With this surprise track, Tyler Childers offers his always sharp, insightful commentary and a plea for empathy, as he stands in solidarity with those fighting for racial equality. *Question of the day:* How are you?
As a black man growing up all up and down the Eastside of America, mostly in the south..I can't find the words to explain how deeply this song makes my soul weep. I JUST WANT YALL TO KNOW, it's nice some of yall hear us, to know some of yall understand or at least try to. I can't wait to show my family and friends that we have moral support like this. THANK YOU.
Im behind you man. God bless you and your family. Im proud and white, but I'm even prouder you're here, in America, exercising your right to live, and protest. BLACK LIVES MATTER
I hope you inderstand that not all those against BLM and the false racial narrative are for neglecting to support the cause against real injustice. You likely don't.
I think some know hardship better than others caused they live it. No matter how much one read and study these issues, they just won’t and can’t understand. Even the individual that have been through it can’t relate to others cause each experience is different in some way. I’m not black so I can relate and won’t pretend to. I only know poor is poor and hates hate, all of which is color blind.
Scotland here, and Tyler Childers is one of the most talented singer/songwriters I've ever came across… and from an outsider perspective, it’s clear that this man is a good human being. I’ve listened to this song many times and I can’t hear any preaching, or blaming or dividing… It’s just saying that we should take a step back and ask ourselves ‘do we treat people the way we want to be treated’… regardless of media gossip, race, religion, political persuasion, colour or creed. Tyler Childers is a good egg… and you’re lucky to have him America.
Fun fact: the Scottish highlands and the Appalachian mountains were once apart of the same mountain range. Which is mighty odd considering how many Scottish folks ended up immigrating there. Like a little connection between two countries separated by a vast ocean
People forget that some of their country music heroes were badass civil rights activist. Johnny Cash prison tour was for prison reform. Much respect for Tyler
Johnny Cash, Woodie Guthrie, and Johnny Paycheck would be rolling in their graves if they saw how reactionary ideas have been infiltrating country music
Tyler Childers is the song writer country has needed for so long. Yes we have heard every version of growing up dirt poor or loosing your love. It is refreshing to see something deeper growing in country music. I think if given a chance this is how country goes mainstream. I am looking forward to much more social comment by Tyler Childers so many other music forms have become so trite who would have thought that country music might start a music renaissance?
@Nicholas Payne The truth about what? Lmfao the fact that police brutality has never went away? Or that you're okay with their overreach of power but not the government (who they work for).
Remember Blair Mountain and the Coal Wars, people, it was us at one point. We need to stand with our brothers and sisters of other races against oppression and authority. Imagine uniting the entire country together, from the urban dwellers to holler dwellers, against those who wish to do harm to good working people. A united fight against brutality. Bring back the Appalachians that used to be, not the cowards that back the blue.
Hmmm. I choose to stand with Cannon Hinnant, Lucia Bremer, Cash Gernon, Victoria Smith, Tessa Majors and thousands of other victims of savagery and savages.
@@DBMac-ji7fr It is possible to both stand with workers and with murder victims. I'm not sure why you're acting as though these are mutually exclusive?
@@joycechappell1315 The oppressors would dare. They will send the army, simple as that. It's not just about uniting, it's also about fighing. The revolution will be bloody, but there's no ther way around.
Never heard this song before today, but I absolutely love it. And for those of you in the comment section that stand in solidarity and support, THANK YOU from the depths of my soul. I'd gladly sit in the backyard with you and drink a cold one or stand arm in arm with you fighting until the last.
You sir are wise beyond your years. You have a clear message for those of us with clear heads. When I fought in Vietnam I never dreamed that I one day I would see my country in this shape. Spread your message.
I love this. It's so raw, it's hits so hard. This is the kind of narrative excellence that, at least in my opinion, mainstream country has been missing.
@@1978DirtyD absolutely but that’s not what he’s saying all he’s talking about is listening, and besides you never broke a law in your life? Not one ? Cast the first stone then brother.
@@1978DirtyD I'm not even going to bother to pretend you don't know how bullshit your argument is. Most of the black people killed by police *were complying*. Even if they weren't, that's not the point. People shouldn't get killed by cops when it isn't necessary. I hope you enjoy the taste of those fascist boots you're licking.
@@1978DirtyD I’m pretty sure just breaking the law shouldn’t be met with “get fucked” but rather maybe they have their day in court. That’s just my opinion tho.. 🥱
@Alien2001 Right On, Nailed It ... the BLM movement needs to focus on recent racial injustice which centers around the "WAR ON DRUGS" and its toll it has taken on their communities especially since the 1990s
Man, im a white guy watching this from Canada and really feeling solidarity with all the brothers and sisters south of the border. We love Tyler up here, I think he's a pinnacle of what the southern American mantra should be all about.
Maybe it helps to be from Appalachia to understand your music. I love it. It sounds like what my uncles used to play of an evening sittin' and pickin' on the porch.
I think it does. I was born and raised in Georgia and live in East Tennessee now and when I hear Tyler I get it, but my friends that ain't from around here act like he's speaking a different language.
Maybe. But I'm a Californian, born and raised, and I love this entire CD. 8 or so fantastic Appalachian fiddle tunes, and then this. My grandparents came from western VA, but they left in 1908 so I don't really have any roots there.
I'm from NY not NYC, transplanted to North East PA. I think Tyler is an amazing story teller, the music is exactly what it needs to be behind his amazing lyrics. You don't need to be from anywhere to get it. You just need to have a soul.
Just think if you were in another mans shoes. This is an awesome song and I for one will share it with all the people I know. Thank You Tyler for an honest song that make me think of others.
The first time I listened to this song it brought tears to my eyes. Thank you Tyler for being such an empathetic and caring individual even when it goes against how people think you should be.
Tyler.......you have no right to be this good. I mean that as the highest compliment I can make as a man about other human being. I used to look a country music as the music of the people who hated me. I could not be more wrong. I apologize sincerely to all people for this ignorance. Tyler Childers MOVES me toward being a better man by having a better understanding of people in general and the people of the Appalachians in particular. Thank you Tyler....
I just learned about Tyler Childers a few days ago due to all the controversy. He's really amazing. I loved country music as a child and teenager, but I stopped listening due to new country being kind of terrible. Most modern country is really superficial and doesn't really carry a good message.Tyler is great, though. We need more songs like this in modern country.
@@tylerchilders8336 Thank you for your reply, kind sir 🙃😉 I also want to thank you for your song "Follow You to Virgie". I won't bore you with the details of why it is such a personal song to me, but I will say that it held my hand through one of the most painful events of my life. What a special gift you have to make a stranger feel as if you wrote lyrics specifically for that individual. So, you keep writing and singing, and you will most definitely have my continued support. 💙💜
This track heals my heart. It makes me proud of my people--all of you here who feel this resonate. I'm not from Appalachia tho i lived there for a time and lost my little heart to WV, but i grew up miles from paved roads all over the country ... dirt poor, dirt white, dirt educated... and folk... the naked, hair let down truth and purity of our music, is sacred to me. Too often it's commandeered by those caught up in the rhetoric who forget that our music is about relentless honesty because it's about us! Our songs are the raw hymns of our existence ... our love, our fight, our sorrows and our truth but also our untamed beauty. That beauty should always be grounded in our refusal to ever be like those who would exploit us and tread us under foot. We should never want our turn with the stick, our turn to kick those, who even moreso than us, have been kicked around. We should proudly see ourselves in them, our fight in theirs, and be proud to stand strong with the beautiful plight of anyone who refuses to abide.
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Can't say that I agree with every single verse in this but have the absolute and UTMOST respect for a thoughtful man who is not afraid to speak his mind, put himself in another's shoes, knowing he will catch flack for it. In the long run, as Red Green says "we're all in this together". Loving Tyler's music for the last 5 years and expect to for the next 10 ... at least.
Yeah i think there are claims in this song that with context and nuance most would find hyperbolic or simply untrue.That being said the way in which he writes is in my opinion leagues ahead of any writers i know.
Thank you for having the intellect to be able to only partially agree with someone and not freak out. Few other people in the comments ought to take notes.
To me, this song is about people, not race. I'm a white man and this song reminds me of how our family was treated as poor people growing up. As humans, we have failed on recognizing one another for what we are, not what category society tries to put us in. My Dad always said, to put yourself in another man's shoes before you open your mouth. Great song
Bingo! It always surprises me to see poor while folks unable to empathize with injustice and mistreatment, especially within our legal system. Martin Luther King Jr tried to open people’s eyes to race and class issues, but the message got muddied with cherry picked quotes
This gave me a jolt the first time I heard it. What a precise and candid perspective. Tyler delivers an indisputable message with masterful artistry. I love this guy.
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@@abnerwhitewaterduck6723it is just how it is. They don’t want to talk about the black on Black Death toll that surprises Americans killed in recent wars. It is just straight facts
The begging to be allowed to breathe is one of the most blood chilling specters of what is supposed to be a modern evolved society. Just heartbreaking, soul crushing, reality some of our compatriots and neighbors face daily. Fight the decay, embrace healing in anyway you can conceive. Thank you for helping to move the wheel in the right direction.
You know who wouldn’t make a song and a MOTHERFUCKING video about standing up for our brothers and sisters of color and coming together for justice?! Jason Aldean. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on! You’re an absolute LEGEND Tyler and we love you for being you!
*Lyrics: Tyler Childers - Long Violent History* It’s the worst that it’s been since the last time it happened It’s happening again right in front of our eyes There’s updated footage, wild speculation, Tall tales, and hearsay, and absolute lies Being passed off as factual When actually the actual Cause is there awkwardly blocking the way Keeping us all from enjoying our evening Shoving its roots through the screens in our face Now what would you get if you heard my opinion Conjecturin’ on matters that I ain’t never dreamed In all my born days as a white boy from Hickman Based on the way that the world’s been to me It’s called me belligerent, It’s took me for ignorant But it ain’t never once made me scared just to be Could you imagine just constantly worrying Kicking, and fighting, and begging to breathe How many boys could they haul off this mountain Shoot full of holes cuffed and laying in the streets ‘Till we’d come into town in a stark ravin’ anger Looking for answers and armed to the teeth, With thirty-aught-sixes, And Papaw’s old pistol. How many you reckon? Would it be four or five? Or would that be the start of a long violent history of tucking our tails as we try to abide? Or would that be the start of a long violent history of tucking our tails as we try to abide? Songwriter: Tyler Childers Producers: Tyler Childers and Jesse Wells
@@nickchadwell3633 Murders in either case were extrajudicial murders. Period. The "character" of the person or his flaws is irrelevant. You might want to read up on the concept of "due process."
@@nickchadwell3633 I mean if you just want to out your addiction like that, be my guest. Weird place for it is all. Probably not good to do with your full name on your account?
Brings tears to my eyes.... i’ve heard a lot of people around my area talk negatively about you because of this song and your video regarding what this song is about and the album in general.... to those people I say that I hope they see the light soon because this is nothing but beautiful and righteous and I hope that the issues at hand are justified sooner than later
@Tyler Childers You have created a powerful, illuminating, empathetic album. And people are emotional about it... and they are discussing it. And that is the mark of a true artist. There's an old vid on YT of the Black Panthers meeting with the Young Patriots (Appalachian folk who migrated north to Chicago). The clip shows the unity and common cause the groups shared as they fought poverty and discrimination. Their challenge was to see if disenfranchised whites could throw off the shackles of racism and struggle alongside black and brown people to create a new society. It's a lost chapter in our "America History." But perhaps one that people such as yourself can help us rediscover. To move toward. Be well in the new year. And thank you for your work.
That’s a coalition Jesse Jackson tried to put together when he was running for President many years ago. That’s what the Rainbow Coalition was. The thing that George Floyd unintentionally accomplished was to prove to people graphically that Black people were not exaggerating about their treatment at the hands of police. Whether or not White Americans are racist we don’t like to think of ourselves that way, and the way many of us managed to reconcile our political positions with what Black people have been encountering is to simply deny that they were encountering it. That got harder and harder to do from Trayvon on, there were people making excuses for the police in every crazy case, but when this one hit there were no excuses left and suddenly most Republicans believed that we had a national problem with police brutality toward Black people. I thank Mr. Childers for stating so baldly that the Black reaction is reasonable; it’s Black circumstances that aren’t. If All Lives Mattered we wouldn’t have to say that Black Lives Matter; that would be redundant, but it isn’t, and that’s why Mr. Childers wrote this song.
Imagine if we were all in a circle and threw our problems on the ground. Then we’re told to pick them up, but you get others problems. How would we look at things then? Our problems might not be so bad
Anyone remember Bob Dylan, “Blownin in the wind”? Then go find video of Stevie Wonder intro the song and sing it at Dylan’s 30th Anniversary. Each generation has timely impact on the human condition as we evolve, but what’s blowin in the wind is the ugly past with a UHC brighter future, generation to generation. I can’t speak for others nor speak for relatives I would disown if I knew them. As Dylan said, “The answer my friend, is Blowin in the wind….” And if your not familiar with this song or many Dylan sounds that like Childers articulates from his eyes, our generation, Dylan articulated in 1968, in extremely violent times in US History, “How many years can some people exist, before they’re allowed to be free….” How many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry….” Childers, I put you in the songwriters class with Dylan, and never hold back your lyric of thought. Keep writing like the great did….peace.
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Just had an assignment in my English Writing and Rhetoric class. I had to describe a video for the song of my choice. I chose this one and here is what I wrote! Tyler Childers - Long Violent History The main story/narrative that I would have run through the video is as far as we think we have come in America, as far as racism goes, there is so much more work to be done. I would hope to show the hypocrisy in some of the things that white folks say, such as “he shouldn’t have been there”, or “if he would’ve just complied.” My main idea would be to show what it really means to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes. This narrative relates to the lyrics and instruments in so many ways. This album was released at the height of Black Lives Matters protests, it was at first just going to be a purely instrumental album showcasing bluegrass and Tyler Childers’ newly learned fiddle playing ability. After witnessing the George Floyd murder and being from the same state as Breonna Taylor he felt the need to end the album with a track called “Long Violent History.” The song speaks of injustices that black people have all to commonly had to endure and what white people might do if they found themselves in the same position. Also, something I just learned is that this song ends with “My Old Kentucky Home”, which is a deeply racist song that is sang at the Kentucky Derby every year. It was written about an enslaved man saying goodbye to his home Kentucky because he was sold to a slave owner down south and was facing certain death from being overworked and beaten. (O’Grady) As far as actors, I would show Childers playing his fiddle by a river in Kentucky. I would show this happening throughout different parts of the video. He would be the only musician you see in my video. The only dancer that would appear in my video would be Misty Copeland the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in American Ballet Theatre history. I would have both fiddle playing and the dancing appear around the same times in the video, although not on screen at the same time. I am also picturing this filmed in black and white, with some fog and a very ominous feel about it. It would be beautiful and sad at the same time. While Childers and Copeland are the underlying elements of the video, I would have different racial events from America’s history happening throughout the video. When the song kicks off with: It’s the worst that it’s been since the last time it happened/ It’s happening again right in front of our eyes /There’s updated footage, wild speculation, Tall tales, and hearsay, and absolute lies /Being passed off as factual/ When actually the actual Cause is there awkwardly blocking the way/ Keeping us all from enjoying our evening /Shoving its roots through the screens in our face (Childers) I would share some of the most pivotal moments in race culture. These would be either still shots or video footage of the actual events. They would vary in color and quality. The first moments that pop in my head are black men and women being hosed down and attacked by police dogs during the civil right movement in Birmingham Alabama, Rosa Parks taking a seat at the front of the bus, people screaming at Ruby Bridges as she enters her first day of school, and 4 black men sitting down at a Woolworths and refusing to leave when denied service. I would intertwine these moments with hateful things done in the name of racism, videos of the ku klux klan burning crosses in yards, people being beaten, amongst other things that I will not go into detail about. I would end the video with a white boy in a hoodie carrying skittles and an iced tea being shot in the back by a wanna-be cop who claims it was in self-defense. This would lead to the closing scene of a bunch of white guys gathering up all their guns, hopping in their trucks, and heading to town seeking justice and looking for answers. I chose this song and this video because I think Tyler Childers is a wonderful human being. He has suffered a major backlash from this and the things he has said in support of Black Lives Matter. I would organize this video in this way to try to convey how different life has been for darker-skinned people who are just trying to get by like everyone else. I would hope that maybe it would make a few people sit back and think if at least nothing else.
My Old Kentucky Home is a condemnation of slavery, not a racist song. If you want to try and big-brain analyze things, historical context is important.
@@cameronclements3192 I believe I have done my research and I believe it is a racist song. Sorry that you disagree. Also, I think that I have an average size brain. May 2, 2014 · by Jim O'Grady May 3 is the date of the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby. Since the 1930s, the occasion has been marked by a stirring ritual: before the horses break from their gates, more than 100,000 spectators rise from their seats at Churchill Downs for the singing of "My Old Kentucky Home" - a 19th century minstrel song by Stephen Foster. What do those spectators, along with the race's millions of TV viewers, think they're singing? Mostly likely, the song comes across as a nostalgic ode to a more genteel time in the life of the South. But that's not the song that Foster wrote in 1854. Inspired by the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, he instead penned a lament by a slave in Kentucky who's been sold down the river to the Deep South by his master. The slave is both saying goodbye to his old Kentucky home and preparing to meet his imminent death from overwork and brutal mistreatment in the "land where the sugar canes grow." The problem is that Foster told the story by using words that are offensive to modern ears. In 1986, The Kentucky General Assembly passed a law that removed the words "darky" and "darkies" from the song and replaced them with "people." The same law requires that the new lyrics be sung at official state functions. Ken Emerson, author of a biography on Foster, describes the effect on the scene at Churchill Downs: "I find it very ironic that all these men and women in their lovely hats and fancy gowns are singing a song with adulterated lyrics and they think they are singing a song that is a celebration of the Antebellum South, with ladies in crinoline and dashing cavaliers." Foster began his career in the 1840s writing songs in the minstrel style. He had several big hits, including "Oh Susannah," "Camptown Races" and "The Old Folks at Home." It's a fact that, early in his career, he wrote a number of ugly songs. But his attitudes changed over time, and his musical portrayals of African Americans gained in dignity. He was a songwriter of undisputed brilliance who is often called the father of American music. But he died he broke and alone in New York City.
Black Lives Matter is not about the organization. Its this! This is what I try to explain to people. How many will it take for it to not be ok anymore? This man gets it. God bless him
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Y‘know I got to thinking. It‘s fine if you don’t like the song, I get it. Not your cup of tea. But SOME of y’all are calling yourselves out real hard, and it’s a damned shame.
Wow, Loved the tune even before I grasped the meaning. Every body needs to hearthis mesage, and Tylers follow up message befor they vote. It's time to think!
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With this surprise track, Tyler Childers offers his always sharp, insightful commentary and a plea for empathy, as he stands in solidarity with those fighting for racial equality.
*Question of the day:* How are you?
I am great . What about you ?
I'm doing well, can't complain! 😊
Doing okay, tired though
Is that why he sounds like Midwest emo with a banjo
@@Chamomile369 no.
As a black man growing up all up and down the Eastside of America, mostly in the south..I can't find the words to explain how deeply this song makes my soul weep. I JUST WANT YALL TO KNOW, it's nice some of yall hear us, to know some of yall understand or at least try to. I can't wait to show my family and friends that we have moral support like this. THANK YOU.
Im behind you man. God bless you and your family. Im proud and white, but I'm even prouder you're here, in America, exercising your right to live, and protest. BLACK LIVES MATTER
I hope you inderstand that not all those against BLM and the false racial narrative are for neglecting to support the cause against real injustice. You likely don't.
I'm sorry, seriously granted my ancesters didn't come from American but from Croatia in the 60's but still I'm sorry man some white folk suck hard.
I think some know hardship better than others caused they live it. No matter how much one read and study these issues, they just won’t and can’t understand. Even the individual that have been through it can’t relate to others cause each experience is different in some way. I’m not black so I can relate and won’t pretend to. I only know poor is poor and hates hate, all of which is color blind.
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Scotland here, and Tyler Childers is one of the most talented singer/songwriters I've ever came across… and from an outsider perspective, it’s clear that this man is a good human being.
I’ve listened to this song many times and I can’t hear any preaching, or blaming or dividing… It’s just saying that we should take a step back and ask ourselves ‘do we treat people the way we want to be treated’… regardless of media gossip, race, religion, political persuasion, colour or creed.
Tyler Childers is a good egg… and you’re lucky to have him America.
Fun fact: the Scottish highlands and the Appalachian mountains were once apart of the same mountain range.
Which is mighty odd considering how many Scottish folks ended up immigrating there.
Like a little connection between two countries separated by a vast ocean
People forget that some of their country music heroes were badass civil rights activist. Johnny Cash prison tour was for prison reform. Much respect for Tyler
Johnny Cash, Woodie Guthrie, and Johnny Paycheck would be rolling in their graves if they saw how reactionary ideas have been infiltrating country music
Tyler Childers is the song writer country has needed for so long. Yes we have heard every version of growing up dirt poor or loosing your love. It is refreshing to see something deeper growing in country music. I think if given a chance this is how country goes mainstream.
I am looking forward to much more social comment by Tyler Childers so many other music forms have become so trite who would have thought that country music might start a music renaissance?
I know if it happened to me and mine I’d fight like hell. He’s right. It’s time we stood together as one. Thank you Tyler, and god bless you and yours
good thing that's not happening to anyone
@@theonetheonlymemelord5738 Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor.
George Flyod
Darrien Hunt
Tbh i don't have to sit here and recite names you've already heard like nobody knows what the fuck is going on.
Used to love Tyler, thought he was an amazing musician. But after dropping this I have gained so much more respect for him, an absolute legend.
You had us in the first half, not gonna lie 😂❤
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@Nicholas Payne The truth about what? Lmfao the fact that police brutality has never went away? Or that you're okay with their overreach of power but not the government (who they work for).
@Nicholas Payne Defense of injustice won't garner protection from it.
It has had exactly the opposite effect on me. To be expected, it's a divisive message with plenty to disagree with for various reasons.
This shit gives me chills every time i hear it. Childers is what country music should be
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Amen and megustaltions!
Wanted to like but it's at 69 lol
@@tylerchilders8336 if only you were the real tyler childers lol
The opposite, actually.
Two years later and it's still the best contemporary commentary on society.
Remember Blair Mountain and the Coal Wars, people, it was us at one point. We need to stand with our brothers and sisters of other races against oppression and authority. Imagine uniting the entire country together, from the urban dwellers to holler dwellers, against those who wish to do harm to good working people. A united fight against brutality. Bring back the Appalachians that used to be, not the cowards that back the blue.
Hmmm. I choose to stand with Cannon Hinnant, Lucia Bremer, Cash Gernon, Victoria Smith, Tessa Majors and thousands of other victims of savagery and savages.
Once we unite there will be no oppressor. Who would dare?
@@DBMac-ji7fr It is possible to both stand with workers and with murder victims. I'm not sure why you're acting as though these are mutually exclusive?
@@joycechappell1315 The oppressors would dare. They will send the army, simple as that. It's not just about uniting, it's also about fighing. The revolution will be bloody, but there's no ther way around.
Telling my son this was Mao Zedong
Thank you for your courage, Tyler Childers. In the words of Bryan Stevenson, "You have to stand even when people say, “sit down.”
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So courageous he even disabled the comments to his accompanying narrative.
@@K31swiss his chilling in the Kentucky mountains making more music while you sit there bitching and moaning because he has a different opinion.
@@K31swiss he didn’t disable them they were available for a whole UA-cam did it because you foul creatures can’t abide by guidelines.
No one’s telling him to sit down, just pointing out that he’s wrong 🤷🏻♂️
Never heard this song before today, but I absolutely love it. And for those of you in the comment section that stand in solidarity and support, THANK YOU from the depths of my soul. I'd gladly sit in the backyard with you and drink a cold one or stand arm in arm with you fighting until the last.
Never heard about this but that bullshit Richmen north of richmond is viral, praised by the oppressors; that has to tell us something.
The irony of this isn’t lost on me a bit. God I just love him.
remember if you have a dream if you have all the money in the world . you just buy it . lol there never satisficed with no dream
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You sir are wise beyond your years. You have a clear message for those of us with clear heads. When I fought in Vietnam I never dreamed that I one day I would see my country in this shape. Spread your message.
I love this. It's so raw, it's hits so hard. This is the kind of narrative excellence that, at least in my opinion, mainstream country has been missing.
Tyler Childers is a fucking national treasure.
Load of bullshit. Don’t break the law, don’t get fucked
@@1978DirtyD absolutely but that’s not what he’s saying all he’s talking about is listening, and besides you never broke a law in your life? Not one ? Cast the first stone then brother.
@@1978DirtyD I'm not even going to bother to pretend you don't know how bullshit your argument is. Most of the black people killed by police *were complying*. Even if they weren't, that's not the point. People shouldn't get killed by cops when it isn't necessary. I hope you enjoy the taste of those fascist boots you're licking.
@@1978DirtyD I’m pretty sure just breaking the law shouldn’t be met with “get fucked” but rather maybe they have their day in court. That’s just my opinion tho.. 🥱
@Alien2001 Right On, Nailed It ... the BLM movement needs to focus on recent racial injustice which centers around the "WAR ON DRUGS" and its toll it has taken on their communities especially since the 1990s
Man, im a white guy watching this from Canada and really feeling solidarity with all the brothers and sisters south of the border. We love Tyler up here, I think he's a pinnacle of what the southern American mantra should be all about.
Bless you, Tyler, for not being afraid to speak your/our truth
One of the most important songs of the 21st century, by one of the great songwriters from any century.
Maybe it helps to be from Appalachia to understand your music. I love it. It sounds like what my uncles used to play of an evening sittin' and pickin' on the porch.
I think it does. I was born and raised in Georgia and live in East Tennessee now and when I hear Tyler I get it, but my friends that ain't from around here act like he's speaking a different language.
Maybe. But I'm a Californian, born and raised, and I love this entire CD. 8 or so fantastic Appalachian fiddle tunes, and then this. My grandparents came from western VA, but they left in 1908 so I don't really have any roots there.
It takes me back to my childhood family reunions...
I'm from NY not NYC, transplanted to North East PA. I think Tyler is an amazing story teller, the music is exactly what it needs to be behind his amazing lyrics. You don't need to be from anywhere to get it. You just need to have a soul.
I'm not anywhere near there and this song gives me absolute chills
Just think if you were in another mans shoes. This is an awesome song and I for one will share it with all the people I know. Thank You Tyler for an honest song that make me think of others.
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The first time I listened to this song it brought tears to my eyes. Thank you Tyler for being such an empathetic and caring individual even when it goes against how people think you should be.
Me. Too.
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This is what has people up in arms? This was wonderful and honest.
Despite calling everyone snowflakes they get mad over the simplest things
Fred Hampton, Bobby Seales, and Huey P. Newton would be down with this song, word-for-word.
I can't get through this song without angry crying. Just an incredibly powerful song with a message we could all stand to hear.
Amen to this song! Should be heard every where!
Tyler.......you have no right to be this good. I mean that as the highest compliment I can make as a man about other human being. I used to look a country music as the music of the people who hated me. I could not be more wrong. I apologize sincerely to all people for this ignorance. Tyler Childers MOVES me toward being a better man by having a better understanding of people in general and the people of the Appalachians in particular.
Thank you Tyler....
Very well said my friend, he is amazing
Didn't think I could love him any more.... then he went and did this.
This sums it all up: No matter who you are, tip your hat as we walk by each other. If I slip and fall, help me up. I’ll do the same.
This song is powerful as fck, grew up in Cut and Shoot, tx, and your explanation of how you grew up vs how you think now is just a perfect.
As someone from his area of KY I couldn't be more proud.
Pulaski Co. here...
Wife's from Floyd county.
God bless Mr. Childers. Voice gives me goosebumps like Hank Williams Sr. Used to.
I just learned about Tyler Childers a few days ago due to all the controversy. He's really amazing. I loved country music as a child and teenager, but I stopped listening due to new country being kind of terrible. Most modern country is really superficial and doesn't really carry a good message.Tyler is great, though. We need more songs like this in modern country.
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Beautifuly spoken
I love this guy. Incredible all-around musician but I don't think his lyrics get enough attention. How clever and perfectly timed. Well done.
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@@tylerchilders8336 Thank you for your reply, kind sir 🙃😉 I also want to thank you for your song "Follow You to Virgie". I won't bore you with the details of why it is such a personal song to me, but I will say that it held my hand through one of the most painful events of my life. What a special gift you have to make a stranger feel as if you wrote lyrics specifically for that individual. So, you keep writing and singing, and you will most definitely have my continued support. 💙💜
This track heals my heart. It makes me proud of my people--all of you here who feel this resonate. I'm not from Appalachia tho i lived there for a time and lost my little heart to WV, but i grew up miles from paved roads all over the country ... dirt poor, dirt white, dirt educated... and folk... the naked, hair let down truth and purity of our music, is sacred to me. Too often it's commandeered by those caught up in the rhetoric who forget that our music is about relentless honesty because it's about us! Our songs are the raw hymns of our existence ... our love, our fight, our sorrows and our truth but also our untamed beauty. That beauty should always be grounded in our refusal to ever be like those who would exploit us and tread us under foot. We should never want our turn with the stick, our turn to kick those, who even moreso than us, have been kicked around. We should proudly see ourselves in them, our fight in theirs, and be proud to stand strong with the beautiful plight of anyone who refuses to abide.
I alredy thought you were amazing and was so proud you are a fellow Kentuckian, but I am so much prouder now. Thank you, people needed to hear this.
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It's good to hear someone from the rural community sing the truth.
Which truth? That all white people are bad?
thank you tyler
Can't say that I agree with every single verse in this but have the absolute and UTMOST respect for a thoughtful man who is not afraid to speak his mind, put himself in another's shoes, knowing he will catch flack for it. In the long run, as Red Green says "we're all in this together". Loving Tyler's music for the last 5 years and expect to for the next 10 ... at least.
Yeah i think there are claims in this song that with context and nuance most would find hyperbolic or simply untrue.That being said the way in which he writes is in my opinion leagues ahead of any writers i know.
I feel the same as I don't agree with a couple verses but the overall message is I think is great and needed these days.
Thank you for having the intellect to be able to only partially agree with someone and not freak out. Few other people in the comments ought to take notes.
@@pm4813 sadly it seems the ability to not just outright hate someone for not entirely agreeing with them is becoming rarer and rarer these days
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I think if everybody listened to this and his message about the album every once in a while we’d ALL be a lot better off.
I was a fan long before his track. But this track brought tears to my eyes. And made me a bigger fan of the man that can feel such things.
Damn right, brother 🤝
To me, this song is about people, not race. I'm a white man and this song reminds me of how our family was treated as poor people growing up. As humans, we have failed on recognizing one another for what we are, not what category society tries to put us in. My Dad always said, to put yourself in another man's shoes before you open your mouth. Great song
Your dad is a wise man and a good man.
Bingo!
It always surprises me to see poor while folks unable to empathize with injustice and mistreatment, especially within our legal system. Martin Luther King Jr tried to open people’s eyes to race and class issues, but the message got muddied with cherry picked quotes
Unique way to look at it, but thank you.
Oh man, that hits hard...that's some Johnny Cash level stuff right there. I love it.
Johnny Cash was great, but not great like this.
@@bryanthussung7681 you are here for this. Thats why you feel like that.
@@bryanthussung7681 johnny cash is 100x the man that childers could wish to be that being said childers is good
@@roosterfaircloth9236 Well one died at 71 and the other is about 28. So let's give the latter some time.
Or Bob Dylan
And where did we end up? How did anything matter. It didn't. It doesn't. Fine tunes and words that hollow ring empty to the sky
Somebody had to say it. At least it was a ky boy. I'm proud of you.
Agreed, couldn't be more proud of this man. I keep this song blasting on my speakers
pathetic lies
This is probably the best protest song since Iris Dement's "Wasteland of the Free". Well done, Tyler! Love the CD.
Thank you! We need more people like you! People like you that have the courage to say this is a "WE PROBLEM" AND NOT JUST A "YOU PROBLEM!"
Thank you.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Thank you Tyler Childers. You are a good human.
This is the best thing I've heard in a long time. From chills to tears this piece is impossibly powerful.
This gave me a jolt the first time I heard it. What a precise and candid perspective. Tyler delivers an indisputable message with masterful artistry. I love this guy.
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@@Shanefilan-1 Until I return to the chorus of the universal sound.
@@Shanefilan-1 I forgot to say, I think your version of Midnight on the Water is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard.
@@annemaassen5576 lovely 🥰 do you have google chat?
This and his new song needs to be played way louder than that Jason Andean trash.
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Nah, I disagree. While I prefer Tyler's sound, Jason isn't anti-white. We already have more than enough anti-whiteness
@@abnerwhitewaterduck6723it is just how it is. They don’t want to talk about the black on Black Death toll that surprises Americans killed in recent wars. It is just straight facts
The begging to be allowed to breathe is one of the most blood chilling specters of what is supposed to be a modern evolved society. Just heartbreaking, soul crushing, reality some of our compatriots and neighbors face daily. Fight the decay, embrace healing in anyway you can conceive. Thank you for helping to move the wheel in the right direction.
I have been listening to this song since Tyler released it and it all gives me chills 2 months plus later
Powerful!
Best damn song writer in America!
You got that right my friend
Tyler Childers for President 2024!
damn tyler i get it thumbs up from western ky
Tyler > everything
You know who wouldn’t make a song and a MOTHERFUCKING video about standing up for our brothers and sisters of color and coming together for justice?! Jason Aldean. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on! You’re an absolute LEGEND Tyler and we love you for being you!
Man knows his labor history and it shows.
It will be more than four or five!!!! Thanks for this Tyler.
*Lyrics: Tyler Childers - Long Violent History*
It’s the worst that it’s been since the last time it happened
It’s happening again right in front of our eyes
There’s updated footage, wild speculation,
Tall tales, and hearsay, and absolute lies
Being passed off as factual
When actually the actual
Cause is there awkwardly blocking the way
Keeping us all from enjoying our evening
Shoving its roots through the screens in our face
Now what would you get if you heard my opinion
Conjecturin’ on matters that I ain’t never dreamed
In all my born days as a white boy from Hickman
Based on the way that the world’s been to me
It’s called me belligerent,
It’s took me for ignorant
But it ain’t never once made me scared just to be
Could you imagine just constantly worrying
Kicking, and fighting, and begging to breathe
How many boys could they haul off this mountain
Shoot full of holes cuffed and laying in the streets
‘Till we’d come into town in a stark ravin’ anger
Looking for answers and armed to the teeth,
With thirty-aught-sixes,
And Papaw’s old pistol.
How many you reckon?
Would it be four or five?
Or would that be the start of a long violent history
of tucking our tails as we try to abide?
Or would that be the start of a long violent history
of tucking our tails as we try to abide?
Songwriter: Tyler Childers
Producers: Tyler Childers and Jesse Wells
Lord so many racists don't remember coal miners being slaughtered because they were poor. It's about who has $. Wake up ShEePle.
yeah lets compare coal miners to an addict who overdosed on fentanyl.
@@nickchadwell3633 True dat!
@@nickchadwell3633 Murders in either case were extrajudicial murders. Period. The "character" of the person or his flaws is irrelevant. You might want to read up on the concept of "due process."
@@nickchadwell3633 I mean if you just want to out your addiction like that, be my guest. Weird place for it is all. Probably not good to do with your full name on your account?
@@nickchadwell3633 ? Show me one coal miner that doesn't have an addict relative thanks to pill mills.
I Am In Total Agreement With You Mr. Childers 💯
Congratulations on Your Sobriety Sir🙏🏻
Thank you... Just... thank you!!
Brings tears to my eyes.... i’ve heard a lot of people around my area talk negatively about you because of this song and your video regarding what this song is about and the album in general.... to those people I say that I hope they see the light soon because this is nothing but beautiful and righteous and I hope that the issues at hand are justified sooner than later
@Tyler Childers You have created a powerful, illuminating, empathetic album. And people are emotional about it... and they are discussing it. And that is the mark of a true artist. There's an old vid on YT of the Black Panthers meeting with the Young Patriots (Appalachian folk who migrated north to Chicago). The clip shows the unity and common cause the groups shared as they fought poverty and discrimination. Their challenge was to see if disenfranchised whites could throw off the shackles of racism and struggle alongside black and brown people to create a new society. It's a lost chapter in our "America History." But perhaps one that people such as yourself can help us rediscover. To move toward. Be well in the new year. And thank you for your work.
That’s a coalition Jesse Jackson tried to put together when he was running for President many years ago. That’s what the Rainbow Coalition was.
The thing that George Floyd unintentionally accomplished was to prove to people graphically that Black people were not exaggerating about their treatment at the hands of police. Whether or not White Americans are racist we don’t like to think of ourselves that way, and the way many of us managed to reconcile our political positions with what Black people have been encountering is to simply deny that they were encountering it. That got harder and harder to do from Trayvon on, there were people making excuses for the police in every crazy case, but when this one hit there were no excuses left and suddenly most Republicans believed that we had a national problem with police brutality toward Black people.
I thank Mr. Childers for stating so baldly that the Black reaction is reasonable; it’s Black circumstances that aren’t. If All Lives Mattered we wouldn’t have to say that Black Lives Matter; that would be redundant, but it isn’t, and that’s why Mr. Childers wrote this song.
A true Appalachian man.
Imagine if we were all in a circle and threw our problems on the ground. Then we’re told to pick them up, but you get others problems. How would we look at things then? Our problems might not be so bad
It’s ridiculous how good this is
This boy who plays a fiddle is a dang American Hero. He ain't the only one but he is.
Had to watch a few times before I good do it without tears in my eyes.
Anyone remember Bob Dylan, “Blownin in the wind”? Then go find video of Stevie Wonder intro the song and sing it at Dylan’s 30th Anniversary.
Each generation has timely impact on the human condition as we evolve, but what’s blowin in the wind is the ugly past with a UHC brighter future, generation to generation. I can’t speak for others nor speak for relatives I would disown if I knew them. As Dylan said, “The answer my friend, is Blowin in the wind….” And if your not familiar with this song or many Dylan sounds that like Childers articulates from his eyes, our generation, Dylan articulated in 1968, in extremely violent times in US History, “How many years can some people exist, before they’re allowed to be free….” How many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry….”
Childers, I put you in the songwriters class with Dylan, and never hold back your lyric of thought. Keep writing like the great did….peace.
Thank you for this song.
Tyler. Childers. Is. Awesome. ❤️
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Wow! So awesome.
i’d say Exactly what we need to hear ( and read ) when we needed to hear it !
Nailed it !!!
This is what the saints will be playin on that march
“Or would that be the start of a long violent history
Of tucking our tails as we try to abide?”
Say it again, Tyler!
That verse hit like a ton of bricks
Well said!
Just had an assignment in my English Writing and Rhetoric class. I had to describe a video for the song of my choice. I chose this one and here is what I wrote!
Tyler Childers - Long Violent History
The main story/narrative that I would have run through the video is as far as we think we have come in America, as far as racism goes, there is so much more work to be done. I would hope to show the hypocrisy in some of the things that white folks say, such as “he shouldn’t have been there”, or “if he would’ve just complied.” My main idea would be to show what it really means to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes. This narrative relates to the lyrics and instruments in so many ways. This album was released at the height of Black Lives Matters protests, it was at first just going to be a purely instrumental album showcasing bluegrass and Tyler Childers’ newly learned fiddle playing ability. After witnessing the George Floyd murder and being from the same state as Breonna Taylor he felt the need to end the album with a track called “Long Violent History.” The song speaks of injustices that black people have all to commonly had to endure and what white people might do if they found themselves in the same position. Also, something I just learned is that this song ends with “My Old Kentucky Home”, which is a deeply racist song that is sang at the Kentucky Derby every year. It was written about an enslaved man saying goodbye to his home Kentucky because he was sold to a slave owner down south and was facing certain death from being overworked and beaten. (O’Grady)
As far as actors, I would show Childers playing his fiddle by a river in Kentucky. I would show this happening throughout different parts of the video. He would be the only musician you see in my video. The only dancer that would appear in my video would be Misty Copeland the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in American Ballet Theatre history. I would have both fiddle playing and the dancing appear around the same times in the video, although not on screen at the same time. I am also picturing this filmed in black and white, with some fog and a very ominous feel about it. It would be beautiful and sad at the same time.
While Childers and Copeland are the underlying elements of the video, I would have different racial events from America’s history happening throughout the video. When the song kicks off with:
It’s the worst that it’s been since the last time it happened/ It’s happening again right in front of our eyes /There’s updated footage, wild speculation, Tall tales, and hearsay, and absolute lies /Being passed off as factual/ When actually the actual Cause is there awkwardly blocking the way/ Keeping us all from enjoying our evening /Shoving its roots through the screens in our face (Childers)
I would share some of the most pivotal moments in race culture. These would be either still shots or video footage of the actual events. They would vary in color and quality. The first moments that pop in my head are black men and women being hosed down and attacked by police dogs during the civil right movement in Birmingham Alabama, Rosa Parks taking a seat at the front of the bus, people screaming at Ruby Bridges as she enters her first day of school, and 4 black men sitting down at a Woolworths and refusing to leave when denied service. I would intertwine these moments with hateful things done in the name of racism, videos of the ku klux klan burning crosses in yards, people being beaten, amongst other things that I will not go into detail about. I would end the video with a white boy in a hoodie carrying skittles and an iced tea being shot in the back by a wanna-be cop who claims it was in self-defense. This would lead to the closing scene of a bunch of white guys gathering up all their guns, hopping in their trucks, and heading to town seeking justice and looking for answers.
I chose this song and this video because I think Tyler Childers is a wonderful human being. He has suffered a major backlash from this and the things he has said in support of Black Lives Matter. I would organize this video in this way to try to convey how different life has been for darker-skinned people who are just trying to get by like everyone else. I would hope that maybe it would make a few people sit back and think if at least nothing else.
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My Old Kentucky Home is a condemnation of slavery, not a racist song. If you want to try and big-brain analyze things, historical context is important.
@@cameronclements3192 I believe I have done my research and I believe it is a racist song. Sorry that you disagree. Also, I think that I have an average size brain.
May 2, 2014 · by Jim O'Grady
May 3 is the date of the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby. Since the 1930s, the occasion has been marked by a stirring ritual: before the horses break from their gates, more than 100,000 spectators rise from their seats at Churchill Downs for the singing of "My Old Kentucky Home" - a 19th century minstrel song by Stephen Foster.
What do those spectators, along with the race's millions of TV viewers, think they're singing?
Mostly likely, the song comes across as a nostalgic ode to a more genteel time in the life of the South. But that's not the song that Foster wrote in 1854. Inspired by the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, he instead penned a lament by a slave in Kentucky who's been sold down the river to the Deep South by his master. The slave is both saying goodbye to his old Kentucky home and preparing to meet his imminent death from overwork and brutal mistreatment in the "land where the sugar canes grow."
The problem is that Foster told the story by using words that are offensive to modern ears. In 1986, The Kentucky General Assembly passed a law that removed the words "darky" and "darkies" from the song and replaced them with "people." The same law requires that the new lyrics be sung at official state functions.
Ken Emerson, author of a biography on Foster, describes the effect on the scene at Churchill Downs: "I find it very ironic that all these men and women in their lovely hats and fancy gowns are singing a song with adulterated lyrics and they think they are singing a song that is a celebration of the Antebellum South, with ladies in crinoline and dashing cavaliers."
Foster began his career in the 1840s writing songs in the minstrel style. He had several big hits, including "Oh Susannah," "Camptown Races" and "The Old Folks at Home." It's a fact that, early in his career, he wrote a number of ugly songs. But his attitudes changed over time, and his musical portrayals of African Americans gained in dignity.
He was a songwriter of undisputed brilliance who is often called the father of American music. But he died he broke and alone in New York City.
You & your wife’s music keep me walking. Thank you!
Black Lives Matter is not about the organization. Its this! This is what I try to explain to people. How many will it take for it to not be ok anymore? This man gets it. God bless him
Love Tyler Childers!!!!
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@@Shanefilan-1bottom feeding scum sucker. Stop trying to scam people using someone elses good name and find a respectable job.
We must remember Selma, Blair, and Stonewall. We must secure a prosperous and free future for our fellow Southerners.
I’m good. Getting a little bit anxious about the future. I’m in Salvisa, Kentucky. How are y’all doing?
Y‘know I got to thinking. It‘s fine if you don’t like the song, I get it. Not your cup of tea.
But SOME of y’all are calling yourselves out real hard, and it’s a damned shame.
About time this was said.... Well done, sir....
Wow, Loved the tune even before I grasped the meaning. Every body needs to hearthis mesage, and Tylers follow up message befor they vote. It's time to think!
A white boy from mississippi who's support blm but also likes good ole country music. Thank u sir
As a black person please don't support blm
Why do you support terrorists?
Point on Tyler Shields!!! Keep it coming! Just hearing this!
God darn this is amazing. Empathy and music and culture collide
This is the best song .. Its open and soulful .. Love it
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Beautifully poignant. On point and on time. May it ripple across our collective consciousness.
Awesome song keep up with music love when a ky man gets into music
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Thank Tyler
Makes me love Tyler even more
Love this and Tyler! You Bettaaaa saaannng it white boy! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Had to bring race into it huh?