Last night at a Session in Evanston WY at the end of the annual Celtic festival put on by The Arts Inc., one of the guys at the Session stood up and introduced this song to us (saying, in essence, "a lot of Irish music moves from east to west.... This song actually originated in the West and moved east". Then he sang it. Blew our minds. Norman Blake, who wrote this, as I learned, also wrote "You Are My Sunshine." Planxty is one of my wife's favorite bands. She introduced me to them within the last 3 years (we met about 3 years ago). And this Celtic festival that just finished was another outstanding round of musicians.
@MattRingressiАй бұрын
Norman Blake most certainly didn't write "You Are My Sunshine". It dates back to the 1930s and, depending on which account you believe, was either written by Paul Rice (of the Rice Brothers Gang) or by a Georgia musician named Oliver Hood, who taught it to Rice. Whatever the case, Paul Rice sold it to Jimmie Davis who copyrighted it in 1940. The Wikipedia entry for the song is very informative. Blake did record it for the "O Brother, Where Art Thou" soundtrack in 2000.
@doofus0123Ай бұрын
@@MattRingressi thanks for the info. I see now that Norman Blake would have been about 2 years old when you are my sunshine came out lol.
@MattRingressiАй бұрын
@@doofus0123 Glad to be helpful! Neat to hear Planxty's version of one of his songs!
@davidhardwick38162 жыл бұрын
One of my very favorite Irish bands. I've been playing them since the late 70s - they never get old!
@gregfranks2111 Жыл бұрын
that tune is by georgia/alabama boy Norman Blake.
@dessiediamond59745 жыл бұрын
That tin whistle gets me every time. And I have listened to this more times than I care to count
@josephpower81765 жыл бұрын
Hits u where it counts
@JamesMeikle-h1z9 ай бұрын
This is my campfire Music since ahhh wee teentard such a long time ago Im looking like these rambling oldies
@nbenefiel7 ай бұрын
Liam Og O’Flynn was a master musician RIP.
@fyuuredhijgfzregjjygtdftyi91294 жыл бұрын
That tin whistle.... the musical equivalent of the atomic clock. Created by particle physicists to nano nano nano nano nano tolerances. More perfectly tuned than any other tin whistle ever was or ever will be. The quintessential tin whistle, the benchmark. The final tin whistle. Tin whistle absolut.
@matthewtreacy69942 жыл бұрын
Would you say now, that you like the tin whistle?
@Mandolin19443 жыл бұрын
Nice to hear this song in a Celtic setting. You might have mentioned that this song was written by Norman Blake in the 1970s -- the name of the song is Bill Gray.
@edwardmcardle90694 жыл бұрын
Planxty just keep tipping the right boxes what a great band.
@michaelpanknien516810 ай бұрын
I had the great pleasure to see Planxty in the early eighties in Germany (and later Matt Molloy in his pub in Westport plus Andy Irvine who is one of my favorite singers at Bewleys Cafe in Dublin);true legends of Irish music and this song especially is heartwarming
@vansinger3610 жыл бұрын
I played Planxty constantly 25 years ago and came across this by accident in 2014. I just love this track, an absolutely beautiful song.
@nbenefiel4 ай бұрын
I played them constantly fifty yeas ago. I still do.
@nbenefiel7 ай бұрын
I lived in Dublin for most of the 70’s. Irish music as at its apex with the Chieftains, Planxty, Clannad, DeDanaan. We went to concerts every weekend. If there wasn’t one, we went down to O’Donagues and listened to the sessions.
@paulscott87487 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite song of planxtys and i never tire of playing it.
@isolitiignoti113 жыл бұрын
One of the most beautiful tune of the world. Christy Moore for president!
@Teddyb1939 Жыл бұрын
So together , lovely performance, real musicians.
@noelcorcoran11694 жыл бұрын
Brilliant song..and Planxty class, as always..
@antoniacowan12165 жыл бұрын
One of the most beautiful songs ive ever heard.
@jonathanbuttle74365 жыл бұрын
My friend introduced me to Planxty. I was only 20ish. I was going through a period without a girlfriend thus loneliness I was feeling a lot. I'd go home drunk, stagger into my bedroom, put Planxty on and fall asleep, waking up wondering what shenanigans I'd been up to the night before. Actually I got together with a lapsed Catholic called Bernadette who had Irish roots. She was a beautiful woman in spirit and flesh. God bless her!
@adomwarford59413 жыл бұрын
Love this song that tin whistle gets me every time for 5:05 minutes I’m in love all over again I come here to listen daily to this version hope it never gets taken down
@Horsemarine10013 жыл бұрын
Beautiful sad song, with echoes of Streets of Laredo, but with so many extra ingredients. Yes it gave me the shivers too!
@laurelsoderholm9480 Жыл бұрын
Oh that eirie whistle. Is life itself
@MrMusicguyma8 жыл бұрын
A Norman Blake original done nicely by the Lads.
@windchimerainbow1368 жыл бұрын
Love this very much. Thank you for such a great job.
@greggimour69997 жыл бұрын
Billy Gray rode into Gantry way back in '83 There he first met with young Sarah Maclane The wild rose of morning, the pale flower of dawning Hurled a springtime into Billy's life that day Sarah she could not see the daylight of reality In her young eyes Billy bore not a flaw Knowing not her chosen one, he was a hired gun Wanted in Kansas City by the law Then one day a tall man came riding from the Badlands That lie to the north of New Mexico He was overheard to say, he was looking for a Billy Gray A wanted man and a danger said law Well the news it came creeping to Billy fast sleeping There in the Clarendon Bar and Hotel He ran to the old church that lies on the outskirts Thinking he'd hide in the old steeple bell But a rifleball came flying, face down he lay dying There in the dust of the road where he lay Sarah ran to him, she was cursing the lawman The poor girl knew no reason, except that he'd been Killed Sarah still lives in that old white frame house Where she first met Billy some forty years ago But the wild rose of morning has faded with the dawning Of each day of sorrow the long years have grown And written on the stone where the dusty winds have Long blown Eighteen words to a passing world say "True love knows no season, no rhyme or no reason Justice is cold as the Granger County clay. " "True love knows no season, no rhyme or no reason Justice is cold as the Granger County clay.
@sneakyam6 жыл бұрын
"rose of mourning" perhaps? But thanks for posting.
@seafire77016 жыл бұрын
First verse; "heralded" not"hurled"
@mikeadams1105 жыл бұрын
@@seafire7701 Agreed. My lyrics for the song had that same mistake but the lyric is unmistakably ("heralded" a springtime into Billy's life that day) which perfectly fits and makes far more sense. Thanks for the correction and clarification!
@mrbethehokey15 жыл бұрын
brilliant song! superbly done
@PatRooney5913 жыл бұрын
these guys are music
@roxken113 жыл бұрын
goosebumpy!
@Hughieish12 жыл бұрын
Love it love it Declan Sinnott and Christy duetting it now at gigs
@Retroscoop8 жыл бұрын
green.... the isle and its sloping hills blue... the curtains of the concert hall red... the cheeks of the band members mix these colours and obtain elegant thrills
@rackpunch4026 Жыл бұрын
Saw them at the Dominion in Tottenham Court Road about a century ago, sadly Christy wasn't with them that night but they were still brilliant.
@andytownboy14 жыл бұрын
The original version of this song is Billy Gray which was written and recorded by Norman Blake. As brilliant as this remake.
@gregfranks2111 Жыл бұрын
it takes a lot more to come up with
@josefinagarza2419 ай бұрын
thank you sir
@josefinagarza2419 ай бұрын
Everyone makes it their own style. This is lovely.
@melanigaster5 жыл бұрын
This so good that the likes of me aren't even qualified to praise. But HOLY SMOKES this is good!
@robindavidwilliams5 ай бұрын
What a haunting song.
@denismurray8686 ай бұрын
love liams melody on whistle its a piece suggested by the late sheamus ennis about the sound made of a dying swan , also love christys reaction to it
@lukacsm569 жыл бұрын
WONDERFUL SONG!!*****
@dessiediamond59747 жыл бұрын
One word, Amazing
@davesiler40644 жыл бұрын
Norman Blake is as good as it gets!!!!!!!
@__JDR__10 жыл бұрын
Norman Blake wrote it its called Billy Grey
@Deafpeaches10 жыл бұрын
No, it was written by Robert Earl Keen.
@raymccraw9709 жыл бұрын
Jamie Ritchie You are correct. Norman Blake wrote the song. Robert Earl Keen covered it and did it well.
@AnthBod956 жыл бұрын
Yes, Norman Blake wrote this song. Billy Grey.
@alexdesslin5 жыл бұрын
MAGIC !
@tomoole7 жыл бұрын
Great song written by guitar flat-picker NORMAN BLAKE. Robert Earl KEEN Jr. covered it on on "Walking Distance,". He did not write it.
@deuceman945012 жыл бұрын
Nice cover of Norman Blake's song...
@7s1tlp648 жыл бұрын
true song about true love
@JamesMeikle-h1z8 ай бұрын
Doesn' get Much better than this ...Folks !!!
@shanieleddy84926 жыл бұрын
Matthew Byrne's, version is magic,
@MrMusicguyma8 жыл бұрын
I made my comment before reading previous comments ;)
@Mendezfarriercompany3065 жыл бұрын
How is it that this Nicaraguan descent american-born Canadian raised boy nose of planxty because my good friend from Ireland
@nickdunbar29677 жыл бұрын
beeyootifulll!
@gregfranks2111 Жыл бұрын
that is "billy Gray" by Norman Blake.
@nbenefiel7 ай бұрын
No one sings like Christy.
@PatRooney5912 жыл бұрын
brilliant
@Teddyb19394 жыл бұрын
Lovely,
@shanieleddy84926 жыл бұрын
Check out the lead singer with The Darndenells folk band, best version on KZbin,
@KingBabyProductions12 жыл бұрын
It seems that this version's intro was edited and simplified from an earlier one.
@eohaver29 жыл бұрын
Who is Billy Gray? I'm from here of the US Southwest and really like the old gunslinger.
@Retroscoop8 жыл бұрын
+eohaver2 probably yet another damned Billy the Kid trying to imitate John Wayne ?
@MacCaskill7 жыл бұрын
A fictional character in Norman Blake's lyrics. He's not based on a real person.
@thetwoboyos83662 жыл бұрын
Ah you wouldnt know him.. He's dead a long time.. He was shot...😱
@peterwickenden37374 ай бұрын
nice version,,written by the great Nirman Blake....I'm partial to the original
@peterwickenden37374 ай бұрын
sorry....that's Norman,not Nirman....I think he's a plumber...
@2Granule11 жыл бұрын
this is a direct cover of Billy Grey - written by Norman Blake. Why change the title if you are honest?
@Txumo6913 жыл бұрын
Take a look to the original by Norman Blake: /watch?v=yOK9WZtBerU
@BrongaeneGriffin11 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know who wrote this originally?
@Retroscoop8 жыл бұрын
+Brongaene Griffin Other comment in same thread says "Take a look to the original by Norman Blake: /watch?v=yOK9WZtBerU" another comment specifies: this is a direct cover of Billy Grey - written by Norman Blake.
@Retroscoop8 жыл бұрын
+Benoit Vanhees Thank you Benoit :)
@BrongaeneGriffin8 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@patrickkelly34153 жыл бұрын
What about the rest of the boys in the band all about chisty more
@DM-eq1fq Жыл бұрын
What does burning babies burning flags refer to?
@julliannoble13 жыл бұрын
I prefe this to Norman Blakes original
@mikeadams1105 жыл бұрын
I couldn't possibly agree more!
@Teddyb19394 жыл бұрын
Both magical, I really can,t see how anyone can choose between them. both in their own way beautiful,.
@adrianmcgrath5745 жыл бұрын
Track
@cragrat231011 жыл бұрын
Mark Erelli does a better version and better yet is a young Scottish band called Barluath silent "Th" pronunciation.
@Doodles19475 жыл бұрын
No, that's not true.
@Teddyb1939 Жыл бұрын
Bold statement indeed.
@gregfranks2111 Жыл бұрын
I prefer the original kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4CuaoqQqaeYqLc