Their aged voices seeped in experiences that include love and heartbreak make the song that much better. Sometimes music isn't about the technical aspect but about the emotion. :)
Back in 1969, I went to Vietnam as a common 11B Infantryman. Our nation was divided at the time, and when I got out into the field, everyone wanted to know what was new. I told them than Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan just had a fantastic duet called "Girl From The North Country". Nobody believed me.
Thank you for giving this song the dignity, heart, and soul that it needs when it shows up on the internet. God bless you and your's David, Steve, and Graham.
I still remember sitting in the 4th row at Oakland Coliseum, for the Bridge School Benefit 1988, when both Dylan and CSN&Y played, and watching Crosby and Neil Young watching Dylan's set from the wings....still fans, after all those years...it was a special feeling.
+wygakyl That's such a nice story. I had a similar special feeling at my first Neil Young concert. He was rockin' so hard on his guitar and all I could do was trying hard to hold my tears and enyoing every single note. Worth every Cent I spent! Musicians who really love what they are doing and can convey this feeling to the audience and theire music is one of the most beautiful things in the world for me.
Tha lads should try to get tickets for the current show at the Old Vic then get themselves on to do this as an encore to what is one brilliant musical play. Praise be to Bobby and to the best ever...'Crosby, Stills & Nash'.
It’s a bitter sweet thing of teen first love We all have a ‘Girl from the North Country’ in our lives……beautiful harmony and Stephen Stills guitar play captures the sadness and angst of young love
CSN have so much of their own material but one of my favourites is Blackbird, not to be confused with the Stills classic Bluebird from his Buffalo Springfield days. The former, written by Sir Paul McCartney is covered with their trademark 3 part harmonies to perfection. A good rendition is on the Daylight Again DVD....
obviously a great song....dylan`s unique live version on youtube with smith playing along side him too is hard to beat.....nobody had that intense, eccentric sneering drive like dylan....CSN take it at a more leisurely pace, with beautiful hamonies/
It didn’t help that much. It really unfortunate listening to classic live dead & the singing swing between ok & out of key. They needed a lead vocalist & never got one. The lady whose husband was on piano helped keep bobby from to manny boo boos
All they touch turns to gold,, ... in this case ... I don't know.... AS Bob and Bob and Johnny......when a song is very good, there in nothinhg much to add., Love!
I can understand why you'd say that at the same time there would be many fans who would be disappointed if they stopped. Just proves that everyone has an opinion and artists aren't going to be able to please all the people all the time. :)
Lovely treatment of this beloved song. I also like what Nitty Gritty Dirt Band did with it. Dylan didn't come up with this song out of thin air. Paul Simon's Scarborough Fair is from the same English folk song and there are many other versions.
These guys adapted their own take on Dylans beautifully adapted Parsley sage Rosemary and thyme. The oldest anti war song in the English language.You gotta love how art evolves.
Interesting that the version by Dylan & Cash changes the chords to a simple G, Bminor, C, G all through. I think this excellent version uses same chords as Dylan's original. Also Dylan & Cash's harmonies are less "conventional" let's say, but wonderful none the less.
This is a nice version. But Bob's original on Freewheelin' is hand's down the best. Yes many have cited Johnny and Bob's classic version from Nashville Skyline. Here's the problem with that one: For some unknown reason, they left out the verse that makes the whole song. I'm a wondering if she remembers me at all. Many times I've often prayed, in the darkness of my night in the brightness of my day. This verse takes the song from a nice simple ballad and makes it a masterpiece.
Yes I noticed that too, I've been singing this song for 40 odd years without knowing of this verse -Doh-. I don't know why they left out such a lovely lyric. I like CS&N but this version seems a bit overdone IMHO. Best regard from the UK
I love CSN and have seen them a number of times. It's reality that as one ages the vocal range is becomes limited. I just think they shouldn't do songs that challenge that too much, Peace....
Beautiful version when the harmonies come in. This is one of my favorite Dylan songs. I recorded a version and I've posted it at reverbnation,com..if you'd like hear just Google TimothyFlyte'66 at reverbnation.com. I hope you like it .
His signature 0-45. It's a 12-fret model and if you look closely you can see his signature inlaid at the 12th fret. It's based on the guitar on the album cover of his first solo album, where he's sitting on a bench in the snow with a toy giraffe to his right (while he's got a burning cigarette tucked in the pinky of his picking hand while playing what was undoubtedly a ridiculously valuable guitar - note the slotted headstock). Martin also made signature 000-45 and D-45 models for him, but the D-45 is the most significant. IIRC, only 91 pre-war D-45s were made; only 87 have been accounted for, and Stephen owns two of them (he calls the main one "Mother Maybelle). So when Martin made his D-41 signature model they only made 91, and he got the first two. They sold out immediately at their list price of $17,500, and now - if you can find one - they go for $25K - $30K.
Stephen crooning like Dylan. Interesting choice. I'd of liked to hear them do this one 25 yrs. ago Their voices seem strained now. I guess the harmonies have lost a little something. This one just doesn't quite work.
@@David-D-Pyrénées there is a video of Neil singing this song on UA-cam recorded in one of those booths that they have in truck stops etc. It's very good, he plays it quite up-tempo and kickin, search it out.
you know what ? Rattle is right. Cant improve on the original. I love CSN almost as much as the great Zimbo but they shld just hv left this one for private viewing. To give u an idea my first ever 7" (remember those !!!) was Rainy Day women - 1964 !! Don't even try to work out my frixking age !!
Leave it to the stoned, scruffy Dylan who didn't know where he was going to be sleeping that night when he stopped by the recording studio one month before his 22nd birthday to the day. There's competition to how genuine he sounds on that recording.
The wind on the water has carried David home ...
R I P !!!
Their aged voices seeped in experiences that include love and heartbreak make the song that much better. Sometimes music isn't about the technical aspect but about the emotion. :)
Great comment.
What a perfect and spot on comment. Yes, exactly. What I was thinking as I listened.
I absolutely love this version, but the Cash and Dylan version will always be my favorite. It is truly a great song.
Mine too!
me too
Back in 1969, I went to Vietnam as a common 11B Infantryman. Our nation was divided at the time, and when I got out into the field, everyone wanted to know what was new. I told them than Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan just had a fantastic duet called "Girl From The North Country". Nobody believed me.
CheetoSantana Nashville Skyline
CheetoSantana Ian & Sylvia
Flat out BEAUTIFUL!!!! so Happy these Dudes bumped into each other...thank you Joni!!!
Thank you for giving this song the dignity, heart, and soul that it needs when it shows up on the internet. God bless you and your's David, Steve, and Graham.
Utterly gorgeous harmony
The harmony and tempo are perfect for this great Dylan song
so beautiful...the guys still have it.
I still remember sitting in the 4th row at Oakland Coliseum, for the Bridge School Benefit 1988, when both Dylan and CSN&Y played, and watching Crosby and Neil Young watching Dylan's set from the wings....still fans, after all those years...it was a special feeling.
+wygakyl Tuviste suerte de estar allí.
It was the only concert I ever planned to be at the ticket place, when they went on sale...I waited at 4AM, and was 1st in line!
+wygakyl That's such a nice story. I had a similar special feeling at my first Neil Young concert. He was rockin' so hard on his guitar and all I could do was trying hard to hold my tears and enyoing every single note. Worth every Cent I spent!
Musicians who really love what they are doing and can convey this feeling to the audience and theire music is one of the most beautiful things in the world for me.
Great post!!
Dylan was a true poet, great rendition.
N-I-C-E!!!! Always loved this song.
Outstanding!!
Just so very awesome to see all three of the guys on stage and still rock in!!!
I love Still's backstory and the careful treatment of one of Bob's gems. ... Graham forgot his traveling shoes.
Tha lads should try to get tickets for the current show at the Old Vic then get themselves on to do this as an encore to what is one brilliant musical play. Praise be to Bobby and to the best ever...'Crosby, Stills & Nash'.
A beautiful song of love & loss. Many covers, all strong.
well said
It’s a bitter sweet thing of teen first love
We all have a ‘Girl from the North Country’ in our lives……beautiful harmony and Stephen Stills guitar play captures the sadness and angst of young love
I can not get this one out of my head . I must grab a guitar and learn it and teach it to my friends.,
Edward R. Ryerson or the Wilfred Sykes?
Beautiful. Angels that sound like a whole heavenly choir.
Better and better. Thanks so much CSN.
I hope you can even sing at all when you reach their age...Great cover of a Bob Dylan Classic
These guys always give me goose pimples - harmonies are superb.
after not hearing it for say 30 years.....the harmonies nearly knocked me over...(.not this song tbh.....)
CSN have so much of their own material but one of my favourites is Blackbird, not to be confused with the Stills classic Bluebird from his Buffalo Springfield days. The former, written by Sir Paul McCartney is covered with their trademark 3 part harmonies to perfection. A good rendition is on the Daylight Again DVD....
Excellent!!!!! fantastic cover.
obviously a great song....dylan`s unique live version on youtube with smith playing along side him too is hard to beat.....nobody had that intense, eccentric sneering drive like dylan....CSN take it at a more leisurely pace, with beautiful hamonies/
gives me a chill ----gorgeous
if you're wondering why Jerry Garcia was willing to exchange playing on David's album for David teaching the Dead about harmony...chills.
It didn’t help that much. It really unfortunate listening to classic live dead & the singing swing between ok & out of key. They needed a lead vocalist & never got one. The lady whose husband was on piano helped keep bobby from to manny boo boos
Beautiful cover ❤️
All they touch turns to gold,, ... in this case ... I don't know.... AS Bob and Bob and Johnny......when a song is very good, there in nothinhg much to add., Love!
CSN do a great cover of one of my favorite songs. Thank you.
Legend band. ❤
Was so lucky to see them live around 2015 in Wales.
Immer wieder SUPER!!!
Classic version of this timeless ballad. An more from this gig.
Let’s not forget the classic cover by Joe Cocker & Leon Russell on the Mad Dogs & Englishmen LP!
Great song lot's of nice comments, but for some reason that raspy Joe Coker version still does it for me, pure emotion. RIP joe
Agreed!
Jesus! Great Harmony!
Good by the greatest pop singers of the USA !
awesome CSN
Tops ever awesome ever thank you
Wowwwww… like the older days!!!
I can understand why you'd say that at the same time there would be many fans who would be disappointed if they stopped. Just proves that everyone has an opinion and artists aren't going to be able to please all the people all the time. :)
Love it!
Lovely treatment of this beloved song. I also like what Nitty Gritty Dirt Band did with it. Dylan didn't come up with this song out of thin air. Paul Simon's Scarborough Fair is from the same English folk song and there are many other versions.
Nice cover, especially the finger style guitar.
These guys adapted their own take on Dylans beautifully adapted Parsley sage Rosemary and thyme. The oldest anti war song in the English language.You gotta love how art evolves.
Interesting that the version by Dylan & Cash changes the chords to a simple G, Bminor, C, G all through. I think this excellent version uses same chords as Dylan's original. Also Dylan & Cash's harmonies are less "conventional" let's say, but wonderful none the less.
do you know what are the chords of The Black Crow's version?
i Do Love This..
You Nailed it Jan
The most beutiful love son ever wtitten ......
An they do it exceptcionally ....
Reminds me a little of Burl Ives... fantastic
sweetness
proud to be a 'girl from the north country'
OHH ..HOW A LOVELY COMMENT !!
Me too, Lyn Mae!
@@lizlawley6680 - Please see that you're wearing a coat so warm, to keep you from the howling winds.
Love IT
I like the way they sing "shield her from the howling wind"
I liked it! They are true
Marvellous
Immenso Stills
This is a nice version. But Bob's original on Freewheelin' is hand's down the best. Yes many have cited Johnny and Bob's classic version from Nashville Skyline. Here's the problem with that one: For some unknown reason, they left out the verse that makes the whole song. I'm a wondering if she remembers me at all. Many times I've often prayed, in the darkness of my night in the brightness of my day. This verse takes the song from a nice simple ballad and makes it a masterpiece.
Yes I noticed that too, I've been singing this song for 40 odd years without knowing of this verse -Doh-. I don't know why they left out such a lovely lyric. I like CS&N but this version seems a bit overdone IMHO. Best regard from the UK
Check out Altan, they do a great cover of this song
Grahms animations are so divine
Life is so weirdly awesome
Check out Leon Russell Lockin' 2015. He and Claudia Lennar do a haunting time stopping version.
To: C S N...World Class Gentlemen!!!
C.S.N beats Dylan/Cash and that's not easy to do
Song stars at 0:39.
...nice.... but the best version is from Cash/Dylan
"Freewheelin" - The original is still the greatest.
Excellent rendition by the guys of Dylan's classic. where was this filmed.? A great video close up with no distraction or noise from audience
Pete Townsend at Woodstock in 1998 does the ultimate rendition of this song.
You really should look over to the right and click on the Black Crowes version.
What is that great Martin Stephen is playing on?
I love CSN and have seen them a number of times. It's reality that as one ages the vocal range is becomes limited. I just think they shouldn't do songs that challenge that too much, Peace....
I agree.
Les contre voix étaient parfaites !
whats the guitar model he playing?? nice cover.
That's about the purdiest old Martin that I've ever seen.
Noticed that!!
It's lovely !
Older CSN is better than no CSN .
Nice version
Chris Robinson is my fav. Just saying
Beautiful version when the harmonies come in. This is one of my favorite Dylan songs. I recorded a version and I've posted it at reverbnation,com..if you'd like hear just Google
TimothyFlyte'66 at reverbnation.com. I hope you like it .
Love "Girl From the North Country." I love Marty Robbins' "Girl From Spanish Town" even more. This version is a little too slow.
Surely the sound could be synced
Great song. Graham Nash: please don't look so ridiculous
I'm from the north.
does anyone know what model Martin he's playing??
wilmusic2 I was about to ask the same question...
His signature 0-45. It's a 12-fret model and if you look closely you can see his signature inlaid at the 12th fret. It's based on the guitar on the album cover of his first solo album, where he's sitting on a bench in the snow with a toy giraffe to his right (while he's got a burning cigarette tucked in the pinky of his picking hand while playing what was undoubtedly a ridiculously valuable guitar - note the slotted headstock). Martin also made signature 000-45 and D-45 models for him, but the D-45 is the most significant. IIRC, only 91 pre-war D-45s were made; only 87 have been accounted for, and Stephen owns two of them (he calls the main one "Mother Maybelle). So when Martin made his D-41 signature model they only made 91, and he got the first two. They sold out immediately at their list price of $17,500, and now - if you can find one - they go for $25K - $30K.
Every guy was thinking of some special girl . . .
Sound is low, I can hardly hear anything.
Why do they have to change the words?
Stephen crooning like Dylan. Interesting choice. I'd of liked to hear them do this one 25 yrs. ago
Their voices seem strained now. I guess the harmonies have lost a little something. This one just doesn't quite work.
Kevin Barry
Im not sure their doing it justice here. See Bob live in 86 ( there’s a clip) it alone. Its a lot better. (Nice licks by Stills of course )
Some songs are simply allergic to three part harmonies. Sounds like the church choir stepping out of their non-secular safe zone.
Roseanne Cash does the truest version of this
A touching tribute but I hate to say that C,S & N are well past their best
With Young, it would be better I think.
Neil Young are from the north country
@@David-D-Pyrénées there is a video of Neil singing this song on UA-cam recorded in one of those booths that they have in truck stops etc. It's very good, he plays it quite up-tempo and kickin, search it out.
Big CSN fan but the other two versions are better. Russell/Cocker and Dylan/Cash.
Beautiful! P.S. Пожалуйста закрой мою страницу на "f", возникла проблема с телефоном.
Dylan & Cash on Nashville Skyline. Big CSN fan but this pales by comparison
Is Nash in his bare feet ??
Looks like.
@@corneliadenninger5395 probably the reason why the carpets
you know what ? Rattle is right. Cant improve on the original. I love CSN almost as much as the great Zimbo but they shld just hv left this one for private viewing. To give u an idea my first ever 7" (remember those !!!) was Rainy Day women - 1964 !! Don't even try to work out my frixking age !!
Prefer Black Crowes version
you'd think stills would be able to afford teeth that fit!
....if this were my band I kick Nah and Crosby out.
Stills by himself would have been a whole lot better
Nice try, but those harmonies ain't as sweet as they used to be. I agree with Chuck - FREEWHEELIN version is the one.
Nah, sorry lads , leave it to Bob and Johnny.
Seriously, this is not very good. Couldn't even get through the whole song
leave it to Joe and Leon, actually....
Leave it to townshend
Leave it to the stoned, scruffy Dylan who didn't know where he was going to be sleeping that night when he stopped by the recording studio one month before his 22nd birthday to the day. There's competition to how genuine he sounds on that recording.
Leave it to rod Stewart