish we had more music like this
Seems like you gotta go there to find it but I would like the convenience of digital stuff too
Steve Earle recorded this a long time ago, surprised he never heard it until recent.
We are still making it a life style!
Damn. That’s real
I wish we had more of your grandad's generation around. I miss mine.
I must be responsible for about a thousand of these views at this stage. Cracking version.
Same here, I listen to this at least 3 times a day! Lol
Same
I would not be far behind you mate
Yes sir
Same 😂👍
Although I am no miner, this song resonates strangly within me. I live on the countryside of Austria, not far off from our capitol Vienna. When I was young I stretched out to people of my age I considered full of potential. Potential regarding intellect, potential regarding humanity and potential regarding character. They followed the call of the city, just like I did. Most of us went to university. The difference: I neglected the importance of an academic title and I still do. Virtue and experience seemed like it was enough for itself. So I cancelled university and returned. Now I work in a gas station, like a gem common people do perceive me, they respect my character, yet, I feel like I lost my social roots. I have new friends and they enrich my life, don`t get me wrong. Nevertheless Somehow I feel left alone, a stranger in a familiar place. I roam the forests up the hills beyond the paths, I hike up the mountains. I confronted wild goats, I explored caves, I walked alongside forest creeks, which are so peaceful, no words can tell, I invaded ruins of castles from the Middle Ages, I stood on top of a plateau, underneath me an endless sea of clouds. I am 35 now and I feel alone with the conscious connectivity I have with my home area. I will die on these mountains, they are my home.
I ain't even a miner, not even from the u.s. but I grew up in the bush in Australia and boy does this song mean something to me
I'm two generations removed from being "born on this mountain" of rural Appalachia but I can almost feel my heritage in my blood hearing a song like this.
This is in anyone's heritage that grew up on a mountain, long as your nit a flat lander this songs for you
Two generations removed doesn’t mean a thing. Just sounds like you need to come home.
I feel the same!! Took me back to my last summer spent there as a teen…shin digs on the green. I was born there, then at the age of two, I was raised inSo Cal
@@Renagadebait I was born in nky, have lived in Central IN for 32 years. Its flat.
Yet I still enjoy this and tins of other music about areas I'll never see. ✌️
@@jonyates3918 I live in some epic mountain ranges , even though the song isn't about my mountains in the west and not coal mountains in the east , same shit you don't have to have a mountain you just have to have some kind of wild nature that you make your mountain.
Been a while since a song brought me to tears...1:30 AM lot of beer...sad cowboy hours
yee haw brother
I was too until I got sober, drinking and jamming to music, crying and laughing and forgetting
not a pleasant existence
@@ffxiarcadiushorrible existence. Quiet desperation hidden behind others soundtracks.
There's no sound on Earth more beautiful than a banjo and a mountain voice.
I wonder how many people my age I was born in 73 on 50-years-old had the experience of hey look the Copperhead road guy has a bunch of other good songs and he's actually an intellectual and he's a really good person and a really neat guy and then through that found a whole bunch of stuff like this
Amazing. I love benjamin man... His music has helped me throught getting off the needle.
Same brother
What’s up brother him and maintenance medicine has helped me also. God bless you. I know how strong you are. I will pray for you.
Good on ya keep up the good fight
Atta boy, Josh! I know we don't know each other, but I am proud of you.
Keep going Josh. One day at a time.
Benjamin is something truly unique and I hope he feels appreciated.
One night I lay down and woke up to find that my childhood was over and I went down in the mine
I grew up listening to rap and heavy metal, along with a few other genres….except country. I don’t know how I came across this, but I was instantly a fan!! This song and “Using Again” speak to my soul!! Thank God for GOOD MUSIC!! Like Bob Marley said “one good thing about music is, when it hits you feel no pain”!!
Facts
Check out Ryan Bingham, Chris Knight, Robert Earl King, Greensky Bluegrass, Dalton Domino, Steve Earle, Zach Bryan, The Wood Brothers, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Charlie Robison, The Great Divide.
@@thesumeriangod5421 I will, Some of them sound familiar. Thanks!!
The stuff the radio and most folks call country just isn’t. It’s a pop culture bastardization dumbed down for the masses. True “country” speaks to everyone because it’s an honest expression of the human experience.
Amen bro
This will always be one of the best covers ever done. He took a great song and not only made it his own but greatly improved on it. It wakes something up deep inside and brings it to the surface to breathe fresh air.
Jedi Day great version, but it is not his own. It still belongs to Steve and Del
Wow, that's a great way to put it. Most cover songs (any genre) just don't serve the nickel like they should, but rest assured, Ben here absolutely hit the nail on the head with this one. A wonderful, beautiful take on a great tune.
God bless you and your loved ones. Spread love onward 🙏❤
Hear Levon Helm sing it. Seriously.
Ya great rendition
This is a great cover but it doesn't have anything on the original.
This is without doubt the greatest version of this song ever recorded.
Thank you gems and thank you Benjamin. I’ve always been a rock guy but I heard a charley Crockett song one day and it set me on a country journey. I’ve discovered so many amazing artist from sierra farrell, the hill country devil, Ian noe, and the lost dog street band. I can’t even begin to say what all of this music means to me. It’s like something has been missing in my soul all along and now I’ve found it. I cannot express how much I love this real and true country music, none of this lifted trucks and mud boggin bullshit that’s called country now but the real thing. I wish this is what was on the CMT awards because every single artist on gems and western AF deserves so much more than any “country” artist on the radio.
Add Matt Heckler to that list if he isn't already on it
Idk, I've always been partial to Levon Helm's version...more haunting..
357 string band; black river blues is what got me down a path to this song.
Why can’t this be on iTunes
singers that actually sing of the old days, the land, and the people, are what country needs back, this was beautiful, the pioneers and settlers would be proud.
As much as I love Steve and his music, this is my favorite version of this song. Without question.
"I will die on this mountain, this mountains my home"
currently a sailor, but I am longing to get back to my mountains soon
Same, stationed 8000 miles away from my mountain.
@@bluewatersnipe2227 Cheers man, stay safe
12 years in. I feel ya, shipmate.
Looking to leave my mountain to join the navy here soon. Stay safe.
Amen
They are going to tear out the pines near my home, where my trapline is. The construction of a bridge caused the drowning of my fathers wildrice patch... Soon the uranium mines (Where i once worked underground for Boartlong year) which house tailings ponds leak and contaminate the wildlife. That river raised my grandfather, father & me, thats my home. Breaks my heart
The unfortunate cost of "progress" and economic development. Companies only care about profits not what they do to people's lives and the environment.
You my friend need to bring on the boogaloo. Don't let tyrants strip what's yours
@@loganschubert6781 Yikes. Bet you believe the Confederate flag is "heritage".
Cody Clark Bet you’re a book burner.
Burn their equipment. Sabatoge them. Dont go quiet
I wish I had someone in my life that loves this music as much as myself...
Im born and raised Long Island… still very thankful for my father taking me up to the Catskills.. in my head “this mountain is my home” is my concepts, morals & values. God bless guys
As I listen to this, my eyes closed, I can see their faces... just as clear as the day is long. Worn, dirty, hard... their hands full of calluses, fingers bent, body's broken. Life and all it threw at em', could never wipe the 'smiles' from their faces nor the love in their hearts. Their ways they taught me, they gave me a way of life that can never taken away, nor can I ever lose it. Someday I hope to see em' all again...
I will be the #1 listener to this recoding this year
This song has not gotten old since I've been listening to it five years ago. At least once a month I'll listen to the song.
he has another version, ruclips.net/video/2ZvER7EIuo4/видео.html ...just in case you haven't seen it yet 👍
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This guy is one of a kind I can’t see anyone imitating him in no way at all. He makes me feel that I’m right there living every word in that song .
Oliver Anthony does a pretty decent job at it
I'm from the plains, only been to an actual mountain once in my life yet this comforts me in a way not much else does
"...and there are ghosts in the tunnels the company sealed..." such powerful lyrics. Powerfully sung. Definitely my favorite version ❤️
❤ yes there are...
Have you heard Levon Helm's version? Ben's is amazing, but Levon's is just pure perfection. Sounds like it's being sung by an old-timer who spent his whole life mining coal in West Virginia.
It is amazing how a song can make your soul hurt for a time and place you have never known.
19 days clean and just hit full blown withdrawals. Only thing that gets me out of my head and this fucking bed is your words. I'm a thousand miles from the mountains this flat land has no healing like the porch of my birth home. Thank you Ben for your gift of healing.
Hang in there brother. We were put here to suffer and to blossom. Sometimes a little sometimes a lot. 19 days is huge. Keep pushing.
This is a POWERFUL song! Why have I never heard of this man before?!!!!
I keep coming back for more. This hits me hard.
if this doesn't give you the chills, we have nothing in common as human beings
You have balls?
Family comes from appleachia originally. I’ve heard the stories but never lived there. This song makes me nostalgic for a life I never lived.
Hiraeth
@@veritas3683 that's the word i was looking for
I am now 100% postive the new wave in Music. Is Country & Bluegrass not Rock anymore! Bring it on home everyone!
Rock lost touch with the every day working person long ago. Some country and most bluegrass still keeps that connection.
Just saw Benjamin and Lost Dog Street Band in Portland Maine. This song played live made my night.
On a train, in the rain. Where ever I may be. I hope I’m who I wished I’d be!
I either cry or sing my soul out every time I listen to this.
How rare it is to find a cover that deems the original unlistenable. From the dark, hand dug, depths of that well which is my heart, I thank you Mr. Tod.
nazis dont have a heart, fuck you
@@cdabcdefg12345 hey fuck you too jackass😃
@Edward Wallin man you shouldn't talk about yourself like that. I see those arrows pointing towards your profile name. Chin up kid.
This song always reminds me of where I grew up, generator, well water, garden, being out in the cuts, on the land I grew up on. 8 miles from the nearest town has humbled me over the years. Santa Cruz mountains for life!
Started a playlist for my newborn at night. Now at 3 weeks old we have to play this song and September doves before she will go to sleep and it’s almost immediate! Craziest thing I’ve ever seen. She already has a favorite artist.
Love to hear this dude sing. There's a great lot to be said of someone who doesn't pretend to be something that their not. Pure gold
Eric Ramsey well said
I’ve literally listened to this song hundreds of times while RUclips was in the background. Today is the first time I happened to glance at the video and I was like “Hey, I know that place! Hey, that’s the Wyoming State capital!” I’m originally from Cheyenne, Wyoming. So, seeing this was filmed all around my hometown made me happy and home sick all at once. I think I’ve watched the video like 5 times today!
'And I knew every holler, every swimmin' hole' - beautiful writing and inflection
Written by Steve Earle
Both grandfathers of mine were coal miners, and one then became a trucker. This song pulls something of my heritage out of me. Some people just won't experience having "a mountain"
I was born on this mountain
A long time ago
Before they knocked down the timber
And strip-mined the coal
When you rose in the mornin'
Before it was light
To go down in that dark hole
And come back up at night
I was born on this mountain
This mountain's my home
She holds me and keeps me
From worry and woe
Well, they took everything that she gave
Now they're gone
But I'll die on this mountain
This mountain's my home
I was young on this mountain
But now I am old
And I knew every holler
Every cool swimmin' hole
'Til one night I lay down
And woke up to find
That my childhood was over
And I went down in the mine
I was born on this mountain
This mountain's my home
She holds me and keeps me
From worry and woe
Well, they took everything that she gave
Now they're gone
But I'll die on this mountain
This mountain's my home
There's a hole in this mountain
It's dark and it's deep
And God only knows
All the secrets it keeps
There's a chill in the air
Only miners can feel
There're ghosts in the tunnels
That the company sealed
I was born on this mountain
This mountain's my home
She holds me and keeps me
From worry and woe
Well, they took everything that she gave
Now they're gone
But I'll die on this mountain
This mountain's my home
“I will die on this mountain, this mountain’s my home.”
Damn, Arthur Morgan.
Don’t you make me cry now
TB has entered the chat
Lumbago
Bruuuuh
Legend, I promise you. He moves your very core. I've sat on the feet of the devil and bartered for my soul. Addictions are the purist form of test to find out what you're truly made of.
Sitting here in England .... and .. I cant stop playing this .. and .... Love the belt buckle ;-)
When he sings I feel at home. From Scotland x
he sounds scottish to me too but thats just our southern twang
I'm frae the Cairngorms, this song resonates with me.
I heard this 4 years ago, an i haven't went back to the radio since
You were the music that me, my brother, and his pops listened to. Til his pops died and we split for college and haven’t really seen each other since. But your music. It brings back to when we were all together. It’s nice. I don’t drink to it anymore though.
Hauntingly beautiful...
Till one nigh I lay down and woke up to find that my childhood was over and went down the mine. Hits us all, the loss of innocence.
This Benjamin Tod is one talented man. This song hits home for anyone with a soul.
Damn, gld I stumbled upon this.
2 folk that belong in the songwriting Hall of fame.
I said it, and I fkn mean it.
Only time will tell.
Been years since I stumbled upon this Diamond but it still reminds me of Home. Being a boy running through the trees and brambles in some unknown stranger's patch of woods with a brother I've lost since then.
Wow. Made me tear up! I hope I love my home this much when I find it!
Let's give this mountain the gift of 10 million
Just tuned my banjo, plucking it for the first time right now. I am young on this mountain :) One day I'll be old
Benjamin Tod is new to me and wow!!!! Guy is amazing.
Welcome brother. Another great song is "using again". Dude is one of a kind.
Wesley Simpson Thanks. I have heard that one too. Great stuff. Story telling is missing in music these days.
Same here ...he's awesome tho ..this is great performed by him
justin brew Seen them twice in concert and they are just as great in person. So is Casper Allen.
I absolutely adore this music, I always feel like I am on the outside looking in as I live in England but I strangely feel it in my bones and it spurs me on to play the banjo regardless. Such a soulful rendition.
This song literally shook me. I don’t even generally like this genre. God damn.
Literally can’t count the times I’ve been drunk to this song
The count it sober, you’ll get a clearer picture of your past that way.
@@cochmanofficial1581screamed it drunk, screamed it sober and live. I don’t want to argue with a man trying to tell people that sober living is better because I’m sure it is, but yelling this song drunk does something for my soul that sober does not
@@loganrose648 It’s a joke about being able to count better when sober… not saying sobriety is a necessity
@@cochmanofficial1581 my apologies, it didn’t read like a joke. All I know is I’m drinking right now and also that I was born in these foothills A LONG TIME AGOOOOOO
@@loganrose648 chief shit
This was my top RUclips song of 2022. 54 plays! Wow. Perfection
Lyrics:
I was born on this mountain
A long time ago
Before they knocked down the timber
And strip-mined the coal
When you rose in the mornin'
Before it was light
To go down in that dark hole
And come back up at night
I was born on this mountain
This mountain's my home
She holds me and keeps me
From worry and woe
Well, they took everything that she gave
Now they're gone
But I'll die on this mountain
This mountain's my home
I was young on this mountain
But now I am old
And I knew every holler
Every cool swimmin' hole
'Til one night I lay down
And woke up to find
That my childhood was over
And I went down in the mine
I was born on this mountain
This mountain's my home
She holds me and keeps me
From worry and woe
Well, they took everything that she gave
Now they're gone
But I'll die on this mountain
This mountain's my home
There's a hole in this mountain
It's dark and it's deep
And God only knows
All the secrets it keeps
There's a chill in the air
Only miners can feel
There're ghosts in the tunnels
That the company sealed
I was born on this mountain
This mountain's my home
She holds me and keeps me
From worry and woe
Well, they took everything that she gave
Now they're gone
But I'll die on this mountain
This mountain's my home
Love this so much, it's been in my list for a while and it always brings a mixture of feelings to my heart when it comes on.
Driven around the Dublin Wicklow mountains working today and this beautiful song just made me feel free at peace I could of died rite there with no regrets 🙌🏼🇺🇸🇮🇪❤✌
My father was in the mines 20 some odd years, this song makes me cold an lonely inside
It's official, Benjamin is a beagle. Howling, with soul.
Ben Todd and Colter Wall are holding the torch for dozens of older country musicians…let’s acknowledge these treasures
HELL YEAH BROTHER ❤️
r.i.p Jeff, this will always remind me of you
I’m an Irish French man and I wish my pap was alive to hear this Benjamin i was addicted to drugs and alcohol and in feel his pain in his music
Its like Ben punches through my chest and pulls my heart out with every song he's ever played or wrote. This guy changed my life at 46
I would be truly pressed to think of a song that Ben sings that I don't like , he's truly talented to the core ❤
Always coming back to these tunes thank you gems
I’m from the redwoods of California and this song hits hard. They clear cut all the old growth timber and it’s just gone some regions
This hits home. I live in Appalachia and live in a small rust belt town nestled in the mountains. We had potteries, lumber mills, coal mines and steel mills and now it’s gone. Business come in and take from the land and don’t give back, but the land and the mountain bounced back on their own. This version of the song is a beautiful version snd so much better than Steve Earles
LOVE ALL OF YOUR SONGS! My 7 year old has heard them so many times he sings along with me!!! Thank you for all your songs!!
I love this song very much. I grew up in Lebanon, PA which is in-between the blue ridge and Appalachian spine. It was a 20 minute drive north or south to get into the mountains where I spent a lot of time in my youth. 10 years later I live in NE Minnesota where we have a few mountains, but more lake, swamp, and rolling hills. I miss the eastern mountains alot but I still feel it in my bones living up here.
Don't you miss the bologna?!
This channel has brought me,my family,and friends a lot of gems. Thank you.
I hope with all my heart that my son(RIP Jacob)can see and hear song. He would've love it! I also think its absolutely beautiful.
I'm sure he can Elizabeth, I truly believe music resides inside our spirit it's one of the things we can carry on to the next part of our journey. R.I.P Jacob. I hope you and yours manage to find some healing and solace. From Ireland with love.😬
I’ve been listening to this for 5 year. One of the best covers I’ve ever heard
Amazing, especially with the visuals of the train hopping and the country side.
Simply stunning.
Bringing country music back
Awesome song! Been listening to Steve Earl for a lot of years now.
Spotify doesn't deserve this...
Thank ALL of you for the Authenticity.
All of your music is amazing! It can make me feel whole even in the most questionable of times..
Your music kept me going!
Thank you for being YOU and dont ever stop!!!
Hearing the train the crackle and the foot stomp parts it gets me
Love this version of this song by this guy. I can't stop listening to it.
Ben Todd. You sir, are amazing. Love listening to your philosophies and even more so, your songs.
Your music touch's my soul I thought I lost it years ago. Made me start playing again.. thanks for inspiration......
That's what's great about America. . U never know what u may find that sets u free or helps you deal with defeat. Guy is what's up... keep on keeping on homey.
The people that disliked this song are people that like all pop country on the radio. Lovin these new groups. Keep it comin it’s like a breath of fresh air tbh.
very beautifully sung
I love that song. Reminds me of my home West Virginia. Stranded in Florida at the moment but I shall return.