The Jayhawks - Blue (Official Video)

[@liamtrainor9426]

This was my mom’s favorite song. She abruptly passed away from an aneurysm when I was 18 and had only moved away to college 2 months prior. This song has gotten me through some hard times, but more importantly it keeps my mother’s memory as alive and vibrant as ever thank you, Jayhawks

[@Guynumber5]

Love that you keep it with you.

[@missyjowalter]

So sorry, love. I hope you found so much love in your life.

[@chloewebb5526]

I get it. My mom suddenly got COPD in her thirties and passed away within a couple years. She seemed fine one day, never had to need oxygen or anything yet, then two weeks later she was gone at 38yo. I turned 39 this year and still have a hard time seeing people interact with their mom. She was a huge Stevie Ray Vaughn fan and to this day I can't hear his version of "Little Wing" without crying, because it was her favorite song.

[@danielwilliams1833]

this song got me through a. very difficult time in my life. .I was blown up by an ied...I'm Iraq. . ( lost my best friend in the explosion )...man ..thanks to Gary, Mark. ..and the rest of the band...you guys saved my life.

[@thomasmilazzo6273]

Thank you for your courage, your bravery ,your service. I'm 53....and when I grow up I want to be just like you and all the young brave men and women who protect and defend this blessed nation.

[@jayholmes4147]

Thank you for your service. My freedom is appreciated sir

[@charleydowney5011]

Thank you for keeping us safe. Bless you.

[@normanperkel139]

Daniel, I'm sorry for the loss of your friend and that you had to endure such an experience, but I'm happy that you're still here with us and grateful for your service brother.

[@lorrainebateman8799]

Hope your doing well buddy xx

[@petecampbell6117]

The bridge of this song still gives me chills after listening to it a hundred times or more. Two lead vocals, both singing different words and melodies, soaring off in different directions until finally, they reach a crescendo and head into the final chorus, united once more. One of the most brilliant and awe inspiring moments in any song.

[@beckyhill4097]

You're right.

[@spol]

this song is so underrated!

[@beckyhill4097]

Let's leave it that way so it stays pure.

[@kevinbrooks7282]

Don't tell The Wild Feathers that

[@adamsasso1]

Not by me! 😀

[@theclanmorrison]

An almost forgotten classic 🤷‍♂️👍🏼👍🏼

[@lorrainebateman8799]

This song is the best song ever!!!

[@mackeydirk8643]

First heard this song on the radio while driving from Pittsburgh, PA to Ft. Lauderdale, FL in the late 90s. My wife and I packed up everything we owned and moved down there in our 20s. We lived there 2 years right near the beach.. Had a blast.. Can't hear this song without thinking about that time in our lives. Being young and carefree. Just the two of us venturing out and finding our way together.

[@vanleeuwenhoek]

The meaning of life is in moments like that, peak time.

[@larbueno]

Hope you're still together and lovin' it!

[@mackeydirk8643]

@@larbueno yep....still rocking and rolling through life.....now with our son along for the ride.

[@ashleymonday298]

One of the best melodies I have ever heard.

[@HendryHerlambang]

This song is always on my playlist for last 20 years. One of the greatest songs ever

[@michaelscott4347]

Thats interesting considering IT HAS NOT EXISTED THAT LONG!

[@EPBaldwin]

Three years ago was 2018, and this song came out in 1995, so you are incorrect. Just thought I’d correct your correction.

[@tracystowe3316]

@@michaelscott4347 😆😆😆even though it feels like a great ol' song from our youth!!!💖

[@christiaanjellesma1851]

agree this is an awesome song

[@shanem2272]

Mine too❤

[@edhelvey6119]

Mark Olson turned 60, today (9/18/21). I listened to this album a lot right before moving from Long Beach, CA to Portland in 1995.

[@Alpine_Joe]

Whenever I listen to this song (which is often) I always think it could do with being about two minutes longer. It always leaves me wanting more !

[@titteryenot4524]

Best songs do that. Like you this is one of the quite rare songs I can listen to 1000s (literally) of times and not remotely grow tired of it.

[@somedude7800]

Yes! I was just thinking that!

[@tracystowe3316]

Me toooo!!!!

[@PRGMRav]

I happen to think this song is 100% unadulterated beauty set to music.

[@Flakeway]

I'll admit this song has brought me to tears on a few occasions.

[@MikeSmith-sz3vh]

Always thought I was someone, turned out I was wrong.

[@ruicorreia3782]

One of the greatest songs ever, and the album is just amazing too

[@ottawavalleymeatsorganiclo3257]

My friends who went through break ups just remember “‘lived by an old woman, who won’t tell me a lie, it’s hard sing with someone who won’t sing with you” very awesome advise.

[@ellensnyder3569]

I listened to them last night for the first time in a long time. I was fortunate to see them in Boston circa late 1990as or early 2000. I still adore this band and Blue is one of my favorite songs.

[@tubetea]

This is the perfect song! Took me forever to find out who it was. There was this funny show that they cancelled right in the middle called " People Of Earth" I heard them playing this song on that show one night and I started trying to find out who did the song. Jayhawks, you have the perfect song.

[@tobyblake851]

IOh man, the Jayhawks, I was a guitar builder in Minneapolis in the 80s and loved to go down to the West Bank and dig the bands, the Jayhawks got their start at the Viking Bar at Cedar and Riverside. Their music is soaring and become so refined

[@chaylon.b]

Recorded this song off the radio when I was 12 Years old in 1995 and played it all the time, lost the tape, and could never find it. I searched online when the Internet got more popular "Blue" was the only word I could remember from the lyrics. I could never find the song. I am sitting on the phone today, 28 years later and heard a familiar tune in the background on our Sonos system and the lyrics popped right into my head.. "Hey Siri, what song is this?"....and here I am 28 years since hearing it last. Always bothered me I couldn't find it. So glad I finally have!!!!

[@JGProductions6581]

How ironic the song was called blue too.

[@fredrydmusic1]

I've started to listen to this underrated classic again and makes me feel like I want to sing it to revive it. The lyrics are great and so is the album Tomorrow the green grass. 🙂

[@acousticpsychosis]

Been listening to these guys since this album came out, finally get to see them in about a week! edit: The concert was fantastic! Got to see Freedy Johnston too, which was a nice little bonus.

[@tubetea]

One of the most perfect songs ever written.

[@firstlast-rv1vk]

When I listen to this song, I feel like if I wrote ONE song this good, I could be satisfied forever - a pinnacle song!

[@tracystowe3316]

Just heard this song yesterday for the first time. Amazing!

[@stuarthicks2696]

Used to hear this song in Atlanta on 99X and liked it. But over the years had forgotten. Heard recently as I was driving through I dunno, somewhere and was like wow, what a great tune.

[@georgie8609]

Going to see these gentleman in the July 9th! With Trampled by Turtles

[@michelleparisi3403]

best band EVER!! love love love The Jayhawks.

[@uptowndanram6753]

VH1 looped the first 12 seconds of the song as the theme song to their mid-'90's alternative music video show "Crossroads". I didn't discover what song it came from until over a decade later and was pleasantly surprised by this gem.

[@Mikem-mq2hh]

The harmonies are so smooth

[@louvielocklear7798]

omg.. these are old friends of mine & cant believe I found them & trip Shakespeare after all these years. great bands. all awesomely sweet people I was fortunate enough to meet along my journeys in my life. life rocks even when it sucks.

[@mrs117firewife8]

There will never be another time, place and feeling that was 80's Minnesota music. The Jayhawks, Run Westy Run, Johnny Clueless, Gear Daddies, Martin Zellar, Golden Smog, The Replacements (of course) ...so many wonderful bands, so many great memories of the music.....

[@MrRockett88]

@@mrs117firewife8 Ain't so bad now either.

[@HEIHVHOL]

I’ve heard this wonderful song live twice, The Jayhawks in Oslo, and at a concert with Mark Olson and his Norwegian wife Ingunn Ringvold - just on of the best songs out there

[@MrTubeorb]

Saw 'em at the Wpg Folk Fest almost 40 years ago and while the video doesn't really speak to me the song and lyrics have never left my so called brain. Thx Jayhawks, for the magic and groove that you've brought to this crazy whirled!.

[@carlingtonme]

This was my cats absolute favorite song..miss you Whiskas

[@Cinnamindi]

I miss you Dad 🖤

[@mustlovepretzels]

Please Lord, let The Jayhawks be inducted into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame on May 8, 2018. Great song. Cheers!

[@jennyshea]

I had to put down my best friend yesterday. He was my shadow for ten years. He got me through everything. I am heartbroken but this song is soothing.

[@jhgillmd]

We had plans to put down my best friend two days ago. He passed naturally 45 mins before the vet arrived. I completely and totally feel you.

[@titteryenot4524]

@@jhgillmd Until I read J Dogggg I genuinely had 5 seconds where I thought Jenny Shea had put down her best (human) friend. Phew!

[@illuminotmereloaded6896]

@@titteryenot4524 Exactly what I thought. Semantics.

[@illuminotmereloaded6896]

2 years ago I see...My dog (and best friend) also passed 2 years ago in September of 2021 at 15 just as I was starting to seriously consider euthanasia. She died right at my feet. Love you Isis! My heart goes out to you and all who have experienced this kind of loss.

[@skramdurosnob9794]

One of the best songs ever

[@tracystowe3316]

Yes!!!!!

[@6cave]

Child of the 60's and 70's here. When I first heard this tune (on university radio), it sounded (musically) like something from my past that I had somehow rediscovered. It hits down deep. Lyrically, I'll just be honest and say I never quite knew what to make of it.

[@factsofmatter6513]

This is just oh so good

[@frankledge950]

Adam Carolla mentioned this song today on his podcast, thought I'd check it out. Awesome harmonies!

[@Straight0uttaCrofton]

featured in The Hammer!

[@cidley3196]

Same for me except it's 2022 now. I'm listening to his and Dr Drew's podcast from 2017 and he mentions the song and plays part of it too. Maybe it's the same podcast. Great song I wish I had heard before now but I'll do my best to make up for lost time.

[@last10pounds47]

Thank you People of Earth for using this song tonight. I have never heard of these guys and I just bought the song on Amazon. This video makes no sense however. lol

[@jjslocum3]

Same here - heard it on People of Earth last night, rewound the DVR a few times to identify lyrics, googled them and found the song. About to buy it on iTunes. Jayhawks, this song is amazing!

[@bunnyfish714]

why do you say that? what should it be? what were you expecting,dancing girls,flashing lights?

[@Texama57]

can't believe they cancelled people of earth, such a great show, had never heard this song before I heard it on that show

[@thecoolerTK421]

Oh right that's were I heard it. I gotta start organizing my Spotify playlists

[@thesmilingmercenary937]

Yeah, the 90's videos didn't always make much sense. Think 20-somethings a with art degrees.

[@sharonlittle7067]

One of the sweetest, saddest songs I know. Thank you Jayhawks

[@sarchsoal]

These voices were made for each other.

[@fredcampbell4536]

The harmonies at 2:40-2:42 I always heard as very daring.....Excellent song...classic

[@tracystowe3316]

Oh yes!!!💖

[@sarahteske6645]

I forgot how much I loved this song and it's beyond fitting for this period in my life.

[@smokesletsgo1234]

where have all my friends gone..

[@johncave3334]

One of my.absolute faves! So few have listened to it. Why?

[@jeromegarcia6697]

Saw these dudes on this tour on the Riverfront in Nashville On acid Great memories from that evening

[@GeorgiaHeard]

Where the hell have I been? This is incredible

[@beckyhill4097]

So one of very dear sweet friends died. He was the lead singer in a band, incredible musician. This was one of his signature songs along with A Song for You, Leon Russell. That guy could sing. Every time I hear this, my heart hurts.

[@maryanniseccentric1963]

Loved this song since the first time I heard it in the 90s

[@conormaguire6633]

one of the greatest songs ever written...

[@patricksnavely5850]

I can't tell who does it better The Jayhawks or The Thorns, great song eirher way.

[@christiaanjellesma1851]

This band is extremely underrated

[@titteryenot4524]

Their best song by an alt-country-rock mile. And they had a few goodies. @2:10 And here begins possibly the best bridge in a song, ever.

[@robertstephens165]

maybe one of the best love songs ever written.

[@84fingoidz]

I have looked for and loved this song for years….i finally found it! Amazing song!

[@cobrabill1]

So beautiful. No other words.

[@elicash233]

Simply one of the greatest songs of all time.

[@CaterinaVigano]

I'm Italian this is the only song that arrived here (on mtv😮)I immediately bought the cd and consumed it. It's pure magic, they really move something inside my soul

[@jcorkable]

Petition to name these guys honorary Big 12 champs?

[@michaelfriese431]

It's hard to sing with someone who won't sing with you... Thanks for this excellent song.

[@stevenbell8208]

I love this song. Cool video too. 1st heard Jayhawks on 103.1 WRNR (Annapolis) and seen em open up for Lucinda Williams at the 9:30. Always be in my brain as 1 of the best shows I've been to. And, more importantly, the Jayhawks can rock!

[@critter7052]

Beautiful melody and backing vocals. Thanks for posting.

[@ken-nr3zh]

Songs like this I wish I heard when I was in Vietnam in 1968

[@yetanother4989]

My first deployment to Afghanistan was just after this came out ..3rd deployment stationed in Afghanistan yet again used to listen to this every night when it was time to bunk out ...7 months into 3rd tour lost my left leg to a roadside mine ....got shipped stateside to rehab and wife decided my best friend was a whole person with no PTSD and not missing body this song helped me through so much ...the lyrics hit hard but in a perfect kind of way ...now remarried to my nurse from the VA hospital ...happy and finally nightmares are slowing down ...but still listening to this song nightly

[@Zippy994]

Just came across an article on The Jayhawks and instantly remembered the band and that I had one of their records... and there was this one song. But what was it? Couldn't remember at all. Chose this one at random and within 5 seconds it all came back. Haven't heard it in forever. Good stuff. Man, I'm old!

[@waynepritchard2955]

Great tune from an amazing album

[@goctagonrecovery3270]

Such a great song! I forget where I first heard it but it came on my spotify liked playlist and I love it!

[@fcruz43215]

Great tune!!!

[@raindeerprojekt4119]

Sound track to my Darkest moment....Thank you all who kept me walking as I was so lost.....

[@LauraMLane]

"Always thought I was someone, turns out I was wrong." i miss u g.

[@Jameslopez5682]

Hello gorgeous how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you and your family

[@tracystowe3316]

Macon, Ga. Radio 100.9 played this yesterday so of course I'm playing this All day today!!!💖💖💖

[@TheRoomfull]

The Jayhawks.....ALL their stuff (old and new) just hits me on a deeply emotional level. Love this band. ✌️

[@Texama57]

Love this song.

[@conormaguire-t8c]

One of the best songs ever written. x

[@TheoSeltz]

Gorgeous.

[@dpotemkin]

This song always makes me cry, from the first note played.

[@gandalfshakur8235]

Today I learned this was a single/had a video. I just had the CD back in the day and really enjoyed this song without knowing if other people liked it or not.

[@primovid]

Such a beautiful song...can't believe there are only 127K views...seriously?

[@HerrEngels]

So beautiful

[@silversuit66]

Masterwork. Love you yanks xo

[@michaelfriese431]

My favorite line in any Old 97’s song is~ it’s hard to sing with someone who won’t sing with you.

[@ForvoQuizlet]

Like this song and ready for another Hollywood Town Hall.

[@mikaelsjoberg1894]

Some serious real 60:s songwriting here...!!!

[@glennmallery]

Just beautiful harmonies ...great band

[@sammarkey672]

I heard this on WOXY 97X way back in the day. Miss that station...

[@InfinitelyQurious]

I feel like it's a *crime* I just learned about this song and band over the weekend. I want to know everything about this band.

[@melidee1479]

Ive always loved this song.

[@robertwilson1692]

An All Timer...without a doubt

[@davidtetzlaff9588]

I loved this when it came out and was looking for this song but couldn’t remember the group or the title.I had to dig through a box of CD’s and found it.

[@lorrainebateman8799]

I too heard it and couldn’t find it for about 10 years! I thought Elliot smith did it!! Anyhoo- glad it’s been found 🙂

[@mattgibbs9576]

I sing this to my dog Blue. He's getting old now. It makes me cry every time I hear it anymore knowing the end is near.

[@wetalkinb0utpractice]

Hope he's had a good life. That's what matters at the end of the day...

[@brrblack497]

Ever hear a song you've heard a thousand times, but never really heard it? Then one day, bam, while yer driving or something it hits, ya'. Gotta' pull this f'er over and have me a moment. Yeah, dead people's memories come slipping in through those lyrics sometimes and hit you on a personal level, like they were written just for you.

[@dorcasia109]

My best friend died 7 years ago and my God I miss him. Friends don’t get a right, a bereavement, any consideration that maybe they were even closer than family. This song makes me this of him.

[@Jameslopez5682]

Hello Amy how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you and your family

[@peliculasdocumentalesytodo1810]

esta rola merece tener millones de visitas !! no cabe duda que el mundo esta al reves

[@amberjensen2288]

I love this song.

[@beckyhill4097]

One of my top 10 songs. It's hard to pick. Leon Russell, A Song for You, John Hiatt, Feels Like Rain, B B King Why I Sing the Blues. It goes on and on.

[@beckyhill4097]

Just stick a needle in my eye...the memory of one of my dearest. God speed.

[@sceanlyonz4571]

its amazing thay were in their 40s when this song was and still a legendary hit

[@thomasmilazzo6273]

Always thought I was someone; turned out I was wrong.....Nuff said.

[@alfredoca687]

That part always breaks me

[@bunnyfish714]

One great song,timeless

[@dilligaf2818]

how great to get the ol' band back...jus' syin'

[@2The2be]

One of the very first tunes I play on any new or upgraded stereo - CRANKED TO 12, hear-it-down-the-street!! (2nd only to the Waiting For Columbus album by Little Feat) This song WILL make me laugh or cry depending on mood. Like others, I can listen to it over and over.

[@elatomico7791]

such a beautiful song