I totally agree...! ..4 those who think ,they know equal to Robert Zimmerland,or is it man, lennon & the other guy,...shit I could write another 20 odd names... but ,naaa, I can't be bothered !
I agree there's been so many songwriter from Texas but I sorta knew him from one of the neighborhood s in Houston I was so proud of him but jealous too I'm a songwriter and played in some of those same honky tonks on the rough side of Houston God bless him and his music it still helps to remember those times he's a musical genius
I'm sitting here listening to this song for perhaps the seventh or eighth time today. I can never listen to it just once per sitting. This, like many of RC songs, hits a spot in one's heart by recalling life's experiences and struggles. His newer songs differ only in the amount of experiences he has to draw from and the fact that he "Don't Care Anymore" and flat out puts it all out there. Thank you, Mr. Crowell, for giving us decades of your experiences and showing us that no matter what troubled times we are experiencing, we are not alone.
I remember the first time I heard this song. 20, recently laid-off, broken up with a 2 year GF and learning that my parent's 28 year marriage was ending. I was lost. This song brings that all back, but in a good, nostalgic way. We experience, suffer, learn and move on. It's a long, and sometimes lonesome highway.
My grandson has Dravet Syndrome and this song is the only song that calms him down. This is the song he goes to sleep to every single day. He heard this song while I was listening to it. My father passed away from pancreatic cancer and now the song has a very deep personal meaning to me on several fronts. Thank you for this gift you have given to all of us.
It's really hard not to love this man!! His song writing is way beyond what some even know how to love. I love you, Rodney!! You are the best brother in the world. I miss you so much!!
@@ddcasey I know very well, who's daughter Roseanne Cash is, who her father was, and that she and Rodney Crowell were married. I didn't need you to tell me.
Yes. Guy was so talented just like townes and many others like blaze Foley. Miss all those folks and I don't ever see them being replaced anytime soon 😪
This video was filmed in and around Taos, New Mexico. Holy Cross hospital which appears briefly in the video is where my Grandma passed away, this song always brings tears to my eyes.
The line where his dad said there's nothing left to hold me, though I was there,he died alone gets me every time.I wonder if my Dad thought that,he fought so hard for so long.RIP Daddy
Rodney Crowell's father died at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital in Baytown, Texas, near his hometown of Crosby, Texas. I worked there on the unit were the gentleman passed and met Mr. Crowell a couple times during that terrible ordeal, which he handled, I thought, quite very graciously. I liked the man, personally, and respected that he handled the matter with so much dignity.
+Lucas Black Dignity? Sort of like the suggestive avatar you have on display, showing two obviously naked people on the verge of (if not actually engaging in) copulation? Now that's true class (by Mexican or ghetto standards).
first, let me just start by saying I am a white, female, retired, democrat, liberal, whatever the fuck you want to call it. I own my own home and my car is paid for. Now, you little shit-for-brains twit... My bad because I didn't reply directly to remembering 1992. so why don't you take your little trump-like tantrum throwing ass and go play on the freeway.
JHC can anyone say anything on here without sparking a fight? '92, I write erotica for a living, hence the profile photo. If you dislike it, so sad too bad. My happiness never relies on your judgment but thanks for playing. Lyn, I am an old white conservative (I hesitate to say Republican, since I really don't identify as such) and a proud lifelong Texan. My God, I try to tell a poignant tale of a decent man losing his father, and it turns into this? I weep for civility and non-judgment, which are the casualties of the last 20 and more years. What the hell did my post have to do with politics or Mexican ghettos?
This mans voice is so incredible, his story telling is hypnotic. I was sitting in Mérida, Yucatán, MX listening to Rodney talk about writing songs in Texas, Galveston, I believe, it was thrilling because I was moving to Texas! ❤️🇨🇱
Galveston born and Texas raised, to me Rodney is more Texas than Willie Nelson. As a child growing up in Lufkin and to hear it in a song was so cool. Been a fan since I can remember.
This song and video has stayed with me for over 20 years, and yet this is the first time I have seen it in almost that long, but the images were so memorable, the beauty of this song so poetic and so musically artiistic that it stayed in my mind, able to be called up at anytime. One of the few times a music video actually acheived the level of art....a great almost unknown masterpiece.
Really I feel like this song is the essence of an american spirit for me and I am dreaming sometimes to start my life again somewhere in Wyoming among great nature and lonesome highways, just as it is shown in this piece of art by Rodney Crowell...
You can't ignore /his man's talent.His songs say so much about him. It also is so much likemylife IRELATE TO CERTAIN O BECAUSE OF THE WORDS THAT ARE; BEING USE D.==RODNEYS TELL A STORY ABOUT SOMEONE'S LIFE! HE SINGS WITH HIS ❤💙
I suspect this song was written as an expression of how the man felt after his father died. A beautiful and truthful comment on a lonely future. Treasure the ones you love. You wont have them forever and they wont have you forever either.
My dad died and when i hear this song i can smell the air from 30 years ago driving at night with him up past madison on the weekends...I can feel the leather seat of the cadillac. Is that normal?
well my friend, I left my family and friends for Wyoming and do not regret it. In fact, I am going to be able to see Rodney Crowell on the mountain in Casper in August!
I remembered seeing a video back in 89'-90' where one guy keeps taking another's cigarettes, but could never remember the song, until i stumbled across the video on here. IDK why but it's a great song to listen to while on a road trip.
THANK YOU MR. CROWELL FOR SHARING YOUR MUSIC, AND YOUR AMAZING VEDIO WITH ALL US DREAMERS. LIFE: sometimes if you can just get in an car , fill up the tank. and just go. go. and go. sure can make a world of difference, help you see life in a totaly different light. it helps. what a feeling of true freedom. like a breathe of fresh air. ------along this long and lonesome road . where it ends i don't want to know. like a ship sailing out to sea. the stars light my way. where it takes me i don't know.
slomojoe77 That’s exactly what I thought the first time I saw this video. I’m kinda puzzled as to why others don’t see it. They only see Guy as bumming cigs. However, we could both be wrong. Lol!
slomojoe77 I’m afraid, I am a smoker. However, I’m seriously about to quit, for real, this time! It’s a terrible habit and I’ve been addicted way too long. I started at 16 and I’m 45 now so it’s high time I kick it. I have tremendous will power in every thing else so it’s just a matter of making up my mind and being done with it. Perhaps, that’s is why we see this video in the same light. A guy trying to help his buddy give them up. Best of luck to you with kicking the habit too! We can do it! 👍
ok. I started listening to my own music in 1991 at the age of 12. I switched over to Country in 1996 at 17 (if was very uncool to claim country but I didn't care!) anyways Rodney is before my time. I seen his name as a songwriter but didn't put much thought into it. One Month ago (Dec 2010 I decided to make a playlist of Country songs that came out in 1990, 1989 and 1988. He's got 2 or 3 on there and I love listening to RC now!! He's my newest favorite singer right now.
I heard this song in 1990 I was a sophomore in HS. It instantly became my favorite song at the time and all thru the years it is still my all time favorite song.
Rodney is the most underated singer/song writer I've ever known
I totally agree...! ..4 those who think ,they know equal to Robert Zimmerland,or is it man, lennon & the other guy,...shit I could write another 20 odd names... but ,naaa, I can't be bothered !
Agreed, and Warren Zevon and Townes Van Zandt fall into that category as well.
The other fellow in this video, Guy Clark, was Rodney's songwriting mentor.
Guy Clark is one of the best songwriters ever.✌️
You have that right!
I agree there's been so many songwriter from Texas but I sorta knew him from one of the neighborhood s in Houston I was so proud of him but jealous too I'm a songwriter and played in some of those same honky tonks on the rough side of Houston God bless him and his music it still helps to remember those times he's a musical genius
I'm sitting here listening to this song for perhaps the seventh or eighth time today. I can never listen to it just once per sitting. This, like many of RC songs, hits a spot in one's heart by recalling life's experiences and struggles. His newer songs differ only in the amount of experiences he has to draw from and the fact that he "Don't Care Anymore" and flat out puts it all out there. Thank you, Mr. Crowell, for giving us decades of your experiences and showing us that no matter what troubled times we are experiencing, we are not alone.
I don’t understand why anyone would give a thumbs down
I remember the first time I heard this song. 20, recently laid-off, broken up with a 2 year GF and learning that my parent's 28 year marriage was ending. I was lost. This song brings that all back, but in a good, nostalgic way. We experience, suffer, learn and move on. It's a long, and sometimes lonesome highway.
I love this song, I always thought Rodney Crowell never got enough radio time or awards, this is real music, in my opinion.
My grandson has Dravet Syndrome and this song is the only song that calms him down. This is the song he goes to sleep to every single day. He heard this song while I was listening to it. My father passed away from pancreatic cancer and now the song has a very deep personal meaning to me on several fronts. Thank you for this gift you have given to all of us.
That's an incredibly amazing story! I'm gonna say some prayers for your family right now.
I hope this song still helps. We all wish the best for you and your family!
What a wonderful story. Best of luck to you.
Rodney Crowell would score his 6th and final #1 Billboard country hit to this date as a vocalist with this gem on 1-20-1990.
January. 20. 2024 This. Is. One. Of. The. Best. Songs. Of. All. Time. Rodney. Crowel. Long. And. Lonesome. Highway. And. Should. Have. Won. A. Grammy. For. Song. Of. The. Year😊
This song pulls on my emotions. I miss my family and those who've passed away. Love the lyrics and music.
One of the best voices in country music ever
and one of the best word men also!
Yes this guy is amazing, such a great voice.
It's really hard not to love this man!! His song writing is way beyond what some even know how to love.
I love you, Rodney!! You are the best brother in the world. I miss you so much!!
I love this song. He is an awesome songwriter.
Rodney Crowell isn't dead.😒
@@ddcasey I know very well, who's daughter Roseanne Cash is, who her father was, and that she and Rodney Crowell were married. I didn't need you to tell me.
@@ddcasey , NC Donna Casey ?
It's much easier to not even try to not love him. Sorry things didn't work out with Roseanne
Two of music industries greatest artist in one video and a song that just makes this nasty ole world go away.
Thank You Mr Crowell.
Yes. Guy was so talented just like townes and many others like blaze Foley. Miss all those folks and I don't ever see them being replaced anytime soon 😪
Damn this is a gem. Living legend rodney
Is it just my imagination or does radio save all the best music for youtube?
The most underrated singer and songwriter... love his music
One of the greatest song of all time.......perhaps those so called country stars nowadays should take notes....great job Rodney and Guy...
This video was filmed in and around Taos, New Mexico. Holy Cross hospital which appears briefly in the video is where my Grandma passed away, this song always brings tears to my eyes.
The line where his dad said there's nothing left to hold me, though I was there,he died alone gets me every time.I wonder if my Dad thought that,he fought so hard for so long.RIP Daddy
Rodney Crowell's father died at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital in Baytown, Texas, near his hometown of Crosby, Texas. I worked there on the unit were the gentleman passed and met Mr. Crowell a couple times during that terrible ordeal, which he handled, I thought, quite very graciously. I liked the man, personally, and respected that he handled the matter with so much dignity.
Lucas Black, goodness, that was a story of such sadness.
+Lucas Black Dignity? Sort of like the suggestive avatar you have on display, showing two obviously naked people on the verge of (if not actually engaging in) copulation? Now that's true class (by Mexican or ghetto standards).
get your mind out of the fucking gutter. let me guess - you are an old white republican.
first, let me just start by saying I am a white, female, retired, democrat, liberal, whatever the fuck you want to call it. I own my own home and my car is paid for. Now, you little shit-for-brains twit... My bad because I didn't reply directly to remembering 1992. so why don't you take your little trump-like tantrum throwing ass and go play on the freeway.
JHC can anyone say anything on here without sparking a fight? '92, I write erotica for a living, hence the profile photo. If you dislike it, so sad too bad. My happiness never relies on your judgment but thanks for playing. Lyn, I am an old white conservative (I hesitate to say Republican, since I really don't identify as such) and a proud lifelong Texan. My God, I try to tell a poignant tale of a decent man losing his father, and it turns into this? I weep for civility and non-judgment, which are the casualties of the last 20 and more years. What the hell did my post have to do with politics or Mexican ghettos?
This is the song i want played at my funeral,
The love of my life passed away when a forklift driver bumped the crane he was on and i can't carry on without you my handsome 💖 Patricia
Hope you're carrying on 😢
"my father on his deathbed----tho i was there he died alone" hits hard, happened to me. this song is awesome, and i feel every word.
I've been a fan for many years and have yet to find anyone better.
Guy Clark, I met him in Castle Creek Salloon, Jerry Jeff popped in, what a night. God Speed
This man is an amazing musician. Love all of his songs but this was always one of my favorites! Imo never got the popularity it deserved
One of my most favorite songs of all time.Rodney is great
What a beautiful song, sung by a very talented man. That must have been quite a trip--nice car!😊💒
Probably Rodney's best song ever.and the video with Guy Clark is a heartbreaker ,great.
It crushes me sometimes to hear and see guy. God I miss him
This mans voice is so incredible, his story telling is hypnotic. I was sitting in Mérida, Yucatán, MX listening to Rodney talk about writing songs in Texas, Galveston, I believe, it was thrilling because I was moving to Texas! ❤️🇨🇱
Galveston born and Texas raised, to me Rodney is more Texas than Willie Nelson. As a child growing up in Lufkin and to hear it in a song was so cool. Been a fan since I can remember.
@copperdiablo2717 I lived close to those small townes in east Texas. Such a cool place.
Met Rodney in a restaurant in New Orleans back in the 90's. I fell in love with his music, and am still in love today!
Love Steuart Smith's guitar playing on this track
Rodney Crowell sure is a cutie-pie.😊
Always been my favorite RC song. I was born in 1980 and was very young g when this song came out but I’ve grown up with it and love it
Beautiful song, and the guitar solo at the end is absolutely perfect.
Quintessential Rodney, great intro's and superb outro's bookend his wonderful songs excellently!
This song and the video have been worldshaping in my life in its own way for over 30 years. None better than this.
Great video and any video with Guy playfully messing around with Rodney is absolutely priceless.
Still a great song in 2019
And always will be for eternity
Never heard this. It’s awesome.
This song and video has stayed with me for over 20 years, and yet this is the first time I have seen it in almost that long, but the images were so memorable, the beauty of this song so poetic and so musically artiistic that it stayed in my mind, able to be called up at anytime. One of the few times a music video actually acheived the level of art....a great almost unknown masterpiece.
Simply a great song. 🙏
this guy should have been a crossover hit, he was too good for country music radio
Really I feel like this song is the essence of an american spirit for me and I am dreaming sometimes to start my life again somewhere in Wyoming among great nature and lonesome highways, just as it is shown in this piece of art by Rodney Crowell...
RIP Guy Clark!! man this is sad
Guy Clark didn't quit smoking. He just quit buying :)
Peace sells but who's buying.
@@jeffforden3586 How in the Hell did you find that after 10 years? Hahaha 😄
@forrestry my dad used to listen to that and it just popped up in my brain! Lolol
He helped Rodney quit….
It gives me chills that tune. 👍
What a great voice. In his 70's and he can still sing today. Thanks for all you've given us! I'll see you at the Birchmere tomorrow night. can't wait.
I remember havin this recorded on CountryClips hosted by Shotgun Red on VHS back in the 90s as a kid. One of my favorite country music videos ever
You can't ignore /his man's talent.His songs say so much about him. It also is so much likemylife IRELATE TO CERTAIN O BECAUSE OF THE WORDS THAT ARE; BEING USE D.==RODNEYS TELL A STORY ABOUT SOMEONE'S LIFE! HE SINGS WITH HIS ❤💙
That must be the best song I have ever listened to
I suspect this song was written as an expression of how the man felt after his father died. A beautiful and truthful comment on a lonely future. Treasure the ones you love. You wont have them forever and they wont have you forever either.
Nice video, so true that you can drive across the open lands of New Mexico and still find A Sonic Drive Inn
My dad died and when i hear this song i can smell the air from 30 years ago driving at night with him up past madison on the weekends...I can feel the leather seat of the cadillac. Is that normal?
a top fave video and song, Guy Clark in this video is great, he will be missed.
Rodney is the best at what he does, beautiful songs!!!
Simply one of the great artists who never gets his full recognition.
Neither did guy clark. 2 legends in the same video
A beautiful beautiful song. Love you Rodney. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸. I lived in Taos, NM. A town of its own
Can not think of a song that better describes me. Thank you Rodney
And Guy Clark. Sorry
Great to see Guy, im so glad ive got to see him Live!
My favorite Rodney Crowell song/video. Guy Clark was a hoot in this video stealing Rodney's cigs.
well my friend, I left my family and friends for Wyoming and do not regret it. In fact, I am going to be able to see Rodney Crowell on the mountain in Casper in August!
best first line of a song ever
Thank you for your music Mr. Crowell. Beautiful!
My favorite singer songwriter. Even now I listen to his new work which is great.
Rodney's voice is so awesome
I grew up on calypso and soca, but lived for the hour or two they played country music each day-Rodney Crowell keeps me LOVING country!
Now this is THE quintessential Rodney Crowell and I learning to long for even more of.
Extra points for the alter ego character in the video.
The great songwriter Guy Clark plays Rodney's cigarette-bumming buddy in the video.
I remembered seeing a video back in 89'-90' where one guy keeps taking another's cigarettes, but could never remember the song, until i stumbled across the video on here. IDK why but it's a great song to listen to while on a road trip.
This guy is amazing !!
Thanks Rodney, I needed this.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
RIP Guy Clark
I love this song.. as it fades off into lonesome highway
songs come and go but this one is forever
Amazing...just so real.
I've been there - where the four winds blow down that long highway - I had fun.
THANK YOU MR. CROWELL FOR SHARING YOUR MUSIC, AND YOUR AMAZING VEDIO WITH ALL US DREAMERS. LIFE: sometimes if you can just get in an car , fill up the tank. and just go. go. and go. sure can make a world of difference, help you see life in a totaly different light. it helps. what a feeling of true freedom. like a breathe of fresh air. ------along this long and lonesome road . where it ends i don't want to know. like a ship sailing out to sea. the stars light my way. where it takes me i don't know.
We all had that friend that was always bumming a cigarette.
slomojoe77 That’s exactly what I thought the first time I saw this video. I’m kinda puzzled as to why others don’t see it. They only see Guy as bumming cigs. However, we could both be wrong. Lol!
slomojoe77 I’m afraid, I am a smoker. However, I’m seriously about to quit, for real, this time! It’s a terrible habit and I’ve been addicted way too long. I started at 16 and I’m 45 now so it’s high time I kick it. I have tremendous will power in every thing else so it’s just a matter of making up my mind and being done with it.
Perhaps, that’s is why we see this video in the same light. A guy trying to help his buddy give them up.
Best of luck to you with kicking the habit too! We can do it! 👍
I never smoked--I think it's a filthy habit. It's killed way too many people--Eddie Van Halen and Patrick Swayze, for example.😢
I love the video
❤❤❤❤❤
I had a friend who loved this song sadly this song was playing when passed away
Wrangler Jacket. Good Song my friend.
His voice is so I don't know the word.
What do you admire most about Rodney
Wow, this song is so awesome. I never had the chance to see the video before. Beautiful. I love this song. Wore it out in the 90’s...
Super great all of it. The voice the video the lyrics the music!
One of the best
❤❤❤❤❤
great singer,great music
ok. I started listening to my own music in 1991 at the age of 12. I switched over to Country in 1996 at 17 (if was very uncool to claim country but I didn't care!) anyways Rodney is before my time. I seen his name as a songwriter but didn't put much thought into it. One Month ago (Dec 2010 I decided to make a playlist of Country songs that came out in 1990, 1989 and 1988. He's got 2 or 3 on there and I love listening to RC now!! He's my newest favorite singer right now.
Rodney is the best and gets better with time!
Such a good song an sad I interpret it the father knows he is dying from smokes so he keeps taking them from son
One of the nicer country voices and some of the better lyrics.
Sublime, cette chanson , l'un de mes chanteurs de country music préféré, la grande classe !
Beautiful tune one of my fav. I still remember when it first came out.
Beautiful song! New favorite old artist!
As sad as it is I know this is how it will be with me and my father. My wife Tonya Harding and I Love this song. Keep it going Rodney!
The ice skater?
Why would you have to make a point of saying who your wife is who cares
Long. Lonesome. Highway. Sung. By. Rodney. Crowell. It. Should. Have. Won. The. Grammy. For. Song. Of. The. Year. And. The. Video. Is. Like. Watching. A. Movie.
This is precious to me. I hope that Rodney doesn't try to disown or revise it the way he did Shame On The Moon. (Hi, Rod.)
I still love this song. It's the story of my life...
Beautiful video
My handsome you left me a precious young woman who you would be proud of and i love and miss you so much 💕 Patricia
Love you rodney,,,,been following your music for years now,and would love to see you live again,,,hope you come to ohio again.
I sees lots a people sayin they hear "Buddy Holly" infuenzes in Rodney.... but I hear more Roy Orbison.... maybe I'm nutz, maybe I'm nutz.
I feel Roy orbison.
I feel Roy Orbison myself
I love sthis song since 1989, as I was riding a long and lonesome highway in Arizona. Great performance! Thank you for this amazing song!
I heard this song in 1990 I was a sophomore in HS. It instantly became my favorite song at the time and all thru the years it is still my all time favorite song.