Mandolin Orange ft. John Teer - Wildfire - at Music at the Mansion

[@tgrover4953]

OMG OMG OMG THIS SONG GIVES ME CHILLS

[@JENTHINKSO]

Absolutely captivating! I love Mandolin Orange and I LOVE this song - it's their best in my opinion. I couldn't stop listening to it when I first discovered it. but THIS performance, it's over the top! I can't stop listening all over again! Andrew's mandolin playing is exquisite, he and Emily's vocals are SO GOOD, and JOHN TEER, what he did here, it struck me as edgy and fresh yet perfectly conforming to the song and the other musicians, and well, I'm going to use a word I don't use often; it was GENIUS! Their combined performances blew my mind and gave me goosebumps. Thank you for sharing this!

[@thewakakeboarder]

Everything you said here I 100% agree with. Amazing Jen... When I listened to this song the first time I thought... "Damn, this is good" and then the second time was like a subconcious, I need to listen to this again. And I'm pretty sure it was the third or maybe 4th time where It literally connected with my soul and I didn't know how to describe it. Today I found this version It has blown me away again.

[@mikeolson532]

The moral voice of the South is so magnificently put forth in Wildfire by this wonderful blue grass band. Thank you Mandolin Orange for creating in my mind a different, and hopefully more updated, view of the South.

[@banjobones8075]

Please explain. How are you labeling southern folks?

[@josephbrown3274]

Johns face at 3:22 makes me smile every time. He knows he’s hearing something phenomenal. I’m also convinced I’m responsible for over half the views on this video.

[@bcbert]

Absolutely!

[@Bryan_OU812]

Is he on KZbin? I'd like to follow him. Absolutely amazing performance.

[@scottcampbell748]

It’s becoming my favorite thing to be listen too ,Andrew has the most distinctive voice I’ve heard .He dosnt sound like any singer i can think of .Emily is right there, she too kills it with Hey Stranger ,love this band they are real ,I hope they come to my town they are the bomb !!!never thought I could ever like bluegrass till this ,super job i thank KZbin for this groupe

[@davidknell9676]

Not my normal genre of music but this had me. Done with the craft of master class and grace of near divine

[@vududoubs]

Very good as always, perfectly performed. Looking forward to seeing you in France...

[@mfort8487]

makes you both proud and ashamed to be from the south at the same time....good stuff my friends

[@banjobones8075]

Why be ashamed of being from the south? You didn't own slaves

[@bcbert]

Andrew's look out over the audience at 2:58 is telling. As if asking "you get this, don't you?"

[@davidsimmons6307]

I caught that too, and I LOVED it.

[@trevortomah8508]

Wow, fantastic musicianship & performance.

[@tomhorn6156]

Love it.

[@miloszewski]

An absolutely beautiful piece of art and perfectly performed. I hope everyone can agree this song is about Hatred. Not the South...Not Racism. This song is about hatred.

[@ThomasOverMany]

Actually, It’s about the hatred, racism, and division passed down from the aftermath of slavery, the Civil War, reconstruction, and the civil rights movement to today in America. The last verse is about pro-confederates who still “beat their chest, and they swear ‘we’re gonna rise again’” - which directly references a slogan pro-confederates say in reference to the confederacy. This band is from North Carolina, and as a person born and raised in Alabama, I roll my eyes when I hear people still using that slogan today, and they hit it on the nail perfectly at how it’s been passed down from generation to generation in the US. They’re essentially saying we wouldn’t be in this “wildfire” of division today in the US if our ancestors didn’t oppress and down play the civil war’s aftermath over and over again. “It should have been different; It could’ve been easy”

[@mfort8487]

@@ThomasOverMany nail on the head my friend....blessings from TX

[@nomadman123]

@@ThomasOverMany - Who’s the Joseph Warner that the song speaks of? - a curious Canadian.

[@jerrywinters6914]

@@nomadman123 Thank you for asking! Joseph Warren (June 11, 1741 - June 17, 1775), a Founding Father of the United States, was an American physician who was one of the most important figures in the Patriot movement in Boston during the early days of the American Revolution. Warren participated in the Battles of Lexington and Concord the following day, the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War. Warren had been commissioned a major general in the colony's militia shortly before the June 17, 1775, Battle of Bunker Hill. Rather than exercise his rank, Warren chose to participate in the battle as a private soldier and was killed in combat when British troops stormed the redoubt atop Breed's Hill. His death, immortalized in John Trumbull's painting, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775, galvanized the rebel forces. Warren has been memorialized in the naming of many towns, counties, streets, and other locations in the United States, by statues, and in numerous other ways.

[@banjobones8075]

Well he's labeling southern people

[@rickross1620]

This is the most North Carolina thing I have ever seen

[@banjobones8075]

Then you must be near sighted

[@bryangarris4962]

This band is true southern front porch guitar pickin at it finest! Reminds me of my past!

[@GiffyPooh]

I love how the majority of this amazing show is just a tad bit over the top of the audiences heads lol

[@matchismo]

Folk folks.