Am I the only one who can't get enough of their harmonies? RIP Jim.
@Joseph-dq5wb3 ай бұрын
No I love this sound
@tishajohansen-selby18266 жыл бұрын
My mom was a folk singer, I was born n 65, she sang this song my whole life. Everytime she got her guitar out, all of us kids would beg her to sing this song...brings back great memories..
@ritaroach34912 жыл бұрын
The best version but I love Jim and Jesse. Two of the nicest guys. Met them in '69 in Rome, GA. Such nice men.
@jenniebartlett439710 жыл бұрын
feel asleep many nights to my mama singing this to me as a lullaby. I also sang it to my children.
@pegknife9 жыл бұрын
Are you sure ? didn't you/they have nightmares over it ?
@tishajohansen-selby18266 жыл бұрын
My mom also sang it to us kids when we were little. I love it
@lesliemorris3914 Жыл бұрын
My grandmother sang this song to us when we were kids. And no we never had any nightmares. I think as small kids we never paid attention to the words.
@charliemcgee9803 Жыл бұрын
Love to see the tradition of passing music down vocally is still alive
@simonne23412 жыл бұрын
now this is harmonizing..God I love them
@marythompson5458 Жыл бұрын
Love This When My Grandma Use Sing It To Me She Said It Was A True Story
@randallhutchcraft551811 ай бұрын
Love the older songs
@billlethco56313 жыл бұрын
That’s. As good as it gets I know they are singing in heaven
@AldabraJohn8 ай бұрын
Jesse actually just passed this July. Theyre reunited and having a ball in heaven now🙏
@dlowonthabeat4 ай бұрын
Hopefully not singing this lol
@rickyball516510 ай бұрын
I first heard this from a really old women over 30 yrs ago.
@MrKbm39 жыл бұрын
Great song, and I'm not just saying that cuz I'm related to Jim &Jesse McReynolds
@jjportala6 жыл бұрын
Kenneth McReynolds my great grandpa Lawson grew up with them and was friends with them
@Laurelstarlw14 жыл бұрын
my dad used to sing this all the time, among others like it, he is a bluegrass musician. I call them woman-killin' songs.
@rabokarabekian4092 жыл бұрын
It is derived from the 19th-century Irish ballad "The Wexford Girl", itself derived from the earlier English ballad "The Bloody Miller or Hanged I Shall Be" (Roud 263, Laws P35) about a murder, in 1683, at Hogstow Mill, 12 miles (19 km) south of Shrewsbury. This ballad was collected by Samuel Pepys, who wrote about the murder of Anne Nichols by the Mill's apprentice Francis Cooper. Other versions are known as the "Waxweed Girl", "The Wexford Murder". These are in turn derived from an Elizabethan era poem or broadside ballad, "The Cruel Miller". Possibly modelled on the 17th-century broadside William Grismond's Downfall, or A Lamentable Murther by him Committed at Lainterdine in the county of Hereford on March 12, 1650: Together with his lamentation., sometimes known as The Bloody Miller.
@USA24541 Жыл бұрын
As stated in the introduction, this song came from England then Ireland, then to America.
@davidsheridan19742 жыл бұрын
I saw them one night in 1987 or 88 in a show in maine
@edwiles52584 жыл бұрын
My mon used to play this for me back in the 50s. It was done by the Wilburn Brothers. Mon was a cousin to the boys and they came from our hometown of Hardy, Arkansas. I remember they came by to see her a couple of times while I was living at home. Always drove a big black caddy. They did a couple of homecomign shows here and were a real class act. I love this version just as well
@andrewkohler37073 жыл бұрын
I hope you don't love it "well" in the sense of how the protagonist of the song loved the Knoxville girl....
@murphy203414 жыл бұрын
what a great old song! Bluegrass rules
@driverboots113 жыл бұрын
My favorite song
@col-t-walters9 жыл бұрын
one of the first songs i ever learnt to play cords to and i still love it
@bcg91116 жыл бұрын
It don't get much better than that!
@bcg9118 жыл бұрын
She shouldn't have told him she didn't like Bluegrass music!
@MrLamar-vs6el6 жыл бұрын
i like their version better than any other....
@vireogilvus15 жыл бұрын
I just love how he cracks up when he's explaining the plot. It is sooooo ridiculously violent and graphic. I suppose you'd better have a dark sense of humor if you're gonna sing murder-ballads.
@murphy67004 жыл бұрын
Jim MacRaynolds had a great sense of humor and used it in their act.
@ed94923 жыл бұрын
Banks of the Ohio has a very similar story and I think it's better than this.
@andrewkohler37073 жыл бұрын
@@ed9492 The narrative in this one kinda goes from 0 to 100 rather quickly. I'm now listening to "Banks of the Ohio," which I did not know previously, and at least there is a set up, motivation, and a scintilla of remorse. Even so, both songs are a bit, shall we say, cavalier regarding murdering one's intended partner.
@andrewkohler37073 жыл бұрын
Interesting to compare with the fittingly grisly Nick Cave version, to which a commenter below alerted me, and which has lyrics omitted from this performance: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fX2TemuPlth8Y7c
@katrinaaustin55437 жыл бұрын
beautiful song but sad I remember hearing this song growing up
@mosrite6015 жыл бұрын
J&J played the best bluegrass music ever. Harmonies superb
@Grahamgusbull2 жыл бұрын
Here in the U.K., I bought the Louvin’s 45 in the late fifties!
@dreadnought4516 жыл бұрын
I first heard this song when it was recorded by the Louvin Bros. around 1957 when I was growing up in Toronto. Also, first heard 'In The Pines' by the Louvin's as well. Jim and Jesse were always great when they were members of the WWVA Wheeling Jamboree in the 50's. Ken, Toronto
@jackiegrooms25575 жыл бұрын
love it by them and by Jimmy Maton
@wavehead117 жыл бұрын
Dark lyrics but beautiful nonetheless!
@briartlaw15 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the right version ..
@jazzamk15 жыл бұрын
The song is based on an old English ballad, with the town setting sometimes being Oxford. To my knowledge, it is not a true story. Hope I helped!
@killgazmotron11 ай бұрын
Most metal american folk song award goes too...
@leonolanofficial45815 ай бұрын
It is actually an Irish song, originally "Wexford Girl".
@veronicamatchett82274 ай бұрын
this reminds me of 2 other songs from the 70s but not by Bobbie Gentry, both had to do with murder - one was 'Knoxville Girl' and one was 'Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley'
@andrewkohler37073 жыл бұрын
"[L]oved his girl so well" - I know Otello says in his last monologue that he "loved not wisely but too well," but I question the word "well" both by Jim & Jesse and by Otello.
@royearlbanister12 жыл бұрын
@vireogilvus with your comment,i live in the logwoods in s.e.,okla.there was a drunk passed out in the south bound lane of the hi-way.this was way before daybreak.the log truck driver topped over a small grade,straddled the poor boy.the undercarriage of the truck caught his clothing and drug him to death.that was the laugh of our town for many a months.i think of the story and i still tell it,we still get a laugh out of it today.even though this happened in the early '70's.
@barbaracurrence67123 жыл бұрын
SAD SAD SONG
@d20g14 жыл бұрын
got here by looking for the nick cave version, where he sounds like he really just got back from beating a girl to death... interesting to hear it with cheery sounding bluegrass harmonies. never knew the song had so much history.
@andrewkohler37073 жыл бұрын
Thanks for calling my attention to the Nick Cave version, which is extraordinary (especially juxtaposed with a mugshot of the singer, the origin of which I do not know). I dare say it is rather more appropriate: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fX2TemuPlth8Y7c Note that Jim & Jesse here cut the part about his mother questioning asking about the blood and the vision of the Devil pointing at him in accusation. Their harmonization is magnificent, but I have no idea why they are giving such an upbeat account of such a grisly and frankly psychopathic song.
@Destiny451112 жыл бұрын
It was apparently rough being a Bluegrass Woman. According to this, "Banks Of The Ohio" and "Down In The Willow Garden", you had to watch out because when a guy really loved you, he proved it by proposing marriage then murdering you in some gruesome fashion! In "Down In The Willow Garden", he loved her so much that he poisoned her, and ran her thru with a saber. Then to make sure, he threw her in the river to drown! Ya can't love a girl more than THAT, now can ya?
@andrewkohler37073 жыл бұрын
Well, if you define "love" as "feel a psychopathic possessiveness for," then yes.
@valerie39556 ай бұрын
For the life of me I cannot fathom a song about beating an innocent girl to death became a hit. :(
@lionjwd4 жыл бұрын
Hylo Brown had a slightly different version kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXuWm41vf8qsmbc The Louvin Brothers version by Charlie Louvin had at least two extra verses I started back to Knoxville, got there about midnight My mother, she was worried and woke up in a fright Saying "dear son, what have you done to bloody your clothes so?" I told my anxious mother I was bleeding at my nose I called for me a candle to light myself to bed I called for me a handkerchief to bind my aching head Rolled and tumbled the whole night through, as troubles was for me Like flames of hell around my bed and in my eyes could see
@shannonburns67243 жыл бұрын
Actually this was written by the Loudermilk Brothers. They recorded under their stage names, Louvin. John D. was their cousin.
@TheRonnie6312 жыл бұрын
this is music!!! not American idol
@57hms1911 жыл бұрын
If you know where these folks are from Coeburn,Va.People in them parts have vanished for lesser issues than dark and wanderin' eyes.Just sayin'.
@mehall8915 жыл бұрын
hey this was posted a day after my birthday and I live in knoxville! and I'm a girl! um... creepy.
@TruegrassBoy15 жыл бұрын
What did Jim die of anyway? I never heard. Same with Garland Shuping, I heard he was dead, too. Way too bad. What did he die of?
@pkdavis17399 жыл бұрын
Written by Ted Bundy?
@brandondvorak834911 жыл бұрын
want this in a horror film
@missyscarbrough41129 жыл бұрын
Really???? He would have eaten that stick!!!
@Tennessee6089 жыл бұрын
Missy Scarbrough That was a true story
@missyscarbrough41129 жыл бұрын
I know ....I'm from Tennessee! I was just saying....I know the original place wasn't Knoxville
@missyscarbrough41129 жыл бұрын
Like your name! My favorite NASCAR MAN
@Tennessee6089 жыл бұрын
He is my favorite too
@Tennessee6089 жыл бұрын
Years ago I saw Tracey Byrd in Lexington,Ky & I have not seen him since then Wonder what happened to him? He sung that song do the water melon craw
@500SmithandWesson14 жыл бұрын
Sucks to be me? LOL I don't think so. I hardly think I'm squeemish and I enjoy life more than most. It's just that unlike you I don't need to go around porking floozies then murdering them to enjoy life. As I said I am a big fan of Jim and Jesse and enjoy bluegrass overall but enjoying fanticies of murder is simply sick!
@Skitzobilly15 жыл бұрын
No! This is American song! Knoxville is city in Tennessee!
@scottyspaceboots914 жыл бұрын
this song is fucked up. damn.
@5thcorps15 жыл бұрын
She became pregant
@bobwasson25047 жыл бұрын
5thcorps y
@500SmithandWesson15 жыл бұрын
I am a great fan of Jim and Jesse, but I despise this song. It's positively sick and depressing.