This song was so special to my mother, so here's a small memorial to her for anyone who might like to read it. She was so funny and clumsy. When I was a kid we would sit in the kitchen and listen to music while she cooked dinner, sometimes we would make parodies to whatever was on the radio. Her cooking was unmatched, heavenly. We would watch the sunset almost every summer night, she said there were never 2 alike. She was right. She taught me to stick up for myself, even if it meant the school would call home. She taught me that I should love anytime I get the chance. Rest in peace, mom, gone too soon.
I can say a lot about my mom but she made me the person I am today. Strong, capable and loving. She left us Saturday, I spent the week prior in the hospital with her. I bought a shitty guitar and played this song I don't know how many times for her. RIP our mothers.
You do realize that the original is The Old Crow Med Show, right? The only part that existed before was the chorus, which was Bob Dylan's. So, it's hardly a cover.
I used to sing this song to my 3 younger kids who. They'd come for home visits on the weekends. So my oldest son , Shea, moved out and on his own. One evening him and his girlfriend showed up with a guitar . Shea had taught him self to play this song on the guitar. That night I cried and cried . I never thought I ever made a good impression in his life. But he said he loved when I sang ro them when they were little that any time he was going threw something in life, that he'd play some song that I once sang to them . That was also the night hom and his gf Bailee told me I was going to be a grandma for the first time. ... music definitely has gotten me and my kids through some difficult times In our lives
This is the first version of this song that I ever heard, and it will always have a special place for me. It's the soundtrack of those summer nights where I just drive for aways, windows down, thinking about that special girl. Beautiful.
That is beautiful. I was also a teenaged anarchist, and finding this song was the start of a strange journey towards discovering that I could find beauty and perspective in any genre of music.
This song reminds me of my sister who passed away 2 weeks ago. She travelled by hopping trains ,hitching rides and busses. Was one of her favorite songs. Hearing those first few notes makes me start to tear up and makes me think of her. Miss you Lis, rest in peace my beautiful sister.
That's a great comment. A year later, I hope you have better closure and still keep a positive outlook on her life. You'll always have this song to remember her traveling spirit. Lis rambles on... Much Love.
One of my daughter's friends posted this on facebook as a tribute the day she died. Rips me apart every time I hear it. Fits her perfectly. Love you Felicity....😭💚
This song reminds me of an old friend I've lost through the years. Every once and a while I'll play this light up a cig, take a drink and think about the good times.
Wagon Wheel - The Against Me! cover is one of the greatest songs of all time. In high school we would play this song in the car all the time. Whenever the song played noone was allowed to talk and the windows had to be rolled down even if it was raining. We would dive through the countryside with this song playing. Truly beautiful.
Listening to this reminds me of the good ol' days before I was diagnosed with depression. I only now realize how happy I was back then. Life was so fucking good, and I was too stupid to realize it. Funny how life works that way. I wish you could know when you're living in the good old days before you leave them.
Laura's music saved my life, I love her so much, met her about a year ago. I remember singing this drunk at folk sessions but never knowing the name of the song, then I find AM!'s version and now my life is complete :)
I really really love this version. First song I've "covered" since I picked up a guitar a dozen years ago. The passion is easy to feel in this cover. Props to OCMS and Dylan for writing this tune. Love how AM gave it a less country folky sound and gave it some real emotion.
As far as I know the only recording on the Live in Cortland album on no mans records, the audio isn’t great but, I still love it nomansrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-cortland
Heading down south to the land of the pines I'm thumbing my way into North Caroline Staring up the road and pray to God I see headlights I made it down the coast in seventeen hours Picking me a bouquet of dogwood flowers And I'm a-hopin' for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight So rock me momma like a wagon wheel Rock me momma any way you feel Hey, momma rock me Rock me momma like the wind and the rain Rock me momma like a south bound train Hey, momma rock me I'm running from the cold up in New England I was born to be a fiddler in an old time string band My baby plays a guitar, I pick a banjo now Oh, north country winters keep a-getting me down Lost my money playing poker so I had to leave town But I ain't turning back to living that old life no more So rock me momma like a wagon wheel Rock me momma any way you feel Hey, momma rock me Hey, rock me momma like the wind and the rain Rock me momma like a south bound train Hey, momma rock me Walkin' to the south out of Roanoke Caught a trucker out of Philly had a nice long toke But he's a heading west from the Cumberland gap To Johnson City, Tennessee And I gotta get a move on before the sun I hear my baby calling my name and I know that she's the only one And if I die in Raleigh at least I will die free So rock me momma like a wagon wheel Rock me momma any way you feel Hey, momma rock me Oh, rock me momma like the wind and the rain Rock me momma like a south bound train Hey momma rock me Oh, so rock me momma like a wagon wheel Rock me momma any way you feel Hey, momma rock me (mama rock me, mama rock me) Rock me momma like the wind and the rain Rock me momma like a south bound train Hey, ey yeah momma rock me (you can rock me, rock me)
Every once in a while I'll come to this song late at night alone and cry while I think about how things use to be so much better. Tonight's one of those nights.
It's been a year my brother. I miss you like it was just yesterday. I ride for you, Blee, you ride with me through me. I miss you something bad this day. I'll see you on the other side my friend.
I'v listened to a couple versions of this song, and I would have to say, this one is my personal favorite. The chords are so defined and melodic. Laura just has such a stellar voice, gets me going every time.
@@vVlisterfiend also, being female makes Laura happier, doesn’t negatively affect anyone else, and trans people are supported by scientists. There have been studies into it, if you’d care to go literally any research at all before concluding that it’s a “mind virus”.
pulled this up a first time brain melting into the windshield of the tower truck plowing through snowy roads in the middle of the prairie, you are tired and hungry need some whiskey to quit shaking then you find a badass cover to rage out and warm up to. been off the road three years now, hardest but best decision ever made
The very first time I heard this song was at a memorial service for someone who died waaaaaay too young. His friends that were in a band performed this in his honour, and it was very much like this version.
My friend and I used to cover this song on acoustic guitar and banjo. One of my all time favorite songs for sure and Against Me just made it all that much better!
Against Me! is pure emotion. OCMS is pure period showmanship, professional poseurs. Don't get me wrong, they are definitely good at it, but there is nothing OCMS can do that's half as heartfelt as any given Tom Gabel song.
Damn this came on my like old playlist from when I was.. idk, 18-20? 26 now, three years grinding in offices, putting the final touches on my thesis before a defence and graduation in the next month, and I just burst into tears for reasons I can’t explain. Idk man things are earned, things are sacrificed, time goes on I guess.
Dylan said it was an Arthur Crudup song called Rock Me Mama. Crudup says he got from Big Billy Broonzy song called Rock Me Baby. Even Big Blly said it wasn't his originally but the song fades into history from there.
I'm so glad to know this cover exists. Hell the song in general. I just happened to link that video with the guy who finds himself in the country bar and they're playing that Hootie cover and my friend showed me this and my whole world has changed. I get chills every time I listen to this.
+Ben Weiner I feel that, I was born in the Shenandoah Valley, but moved to Mass when my mom met my step-father, and like this song makes me miss it with everything in my soul.
I was cryin ice cubes Outta Roanoke When the sun come thru the window Had a nice long toke I stood up and laughed Outta the Cumberland Gap That's the way To Tennessee!
I remember discovering this song when I was in Nashville for first time. The house band and Tootsie's and The Second Fiddle included it in every set. It was played everywhere! After hearing it constantly for 3 days on Music Row I just had to know who sang that song! What I didn't know at the time was that OCMS version was sweeping the scene. A nice lady at Ernest Tubb's Record Store told me all about the song's history. Such a catchy tune...
It's amazing Bob Dylan just wrote the chorus, threw it away, and everyone else took his scraps and covered it..I think Old Crow Medicine Show took the chorus and wrote some verses to it first, then Darius Rucker Covered their version, and so on and so forth..
I agree with Alex. I like Against Me!s version .. but I wouldn't go as far as to say Rucker sucks. Just cause he's not your style of music... doesn't mean it's shite. They are all great and different ... but keeping it true to the song. I'm a huge fan of this song... and get excited when anyone covers it...
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Headed down south to the land of the pines And I'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline Starin' up the road Pray to God I see headlights I made it down the coast in seventeen hours Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers And I'm a hopin' for Raleigh I can see my baby tonight So rock me mama like a wagon wheel Rock me mama anyway you feel Hey mama rock me Rock me mama like the wind and the rain Rock me mama like a southbound train Hey mama rock me Runnin' from the cold up in New England I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time string band My baby plays the guitar I pick a banjo now Oh, the North country winters keep a gettin' me now Lost my money playin' poker so I had to up and leave But I ain't a turnin' back To livin' that old life no more So rock me mama like a wagon wheel Rock me mama anyway you feel Hey mama rock me Rock me mama like the wind and the rain Rock me mama like a south-bound train Hey mama rock me Walkin' due south out of Roanoke I caught a trucker out of Philly Had a nice long toke But he's a headed west from the Cumberland Gap To Johnson City, Tennessee And I gotta get a move on before the sun I hear my baby callin' my name And I know that she's the only one And if I die in Raleigh At least I will die free So rock me mama like a wagon wheel Rock me mama anyway you feel Hey mama rock me Rock me mama like the wind and the rain Rock me mama like a south-bound train Hey mama rock me
Folk is a genre based on tradition. Some songs have been covered so many times it's impossible to distinguish the original writer, for example, House of the Rising Sun. I think that no matter who covers the song, it should be appreciated because they're keeping the beauty of the tradition alive.
That feeling of passing something cool on to other people, so they can feel a bit of what you did. maybe you change it slightly by virtue of being someone else in a different place, a different time, maybe those people you share it with go on to change it a little more when they share the song, the tone shifts but the heart always remains. I love it when Against me! in particular has folk elements because- This band has that feeling in spades for me. When I first listened to a lot of against me! tracks, I was just a confused kid- full of Punk Rock angst... and dark shameful secrets I would never dream of telling another soul. It meant so much to know that all of that time, she really did feel the same way that I did. We got there in the end :D.
"Rock me mama like the wind and the rain, rock me mama like a southbound train." Let the tension ease out because sometimes you got to relaxed from all the shit in this world like buying flowers to girls who don't love and sticking with bands that don't know you. I love this band, Teenage Anarchist to Thrash to this. Because all their music is art in the purest form in my book.
@lgsintheparty true that... i love metal, punk, rock, and bluegrass... and when they can perform all of them it really shows the talent of the bands...
I listened to both of them and i like this cover because its still the same rythm and all thats really different is the instruments and his voice so its all together a great song
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This song was so special to my mother, so here's a small memorial to her for anyone who might like to read it. She was so funny and clumsy. When I was a kid we would sit in the kitchen and listen to music while she cooked dinner, sometimes we would make parodies to whatever was on the radio. Her cooking was unmatched, heavenly. We would watch the sunset almost every summer night, she said there were never 2 alike. She was right. She taught me to stick up for myself, even if it meant the school would call home. She taught me that I should love anytime I get the chance. Rest in peace, mom, gone too soon.
I am sorry for your loss. As long as you have those memories she will always be with you.
im not crying. youre crying
I can say a lot about my mom but she made me the person I am today. Strong, capable and loving. She left us Saturday, I spent the week prior in the hospital with her. I bought a shitty guitar and played this song I don't know how many times for her. RIP our mothers.
Respect. Beautiful mommy.
Hn
This is the only cover I'll accept.
yeuh
Old crows med show is a great cover btw
You do realize that the original is The Old Crow Med Show, right? The only part that existed before was the chorus, which was Bob Dylan's. So, it's hardly a cover.
Definitely a great cover, but there are many many great covers of this song. This song just brings out the best in people. It is so pure.
This is in the collective folk genre. It's not really anyone's song.
I’m sitting on my porch, drinking apple juice out of a metal mug after a rain storm, listening to this. Life is good.
That's the life bro
“Apple juice” nice
Apple juice break
With whiskey? Lol
I used to sing this song to my 3 younger kids who. They'd come for home visits on the weekends. So my oldest son , Shea, moved out and on his own.
One evening him and his girlfriend showed up with a guitar . Shea had taught him self to play this song on the guitar. That night I cried and cried . I never thought I ever made a good impression in his life. But he said he loved when I sang ro them when they were little that any time he was going threw something in life, that he'd play some song that I once sang to them . That was also the night hom and his gf Bailee told me I was going to be a grandma for the first time. ... music definitely has gotten me and my kids through some difficult times In our lives
That's beautiful. You're a great mother and your boy knows that. Now time to sing to that little one coming.
Devastated this isn't on Spotify
It was but not anymore. Apparently it's only the US version.
Its why im here too, haven't listened to these guys in years and this was one of my favorites.
fuuck spotify.
I have just come here because I couldn't find it on Spotify. The rest of the album is there... wtf is going on
i listen to spotify more now. Mazed how they grown....is this trash song at Spotify?
This is the first version of this song that I ever heard, and it will always have a special place for me. It's the soundtrack of those summer nights where I just drive for aways, windows down, thinking about that special girl. Beautiful.
she was a southern belle and I was a teenage anarchist. we compromised and danced to this at our wedding.
Good compromise! A nice nod to your respective personalities without being overly obvious if someone isn't already aware.
That is beautiful. I was also a teenaged anarchist, and finding this song was the start of a strange journey towards discovering that I could find beauty and perspective in any genre of music.
that's beautiful
That sound cool all powrr to you two.
she doesnt have a sister does she?
Was one of my son’s favorite song. He passed now is my comfort song.
Hope you are doing okay ❤
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I accidentally disliked, sorry! Hope your doing better
This song reminds me of my sister who passed away 2 weeks ago. She travelled by hopping trains ,hitching rides and busses. Was one of her favorite songs. Hearing those first few notes makes me start to tear up and makes me think of her. Miss you Lis, rest in peace my beautiful sister.
R.i.p.
That's a great comment. A year later, I hope you have better closure and still keep a positive outlook on her life. You'll always have this song to remember her traveling spirit. Lis rambles on...
Much Love.
Im sorry shes gone from you but now she lives within you so you have to live up to it
Sorry for your loss. Hope this year has allowed you to feel a bit better 💪🏻
Thank you for sharing, RIP.
One of my daughter's friends posted this on facebook as a tribute the day she died. Rips me apart every time I hear it. Fits her perfectly. Love you Felicity....😭💚
This song reminds me of an old friend I've lost through the years. Every once and a while I'll play this light up a cig, take a drink and think about the good times.
Wagon Wheel - The Against Me! cover is one of the greatest songs of all time.
In high school we would play this song in the car all the time. Whenever the song played noone was allowed to talk and the windows had to be rolled down even if it was raining. We would dive through the countryside with this song playing.
Truly beautiful.
Listening to this reminds me of the good ol' days before I was diagnosed with depression. I only now realize how happy I was back then. Life was so fucking good, and I was too stupid to realize it. Funny how life works that way. I wish you could know when you're living in the good old days before you leave them.
Laura's music saved my life, I love her so much, met her about a year ago. I remember singing this drunk at folk sessions but never knowing the name of the song, then I find AM!'s version and now my life is complete :)
To bad luara didn't write this as far as I'm concerned the minute he started resenting his dick anything put out prior to that wasn't him/her
@@spugoobygoo3217 shut up 😍🥰
@@spugoobygoo3217 lmao shut up oldhead
@@spugoobygoo3217 Okay first, it's Bob Dylan cover. LJ didn't write this song. Also transphobia doesn't look on you. Cheers.
@@spugoobygoo3217 wow you are ignorant as fuck lmfaooooo that's embarrassing bro
Literally the best song to drink alone to.
Agreed!
Cavalier external
me currently
I'm there
Doin exactly that.
I really really love this version. First song I've "covered" since I picked up a guitar a dozen years ago. The passion is easy to feel in this cover. Props to OCMS and Dylan for writing this tune. Love how AM gave it a less country folky sound and gave it some real emotion.
The best version of this song.
Truth
No truer words have ever been spoken
I’d agree , but Johnny hobo also did a version of this song so....
M Crisci Is there version with good audio anywhere?
As far as I know the only recording on the Live in Cortland album on no mans records, the audio isn’t great but, I still love it
nomansrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-cortland
one of the most underrated tracks on that album, beautiful cover
Heading down south to the land of the pines
I'm thumbing my way into North Caroline
Staring up the road and pray to God I see headlights
I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
Picking me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
And I'm a-hopin' for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight
So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma any way you feel
Hey, momma rock me
Rock me momma like the wind and the rain
Rock me momma like a south bound train
Hey, momma rock me
I'm running from the cold up in New England
I was born to be a fiddler in an old time string band
My baby plays a guitar, I pick a banjo now
Oh, north country winters keep a-getting me down
Lost my money playing poker so I had to leave town
But I ain't turning back to living that old life no more
So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma any way you feel
Hey, momma rock me
Hey, rock me momma like the wind and the rain
Rock me momma like a south bound train
Hey, momma rock me
Walkin' to the south out of Roanoke
Caught a trucker out of Philly had a nice long toke
But he's a heading west from the Cumberland gap
To Johnson City, Tennessee
And I gotta get a move on before the sun
I hear my baby calling my name and I know that she's the only one
And if I die in Raleigh at least I will die free
So rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma any way you feel
Hey, momma rock me
Oh, rock me momma like the wind and the rain
Rock me momma like a south bound train
Hey momma rock me
Oh, so rock me momma like a wagon wheel
Rock me momma any way you feel
Hey, momma rock me (mama rock me, mama rock me)
Rock me momma like the wind and the rain
Rock me momma like a south bound train
Hey, ey yeah momma rock me (you can rock me, rock me)
Every once in a while I'll come to this song late at night alone and cry while I think about how things use to be so much better. Tonight's one of those nights.
It's been a year my brother. I miss you like it was just yesterday. I ride for you, Blee, you ride with me through me. I miss you something bad this day. I'll see you on the other side my friend.
Probably one of the best Bob Dylan covers I have ever heard in my life.
old crow wrote most it...dylan wrote the first verse and chorus
@@NolanRay-sm9ru Still a Dylan song, but yeah. Though just the chorus as far as I know.
You still like it the same 13 years later? Just noticed the gap in time between those comments....
@@mattsterxx-bn2un yes
I love Old Crow Medicine Show, & i now enjoy Against Me! even more!!
The only version besides OCMS that I'll accept.
Yes me too
+melinda wornstaff cmon Darius Rucker killed it too.
+James Paul ruckers is good, but this is light years ahead of his imho.
try Matt Anderson's
yessss
I'v listened to a couple versions of this song, and I would have to say, this one is my personal favorite. The chords are so defined and melodic. Laura just has such a stellar voice, gets me going every time.
This isn't Laura, it's Tom
@@vVlisterfiendthey’re the same person. Laura is what they’re called now
@@SteamPunkCatt he was still Tom when he made this. Before he became infected with a mind virus.
@@vVlisterfiend infected with a mind virus? Do you mean “is transgender”
@@vVlisterfiend also, being female makes Laura happier, doesn’t negatively affect anyone else, and trans people are supported by scientists. There have been studies into it, if you’d care to go literally any research at all before concluding that it’s a “mind virus”.
okay, Against Me! actually did an amazing job. it's as dirty as it should be.
The memories this song brings up are bitter sweet, this version is the best by far IMO.
This is my favorite version
My father's version of this song will always be the most important to me, but, this is a close 2nd.
pulled this up a first time brain melting into the windshield of the tower truck plowing through snowy roads in the middle of the prairie, you are tired and hungry need some whiskey to quit shaking then you find a badass cover to rage out and warm up to. been off the road three years now, hardest but best decision ever made
what are you talking about.
Brendan Blier trucking
Those are certainly all words
With lots of love from Raleigh ❤️ I listened to this song almost every other day to get through the days.
I can't get enough of this cover. Not me tearing up every single time I listen!
This song is fucking beautiful. It is one of the best covers ive ever heard. Keep up the great fucking work.
I want to marry to this song!.. So did not know it was covered by against me! Always remember, pints of Guinness makes you stronger!
Ryan McClenaghan True...I also just discovered it. I wish you all the best! - Dante
This is the better original!!! AGAINST ME! For life Laura Jane Grace
The very first time I heard this song was at a memorial service for someone who died waaaaaay too young. His friends that were in a band performed this in his honour, and it was very much like this version.
i think against me might be my new favorite band...just started listening to them like 2 minutes ago.
how was it
This is a great cover.
Love Against Me!
My friend and I used to cover this song on acoustic guitar and banjo. One of my all time favorite songs for sure and Against Me just made it all that much better!
Against Me! is pure emotion. OCMS is pure period showmanship, professional poseurs. Don't get me wrong, they are definitely good at it, but there is nothing OCMS can do that's half as heartfelt as any given Tom Gabel song.
I've always loved AM's take on this song. I don't really know if its an apt descriptor, but it sounds so honest
WTFFFFFFFFFF It's 2016 and I'm just NOW learning Against Me covered "Wagon Wheel"???
I was just thinking the exact same thing...
John Martinez my favorite version ....
i know right wtf !!!!!!!
Pretty neat version. Check out Matt Anderson's cover it's really good too.
John Martinez this Nikka lol
Listened to this every weekend driving up to see my girlfriend (now wife) while she was in college.
2010-2013
Very nostalgic to me
Damn this came on my like old playlist from when I was.. idk, 18-20? 26 now, three years grinding in offices, putting the final touches on my thesis before a defence and graduation in the next month, and I just burst into tears for reasons I can’t explain. Idk man things are earned, things are sacrificed, time goes on I guess.
I’ve been listening to this song since I was 8 years old…I’m 24 now.
I love this fucking song seriously listen to it every fucking day
I sing along with this to my 2 year old daughter before bed ever night.
one of my favorite bands and one of my favorite songs.
2008!?!?
How is this the first time I’m hearing it?
Agains Me was one of my favorite bands at that time
Such a beautiful voice.
Dylan said it was an Arthur Crudup song called Rock Me Mama. Crudup says he got from Big Billy Broonzy song called Rock Me Baby. Even Big Blly said it wasn't his originally but the song fades into history from there.
This song brings back the greatest memories...I miss the good ol' days....
I love OCMS, AM! and Bob Dylan. This is heaven for me
I used to cover this song in bars till I choked on cigarette smoke.
-OCMS
this is a beast cover!!!😍
this is an incredible cover, laura's voice has so much soul and emotion 💕
I'm so glad to know this cover exists. Hell the song in general. I just happened to link that video with the guy who finds himself in the country bar and they're playing that Hootie cover and my friend showed me this and my whole world has changed. I get chills every time I listen to this.
bob dylan, OCMS, against me!. i think we can all agree every version of this song is fucking great!
Except Darius Rucker's. Sounds like it's auto-tuned and I heard it 7 times a day at work over the summer.
PirateTheWind That's an understatement...Darius Rucker's version nearly destroyed Wagon Wheel for me
Armyofcats22
Amen. It was terrible.
ryan mccarthy yea all but Darius Rucker
Can't listen to this when I'm not home or it'll make me miss Virginia
you mean vagina... right?
Immynumber1fan why not?
+Ben Weiner I feel that, I was born in the Shenandoah Valley, but moved to Mass when my mom met my step-father, and like this song makes me miss it with everything in my soul.
+Ben Weiner I'm out in Abilene, TX, missing my Blue Ridge like hell. The banks of the James don't seem so far when hear this tune.
+John Key im from blue ridge
I was cryin ice cubes
Outta Roanoke
When the sun come thru the window
Had a nice long toke
I stood up and laughed
Outta the Cumberland Gap
That's the way
To Tennessee!
I remember discovering this song when I was in Nashville for first time. The house band and Tootsie's and The Second Fiddle included it in every set. It was played everywhere! After hearing it constantly for 3 days on Music Row I just had to know who sang that song! What I didn't know at the time was that OCMS version was sweeping the scene. A nice lady at Ernest Tubb's Record Store told me all about the song's history. Such a catchy tune...
For those without a capo:
A E F#m D - A E D
Check out Stick & Poke. They do the cutest covers.
Saturn Moriya me first and the gimme gimmies.
The top 2 comments are almost evenly matched. I always check whos winning when I listen to this 😍
It's amazing Bob Dylan just wrote the chorus, threw it away, and everyone else took his scraps and covered it..I think Old Crow Medicine Show took the chorus and wrote some verses to it first, then Darius Rucker Covered their version, and so on and so forth..
Against Me! did ok with it, Darius did it a bit better, but OCMS did it best by far.
Alex Banks Rucker sucked. Against Me! brought their flavor to an OCMS song. Dylan gets some credit but not much.
I agree with Alex. I like Against Me!s version .. but I wouldn't go as far as to say Rucker sucks. Just cause he's not your style of music... doesn't mean it's shite. They are all great and different ... but keeping it true to the song. I'm a huge fan of this song... and get excited when anyone covers it...
Also pretty sure this was before hootie. Wtf how can anyone say dylan deserves just a little credit, greatest poet ever.
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Absolutely, 100%, completely in love with this song.
Growing up in Johnson city and listening to against me all my life I never thought I’d hear this cover.
Old crow medicine show sings it best
Bn2n3n3anthony the the the mm
, v'benjamine
Opinion
Still better the darius Rucker
way better.
Id hafta say that this is my favorite version. Nice & simple with just the guitar & vocals. I could listen to this song for days lol
Good song. Such a good song.
Ole hootie fucked this song up...
i sharted :)
Our tour song! Best "driving through the night on the motorway song" ever!
Just turned 22, listening to this song while smoking a bowl, life is good🤘😎
I just reviewed Against Me!'s new record "Transgender Dysphoria Blues", it's the featured video on my channel, take a look and let me know what you thought of the album!
Disappointed in the new album
Steven Hart ya because not everyone can relate to being transgender. lost a lot of fan base. narcissism at its finest with that album.
Yup
TheGreenWeeny
I think the theme of the album was being comfortable with yourself, maybe you cant relate because you may be a closet homosexual.
No. You may want to listen between the lines. But good try.
There's something about his voice that makes this one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
Cousin just back back from serving in the Marines & this was the first song he sang on karaoke night.
I miss you.fuck/
me too
i feel you dude
I miss Tom, back before he lost his mind.
MountainIce007 that's pretty shitty. You should be ashamed. You have no right to dictate the way someone feels inside.
She is still fuckin amazing. Just saw them open for Bad Religion. She stole the show.
I absolutly love your cover of this song. Thank you for doing it. ;) Everytime I hear it it makes me smile. :)
This is the best version of this song I've ever heard!
Went camping with friends this weekend in British Columbia, we brought a guitar, and this was our theme song for a weekend of extreme awesomeness
this song makes me happy to live in North Carolina
the original of this song makes me happy no matter what mood i'm in, and now it's that much better :)
My childhood was surrounded by this song, but this cover makes those memories feel a little safer to think on
WOW i am s o f t. well, anyway, this is on repeat. alhamdulilah
best cover ever of wagon wheel
Headed down south to the land of the pines
And I'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline
Starin' up the road
Pray to God I see headlights
I made it down the coast in seventeen hours
Pickin' me a bouquet of dogwood flowers
And I'm a hopin' for Raleigh
I can see my baby tonight
So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a southbound train
Hey mama rock me
Runnin' from the cold up in New England
I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time string band
My baby plays the guitar
I pick a banjo now
Oh, the North country winters keep a gettin' me now
Lost my money playin' poker so I had to up and leave
But I ain't a turnin' back
To livin' that old life no more
So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me
Walkin' due south out of Roanoke
I caught a trucker out of Philly
Had a nice long toke
But he's a headed west from the Cumberland Gap
To Johnson City, Tennessee
And I gotta get a move on before the sun
I hear my baby callin' my name
And I know that she's the only one
And if I die in Raleigh
At least I will die free
So rock me mama like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama anyway you feel
Hey mama rock me
Rock me mama like the wind and the rain
Rock me mama like a south-bound train
Hey mama rock me
I catch myself playing this song on repeat. All.the.time.
Folk is a genre based on tradition. Some songs have been covered so many times it's impossible to distinguish the original writer, for example, House of the Rising Sun. I think that no matter who covers the song, it should be appreciated because they're keeping the beauty of the tradition alive.
That feeling of passing something cool on to other people, so they can feel a bit of what you did. maybe you change it slightly by virtue of being someone else in a different place, a different time, maybe those people you share it with go on to change it a little more when they share the song, the tone shifts but the heart always remains.
I love it when Against me! in particular has folk elements because- This band has that feeling in spades for me. When I first listened to a lot of against me! tracks, I was just a confused kid- full of Punk Rock angst... and dark shameful secrets I would never dream of telling another soul.
It meant so much to know that all of that time, she really did feel the same way that I did.
We got there in the end :D.
One of my fav's!!!! Awsome!!!
one of the best covers ever.
"Rock me mama like the wind and the rain, rock me mama like a southbound train." Let the tension ease out because sometimes you got to relaxed from all the shit in this world like buying flowers to girls who don't love and sticking with bands that don't know you. I love this band, Teenage Anarchist to Thrash to this. Because all their music is art in the purest form in my book.
i frikkin love this song soooo flippin much!
@lgsintheparty true that... i love metal, punk, rock, and bluegrass... and when they can perform all of them it really shows the talent of the bands...
i love this version, they nailed it
Johnny Hobo has a pretty awesome version
This was my summer song for Explore in PEI, I think everyone has great memory going with this tune.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SONG ❤
I listened to both of them and i like this cover because its still the same rythm and all thats really different is the instruments and his voice so its all together a great song