Gillian Welch & David Rawlings / Old Crow Medicine Show - The Weight

[@linden2002]

Nothing can ever beat this. What a feeling all the way from all vocalists. I've never heard anything like it - and probably never will. Just fantastic!

[@stupidlittleguitar]

honk if you have been here many times before and STILL find yourself obsessively clicking the favorite button :-)

[@tarheel387]

Gillian's voice gives me cold chills

[@steveoh4595]

This is perhaps the Ave Maria of our time, the most beautifully melodious, wonderfully nonsensical rock and roll anthems ever to be created by the hands of men...And these folks? Forgetaboutit!

[@coyotesong]

She's so radiant!!! Like a million candles that can't be extinguished!!

[@scottlemley2666]

If there is a more longing, soulful rendition of this or any other song, I have not heard it. Pure magic.

[@MaraschinoChary]

Like heaven on earth....could listen to this allll dayyy!

[@Oregontrails503]

How could someone dislike something so great?

[@bunnyzero0]

The harmonies are impeccable!

[@shortcfarms]

Best I've ever heard this song performed....Love old Crow and Gillian Welch, just love this! would have been great to have seen this in person

[@davidsmithee9087]

...Gillian and David and Old Crow - and I never thought I'd say it but this rates right up there with that...

[@sbc1320]

Love to see people playing music that comes from their soul. These fine people feel the music thru their spirit. Fantastic!!!!!!!

[@hoborock007]

I just stumbled onto this from an Emmylou video...... ...................very nicely done y'all

[@zhulia]

I can't believe the way Willie sings about everything with such soul and passion infused... he sings about everything just right, the way angels do...

[@MArtylesak]

one of the best covers I've ever heard!!! so much heart.

[@cookj15]

Favorite video I've seen on youtube

[@edcrabb]

This is the best rendition of this song I have heard, and i was around in the sixties when it first came out.

[@bluegrasslovely]

Stellar! What more heart felt emotion can you get?!?

[@davidsmithee9087]

...magic...just amazing music...these people, in my mind, are sitting on stools and milk cans and porch steps hammering their hearts out...thank you, Gillian and David, thank you Old Crow...I just discovered this - the finest rendition of this I have ever heard...and I'm sorry for myself that years passed-by before I did...I am young again - and I am old and wiser than my experiences - and as all things Gillian and David I am just loving this music...

[@jdmarcus59]

gillian is one of the best songwriters of are time, I saw her in seattle in a small place and it was standing room only, you go girl.

[@Haydenismyusername]

Better than the original in my opinion. I love Gillian's voice, and I love OCMS. Brilliant musicianship, and emotion. What more can you ask for?

[@gurlsingerfan]

There is something so subliminal about this song...somehow hearing it calls up all the cliche's and images of the deep sweaty south....the big plantation hopes, the cyprus trees, the iced tea on the porches, the poor black old men somehow regal...the southern belles, the white dresses on beautiful young black women going to southern church...maybe it's just me...maybe its just a southern thang'. Either way, the voice and face of Gillian was perfect for this, she is mesmerizing.

[@TheMisfit291]

They are playing for the love of the music and it shows. This is as good as it gets, I would give anything to have been there. Moments like this have to happen, they cannot be planned.

[@ras0906]

Great version. Liked hearing all the different voices.

[@PenjiProductions]

One of my favorite songs of all time!

[@TheMisfit291]

Through this music Levon Helm will live forever I thank everyone on the stage for doing justice to one of his best if not his best song.

[@onewomanandsomesongs]

Gillian Welch, David Rawlings and Old Crow Medicine Show. I've died and gone to heaven. :)

[@BaronVK1]

A whole lot of talent on display here!!

[@hokitika4888]

how good is this! even this song is not new now, this rendition brings all the magic back, I really love David Rawlings guitar picking and OCMS

[@Zebra902]

Gillian and band are wonderful folk poets/musicians.

[@johnniedig]

I can't decide which one is the best video on youtube: this one or Dave Rawlings Machine (including the OCMS members) with Mumford & Sons playing Wagon Wheel at Bonnaroo.

[@madridbg]

or you are inspired when you see that a song this good, done by musicians this great can grab you by the soul and make you want to howl at the moon and play all night long!!!!

[@brucekat53]

Now That's What I'm Talking About !!!!!!

[@mississippi7383]

SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL!

[@JonnySoonami]

this isn't a cover, but the version that the band and the staples singers do in the last waltz is one of the best i've ever heard.

[@allenchamberlain427]

Beautiful!.....

[@autumnjanvier0711]

Really wants this to be on iTunes then my life will be complete :D

[@SuperLeahbeah]

greatest cover in the world!

[@oakley1954]

wow......love this version of Take Load of Annie.....

[@goldenLIGHT187]

RIP Levon.. You guys were a musical revelation, and too few knew it.

[@atycolo]

warms up the winter winds!

[@jayevulvo8713]

Willie Watson is really awesome

[@ryoungatlmidotnet]

Gillian looks likes like she's having a ton of fun. What an ensemble. Regards for everyone...

[@dawnbennington1668]

cowboy22...Levon and Rick would both be proud...she is having so much fun!

[@frozenbiker]

Very nice performance indeed.

[@joga2323]

God what i would have given to be in that audience!!!

[@jobes81]

Amazing!!! Gillian sounds so great w/ OCMS!!

[@Dave5783]

yes THE BAND would be proud to

[@ScMc17]

AMAZING !!! Levon would be more than proud !!

[@SuperLeahbeah]

also, i cannot wait to see gillian live in june.

[@systemdown1222]

omg..beautiful...

[@dannybrown6886]

Stings and Voices My Idea of heaven.

[@PutGodFirst2112]

omg i love this...

[@natemaas7564]

Instrumentals from heaven

[@dmdek]

Incredible!

[@Bamaboompa]

I love Levon and Garth, even Robbie, but this may be the best version I've ever heard.

[@ashley72dudess]

chills!

[@Elsie903]

LOVE!!!!!"

[@mirkobruner]

Bravissimi!

[@sprinter19541]

good version of a great song!

[@PantherBarth]

wunderbar

[@zmswan00]

yup!

[@teddyoneills]

Forget your boy bands, your justin beibers etc., this is MUSIC!

[@blutos]

Definitely. I'm not gonna say it matches the original (which as we all know is one of the greatest recordings in the last 50 years) but it comes real close. Most covers try to rough it up, but the whole point of The Band's impact was that they were taking things back to the roots at a time when everyone was trying to be fake-psych with flowers in their hair! I don't think Big Pink will ever really get the credit it deserves: the entire singer/songwriter generation owes everything to The Weight.

[@cowboykid22]

Levon would be proud...RIP Levon Helm

[@drex23100]

I think if there is a Heaven this might just be the house band.

[@jamesskeen9820]

REAL SCHOOL!!

[@aaronboi07]

The Second Last Waltz!

[@wadefree85]

@onewomanandsomesongs you ain't kidding!

[@huckleberry108]

check out the Dead's version from Alpine Valley, 1989......

[@MrJOKELL]

is this bbc four concert available anywhere?

[@suzyqgirl]

just oustanding

[@marshalllanier360]

R.I.P. Levon Helm

[@bonnie92100]

wow

[@sherrilovesto]

the video is awesome - shows a lot of sex appeal and sweetnesss - and the music just pushes it ... really nice

[@timewarpin]

beyond dank

[@krogdog]

How can they just sit in their seats after a performance like that?! Where's the stading-O????

[@Jon-vc1kz]

anyone know if you can find this recording on iTunes?!

[@DreamWeaver2020]

electric! wow.

[@morganfrmn]

A motorcycle man's song

[@MrFastfreddebklyn]

Like a Disney interpretation so clean cut so squeaky Ah!!!!!!!!shucks!!!!!!! Were's gomer plye.!!

[@JonnySoonami]

better than the original!? i got much love for old crow and gillian, but the band wrote the damn song. there is nothing better than the band's version on music from big pink.

[@hoystewart]

check out duane allman and Aretha Franklin

[@earthlyradiodotcom]

@DrewtheJew61 Sorry, I meant to type banjo.

[@dylanratcliff]

This music makes me wanna dance. the boogey-woogie

[@mississippi7383]

WILLIE!

[@teddyoneills]

A thousand apologies, I totally empathise with that thought, I'm off to was my mouth out with carbolic soap!

[@79jcandy]

pretty good for a bunch of people tweeked out of there minds

[@andyelliott22]

rip levon helms

[@DrewtheJew61]

@earthlyradiodotcom There is no mando player here...

[@JacKass00001]

Agree, but if U wan't to find another great version (not cover) look up Cassandra Wilson.

[@Sundance56]

Now if that doesn't light your fire then your wood is wet!!!!

[@DaveBrown641]

I believe your comment is crass and unthoughtful. This is music to you (and me also, as it happens) BUT: boy bands etc are liked by young people (mostly) finding their way into music. It would be a shame if people arrived at their musical tastes without their adolescent journeys. I became a teenage musician because I wanted to play punk guitar like the Sex Pistols, but grew out of it, and now play and listen to songs by artists such as Gillian Welch & David Rawlings.

[@schnidmann]

@jezx21 never.

[@rosemarylynch4968]

no better

[@teddyoneills]

I think it's sad you no longer want to play punk guitar like the sex Pistols, however, are you honestly saying that we let the likes of these manufactured bands such as Boyzone and Westlife shape our children's musical tastes? The likes of Louis Walsh should be up before a tribunal, for crimes against music. If you are coming from a house full of little Bieber fans I can understand, but only up to a point, you have have an ongoing responsibility, as a music fan, to introduce them to REAL MUSIC!

[@teddyoneills]

Done better than that, I have amputated said offending fingers, am now typing with my nose!

[@captined]

too skinny

[@golo5000]

My church group sings better. LOL

[@jackcornell]

um, not amazing