Arthur McBride - Chris Thile & Sarah Jarosz | Live from Here

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Chris Thile, Sarah Jarosz, and our band play "Arthur McBride" on our December 14, 2019 show. #ArthurMcBride #ChrisThile #SarahJarosz
The band: Chris Thile, Sarah Jarosz, Mike Elizondo, Eric Doob, Chris Eldridge, Alex Hargreaves, Brett Williams
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[@therealbaglady]

This rendition helps me realize I need to make an mp3 out of Paul Brady's version before it's taken off youtube.

[@reillys4080]

lmao nice

[@eoghancallaghy2634]

Absolutely. While I appreciate this rendition, Paul's is much better.

[@reillys4080]

@@eoghancallaghy2634 Therealbaglady referring to the omitting of the original lyrics, I believe.

[@ericmurphy-halix3455]

Regardless. That is gorgeous. I keep trying to "really" play it, but fail every time. Will keep trying, but that performance was amazing.

[@tonydalton459]

@@eoghancallaghy2634Yes. Not a massive Paul Brady fan, but his version of this is the definitive version, that I’ve heard anyway.

[@thunorwodenson]

Chris Thile playing traditional music is a dream come true for me. I always loved his version of Sweet Afton.

[@gwamjan]

oh WOW - this version is fun!! Chris and Sarah's voices capture the teasing of the cousins' banter and I LOVE the fiddle! wow! Thanks.

[@FlightData101]

This put me right back in the seaside pub in Galway! Wonderful!

[@christianbrady5654]

Love Paul bradys version and this is great to, greetings from sweden

[@kathygallagher7378]

Love that song!

[@resperat]

Wonderful!

[@Hshsuiiien]

Love this song

[@tipp55]

Simply brilliant.

[@ProfSaxby]

Any song with Sarah Jarosz is going to be good!

[@nsiepmann]

How fortuitous that this should come up just a week or so after I first came across this song and LOVED it!

[@HayabusaYT]

Such a wonderful song and an impressive performance!

[@stevenpoe640]

The key changes were flawless and magical.

[@MickDarkHorrorSeries]

Thile gotta be the best mando player I've ever heard.

[@Claudiahochow]

(Denmark) Love this song. Thank You for singing Paul Brady 🌹🌹

[@caramason56]

So beautiful 🌹🎶🎼🌹🎶🎼Chris Thile and SarahJarosz sound beautiful together.

[@rdalin]

I am starting to think that there's absolutely nothing Chris Thile can't do when it comes to music.

[@sillystrings]

Sarah is the Paul of this generation, the way she's mastered like all the string instruments

[@birchplywood8464]

I was just wondering if this tune would sound nice on mandolin when I saw KZbin was recommending this cover. So the answer to that question is yes. The second question is whether i can make it sound good on my mandolin, which is still up for debate.

[@jakescheirer3022]

'ooh's right from the beginning~

[@johnmac333]

Heck of a version !

[@fredrikj3176]

Absolutely beautiful. He should have given Sarah more space. I would have loved to hear them sing together at the end.

[@JDrevolver66]

"He should have given Sarah more space" is also applicable to his playing in Nickel Creek at times...

[@pputnam100]

Ok just one thing: what an unbelievable mandolin virtuoso

[@richardthacker]

Did he sing “sergeant Thacker”? Never heard my surname before in this song -but it works for me!

[@adomwarford5941]

Best male version ever heard next to the original Paul Brady of course

[@eoin79]

Paul Brady's is the best version but it isn't original. It's a traditional Irish song.

[@jamesmccormick211]

Second only to Paul Brady himself.

[@deich31]

Yes. And brave to cover it, too!

[@dandrechesterfield5411]

Whoa that key change was trippy

[@jens256]

Nice version

[@porterfieldgchord]

Sublime. Who the hell thumbed it down?!?!

[@Ottee2]

Scrooge

[@photodork]

The English.

[@MrEclecticity]

I can understand anyone who has heard the Paul Brady 1977 live version doing so.

[@eoghancallaghy2634]

Because Paul's is so much better.

[@grovers_paradise]

The row dee dow dow

[@Emando_com]

oh no, the last verse with all the blood and guts is missing

[@Glenuig]

Cancel culture has arrived, cant you tell by the bunch of hipsters performing it and the cut of his jacket? This singer would have probabaly tried to sleep with Arthur MacBride

[@Emando_com]

@@Glenuig You can tell that from the cut of his jacket?

[@Miglow]

People: yes, Paul Brady's version is the gold standard. We can still sit back and appreciate this rendition for what it is. When you realize how much material these musicians were covering on a regular basis, this standard of music quality is still really, really high. And yes, "spale pin" made me lol. Reminds me of when I thought samhain was pronounced "sam hane".

[@PHJimY]

This is a lovely version. While I'll agree that it's not quite up to Paul Brady's 1977 version, Paul set the bar really high. I love this version too, but I'm missing a verse or two.

[@ericmurphy-halix3455]

Does anyone know why they decided to change the key in the middle? Was it directed about the emotion of the event? Such a powerful interpretation of a massive cultural moment.

[@glennmaceachern5235]

I think it was probably to accommodate the vocal range of the guitar player (Sarah? I think....)

[@tyonolan]

Try Bob Dylan's version!

[@alfredthegreatkingofwessex6838]

Such a beautiful, rendition you almost forget that the song is about beating the shit out of three people 😅

[@yoyopg123]

Wow, Jude Law has let himself go a bit but he plays a smokin' mandolin.

[@macosxfiles]

🤣

[@22grena]

He mispronounced the Irish word Spailpín (Spol-peen)

[@notthebannerboys]

They cut about a third of the verses. Shame.

[@JesseBlueEads]

A lot of takes on this song lack the sort of intensity and heroic effortful-ness of Paul Brady's performance. Chris Thile does well to remind of it here.

[@KevinElamMusic]

Lol @ Chris saying "spail-pin"...a pretty bad pronunciation of the word which, although SPELLED spailpin, is pronounced "spall-peen". Even though I love Chris and Sarah as musicians, I feel like this is a rather shallow take on a beautiful classic by Paul Brady. It kind of seems like they just learned it from KZbin and then Googled the lyrics, changing a couple things that they couldn't pronounce or didn't like. I enjoy Sarah's voice more than Chris' on this one. She has some lovely ornamentation.

[@samadams8355]

A spailpín was a temporary/seasonal farm laborer in Ireland. Their hard lives made them prime targets for recruitment to the British army, as this song illustrates.

[@eoincollins1883]

Sounds like a country and western version with wrong lyrics. It's ok.

[@fleadhcowboy]

Don't like the key changes and there's three verses left out!

[@DamienDalton]

It’s ok but Its an average copy of Paul Brady’s magical version. Hate the key changes

[@zymelin21]

learn to listen and then just do it. many tunes have two keys, some have four. yes it is achallenge but worth the effort.

[@howardcox2918]

Sir im with you

[@iamalaser4185]

@@zymelin21yeah but this one doesn't, its usually in just the one key and that was plenty

[@wayle68]

Bluegrassy....

[@lowellirish]

What happened to the little drummer boy and his drum? Yeah...Got too carried away with Americanizing the song...didn't cha? 😂

[@MrEclecticity]

Average at best. Completely missed the pathos of the song. Compare to any Paul Brady version but particularly the 1977 live one.

[@stuff_n_tings6885]

You must check out this lovely lady's performance of the song, I feel she pretty much hits the nail on the head! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqCsZqGCpLOtgbc

[@songmule]

And YOUR version??

[@MrEclecticity]

@@songmule Available only in my head.

[@glennmaceachern5235]

​​@@MrEclecticity and a perfectly fine version it is! Lol... (the one in your head I mean) But I have to say I agree - it's a certain take on the song, but they don't have the same approach to it at all -

[@Mcmotherfuckingrory]

"Met Sergeant Knacker" You about to be cancelled with that line, brah.

[@MCPetruk]

They left out the ultra violence? They literally emasculated the song. Friggin' NPR.