Rhiannon Giddens: "Julie" (original)
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
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Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and "Nashville" based her lyrics for this song on a 19th-century slave's memoir.
This performance is an excerpt from an episode of "David Holt's State of Music," a series for public TV distributed nationally by PBS.
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Wow... Fretless Banjo, beautiful voice, gorgeous talented woman... Did not expect to find something like this today...
This woman is an American National Treasure what talent, depth and soul she weaves into her musical tapestries
I am a old school folkie,pre-hippie stuff ,it does my heart good to see this kind of music alive and well, Thank You
She can compose, sing, and play. What a talent.
I just discovered this beautiful and talented girl. Makes tears come to my eyes.
I agree! This young singer pulls the soul out of my ears and makes it dance! Wonderful!!!
Rhiannon Giddens is the whole package. She possesses a uniquely beautiful, expressive voice, range, songwriting brilliance, an intuitive understanding of how to approach every line and note. On top of that she is a deft instrumentalist, historian, world-class beauty and tremendous stage presence. A goddess.
Decent instrumentalist
Agreed. Her talent is spellbinding!
really cute too.
yup
Gots to second that, sister.
The sound and the way she puts her heart into it, it's like she's in a different day and time. Awesome, thanks.
Can I be the first to say how mighty fine this is ?! Thanks for sharing .
andy trott and a fretless banjo too. Not the most common of instruments.
Minstrel Banjo
my favorite song since Doc Watson's Country Blues
Incredible tones from the banjo. Awesome.
Rupert Harrison het
Rhiannon Giddens is the first person in my life that brought tears to my eyes when she sang.
Understated, clean, elegant, genuine.
I was thinking this was a traditional, I see by the notes above (thank you for them!) that Rhiannon composed this using a memoir as inspiration, it's so well conceived.
Gave me goosebumps! Powerful song.
That's some powerful storytelling right there! She's got a hell of a lot of heart and soul and you can see she feels every word she sings as it came from a place of struggle from the 19th century's slave's memoir! Shame about the sound, but thanks for the link to the corrected version and thanks for the upload or I wouldn't have discovered this masterpiece! :)
Oh my goodness!! This woman is BEAUTIFUL!! And very very talented.
Such an NC original. We are so proud of her. The truth will set you free
She was my favorite artist at the Vancouver Folk Festival. Beautiful song.
Yeah Vancouver_++ I am trying to arrange a trip to Calgary & I want to time it so I can see some real live folk music.
This skillfully crafted song is based on an actual incident recounted in The Slaves War, by Andrew Ward, page 47.
Susan Rose the royal navy freeing slaves. hence Freetown in Serria Leone
Susan Rose
I'm not sure I understand the chain of events-- does the Mistress want her to leave or not? Why does she want Julie to claim the gold is hers?
PrOxykill - I can't see your comment, but I have an email saying you asked a question about what was happening in the song and why. Yankee soldiers are approaching, and Julie's mistress is concerned that Julie will be liberated by them and leave her. Julie has done the necessary work of convincing her mistress that she has only the mistress's best interests at heart and holds no grudges. The mistress wants Julie to say the gold belongs to Julie so the soldiers won't take it from her. No chance!
thank you
I would like to read that. Is it entitled "The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves"? Or just 'Slave Wars'?
Lovely voice....angelic and mournful. Playing a fretless banjo with nylon strings......it doesn't get much better than this!
Most modern banjos use steel strings and plastic for the head, exaggerating the banjo twang. A softer and more traditional sound (a richer sound, in my opinion) comes from banjos using nylon or gut for the strings and hide for the head. She's playing with a traditional clawhammer style in which the fingernails strike the strings rather than plucking.
Love this so much. Really been a year since I saw this? Crazy. Then again Brianna Lea Pruett has been on my mind to much as well as my angel bride Brenda. Love you Rhiannon!!
Maybe, MAYBE, one day I will be able to listen to this song and not tear up. This is probably the 20th or 30th time and not even close. I heard you sing it once live, Ms. Giddens, and you are an American Treasure.
I just discovered Rhiannon Giddens today. What an amazing talent!
Deep sadness & deep feelings in this woman, which make her so special and loving. Thank you Rhiannon for what you give us.
Can I be the second to say how mighty fine this is? Found this by mistake and holy cowboy, she totally caught me off guard. Amazing. Was not expecting such awesomeness!!!
This is beyond craft. The angels must love this woman.
William Cutlip beyond craft.... well said!!!
William Cutlip It is as if she’s channeling these slaves. She’s remarkable. The angels prob do love her - I certainly do!
beyond craft indeed it is, nicely said, sir.
Voice sounds like she is an angel .
she is an angel
WOW!!!
Goosebumps from the Heart!!! Thank you fer the share n beautiful sounds from above.
This woman has more talent in her little toe than all the pop singers on radio today. She is a Amazing artist !!
Thank you for remembering the ancestors and the suffering they went through and the music they brought from so far away.
Why would anyone give a thumbs down. I will bet you not a one of them can sing or play the banjo. People sure are defective creatures and unreasonable.
Straight to the heart. Poignantly sung and masterly played (on a fret-less 5-(nylon)string banjo).
This is deep, soulful, from the heart of beauty and pain. The story speaks to us all, generation after generation...............Simply brilliant in all ways. Rhiannon is such a perfect vessel. Beautiful.
Congrats 🍾🎊 on your today show appearance! I know ur gonna get the recognition you deserve
Best music 🎼 ever
Amazing voice....and drop-dead gorgeous...the kind of beauty that strikes a man stupid.
There's a purity here... an uplifting of the spirit. Thanks.
This is beautiful and beautifully performed. Folk music will always be necessary because it helps us lament and recount and grieve and celebrate. It makes us see through honest plain spoken means how we are attached to the earth and to each other-- for bad or good. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Love her voice, love her conviction, love her style, her attitude, love her!!
Why isn't this talented woman super famous?
Dear Lord....!!!!! I'm from Alabama and have grown up on mountain music. This sweet young lady is amazing....Wish I knew the whole story of who she is singing about.
Incredible
I can't get enough of this.
This is real music, this is real art, this is real talent!
What a performance. She makes it so powerful
Of sweet strings and banjos, this is an epic Masterpiece both in theme & tune plus her sterling performance, I'M IN AWE, thank you
Incredible...! Hammering on without frets... great
I love that bluegrass promotes and produces such talented women I can then show my daughter as examples of something she can strive for. Love your music!
Amazingly beautiful!
Beautiful
Awesome ballad, great picking and voice! Thanks!
Amazing and deeply compelling. I can't believe I've never heard of Rhiannon Giddens until now!
Her soul was there. God passes on good souls for us to learn from.
I saw Rhiannon at the Cambridge Folk Festival today - a wonderful performance. Blown away!
Wow, that was unexpected when I loaded this video. Beautiful!
Black people 🥰
Absolutely awesome guide my soul.... For recognized in every new dimension. 9s
She honors the old long truths of these words and music without merchandising or tarting it up. That is beyond rare in these times.
I have never seen a fretless banjo. What a great sound! Awesome.
Jesus! What a VOICE, what a SONG, what a PERFORMANCE, what a tasty, soulful bit of BANJO PLAYIN". I'm jealous, envious, gobsmacked and thrilled by the artistry here.
She is fantastic! She can sing anything. Just saw her on CBS Saturday 5-12-2018.
That banjo is pretty interesting. It's fretless!
Of course its fretless, you think them slaves could just go down town and get them some fretting wire.
Yep! First time I see a banjo like that and it gives me even greater lust to make the Les Paul Junior I've just bought into fretless. If a fretless banjo can sound and be in tune like this...
It's a banjo from the 1800s. I think about mid century.
And uses nylon or bowel strings also, pretty interesting indeed. :)
A bit like an Indian sarod.
Give me the chills
What a beautiful woman, and a helluva talent. This is how it's supposed to be :)
this is just so powerful !
My godness.. Her voice makes the hair on my arms stand straight up. I felt her energy flow through meI was listening to NPR in the car when one of her songs came on. I had to know who she was and had to hear more
After decades of fuzz tones, overly loud amplifier stacks and every guitar run played by bending the B string half way across the neck, It is so nice to get back to the basics. With no electronic gimmicks to hide behind the talent of the musician can now come out.
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I plan on using this song when working my way through my Slavery Through Civil Rights unit in my American History class.
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God blessed you with voice and music, my dear. Never stop.
The way she performed this song and it's ending hits your heart like a sledgehammer. Way too awesome!!! 😥👍
So very talented. Love your voice and picking!
Powerful!
What a lost art. For those of us whose heritage is Scots-Irish it is something primal. We hear our people from yesteryear calling. No offense meant to anyone.
She seems almost possessed as she tells her tale, her ancestors truly speak through her.
This performance is an excerpt from an episode of "David Holt's State of Music," a series for public TV distributed nationally by PBS.
When I was a little girl I was full of questions and I asked my mother why (me being of near transparent white English background mind you) black ppl sang with so much more soul and heart and her answer was simple and truthful..."that sound comes from suffering, that's the sound the Lord gives someone when their soul is shined up into a diamond. It takes a lot of pressure to make a diamond sweetie...takes a lot of shining to look and sound that beautiful" Good enough explanation to me all my life. When I was little I called little black kids black diamonds. God's special jewels. Have always kinda looked at it that way since. I might be white as a ghost but I have always had a special love for African American and Southern culture and the way they've intermixed and mingled through history. Much of it bittersweet but there's also many stories of good ppl on all sides. Good and bad has no color.
Absolutely breathtaking!
The words are so powerful and brought tears to my eyes. Beautiful.
I'm teary eyed myself..SO POWERFUL!
yes we are a big family
one of my favorite songs . she´s one of the greatests .
Eu sou brasileiro e prefiro me expressar na minha língua materna. Essa jovem tem um talento de natureza impar. A forma de se expressar e de soltar a voz é impressionante. Eu, particularmente, me apaixonei pelo seu modo simples de mostrar o difícil.
Thanks for the headphone redirect!
You're welcome!
I am so proud of my new generation of young people. They will tell the story and bring the honest, raw truth of the pain of the legacy we have. I feel like my last years on earth although painful, will be peaceful. :-)
bza069 What is like living your life as a racist. It sounds exhausting. Thoughts and prayers for a swift recovery :)
@@bza069 Their own fault? Descendants of slaves have been kept down, disenfranchised, lynched in every generation. My black family have had to break their backs to get what's been handed to my white family.
Ma’am that riff you play after the second vocal line is absolute genius i love it cant get enough love your style feel your pain
Such a beautiful woman with a gorgeous voice first time I have seen or heard her I just love her thank you from Australia
That was absolutely beautiful!! Thank you for sharing!
Still think you are astounding singer and instrumentalist. And so beautiful.
In 4 notes.... I FELL IN LOVE💓
I teach at the Old Town School of Folk Music. I love you, your singing, and picking give me chills.
Shout out to the OTS, really miss the old Folk & Roots festival. Square Roots just doesn't cut it IMO, now it's just another crowded street festival. Sooooo much better when they set up in Welles Park and you could spread your blankets out and bring the whole family for a day in the park. Not so easy any more to bring the wee ones and the old folks when it's just a big old crowded street with no where to set up camp.
Outstanding, great job. Thank you.
Ms. Giddons, I just watched you on a PBS show for country music. I am blown away by your talent and grace. Wow! Thank you for sharing!
great song, beautifully done!
Wow. That was just amazing.
The last few lines really express the pain and suffering:
"That trunk of gold
Is what you got when my children you sold.
Mistress, oh mistress,
Don't you cry.
The price of stayin' here is too high.
Mistress, oh mistress,
I wish you well,
But in leavin' here, I'm leavin' hell."
Love this.
Melody reminds me of The Ballard of Hollis Brown by Bob Dylan
She sings light into the heart of American music.
Brilliance.
Genuine voice, and a fretless nylon string banjo. Processing... processing...
What a talented and beautiful lady.
This is very powerful stuff. Her voice, her face, her banjo playing all stir my soul and put a big lump in my throat.
Want to dig a bit deeper into that subject matter? Read Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad.
The fretting is one thing, and that's what I notice most from this film work. But the hardest thing about banjo is the plucking/strumming. Wish it showed more of that.
ulie, oh Julie
Você não vai correr?
Porque eu vejo lá embaixo, os soldados vieram
Julie, oh Julie
Você não pode ver?
Os demônios vieram levá-lo longe de mim
Mistress, oh, amante
Eu não vou correr
Porque eu vejo lá embaixo, os soldados vieram
Mistress, oh, amante
vejo sim
E ficarei aqui até que eles venham por mim
Julie, oh Julie
Você não vai
Saia da casa e tudo que você conhece
Julie, oh Julie
Não vá aqui
Deixe-nos, quem o ama e tudo que você tem querido
Mistress, oh, amante
Eu vou
Saia da casa e tudo o que sei
Mistress, oh, amante
Vou sair daqui
Com qual família eu tenho à esquerda, eles são tudo que eu tenho querido
Julie, oh Julie
Você não mente
Se acharem aquele tronco de ouro ao meu lado
Julie, oh Julie
Você diz a eles homens
Que esse tronco de ouro é seu, meu amigo
Mistress, oh, amante
Eu não vou mentir
Se acharem aquele tronco de ouro ao seu lado
Mistress, oh, amante
Esse tronco de ouro
É o que você recebeu quando meus filhos você vendeu
Mistress, oh, amante
Você não chora
O preço da permanência aqui é muito alto
Mistress, oh, amante
Eu desejo você bem
Mas, deixando aqui, estou saindo do inferno
Great talent. Love it
Where have I been to miss this Gem of astonishing music and talent. 👑
Wow! That gave me goosebumps!!
magnifique voix, claire et à la fois profonde
my left ear is glad to hear it
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