All those years and I still love this video. I hope life is treating you with the same care you lavish on the music you used to play. We will never meet, but, for the little it's worth, know this: you have made an enormous difference in my life. Thank you so very much.
Every once in a while i have to listen to this, then the original, then this one again; then the original turned up really loud... her vibrato and picking makes this really unique while faithful to the original; killer.
Lyrics: The last kind words my daddy said to me Lord, the last kind words my daddy said to me If I die, if I die in the German war I want you to send my body, send it to my mother, Lord If I get killed, if I get killed, dont you bury my soul I prefer you leave me out, let the buzzards eat me whole When you see me comin', cross the rich man's field If I don't bring you flour, Im gonna bring you bolted meal I went to the depot, I looked up at the sun Cried some train don't come, gonna be some walkin' done The last word mama told me, just before she died Lord, precious daughter, don't you be so wild The Mississippi river, you know it's deep and wide I can stand right here, see my babe on the other side What you do to me baby, it never gets outta me I hope to see you when I cross that deep blue sea
Great job. Not only did you find one of the most significant blues songs of that generation - you sang the hell out of it. Geeshie would be proud. Hell, I'm proud.
Absolutely gorgeous! I don't think there is anyone else out there today who could capture the haunting beauty of that song as well as you. I also love your skip james and robert wilkins covers. With great admiration and appreciation, Ami, Israel.
I’ve watched 7,237 videos on RUclips. This is the best one. The original recording, by Geechie Wiley, is absolutely stunning. Although I’d respect somebody who didn’t like it, I’d be dumbfounded. Anyway, IPlayBanjoNow’s (IPBN’s) rendition takes the wind out of me. I play guitar. I sing. I love acoustic blues. But THIS video is a masterpiece. IPBN’s rendition shakes me, to my core. She got the guitar part right. The vocal right. OMG! What a great video. Damn this is good!
I'm so glad that a younger, modern woman is honoring someone of a past generation. You are so cool! I'm just watching your finger picking and hearing your absolutely brilliant singing. Love your.
This is the first of your videos that I found. I've watched most of the others by now and they're all great, but I keep coming back to this one. If I listen to it in the morning, the tune stays in my head all day. You are a rare talent !
Ma chanson préférée !!! Elle est merveilleusement jouée et interprétée !!! Cela met le frisson ! Bravo !!!! Please ! Je rêve de la jouer à la guitare 🤩🤩🤩 Un tuto please !!!!!!!!!!!
My word! Tripped over this, and geez, am I impressed! What is better than a beautiful woman that has a beautiful voice AND plays guitar as beautifully? I wish you lived next door!
Very nice guitar and vocal work. I'm a decent guitarist myself, and I'm here to say that this song is harder to play than I first thought. The guitar alone is not terribly difficult....until you try to sing it too. That's where this lady's skill becomes evident. Perfect voice for the material also. She understands the blues.
This is my answer to the SolarYT comment as I had some time to waist for a free session on reality: ............... Very nice guitar and vocal work. I'm a decent guitarist myself, and I'm here to say that this song is harder to play than I first thought. The guitar alone is not terribly difficult....until you try to sing it too. That's where this lady's skill becomes evident. Perfect voice for the material also. She understands the blues! .........My comment to Solar............. She understands maybe a lot, but blues isn't one of them! Here's a painful reality check , but from reading your mentally ill comment, you probably won't even take it as advice , rather more then an insult witch brings me to my first point : 1. only thing she did with that song apart from stabbing it to death is: analysed the content, typed neatly out the words, listened to it over and over, wrote the chords down in a little Tab, and by that time even a person with down syndrome would be able to mimic that track ... maybe even in a better way! Or, found the Tab online, and is desperate for some attention! 2. Apart from you totally degrading the original track, our people and the performing artist , by claiming '' She understands the blues '' LMAO , you claiming to be an authority on ...Z Blues ...and a decent guitar player, ...is exactly what immediately shows that you might ram down scales like a maniac, but you can't play for sh..... witch brings me to point 3: Z performance : I'm the last person that would downgrade anybody, especially just for trying .. but that's not the case here : I feel when reading those incredible entertaining comments , I had to stop, as I laughed so hard, that it made me nearly vomit, here is my opinion , as a crappy guitar player, if that's what it is you call people who pick up a guitar and start playing along, instead of analysing it ! Here's mine: She's plays it just like a white person would copy it , so no surprise there, it's like one of those Irish singer bitches , except for the the fact that it's sung , steriel as Ice , and the obvious result no fire. I would say that her voice is the most surprisingly allright' ish, but the playing is like she's trying to nit an Exploited track ... And that's why white people can't understand the blues and never ever will,! The first thing that blocks you all from a fair go at it , is that you, after the obvious, repeating it to dead, glue a few licks together, and immediately believing that you've nailed it, most off the time, just like the comments, having a bunch of clowns around that aren't funny, complementing on how fantastic you are, and what get's it sold, and nowadays in all music styles , having a sambo Negro around , living up your .... witch to you is the conformation that , you are One of the White guy's ''who's got it'' you don't , and if you are black, you wouldn't say , I'm a decent guitar player, I faked a few instruments in my time, but the last thing I ever wanted , was to be able to play decent ! You are not alone though, just type in Blues Guitar, and you will have to go thru a Thousand White guys, like you, showing''how it's done'' , LMAO disgusting. So the first thing that holds you back is : A Sambo Negro Hyping you up, for you ego, and for him a possibility to get accepted in to whatever he or she's after . The Second thing is , arrogance, playing or singing the notes is another thing than playing the notes and singing the notes as they are on paper ! So of you would hear it , you would create it , witch non of you can do .... and Last point and this session is totally free of charge , ... you're welcome Here it comes : If you let us hunt you down by the Millions, murder you all , rape woman and children, with a death toll from over 250.000.000 by you're own international recordes , that doesn't include, the mentale and physical torture, the Belgians who chopped of 15.000.000 Congolese Hands and feet, to save on metal for chains, enslave you, take away all you're history, systematically lie yourself into the Ancient, even claiming the Pyramids, or saying that it were Aliens who build it, then after all that mayhem, you were the only race that didn't get one Dollar of reparations, didn't get an appoligy, or a very faint one , with extreme difficulty, then we pretending to leave you're continent, witch we exploit in all manners, from it;s resources to it's land and people, the placing with the help of international govt agency's , the most corrupt greedy morons on as president puppets, whilst the media as two hands on one belly , creates any opposition to the ''peace'' in your 12 Million Square Miles as, to be a Hitler like cult group, throwing baby's out of incubators etc, and take you're music, and make millions of it, even though it sounds like total crap, then when any of you all, who are not totally brainwashed or extremely disrespect-full to all the murdered and lynched for looking at a white bitch , as ''Reverse Racism'' Then Mr Solar, that can't take the sun for moire then 20 min. Then you might , ....MIGHT, be able to play the blues ... a little! The fact is that you all, with very much enthusiasm fell into your own propaganda river called: Denial .... With Love from Mutana ... And I have to check some more video's because there's something fishy going on with that bitch ... might be a voice over , If I have some time to waist ... witch I don't really
Wow! You are very sad and very sick. You have made your bed in hate and victimhood. I hope you get better. None of us save for a very few, very old people can have an idea of what it was like to live when these old blues were written.
Do you know her? I've been coming back to her videos many times in the past few years and I've been wondering why she hasn't uploaded anything. Hope she is well.
know that song by a robert crumb documentary, now looked for it here and i stumbled bout you vid. as a german this song touches me because of our history which is a sad chapter. that very nice played, touching! lovely greez from germany. florian
Thank you so much for recording this! Probably like a lot of people, the first time I heard this song was in the movie Crumb, and it left me stunned. I assumed it would have to remain a reproduction from a scratchy 78 but you brought it back to life.
Really fantastic, the guitar playing was really spot on and I just learned the guitar parts watching this but don't worry, after hearing you sing this there's no way I or anyone else can do as well as you did, you singing was beautiful and eerie at the same time and I declare this a masterpiece, have seen you do good things before but this is on another level. Geeshie was brilliant but she would have deeply approved of this I feel.
It's always awesome to see people reviving these somewhat obscure old weird dark blues songs. Blues has been stereotyped and radiofied just like every other genre, people need to go back and discover what a varied, thoughtful, complex, and strange genre it can be. Great rendition btw!
Brilliant cover as good as Geeshies and she gets the words right. Most people sing I can stand right here and see my lover on the other side, not what Geeshie sang that is I can see my face on the other side. The emphasis of this is crucial to the song.......she can see her ghost on the other side
I have been a fan of this song for 25 years now after getting the Crumb soundtrack. All those years I thought she said she went to the Devil. Now I know she said depot.
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All those years and I still love this video. I hope life is treating you with the same care you lavish on the music you used to play. We will never meet, but, for the little it's worth, know this: you have made an enormous difference in my life. Thank you so very much.
She captures the essence of the original. Overlay a scratchy 78rpm effect and it's suddenly 1927 all over again. So good.
Absolutely haunting! I hope you are well wherever this finds you
This is the best cover of this song I've ever heard. It's amazing. It's sad this channel seems dead. So much talent.
Joker
This is a staggeringly good cover !
Thanks to Ami in Israel for suggesting this song to Christine. You were right, Ami.
Christine, where are you these days? I would buy EVERYTHING you record. You are an amazing talent, I am totally hooked on the way you sing and play.
I've seen various recordings of this, but this one captures the original the most for me.
Every once in a while i have to listen to this, then the original, then this one again; then the original turned up really loud... her vibrato and picking makes this really unique while faithful to the original; killer.
Lyrics:
The last kind words my daddy said to me
Lord, the last kind words my daddy said to me
If I die, if I die in the German war
I want you to send my body, send it to my mother, Lord
If I get killed, if I get killed, dont you bury my soul
I prefer you leave me out, let the buzzards eat me whole
When you see me comin', cross the rich man's field
If I don't bring you flour, Im gonna bring you bolted meal
I went to the depot, I looked up at the sun
Cried some train don't come, gonna be some walkin' done
The last word mama told me, just before she died
Lord, precious daughter, don't you be so wild
The Mississippi river, you know it's deep and wide
I can stand right here, see my babe on the other side
What you do to me baby, it never gets outta me
I hope to see you when I cross that deep blue sea
Great job. Not only did you find one of the most significant blues songs of that generation - you sang the hell out of it. Geeshie would be proud. Hell, I'm proud.
Absolutely gorgeous! I don't think there is anyone else out there today who could capture the haunting beauty of that song as well as you. I also love your skip james and robert wilkins covers. With great admiration and appreciation, Ami, Israel.
I always come back to this
Your playing is not only expert but soulful. Wonderful.
That's great, Geeshie could never have imagined it would live on like this. Hope you're still playing and singing somewhere.
I’ve watched 7,237 videos on RUclips. This is the best one. The original recording, by Geechie Wiley, is absolutely stunning. Although I’d respect somebody who didn’t like it, I’d be dumbfounded.
Anyway, IPlayBanjoNow’s (IPBN’s) rendition takes the wind out of me.
I play guitar. I sing. I love acoustic blues.
But THIS video is a masterpiece.
IPBN’s rendition shakes me, to my core. She got the guitar part right. The vocal right. OMG! What a great video.
Damn this is good!
Often the most talented are also the most tortured.
Baffling how somebody could cover this classic so amazingly. Kudos! Kudos.
You never fudge your way like many on utube who try to play beyond their ability.Very precise and beautifully timed with, voice to match.
Excellent, best cover ive heard of this, true to the original, heavy.
Wow- out of the past to the present. Best I've heard.
It is wonderful to hear this unforgettable song in a fine clear tone.
This is wonderful, so moving. Thank you kindly.
If I could play this well, I wouldn't bother doing my ironing either.
she's so good
in fact..... she's so good, i'd be happy to do her laundry :)
She was just about to do that. She only picked up the guitar for a second, and hours later she finally put it back down lol
hahahahaha! nice bants Aron
I was going to say a true artist doesn't care if there is bulshit in the background
one of the greatest blues performances ever
So stunning. So heartbreaking performance. You are a true Artist. Thanks for keeping this song alive.
That music must be almost a century old. Listening and watching was eerie. I wonder what Geeshie would think.
I'm so glad that a younger, modern woman is honoring someone of a past generation. You are so cool! I'm just watching your finger picking and hearing your absolutely brilliant singing. Love your.
This is one badass cover lady!!! LOVE it!
Why did you stop uploading? You're great
Girl, you had me in tears!!! Your voice and playing of that song, is haunting and beautiful. God bless, You!
Still listening in 2022. I hope you come back one day, you have a truly amazing gift.
so rich and worthwhile.....should be the number one song in the nation
+fmazzar Who said it wasn't?
This amazing player captures the essence of the blues better than anyone else that I have heard, both porch picker and professional.
Help, I can't stop watching this!
That was wonderful....soulful...
please don't let this be your last kind words banjo...worlds a little darker without your soulful love....
Had to listen to it again straight away. Breathtakingly good
Came across this tune while watching the documentary Crumb. It instantly made an impression. Love your version of it.
wooooow!!! pure fire my lady!!!! god bless your hands and voice!!!
Beautiful. You've captured her unique phrasing and haunting voice. Absolutely lovely.
On my life this gave my goosebumps and made me well up that voice is so good how is she human , what a perfect human :0
This is the first of your videos that I found. I've watched most of the others by now and they're all great, but I keep coming back to this one. If I listen to it in the morning, the tune stays in my head all day. You are a rare talent !
Exceptional, both playing and vocal. Felt transported.
Ma chanson préférée !!!
Elle est merveilleusement jouée et interprétée !!!
Cela met le frisson ! Bravo !!!!
Please ! Je rêve de la jouer à la guitare 🤩🤩🤩
Un tuto please !!!!!!!!!!!
My word! Tripped over this, and geez, am I impressed! What is better than a beautiful woman that has a beautiful voice AND plays guitar as beautifully? I wish you lived next door!
Very nice guitar and vocal work. I'm a decent guitarist myself, and I'm here to say that this song is harder to play than I first thought. The guitar alone is not terribly difficult....until you try to sing it too. That's where this lady's skill becomes evident. Perfect voice for the material also. She understands the blues.
This is my answer to the SolarYT comment as I had some time to waist for a free session on reality: ............... Very nice guitar and vocal work. I'm a decent guitarist myself, and I'm here to say that this song is harder to play than I first thought. The guitar alone is not terribly difficult....until you try to sing it too. That's where this lady's skill becomes evident. Perfect voice for the material also. She understands the blues! .........My comment to Solar............. She understands maybe a lot, but blues isn't one of them! Here's a painful reality check , but from reading your mentally ill comment, you probably won't even take it as advice , rather more then an insult witch brings me to my first point : 1. only thing she did with that song apart from stabbing it to death is: analysed the content, typed neatly out the words, listened to it over and over, wrote the chords down in a little Tab, and by that time even a person with down syndrome would be able to mimic that track ... maybe even in a better way! Or, found the Tab online, and is desperate for some attention! 2. Apart from you totally degrading the original track, our people and the performing artist , by claiming '' She understands the blues '' LMAO , you claiming to be an authority on ...Z Blues ...and a decent guitar player, ...is exactly what immediately shows that you might ram down scales like a maniac, but you can't play for sh..... witch brings me to point 3: Z performance : I'm the last person that would downgrade anybody, especially just for trying .. but that's not the case here : I feel when reading those incredible entertaining comments , I had to stop, as I laughed so hard, that it made me nearly vomit, here is my opinion , as a crappy guitar player, if that's what it is you call people who pick up a guitar and start playing along, instead of analysing it ! Here's mine: She's plays it just like a white person would copy it , so no surprise there, it's like one of those Irish singer bitches , except for the the fact that it's sung , steriel as Ice , and the obvious result no fire. I would say that her voice is the most surprisingly allright' ish, but the playing is like she's trying to nit an Exploited track ... And that's why white people can't understand the blues and never ever will,! The first thing that blocks you all from a fair go at it , is that you, after the obvious, repeating it to dead, glue a few licks together, and immediately believing that you've nailed it, most off the time, just like the comments, having a bunch of clowns around that aren't funny, complementing on how fantastic you are, and what get's it sold, and nowadays in all music styles , having a sambo Negro around , living up your .... witch to you is the conformation that , you are One of the White guy's ''who's got it'' you don't , and if you are black, you wouldn't say , I'm a decent guitar player, I faked a few instruments in my time, but the last thing I ever wanted , was to be able to play decent ! You are not alone though, just type in Blues Guitar, and you will have to go thru a Thousand White guys, like you, showing''how it's done'' , LMAO disgusting. So the first thing that holds you back is : A Sambo Negro Hyping you up, for you ego, and for him a possibility to get accepted in to whatever he or she's after . The Second thing is , arrogance, playing or singing the notes is another thing than playing the notes and singing the notes as they are on paper ! So of you would hear it , you would create it , witch non of you can do .... and Last point and this session is totally free of charge , ... you're welcome Here it comes : If you let us hunt you down by the Millions, murder you all , rape woman and children, with a death toll from over 250.000.000 by you're own international recordes , that doesn't include, the mentale and physical torture, the Belgians who chopped of 15.000.000 Congolese Hands and feet, to save on metal for chains, enslave you, take away all you're history, systematically lie yourself into the Ancient, even claiming the Pyramids, or saying that it were Aliens who build it, then after all that mayhem, you were the only race that didn't get one Dollar of reparations, didn't get an appoligy, or a very faint one , with extreme difficulty, then we pretending to leave you're continent, witch we exploit in all manners, from it;s resources to it's land and people, the placing with the help of international govt agency's , the most corrupt greedy morons on as president puppets, whilst the media as two hands on one belly , creates any opposition to the ''peace'' in your 12 Million Square Miles as, to be a Hitler like cult group, throwing baby's out of incubators etc, and take you're music, and make millions of it, even though it sounds like total crap, then when any of you all, who are not totally brainwashed or extremely disrespect-full to all the murdered and lynched for looking at a white bitch , as ''Reverse Racism'' Then Mr Solar, that can't take the sun for moire then 20 min. Then you might , ....MIGHT, be able to play the blues ... a little! The fact is that you all, with very much enthusiasm fell into your own propaganda river called: Denial .... With Love from Mutana ... And I have to check some more video's because there's something fishy going on with that bitch ... might be a voice over , If I have some time to waist ... witch I don't really
Wow! You are very sad and very sick. You have made your bed in hate and victimhood. I hope you get better.
None of us save for a very few, very old people can have an idea of what it was like to live when these old blues were written.
Excellent technique.and fine vocal style. Thank you for sharing.
The best thing about your cover is you captured the spirit and emotions of Wiley's song.
real nice job here on this obscure traditional country blues... best to ya darlin you got the feelin fer sure
wow keep it up sending her best regards from California and we love you
God I miss you
Do you know her? I've been coming back to her videos many times in the past few years and I've been wondering why she hasn't uploaded anything. Hope she is well.
Absolutely nails this classic folk song. A great rendition!
A great rendition of a lovely old song. Thanks.
know that song by a robert crumb documentary, now looked for it here and i stumbled bout you vid. as a german this song touches me because of our history which is a sad chapter.
that very nice played, touching!
lovely greez from germany.
florian
I'm glad you learned it, I'm glad I heard it.
Wow! Fantastic! Greetz from Sweden.
You have such a matte, beautiful voice. I listened to this 4 times straight. Amazing my friend.
This is a fantastic version. Really well done.
great cover!! beautiful done.
Quite creative for a blues song , never heard of it before I like it.
Very very nice rendition of this haunting song.
Oh Sister Where Art Thou? What an amazing vibe captured here. I love it.
Excellent! And what a blue song. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much for recording this! Probably like a lot of people, the first time I heard this song was in the movie Crumb, and it left me stunned. I assumed it would have to remain a reproduction from a scratchy 78 but you brought it back to life.
You have my deepest admiration. This is a fantastic version.
Wonderful song wonderfully done....
Wonderful, haunting, perfect.
Wow. What a performance. You truly nailed this song.
I like what you do with the guitar part, your voice is always right, it's a gift.
i love your music taste so much, and you master it all with that foxy voice. sweet sound to my ears .
Greetings from Dallas, Texas. Brilliant!!!
Excellent cover. I got chills when she started playing it was so good.
Mesmerizing... floors me everytime!
Really fantastic, the guitar playing was really spot on and I just learned the guitar parts watching this but don't worry, after hearing you sing this there's no way I or anyone else can do as well as you did, you singing was beautiful and eerie at the same time and I declare this a masterpiece, have seen you do good things before but this is on another level. Geeshie was brilliant but she would have deeply approved of this I feel.
you made a fantastic version of a very nice blues...
Thank you; that was really excellent!
English summer and its cold, grey and very wet!
You just brightened my day.
That was such a special pleasure to listen to and your lovely and lovely to listen to all day.
That laundry aint gonna fold itself. So good!
Chills. So very well done.
Extraordinarlily well done!
Oh my, you nailed this beautiful song. Geeshie would be pleased. Thanks so much!
Superior cover of a classic American song. Well done!!
Intense.. riveting.. haunting... That was very beautiful.
First I thought Skip James, then hearing and reading: Geeshie Wiley, what a wonderful song and guitar voicing!
Cheers from Danube riverside,
lena
It's always awesome to see people reviving these somewhat obscure old weird dark blues songs. Blues has been stereotyped and radiofied just like every other genre, people need to go back and discover what a varied, thoughtful, complex, and strange genre it can be.
Great rendition btw!
Beautiful singing and guitar playing! I'm looking forward to your album.
Good song and singing
Awesome! Wow your playing is so great, to finally to see how my favourite blues should be played... :)
What a bluesy one! 🤗 Killed me.
Amazing! When talent and beauty collide, it comes out like this.
Great version of a blues classic! Love it.
Like a breath of fresh air on a hot summer's day - you are AWESOME! Thanks for sharing!
Brilliant cover as good as Geeshies and she gets the words right. Most people sing I can stand right here and see my lover on the other side, not what Geeshie sang that is I can see my face on the other side. The emphasis of this is crucial to the song.......she can see her ghost on the other side
I have been a fan of this song for 25 years now after getting the Crumb soundtrack. All those years I thought she said she went to the Devil. Now I know she said depot.
You inspire me, seriously. Great
Well done..very enjoyable.. great voice ..regards Simon
I discovered this song yesterday. It's now haunting my mind. Thanks for this interpretation.
Thank you. You captured the essence of the original beautifully.
By far th best vince Gerhie. Extraordinary.
this is incredible
just perfect. why you dont have a record contract its unbelieveable. love it. thank you.
Thanks, I enjoyed your performance.
It shocked me the first time i heard this.... even though I've been playing piano blues since i was 8... All blues and everything is in there