A minute and a half of Paul talking about interesting stuff, then a magnificent performance of American Tube with the wonderful Rhiannon Giddens.
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@angelmatos91436 ай бұрын
She's an example of how genius will overcome a noisy & crowded world.
@wimdonkers74483 ай бұрын
..."We didn't come here on the Mayflower, We came on a ship in a blood-red moon..". Thus made miss Giddens this a song for all who were involuntarily transported. Thank you miss Giddens.
@kalmia01Ай бұрын
Amazing and that lyrics change...❤why politics and corporations and those obscure people behind them cant take example and be like these two beautiful humans and artiss?😢
@jennifermarkens18823 ай бұрын
Rhiannon Giddens is the apex of American Music! Love her work, scholarship, and wisdom!
@Allen2saintАй бұрын
Will never hear this song the same way again. Respect.
@peterfischmandebohanlonmus8664Ай бұрын
I have loved this song for many years, but I think I heard it for the first time again here.
@markweatherly678210 ай бұрын
Rhiannon’s peaceful, powerful performance reminded me of what a pure masterpiece Paul Simon created so many years ago. Beautiful.
@diggerdogadventures9764 ай бұрын
Miss Giddens is a very underrated artist. She is a phenomenal artist who is a master class.
@janeburton3419Ай бұрын
I have a lot of respect for Paul Simon love him then and now . wonderful life he has and we'll deserved to .just love him
@Lobishomem3 ай бұрын
Brilliant. The song goes deep. . Great performance. Paul Simon will be played a hundred years from now.
@robinleebraun773923 күн бұрын
I’ve heard this song a thousand times and sang it hundreds of times. But this performance actually made me cry.
@mikespence03Ай бұрын
This song had me in tears. So beautiful and heartfelt.
@cacciato699 ай бұрын
Old Vietnam veteran this song written near the end, atime of turmoil then A song apropos today's cultural divide, thanks to these two Americans expressing our anguish.
@EchosLens6 ай бұрын
Well said. Thank you for your service.
@glenmacnicol78256 ай бұрын
I matured in the Vietnam era. It's images are burned into my memory as my brother, husband and relatives served, and some who died. It was a time of great anguish as Americans were shown what war really means. But to be truthful, I cannot recall a time in my lifetime when America didn't struggle with anguish. That can be the cost of Democracy and individualism. But now I see now how our fifth estate and mainstream media have been motivated by greed to propagandize to a demographic instead of seeking truth. This causes me to fear for America as never before. The words to this song still speak truth to the turmoil and a person's desire to build a life worth living. I always feel a wrenching in my heart when I hear it's words, but I always return to hear it again.
@junebrilly53024 ай бұрын
@glenmacnicol7825 exquisitely expressed. I grew up during the Vietnam War and it turned me around.to see the death.snd destruction. It was burned into my.white-priveledged Midwestern mind. I've NEVER Forgotten. This song is extraordinary. BRAVO to Paul Simon. Accolades to Rhiannan Giddens for taking the baton and embracing it for further generations. I'm filled with both Love, and Grief❤
@L8nitedave3 ай бұрын
on the last day of his second tour, the day before Tet, my uncle became one of the many unappreciated heroes of that war. He lived with us for the first few of the years he struggled after. I've found these times similar too.
@tuforu43 ай бұрын
@@glenmacnicol7825 have you ever seen the VICTIMS in CAMBODIA.
@mnelson569 ай бұрын
Whoa, what Ms. Giddens does with Mr. Simon's wonderful composition. Humanity. Power. Tears.
@9gboivin5 ай бұрын
This beautiful voice brought me to tears-thinking about how an African, an unwilling passenger on a decrepit and overcrowded vessel, would feel about having landed on American shores. Visit the waterfront of Annapolis, and read the stories of those first enslaved arrivals. Chances are, you will never see the history of our great, and conflicted, nation the same, ever again.
@junebrilly53024 ай бұрын
Beautifully said. Thankyou❤
@cindynichols2710 күн бұрын
And there are people, at this moment, trying to deprive our children of that history in public schools. Horrible.
@colinmcgee593110 ай бұрын
"We didn't come here on the Mayflower" gives me goosebumps. Not to mention her wonderful, wonderful voice.
@donnalawson26410 ай бұрын
I found i had tears in my eyes. Made it my American tune .
@gerryhouska28599 ай бұрын
Matches her wonderful, wonderful face.
@TartempionLampion8 ай бұрын
..."we came on a ship in a blood red moon" 😪
@artysanmobile7 ай бұрын
The depth of pain in describing America’s slavery makes me sob every time. I guess it should.
@edwilliams99147 ай бұрын
Yes! But y'know, altho I got here on the ship Rhiannon was singing about, the original also gave me goosebumps. LOVE them both and now I want to hear the song strung out with BOTH as two different choruses. ALL the many ships that got us all here, good and bad. That version would really soar.
@connieatkinson4188 ай бұрын
Paul Simon’s songs were more prophetic than he could ever have imagined. His fingers were on the pulse. Beautiful rendition.
@lifewithyogiji3 ай бұрын
Phew… I’ve known this song for forty years. But this time it hits me.
@Michael-rh7ieАй бұрын
Wow.... Have loved Simon and Garfunkel since I was a child.....rarely has anyone else done the music justice....Bravo Rhiannon Giddens ! .....with all due credit to the back up band.
@richardwysocki83006 ай бұрын
So beautiful! You both brought tears to my eyes. Thank you Ms. Giddens for such a moving rendition of this classic... especially reminding us we ALL did not come to America by way of the Mayflower. Thank you Mr. Simon for giving us this song, which is perhaps more relevant now than ever. Peace
@zb236310 ай бұрын
Wow! When you hear the song as if it were from an African American perspective it takes on a whole new weight. Beautiful.
@kindredspiritfly10 ай бұрын
agreed!!
@jorgbaiter276710 ай бұрын
Rhiannon is both, she is half white & black! Her parents were the first to marry as a mixed couple, when this was made possible by law in the late 60‘s
@jesseadams97309 ай бұрын
it always had weight. tis an american tune buddy
@RickKhamsi9 ай бұрын
Interracial marriages were banned in Virginia until the case of Loving v. Virginia was decided in 1967 by the Supreme Court. I will point out that interracial marriages have happened since long before that. Love is love and no distant legislature has ever had the power to stop it. Something I need to share - check out the writings of Ida B. Wells, particularly The Red Record. That ground breaking book focuses on interracial marriages and the way they were purposely used as raw material for reactionaries in the American South to create a propaganda narrative that they used to terrorize African Americans and their friends and families in the years around WWI.
@junebrilly53024 ай бұрын
Thankyou so much for that. I will seek out her writing!❤
@BaconTomatoCheese6 ай бұрын
I just watched this…again … still makes me cry! Rhiannon Giddens sings so wonderfully on this!😊❤️ thank you, Paul Simon - for writing such an amazing song👍❤️🇺🇸
@cacciato6910 ай бұрын
OLd ?Vietnam vet heating this again history repeats the needs ot the time. Paul wrote this in a time of need and we need it once again! What an angelic voice to sing makes my heart beat with hope! Thanks for this ...
@marilynisaacs77398 ай бұрын
The first time I ever heard Rhiannon was at this Grammy Salute to Paul Simon and immediately fell in love with her rendition of this wonderful song. Kudos to both Paul Simon and Rhiannon Giddens!
@richardjohnson59799 ай бұрын
A song…and a voice for the ages. Rhiannon’s voice and the voices of their instruments are magic. Can’t stop listening to this.
@irobeen8 ай бұрын
I've loved Paul Simon since the 60s and Rhiannon Giddens for a few years. I had misgivings on their collaboration on this particular song, but I am just floored and moved to tears with this rendition and the incredible impact of the voice, the words and Paul's guitaring [as always].
@brucegelman55828 ай бұрын
Simon is Americas greatest living songsmith.He is to song what Whitman was to prose.
@SLFinSF9 ай бұрын
I cried. This has been one of my favorite songs since it came out when I was in my teens. She has made it even more remarkable and meaningful.
@jackalex4548 ай бұрын
me too
@gabrielesaint-ives37485 ай бұрын
That's so so true !
@roadwarrier735810 ай бұрын
Hats off to Paul Simon, who is giving Rhiannon the chance to give this song a totally new meaning. Thank you, Jim Hartel (who built her minstrel banjo) for telling me about this.
@RalphDavis-qk2xy8 ай бұрын
Remin' Simon always ready to share the mic.
@EchosLens6 ай бұрын
It's not a minstrel banjo, as she explains in every interview I've heard where she talks about the banjo.
@TheFunnyDictator6 ай бұрын
Context?! Please reply to me, dude-person!
@kmcg644410 ай бұрын
Two of my favorite artists, playing a tune that never got anywhere near the play it deserved. Touched my soul.
@buckmulligan710 ай бұрын
We have a new American Anthem.
@davidcurtis75479 ай бұрын
Too good ,Paul Simon and Rhiannon Giddens . Rare beauty . Thanks
@Nicolaspurr9 ай бұрын
Tuned in for Rhiannon Giddens, thrilled by the testimony to the legacy of Joseph Tshabalala. Thank you Paul.
@brooke_reiverrose29497 ай бұрын
What an icon! Paul’s great too. 😊
@junebrilly53024 ай бұрын
Every time I hear this, I cry. So poignant, heartbreakingly beautiful❤
@ImaniTolliver8 ай бұрын
Tears. It’s as if I heard it for the first time. Thank you for sharing ❤
@alainmichaud314010 ай бұрын
Cette dame est vraiment extraordinaire, quelle personalité et quelle voix. 😌🙏
@innercirclemusic19 ай бұрын
When it comes to music, Mr Simon’s the perennial kid in a candy store. He digs it as much as he probably did in the early 60s, busking in Paris while trying to cut it as a singer-songwriter. 80-something and still prolific. His new album sprinkles unexpected stardust as a bookend to his storied journey. May it not be the last.
@catherinenolan21779 ай бұрын
Have always adored Paul Simon That was such a performance so poignant
@tubingtomtom9 ай бұрын
Paul Simon has been transporting himself I song from the very beginning of his career. So happy to hear this song come full circle. She is fabulous
@marthatravers59899 ай бұрын
A perfect song for these times, it shows the power of genius to channel truths that transcend race, gender, & all the ways we narrow our identities. Paul Simon's original rendition of the song must be heard to fully appreciate the beauty, the feeling, and the insight of this song.
@jeffreyjacobs3909 ай бұрын
Sang many tunes of Paul Simon ( Simon & Garfunkel) days of course Many Years Ago Now .... I always respected the volume of work, the Lyrics alone were mastery and tunes that touched you like no other composer then. He is a true TROUBADOUR of our American Classic Popular Music .... I Salute and thank you Sir !! God bless, jj
@EchosLens6 ай бұрын
I can't think of anyone who can deliver a tribute as stunningly well as Rhiannon Giddens can (and does). She knocks it out of the park every time!
@davidbickford92278 ай бұрын
How can you not listen to this without a tear in your eye?
@marcies37899 ай бұрын
Rhiannon is so amazing, such a wonderful version. And of course Paul Simon is a legend among legends, and kudos for being cool with changing the lyrics.
@TheHkluivert7 ай бұрын
Wow, just beautiful. And to sing this song together with Paul himself next to you...
@EdwardKrzynowek-fx5to7 ай бұрын
I'm appreciating Paul Simon and all his work once again. I bought the vinyl album that contained this masterpiece and others, when it was still new, on the shelf. I was a senior in high school. My, so much has changed--and, so much time has passed since then! For all the goodness here, seeing Paul age, along with the rest of us, reminds me that the clock is ticking for everyone. I wish it weren't. But, for now, it must remain, "like tears in rain".
@Krog1235410 ай бұрын
Two exceptional artists doing an exceptional song!
@carollamond94828 ай бұрын
….so musically & soulfully enriching for weary souls needing refreshment…
@cuchelo19 ай бұрын
Wow. Just wow. I can't even form a coherent thought that was so powerful.
@2bornot2b428 ай бұрын
Amazing, shivers from first note to last, pure shivers.
@rjwh672207 ай бұрын
Two of my most favorite people. Beautiful version of a beautiful song.
@datcolsol9 ай бұрын
Maybe I'm over analyzing the video, but to me, it looks like Paul is digging this performance
@jimrebr5 күн бұрын
I remember watching this on tv last year, outstanding then and Paul’s words never rang truer, than they do sang by Rhiannon, I hear this completely different now, then I did at 12 years old. Bless you Rhiannon for making the words so true, this hits so differently, with War in Ukraine and Israel/Gaza. I pray for peace. Part of my family did come on the Mayflower, but many of my ancestors immigrated in the late 1800’s, through Ellis Island. My grandmother’s uncle, Austin Glenn, was a Pastor, and he was hung in Texas for preaching Emancipation of slaves, his sons carried on.
@kindredspiritfly10 ай бұрын
OMG!! So gorgeous!! Love, love, love this song and both of these fine artists!!
@jelenabodrazic5228 ай бұрын
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻Finaly a VOICE.
@nancywarren73315 ай бұрын
Such a wonderful and inspiring song. Such an amazing singer and Paul’s appreciation. He himself, the most perfect writer, poet and singer. A most remarkable and precious moment caught in time.💕💐🌻
@alexissinclair15302 ай бұрын
Absolutely beautiful!!!
@heroness8 ай бұрын
She is so Awesome! What A Voice! Thanx to Paul ..too!
@AaronSpielman9 ай бұрын
This is the best version of one of Paul's very best songs, IMO.
@levonjackson92349 ай бұрын
I would love to here Rhiannon, sing one less bell , by the ❤the 5th Dimension
@ShunyamNiketana7 ай бұрын
Still a beautiful song, made more beautiful still by Ms. Giddens' voicing, not to mention the unexpected string duet that closes the piece. What a treat.
@brendahughes3516 ай бұрын
She is utterly marvelous!!
@likable729 ай бұрын
What an American dream! Still chasing , it is quite elusive ….
@kentdunne132010 ай бұрын
This song always touched me....😊
@pgadams110 ай бұрын
Superb. Rhiannon is such a talent.
@dreamwell20209 ай бұрын
This has always been a big song for me, but here she's framed it wider.
@b1j6 ай бұрын
So true. I like your insight.
@johnschneider416010 ай бұрын
Sing it Loud!🙏🏻👍
@Erleichdafarm9 ай бұрын
I heard this song in my mind so many times in the days following 9/11. This rendition brought tears. Beautiful.
@malvolio20068 ай бұрын
So did i
@sarahgray28127 ай бұрын
It's the song that first made me cry on 9-11🎶😢
@valerienathan77578 ай бұрын
What a voice and beautiful guitar playing by Paul. Such an timeless and indelible tune.
@user-qw9zw9fn6j5 ай бұрын
this was my first introduction to rhiannon, such a gift. thanks to her and paul simon for this wonderful performance!
@beulahprophet89964 ай бұрын
Just gorgeous sounding. Pure, raw, lovely.
@robinhoward88059 ай бұрын
Thank you so very much! You made me cry, but the best songs always do
@maureenmartin47309 ай бұрын
A GREAT singer❤
@Bo-tz4nw8 ай бұрын
OMG...! After following Paul Simon now for so long, hard to pick one song, ok why, no need to, but still maybe this one. This version is just so great, (Still the PS live version from 1985 here on yt, always, of course!)
@seventhskin17 ай бұрын
Goosebumps!
@robinleebraun77399 ай бұрын
What a talent, what a voice.
@b1j10 ай бұрын
Blown away.
@sreykimsear9 ай бұрын
Beautiful rendition.
@canadaclaret7 ай бұрын
Beautiful. And she improves the pronunciation of bon vivant.
@tamparker8547 ай бұрын
He's passing the torch.
@junebrilly53024 ай бұрын
SO TRUE!!!
@c.s.mcleod73839 ай бұрын
This duos performance of American Tune at Newport 2022 has more emotional punch.
@clairebear18089 ай бұрын
What a voice 😮 very nice and Paul always fabulous
@JungleJoeVN18 күн бұрын
She's an amazingly talented and beautiful woman.
@Barry4B5 ай бұрын
The emotional and spiritual connection Rhiannon makes with her audience is astonishing
@ginalevy5 ай бұрын
wow. That was stunning.
@dinobevilacqua569 ай бұрын
Meravigliosa Rhiannon !
@bench74349 ай бұрын
Je l’ai découverte sur la bande sonore de inside Llewyn Davis des frères Coen, absolument magnifique .
@annadlugosz33374 ай бұрын
Absolutely amazing
@jennifermarkens18823 ай бұрын
Best performance of this song EVER!
@almabatchelor86196 ай бұрын
Goosebumps.
@jimrestin9230Ай бұрын
So timely, and performed by two great musicians. Well done!
@jeffweinbergerguitar9 ай бұрын
Inspirational!
@pie0ful11 күн бұрын
A Master songwriter with master singer
@Ratguitar58Ай бұрын
Wow! Was that great or what? Much love to all ❤
@donlabree19129 ай бұрын
This is the United States of America. We the people in order to form a more perfect union ❤
@pubmgrАй бұрын
Fabulous!!!!!
@thinkinoutloudАй бұрын
Outstanding!
@homeyleclerk46327 ай бұрын
Paul lays out on vocals, the consumate musician and outdone by darn few. Proud to be American, for a minute