We lost Jessie today. Back with his brother again. Will miss him on the Opry.

John Prine-author of this song-R.I.P.

Jesse is still alive at age 92. He is still involved in music as of 2022

Rest in peace, John Prine. 💔

I’m from Nashville, Music City, The Home of Country Music they say….this is the real deal , straight from the heart, technically brilliant and written by the master Mr. John Edward Prine. Modern “country music “ can pound sand.

Now this is real country music. No artificial flavor or fillers. It's 100% pure. Great harmonies! Reminiscent of the Louvin Brothers. Jim & Jessie are a pleasure to listen to. Thanks for posting.

Jim and Jesse do this song justice. Well done. R I P John Prine.

I usually like the author's performance of their song the best. I love John Prine. I have a hunch that he loved this cover as much as I do.

Just had to look for this and listen to it after learning Jesse just passed away. What a talent! He had an incredible voice and invented his own style of playing the mandolin. RIP

this is the best song i ever heard.

We hebben een concert van hen meegemaakt , in Nederland .Voor ons het allerbeste concert .

I had the pleasure of seeing these guys in Mississippi and Georgia. What a great show they always put on. In my opinion they have the best harmonies of any bluegrass group. Thanks for the post

this is the way the song needed to be sung....

A great song sung by a great duo, written from the heart by one of the most under rated song writer/singers of our time the great John Prine.

Still the only ones I've ever heard do the key change. I've always loved their version the most.

Great song, with two of the best singing it. Love, Jim and Jesse!

I'm 40 now, but I can remember being a kid and seeing them perform live at the Georgia mountain fair, they were amazing.

Great rendition of a wonderful song! Real country music as echobilly noted. I love the harmony, and watching Jim sing is priceless.

Legends of Bluegrrass. I had the privilege of seeing Jim & Jessie in person several times. True Professionals and gentleman. Another of the greats gone forever,sad 😞 RIP 🙏🙏

Awesome! Great harmonies....Very well Done!

Excellent rendition. Jesse still goes on the road with this. I've not heard anybody sing harmony with him as well as his brother Jim - (who died in 2002). There's something about brother + brother singing together that so often produces a sound that is beautiful & haunting at the same time (same DNA ~ vocal chords, etc). Thank you!

I'm going deep down the rabbit hole with Jim and Jesse. I came for the Louvin Bros. cover "I Wish You Knew" and now I found this terrific Prine cover. I've been listening to John's version everyday for the past two weeks to sing along to, just to have a good campfire song, so it's really fun to find such a good cover by an amazingly talented duo.

Jim & Jesse do a classic take on a great song - hopefully everyone hears the message of the song

Went to the Paradise steam plant back in the the early '70's. Also went through the strip mines near there. Was a long ways from Paradise, believe me.

I love Jim and Jesse and I'm glad they recorded this tune. I have to admit though, my favorite version is by the writer John Prine. That said, I am a total traditional bluegrass fan and listen to little else!

Good rendition of this John Prine classic.

Memories of my family's sunday pickin m sangin in the 70's. Previous cherished memories.

WOW WHAT HARMONIES-THE PICKIN IS SO VERY GOODE!

R.I.P. Jesse, you were one of the greatest.

one of the best songs ever, the best part of this music is the songs were about real events and the times people had to live, so much better than the s*** on the radio today!

Love that song reminds me back when life was great

I read today, John Prine, composer of this song, has contracted Covid 19 and is in bad condition. I hope he pulls thru.

gotta love this ole music

Simply wonderful

Heard this on Swedish national radio back in the 70's, recorded it on cassette. The song stuck in my head but I never knew who performed it. Thanks to the net I know it was these fine gentlemen :-D And this is a John Prine song. The guy that wrote the heartbreaking "Louise". Wow!

There's nothing better than hearing this live as I was able to ca. 1979 in Warwick, RI when they had Allen Shelton and Mike Scott playing in the band.

Awesome man I love these guys. I was a kid when this was recorded. Thank you for alllowing me to get to see this wonderful Music Travis

RIP BOYS

Jim & J esse are just the best thanks for posting this great music ..

very touching

My god I miss these guys.

This song has become very popular in “Americana” lately and this is best version ever recorded by any artist in my opinion.

Thanks for posting all the greatJim& Jesse tunes. -RD

they song is so wonderful. gives me goose bumps. thanks for posting.

they are my great great uncles my mom would get to go back stage at concerts and my mom got to spend the night with them sometimes.

Love this

Thanks for sharing.

My Mom loved that tune 🌻

I'm a huge John Prine fan but I must admit Jim&Jesse do an amazing job on the vocals... far better than Johnny Cash!

thanks for posting, beuatiful

Now jesse is gone to paradise.

This is the saddest song I've ever heard. :-(

My grandfather worked for Peabody coal company

This is the version for me!

Excellent!

Wow ! Thanks so much been wanting to hear this for a long while !

I heard that they were going to move Adrians Prison to Central City and build a park around it. Great job on this song.

A great cover of John Prine's classic song, also covered by such stars as Johnny Cash and Tom T Hall, but Jim and Jesse's version is the best IMHO. With Jesse's patented cross-picking mandolin and Jim's amazing high tenor, it sounds as if Prine wrote it for them.

So Good...

great video

I also prefer the Prine version, but this is pretty good....am also a bluegrass fanatic Chuck

damn that guy got a high voice

I have read that copperheads give off the smell of cucumbers. I think that what John was referring to in the line of this song.

RIP John Prine- ❤️

Missing John Prine. 04/07/2020

John Prine and Jesse McReynolds sang this as a duet. It's also a great version.

cool

Their voices together are OVERPOWERED if you get what I mean..

I have a recording of Tom T Hall doing this great song ....a longer version than this ...it's very good.

Please credit John Prine, who wrote this for his father. Can't recall anyone doing harmony on this; J&J do it wonderfully. Brothers do have the best harmony, and J&J prove that. Heard them do it on a 4-part cassette tape of bluegrass compilation from early 1990s; still love it (and still have those tapes.).

Only the Everley Brothers have done a version this good.

They leave off the final verse, which is a great misjustice to the original song.

This was written and originally sung by John Prine. This is a great version though.

Thinking of you a lot here lately, Alma.

Also by The Everly Bros.

He passed today, April 7.

The first time I heard this song was the day Tom Dooley left Waky Radio for the last time. I've never heard anyone who even comes close to Tom's version. I've looked for his recording without success. Can anyone help? I cared deeply for him while he was at Waky and was sorrowed by his death.......... Jack

Beautiful. Has Jesse really passed.

2019 ya

The Country Gentlemen also have a great version...

@buchananstreet Is that all?The Everly's wouldn't even be allowed to carry Jim & Jesse's suitcases in these hills!

This sounds like The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot

Jim put put a CD that has John Prine Was Singing it solo

Amen! That key change really bowls me over. Hard to say why; normally, modulation seems like a cop-out to me, a cheap way of adding variety when the songwriter doesn't actually have any other ideas...

Hey Chris! Is that you on Mando?wow didn’t Bobby Thompson used to play banjo with them? ? So, you hit the big time and WOW! I’m blown away but I should expect that from you old friend and fellow Tc Cowboy!! if I could still play banjo I’d ask you for a job with the world famous mAD DOG yea ya yeah?!

John Prine wrote this.

Did Jim and Jesse have their own tv show? Is that where this from

That version from 1976, i mean

Is that song available on an album? Cannot find it anywhere...

Yessir, some 'progress'.

It's too bad they didn't put the final verse in.

I'm sorry! Of course John Prine did not write "Louise", it was Paul Siebel. And Bonnie Raitt did THE version, in my mind.

Great version, but let's give John Prine the credit he deserves.

and they put down the BeeGees for their falsetto!

John Prine song it ain't country it's bluegrass

Anti coal song, say what?