I have no idea how people can thumb down this! Chuck puts more emotion into one song then most people put into their whole lives

I truly believe that Chuck eats gravel and pine cones for breakfast. Such an amazing gruff voice.

chuck does an awesome job on this song. i dont care what anyone says. im a harcore trio fan but this is good

What the hell is all this distinguishing between HWM & Chuck Ragan's cover of the song? They're IDENTICAL

One of the greatest covers. Tugs at the heart strings if you been in those situations

this almost makes me cry. I love the people singing along, such a good song.

I LOVE HOT WATER MUSIC!!! I am from Gainesville Florida and used to work at El Toro Mexican restaurant and at Sears and have met the guys at both places while working there. It was an AMAZING time period in my life in the 90s living in Gainesville. The music scene was absolutely beautiful and exploding at the time. My friend that I worked with got me to go see HWM for the first time and I couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing. SO MUCH ENERGY!!! The audience where singing those songs louder than the band was. That night truly changed my life. Amazing music, amazing people, amazing town. I hunger for those days again everyday.

This guy's voice.... thanks Chuck.

I can’t cope with how beautiful this is ❤️ my most fave song of all time.

Insane this was in KW. Soo friggin cool!

@z750driver Technically, this is a Chuck Ragan cover of a Hot Water Music cover of an Alkaline Trio song.

Chuck would make a good Batman.

That....was....amazing

remember kids. he does do this on the hwm/alk trio split. :)

This is absolutely outstanding!

One of my favs

beautiful. as always, beautiful.

Gotta say it... thank you for uploading all of this Chuck Ragan´s videos. Such a great ones, both because of his playing and singing and your recording. So much emotion on it. About the cover thing... it´s definitely a cover. Alkaline trio makes a song. HWM covers it. Chuck covers it. At the end of the day, both HWM and Ragan´s are covering an Alkaline trio song.

Amazing

awesome sound..

dope!!

Respect men !

Bleeder: HWM > AK3 ... Rooftops: AK3 > HWM ... Best split album ever

yes.. this is originally alkaline trio.. but for all of you who are saying its not HWM.. HWM did a cover of alkaline trio's original.. the poster of this vid prolly only had heard the HWM version.. so no need to give grief over a lil bit of "miss"information

Alkaline Trio originally wrote it but, the Alkaline Trio and Hot Water Music split album might throw some people off since they both covered a couple of each others songs. Great album by the way.

💯❤️💯💯❤️💯❤️❤️💯❤️💯💯❤️💯See y in Berlin Samiam

holy fuck sauce! i had shivers throughout this amazing cover..

My friend who is a journalist had Chuck's number. She gave it to me while I was drunk as fuck so I called him. He was super nice talked to me for 20 minutes. I made an ass outta myself.

I think this is Chris Wollard. I love the original by Hot Water Music!

fucking amazing

They used to allow shows there but they don't anymore.

I agree. It is a great song. It's a cover though. The song is by Alkaline Trio, not Chuck Ragan. But Chuck is awesome!

@heavymetalstud It is most definitely Chuck, and the original is by Alk3. HWM covered it on the Jade Tree split with Alk3.

And chuck ragan was in Hot Water Music

0:50 damn…

@z750driver yes it is

This is an Alkaline Trio song, but I believe Hot Water Music covered it at some point.

@katrina0o he IS amazing live :)

This is an Alkaline Trio cover

I'd be the one bawling like a 13 year old fangirl right in front without a care in the world. Ohwait I'm a 20 year old dude.

that place looks sweet! is it an actual venue or people just occasionally do acoustic stuff there?

@MrLuke2413 i love whiskey ♥ xD

This guy has a so fantastic voice... How many zigarettes do I have to smoke to get a voice like that? xD

@AnarchySalad your life is now forever changed

@flemingia haha nice

@StepBack13 I'm well aware.

Im a huge trio fan, and really hot water too. I have always really liked their cover of bleeder. This sounds great, although his guitar sounds kind of terrible.

@z750driver yea touche. i was mentally hearing the split between the two of them i think. but congrats to the rest of you "wiki/google" fountains of knowledge.

bummer!

Ben Roethlisberger

That girl was trying so hard to sing along in the beginning.

@heavymetalstud If you're aware, then why did you say the complete opposite in your above comment?...

And Hot Water Music was in Alkaline Trio....wait what? lol

girl in 0:50, such a hottie although she didn't know the lyrics!

This is an alkaline trio cover...

fuking amazing...way better than the orig

this IS an alkaline trio cover.

hey! beautiful girl in 0:50 woooow:))

@z750driver nah its a H.W.M. song. FLA shit!!!

Descripition needs changed to Alkaline Trio cover

song* not 'songs'

Alkaline Trio

alk3 wrote it originally for those who don't know shit

dude, this is an "Alkaline Trio" cover song, please fix it.

Ha, girl in the stripes looks a little lost with the lyrics.

It is an ALk3 cover. It's funny...I'd DEFINITELY be willing to say that ALK3 made 'Rooftops' a better songs, and almost willing to say Chuck made this song better haha

@alriooreo Nah, Chuck makes me believe that this song was written by men.

You should check out Tom Waits, the king of gruff voices! Try where ever I lay my head (/watch?v=4GOqbFq8R_M) This is also amazing though.