This is a treasure - the whole set. I can't get over the quality of the two-part harmonies - so great. Thanks for posting these up. They are among my go to vids, where I just need to get a fix of some excellent performances. 10 stars. Fantastic. Love it. Wish there were more.
I really love Chris Stapleton and the Steeldrivers but I have to say Tammy Rogers fiddleplaying and harmony is superb! She is a Belmont grad and it shows!
It's really sad they don't play or tour together. Chris is still doing country on his own. This is some of the best country music. Compared to the garbage passing for country music now.
Chris is an outstanding vocalist! The fiddle player is not only pure liquid, but her harmonizing is gorgeous alongside Chris. One of my favorite Steeldrivers tunes. Great mandolin as well!!
The message of this song gets to me every time. I saw The Steeldrivers back in 2007 or 2008, then I saw Chris when he was with Jompson Brothers. No matter what genre, Chris kills it. He has a beautiful voice that is automatically recognized, not to mention he writes songs and plays the guitar...I must say the fiddle player is an perfect match for Chris's singing and playing.
The lyrics to this song are so damn powerful. Imagine having this conversation with your girlfriend as your about to escape slavery to fight for your freedom.... great tune to beat.
Every time I hear this I immediately imagine myself as a soldier in the civil war. What it must have been like to live it. What horrors. Our history must never be forgotten.
@deepfryedsports5330, I have been a Civil War reenactor for over 20 years and I can tell you that even without using live ammo and the safety measures in place, most reenactors will tell you that they have experienced what we call a moment of immersion (commonly referred to as an "Aw sh*t moment") where you forget that it is all a show and it takes on a strange quality of "I was there". Mine came during one of my first reenactments where our side was taking "Casualties". I looked around at all the guys going down and thought to myself "We're getting massacred out here! Somebody call retreat!" It was really spooky.
I agree sid but I also agree that if his music now was as good as it was with sd it would be far superior than that of great classic country music. Some things are just meant to be and some things will just be.
I've heard this song many times but never really paid attention to the lyrics and meaning. Tonight I played it in the Jeep and actually listened to it! I shed a few years for no apparent reason. It's just Chris's amazing ability to put a story into lyrics and music. It makes the average person from this current time frame understand what it was like for a slave back then to ask amongst one another, "can you run" far and fast enough to freedom. Such an amazing song!
I agree with Lynda Miller. I heard the song, "If It Hadn't Been for Love" performed by a contestant on "American Idol" and Keith Urban said that the SteelDrivers was one of his favorite bands. I downloaded the album with that song on it that night and have been hooked ever since. I did not know the name of the lead singer but told everyone I know that loves music to give a listen to The SteelDrivers. Most didn't because of its bluegrass sound (which I love) but when "Traveler" came out and everyone started talking about Chris Stapleton, I told them, "THAT'S the voice I've been telling you about!" Now, they listen! "Can You Run" makes me cry every time I hear it because of the story that it paints.
yes violinist is great but you just heard the songwriter of the decade(official)who is an expert guitarist with the most distincr voice of our time and you think "guess Chris "ain't to(o) bad"! I think you missed the absolute greatness in our prsence-listen again -see if you can catch it!
What a beautiful and heart wrenching song... I couldn't image the excitment/fear that the many people who lived this song must have felt. Make your escape with your beautiful lover, just to see her across to freedom then turn around and join the ranks of the union army to help free the others.
A lot of people did not know he was a hit, even before he was famous. His early music is my favorite. I am a fan of bluegrass and have been since I was little, singing with my grandfather. Chris Stapleton music is my escape now, the one you go to when you unwind. It does not matter that he has changed and went country, but I think his bluegrass will always be my favorite.
I love his bluegrass too with the Steeldrivers To be honest I haven't ever Chris on a Country Music station I am fortunate enough to have a radio station close enough that does not play mainstream music I think he comes under the name blues player This station plays bluegrass every Sunday I am lucky Thank you 98.3 the Penguin ✌❤
I love this song about Civil War. I didn't know that Chris was in bluegrass band or even rock back before he went solo. His voice is like the old country singers. I miss those ol' voices.
@@quinnlane7257 it’s so heavy . I was lucky to grow up with parents of the last great generations. Those stories of poor life and real hard work to survive or else never leave my memory. We owe them so much. Thanks for speaking.
I've watch a tons of videos from Grey Fox how the hell I'm i just finding these now.this is something very different the songs are unbelievably well written and original.Chris Stapleton's voice is unreal nobody could sound that good,the harmonies are perfect and the fiddle playing just top of an already solid band.I've been listening to a lot of bluegrass lately and i can't think of anything that sounds like this.
This is one of my absolute favorite Chris Stapleton songs. ..it sounds amazing, but it's also completely NOT the perspective I would have expected in a song about the Civil War written &.performed by a Southern bluegrass band. It completely blew my mind the first time I heard it...well--MOST of Chris Stapleton's songs do that--but this one is really special. He is just freaking amazing ! I had been searching for THAT SINGER ever since I heard "If it Hadn't Been For Love" years ago on a college radio station. Never found it,but instantly recognized it coming out of my NPR-tuned radio at work last year when "Traveller" was released. What an incredible singer & even better songwriter.
Well, I live in the middle of that history and my son & many of his friends are serious Civil War fanatics- they do interpretive history at New Market Battlefield & Gettysburg....and any other place within 200 miles. Plus I'm surrounded by the modern day South...so I generally expect Southern boys to have the perspective of the Confederate soldiers, often to the South Will Rise Again tune. Even the professional historians I encounter at events have never taken the point of view of a slave running for freedom. Not saying it doesn't happen, but I haven't seen it.
Just another example of political incorrectness. Although I have lived on the south side of the Mason Dixon line for 56 of my 66 years I have a similar attitude as Stapleton, in fact, most of the members of this group, who played at a friend's wedding. It is called doing your own research, having an open mind and thinking for yourself. Not very popular in any society. Original thinkers generally wind up on the outside looking in. This guy might get away with it because he will soon be a millionaire and he sings like an angel.
Can you imagine? A southerner who actually thinks that all people are created equally and are entitled to be free? My goodness, that's almost un-American! Face it, the basis for the southern society is still firmly grounded in the infamous "Corner Stone" speech, given by Alexander Stephens, the vice president of the rebellion.
And we really didn't hear much (more broadly) of Chris Stapleton until his 2015 Traveller album...7 years later...How is that possible, when Nashville continued to crank out "adequate" singers/performers?
I'm just getting introduced to bluegrass. What a nice song. I'm glad they didn't rush it (to meet time limits). I love to visualize with the song as it plays, like following the experiences of the people at that time in the past, what a feeling. :)
True country without the bubble gum and hairspray! Kentucky, West Virginia, North Carolina and all other moutain homes are truly God's country. #GODBLESSEDTHEHILLBILLY
Wow! Wonderful voices. Virtuoso on the fiddle of course. Love how much she enjoys her gifts....That reminds me a bit of Don Rich - he would get that goofy smile on his face because he just sounded so damn good.
Check out the rest of this wonderful set of music!
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This is a treasure - the whole set. I can't get over the quality of the two-part harmonies - so great. Thanks for posting these up. They are among my go to vids, where I just need to get a fix of some excellent performances. 10 stars. Fantastic. Love it. Wish there were more.
13 years later her fiddle is still hot to the touch.
I really love Chris Stapleton and the Steeldrivers but I have to say Tammy Rogers fiddleplaying and harmony is superb! She is a Belmont grad and it shows!
Chris should spend three months of every year with the Steeldrivers. Keep him in touch with what it's all about.
5 months when ever he preforms with timberlake
It would sell out and I’d be one to to make that happen
A greed!
Yep......This is what it's all about. The music.....
It's really sad they don't play or tour together. Chris is still doing country on his own. This is some of the best country music. Compared to the garbage passing for country music now.
The most talented musicians can be found in bluegrass bands but they always get slept on
Why did Chris go solo? This dude was born to be in Steeldrivers. Go back Chris!
Shmoney I think
He does have a younger doppelganger though ua-cam.com/video/DadiJ9ZJRNE/v-deo.html
Welp, I finally found where the real country music went.
Amen.
Heart ripper... Distilling the whole monstrous thing into a few short verses - that's art, that's poetry, that's as good as it gets.
Beautiful comment
Agreed completely with both of these comments.
Still running for freedom
Sorry but for the life of me I cannot understand anyone giving this a thumbs down???
That buttons for the ones to dumb to move on if they don't like it 😉
As the lyrics say, "the boys in gray are never far away" and nowadays they wear blue.
@@davidroberts1702 Correct. From Pinkertons and beyond, ACAB
@@davidroberts1702 sorry, I'm having trouble understanding what you mean by "they wear blue". Care to elaborate?
@@Siiarc some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses
Stapleton - A Fiddler fiddling and a bassist slapping - instantly clicked and thumbs up
Chris is an outstanding vocalist! The fiddle player is not only pure liquid, but her harmonizing is gorgeous alongside Chris. One of my favorite Steeldrivers tunes. Great mandolin as well!!
That girl smokes that fiddle solo!
2021 we're still on the road to freedom, Can you run
The message of this song gets to me every time. I saw The Steeldrivers back in 2007 or 2008, then I saw Chris when he was with Jompson Brothers. No matter what genre, Chris kills it. He has a beautiful voice that is automatically recognized, not to mention he writes songs and plays the guitar...I must say the fiddle player is an perfect match for Chris's singing and playing.
The lyrics to this song are so damn powerful. Imagine having this conversation with your girlfriend as your about to escape slavery to fight for your freedom.... great tune to beat.
The bass player is the unsung hero.....
What about the other members that didn't get any screen time😆
I agree. The bass keeps it rollin along. Mighty fine mando solo too
He wrote a ton of Steeldrivers songs with Chris too. Great song writer.
Nope, Tammy hands down
Chris Stapleton is God of all
Every time I hear this I immediately imagine myself as a soldier in the civil war. What it must have been like to live it. What horrors. Our history must never be forgotten.
@deepfryedsports5330, I have been a Civil War reenactor for over 20 years and I can tell you that even without using live ammo and the safety measures in place, most reenactors will tell you that they have experienced what we call a moment of immersion (commonly referred to as an "Aw sh*t moment") where you forget that it is all a show and it takes on a strange quality of "I was there". Mine came during one of my first reenactments where our side was taking "Casualties". I looked around at all the guys going down and thought to myself "We're getting massacred out here! Somebody call retreat!" It was really spooky.
There's smoke by down the river,. There's smoke coming off her fiddle. Dang woman, that was awesome.
Speechless. This is brilliant songwriting.
when Chris was with the drivers.....it was his best work.......
Brace Gilson agreed
Agreed guys, the Steeldrivers are perfect for his voice. Love the harmonies.
Chris is still giving us great music from them to this very day ,he is at the top of country music
I agree sid but I also agree that if his music now was as good as it was with sd it would be far superior than that of great classic country music. Some things are just meant to be and some things will just be.
Agreed completely. His voice was more laid back, and natural, imo. More genuine overall feel too
Well-written tune that was a consensus effort to pen a song from the perspective of an escaping slave during the Civil War.
I thought that same thing , I really love this song it gives me a visual in my mind that only a few songs can
Suprises and love the they song this song.
Some of the best shit ever laid down period
Saw them live around this time. This song made me weep then, and it makes me weep now.
I've heard this song many times but never really paid attention to the lyrics and meaning. Tonight I played it in the Jeep and actually listened to it! I shed a few years for no apparent reason. It's just Chris's amazing ability to put a story into lyrics and music. It makes the average person from this current time frame understand what it was like for a slave back then to ask amongst one another, "can you run" far and fast enough to freedom. Such an amazing song!
I just left that on another comment. Sure I just smoked a fatty, but I still cried dammit.
Where contraband can be a man? That is powerful
I agree with Lynda Miller. I heard the song, "If It Hadn't Been for Love" performed by a contestant on "American Idol" and Keith Urban said that the SteelDrivers was one of his favorite bands. I downloaded the album with that song on it that night and have been hooked ever since. I did not know the name of the lead singer but told everyone I know that loves music to give a listen to The SteelDrivers. Most didn't because of its bluegrass sound (which I love) but when "Traveler" came out and everyone started talking about Chris Stapleton, I told them, "THAT'S the voice I've been telling you about!" Now, they listen! "Can You Run" makes me cry every time I hear it because of the story that it paints.
Sheila Ferdina if you like rock he was in a band....The Jompson Brothers
This woman is ten times the talent of most. P .s. I guess Chris ain't to bad.
yes violinist is great but you just heard the songwriter of the decade(official)who is an expert guitarist with the most distincr voice of our time and you think "guess Chris "ain't to(o) bad"! I think you missed the absolute greatness in our prsence-listen again -see if you can catch it!
What a beautiful and heart wrenching song... I couldn't image the excitment/fear that the many people who lived this song must have felt. Make your escape with your beautiful lover, just to see her across to freedom then turn around and join the ranks of the union army to help free the others.
Don't forget Mike Henderson on the Mandolin.. R.I.P..
The Steel Drivers is the best. I’m not saying the obvious out loud. People do what they haft to do. ❤ This band even attracts young people. Teenagers.
holy shit thats smoove. cmon chris
Bluegrass fire, with that southern rock smoke.
A lot of people did not know he was a hit, even before he was famous. His early music is my favorite. I am a fan of bluegrass and have been since I was little, singing with my grandfather. Chris Stapleton music is my escape now, the one you go to when you unwind. It does not matter that he has changed and went country, but I think his bluegrass will always be my favorite.
I love his bluegrass too with the Steeldrivers To be honest I haven't ever Chris on a Country Music station I am fortunate enough to have a radio station close enough that does not play mainstream music I think he comes under the name blues player This station plays bluegrass every Sunday I am lucky Thank you 98.3 the Penguin ✌❤
Your last sentence kills me, as bluegrass should be the essence of country.
Boy she can play that fiddle!!! Love this song! This is Bluegrass Gold!!
one of the best live performance you'll ever here! Cris Stapleton.. one of the best voices of all time .....period...
The ability to create emotion in every song is amazing. No other artist does it like Chris.
Very good song and text!!!❤
That fiddle player went places after she left the Blue Cat Lodge xD
He wrote this song with that bass player. Love love love this song.
My wife turned me on to them thanks Teri. These folks are the real deal.
does NOT get any better than this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The meaning of the song.... DAMN. Punches you in the gut.
What a beautiful/sad track. Thanks.
He is my Mozart of country
Wow!!!! The harmonies, and the fiddle are Haunting in this powerful song. Probably my favorite steel drivers song. Amazing.
Can you run is now my favourite tune . Just brought the reckless album . Absolutely brilliant . Love it
I was at the Middle Fork in Lander, Wyoming, when this song came on. Totally lost my shit in the middle of breakfast.
If i had a gal that could sing and play the fiddle like that we'd never leave the bedroom
Was never a bluegrass fan till I heard these guys. Rogers fiddle and voice is a knockout❣
I love this song about Civil War. I didn't know that Chris was in bluegrass band or even rock back before he went solo. His voice is like the old country singers. I miss those ol' voices.
Chris is the best
Love Chris;love steeldrivers,love this song,love bluegrasss-all soooo fine!
These are angles I believe to Heal all pain and strength God bless the Steele driver's 😇✌️😂🙏🙏🙏🙏✌️🎸🎸
When you hear things like this it lights the fire of the soul. It’s like sitting on a porch with your ancestors. So good
Yes finally someone who understands
@@quinnlane7257 it’s so heavy . I was lucky to grow up with parents of the last great generations. Those stories of poor life and real hard work to survive or else never leave my memory. We owe them so much. Thanks for speaking.
I've watch a tons of videos from Grey Fox how the hell I'm i just finding these now.this is something very different the songs are unbelievably well written and original.Chris Stapleton's voice is unreal nobody could sound that good,the harmonies are perfect and the fiddle playing just top of an already solid band.I've been listening to a lot of bluegrass lately and i can't think of anything that sounds like this.
This is one of my absolute favorite Chris Stapleton songs. ..it sounds amazing, but it's also completely NOT the perspective I would have expected in a song about the Civil War written &.performed by a Southern bluegrass band. It completely blew my mind the first time I heard it...well--MOST of Chris Stapleton's songs do that--but this one is really special. He is just freaking amazing ! I had been searching for THAT SINGER ever since I heard "If it Hadn't Been For Love" years ago on a college radio station. Never found it,but instantly recognized it coming out of my NPR-tuned radio at work last year when "Traveller" was released. What an incredible singer & even better songwriter.
What would you expect?
Well, I live in the middle of that history and my son & many of his friends are serious Civil War fanatics- they do interpretive history at New Market Battlefield & Gettysburg....and any other place within 200 miles. Plus I'm surrounded by the modern day South...so I generally expect Southern boys to have the perspective of the Confederate soldiers, often to the South Will Rise Again tune. Even the professional historians I encounter at events have never taken the point of view of a slave running for freedom. Not saying it doesn't happen, but I haven't seen it.
Just another example of political incorrectness. Although I have lived on the south side of the Mason Dixon line for 56 of my 66 years I have a similar attitude as Stapleton, in fact, most of the members of this group, who played at a friend's wedding. It is called doing your own research, having an open mind and thinking for yourself. Not very popular in any society. Original thinkers generally wind up on the outside looking in. This guy might get away with it because he will soon be a millionaire and he sings like an angel.
Can you imagine? A southerner who actually thinks that all people are created equally and are entitled to be free? My goodness, that's almost un-American! Face it, the basis for the southern society is still firmly grounded in the infamous "Corner Stone" speech, given by Alexander Stephens, the vice president of the rebellion.
Lynda Millep,
Perfection!
Love Tammy so much!
My favorite song ever ! and i Adore Chris Stapelton and his wife ❤
Wonderful music let’s keep it alive people .....
Goooood shit!
Chris Stapleton at his best!
At Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival 2008 and 2009.
I need to go to this festival, a lot of my favorite songs are played here
And we really didn't hear much (more broadly) of Chris Stapleton until his 2015 Traveller album...7 years later...How is that possible, when Nashville continued to crank out "adequate" singers/performers?
I LOVE this song! Great lyrics, harmony, musical skills; it has it all. I am buying this album today.
Wow just found this band.......Great
I'm just getting introduced to bluegrass. What a nice song. I'm glad they didn't rush it (to meet time limits). I love to visualize with the song as it plays, like following the experiences of the people at that time in the past, what a feeling. :)
This is pure joy to the ear I mean amazing vocals music playing and this is live I could listen to this non stop all day
Wildely consistent throughout multiple venues and Atmospheres. Truly blessed music, a message, love sang through a song. This song is pure love!
Gave me chills........
How did the steel drivers not hit mainstream with Chris Stapleton as there frontman?
Jonathan Ulloa They won a Grammy. That’s pretty mainstream. He left after one record though.
stargarnetmusic two records.
True country without the bubble gum and hairspray! Kentucky, West Virginia, North Carolina and all other moutain homes are truly God's country. #GODBLESSEDTHEHILLBILLY
🇺🇸 This is gods country😤
Love 💕 you
Wow! Wonderful voices. Virtuoso on the fiddle of course. Love how much she enjoys her gifts....That reminds me a bit of Don Rich - he would get that goofy smile on his face because he just sounded so damn good.
Just found this now……Damn that’s good.
Great song...beautiful voice.
Love it!
wow what a song
wow, love it
This such great music , honestly no words ...🙏🙏😎
A real class act. By far my favorite from them
Truly a work of art!
Goodness this is some serious Talent!
This is just so pretty, gritty. Love and miss chris stapleton
Mike Henderson. A very underrated musician.
What a beautiful song.
Love these guys!!!
I listen to them all singing & playing and I want "Home" :) They're great :)
That violin sings to my soul
Forever in my heart I love this set includes heaven sent..play on!
Sounds awesome I would like to hear more of them they are really talented people and so isn't Chris Stapleton
What?
Great team.....don't forget about 'em, Chris.
The Man's a legend to me. M.P.
Mighty fine picking and a singing
Woo weeee
Love Bluegrass they got great harmony Chris sounds awesome as always and Rhonda can burn that violin up!!!!
Tammy on fiddle.
Shes awesome.....
yes can you run for freedom ?
Such great lyrics. Obviously music too.
Pure magic.........repeat.
OMG!