Big fan of Ricky since i was 15 years old, 50s now. I see nothing wrong with his hair. Great singer. Love the Whites as well.

Of all the great songs Townes left us, this is one of the best.

THE BEST VERSION! Their harmonies are fantastic, such a great blend of voices! This is my favourite duet song ever! Ricky sings it fantastically, and his wife; Sharon White, is A TERRIFIC SINGER TOO! She is even better than Emmilou Harris!! Sharon has no whiny nasal voice, but is clear and musical. And now she might just be my favourite female country singer! I cannot stop playing this video!!!

Sublime.

Beautiful

Coming up on 40 years! Congratulations!! True love.

Ricky can play anything with strings. He’s legendary. Townes is a beautiful song writer. I like the pedal steel on this version.

Fantastic!!

Wonderful the music runs through every part of their bodies. Just like the birds sing to each other.

Such a beautiful rendition 🎼🎤🎶🎶🎶🎶

Wow! So beautiful!

Amazing vocals!! Best cover ever heard 👍👍👍

I love this song

Great song you can tell the sincerity and love they have with each other.

everybody had a mountain of hair then. He's one of the all time best artists there's ever been.

Wow Ricky's wife sounds a lot like Emmylou Harris when she sang this song with Don Williams.

MY FAVORITE RENDITION OF THIS MUCH RECORDED SONG

Love that song. well done

Pure country

Great rendition of a classic Townes Van Zandt song!

Wow! This was great. Look how YOUNG they were...and they're still going strong! Thanks for sharing. My favorite duet by them is "Love Can't Ever Get Better Than This,"(which was a big hit for them!)

I was lucky enough to meet Ricky in Nashville in '96. Really enjoyed hearing Ricky and Sharon sing this great Townes song! Thanks for posting it! John (Australia)

As a young lad I used to hear Emmylou Harris & Don Williams sing this. Nice to hear the Skaggses sing it as well. :)

Greetings baby !!! here is the song I have been looking for a couple years...!!!!!

Having grown up hearing the version by DW & EH, I'm happy to hear for the 1st time this live version by Ricky & Sharon. After 30+ years they're still going strong, & their children Molly & Luke also are talented musicians.

That steel guitar is just something else. Love it. Jim

I love the song Him and Sharon sang on the Coming Home To Stay Album. Home is Wherever You Are

This is on an anniversary album of the Seldom Scene. A great rendition

This is wonderful! It definitely surpasses the Don Williams version.

If you have the live album of 15th anniversary of The Seldom Scene you could find another great cover of this song by Ricky and Sharon, it´s more bluegrass that this one but it´s beautiful as well.

thanks for posting this. it is hard to find alot of these old clips. these were the best shows. nowadays we have that garbage called CMT. the good days appear to be over when it comes to country music.

@skaggs34 Hey, my dad, stepmom, brother (just back from afghanistan) and I went to see Ricky up in Hiawassee GA. He had Terry Crisp and Gary Smith with him for the country half of the show.

Wow!

I remember sitting in the theater watching the movie 'Crazy Heart' and thinking this is kinda like much of Townes Van Zandt's life, and then it happened at the very middle of the movie the background music was Townes singing this song. That's when I knew the show was legit. The sad fact of the matter surrounding the lore of this song is that Townes wrote it and secured a great record deal after being aloof and living hard. He went back to his estranged wife and was rejected on the doorstep, she had already found another man. The whole hyped up on cough syrup story is a gentle blanket over the real pain of this beautiful song.

Fabelachtige TERRY CRISP ON STEEL. GREAT!!!!!!!

Anyone think in 2022 this song would be a theme song???

@HEW1916 it was popular in the eighties when this was filmed.

great

I wish they would redo this Townes masterpiece is a pared down ,more sparse version.

Nice.

They just did this song on Larry's Country Diner and they did it better than ever. Ricky's hair is still a little eccentric but who cares if you can sing that good!

that was then, you could say the same about how he looks now. All i care about is how he sings and plays.

if you want to hear some passion listen to townes sing this song

Shame about the sound quality but a lovely timbre to her voice not entirely lost.

Hi

@pilotfish you're right...sorry i gave off that appearance. it was purely unintentional.

Oh, yeah, I'd give everything to sing this with PETER :D :D :D :D

how so?

great song but what was with that 80's hair do on Ricky Skaggs

@pilotfish it's more slimeballish in my opinion to take offense over something you were never involved in.

JUST TERRIFIC!

Great cover and harmonies, but I have to laugh at the interpretation of the lyrics. "Who could ill agree?"

Pretty, but seems to me to miss the poignancy of the original. It is a cry for help from someone who really can't fulfill the promise, not a love song.

I could not agree more.Not mentioning the writer of a song you are taking lime lite for is kinda slime ballish.Its an absolute insult not to credit the great Townes Van Zandt for that beautifully crafted song and Ill stand on Ricky's coffee table in my muddy boots and say it too.

I suppose the slime ball comment was a little harsh, but I don't think you were sitting with pen and paper helping Townes write the song either.I'm pretty sure of that.Such an important wordsmith as Townes should have been given credit for the song.You have any argument about that. Not mentioning a great writer when you are covering his song on a televised show in my opinion is just bad form.

Very good not best.

Nice--but how could he look in the mirror and take himself seriously. THE HAIR WTF