Home Free doesn't do "covers", Home Free does "UPGRADES"! Love these guys!

Adam it’s criminally overlooked. He helps carry this song

Hi coach Phil! Home Free added that reggae touch to the song, making it their own. They sang it in the Sing Off competition, and it definitely solidified their position there (they won the season!). This song got me hooked on HF! 💖🎆😍 Home Free doesn't just do country, they have a wide variety of genres, and love to have fun with their music, check Country Fried Pop Medley, All About That Bass, the Butts Remix, I Swear (just s few). They also hit on meaningful topics, where One Voice, Everybody Walkin' This Land, Traveling Soldier are just examples. They really are fantastic!! 🎶🔥💖 Names: Adam Rupp (beatboxer) - Tim Foust (bass) - Adam Chance (baritone/bass - goes by Chance) - Rob Lundquist (tenor) - Austin Brown (high tenor). Chance replaced Chris Rupp a few years ago. Tim and Austin also wrote or co-wrote several amazing songs, and lately Chance started showing his own too. Great reaction, please, keep them coming!

By continually interrupting the song you miss things. One of the things you missed was exactly how long Tim held that last note. Oh, I'm not sure Avi was taking his hat off to Tim, it looked more like he was changing to a cowboy hat to show conversion to country.

You can also check out: 3rd Performance - Home Free - "Ring Of Fire" By Johnny Cash - Sing Off - Series 4

The judge on the “Sing- Off said “Did I just hear a cappella country reggae?” So yes, Adam Rupp did something very different. But that is the usual for him. Also, Tim, Avi & Geoff (VoicePlay) are friends and help each other out. React to Home Free “Champagne Tastes on a Beer Budget” that Tim wrote. HINT: Watch out for Avi - you saw his hat change in this video. Thanks for your reaction

And yet you failed to recognize the full depth of Tim’s loooowww note in so much that Avi gave him his due……only 5 octaves of it!….. love our Home Free💕

This was about the time when Avi was going solo. That beanie fit in with the Pentatonix vibe, but he was headed toward a more folk music sound, so this marked a transition for him. He's been good friends with Tim and the two have learned from each other. It's heartwarming to see how, when you hear of musicians acting like spoiled divas, to see a group of musicians who don't seem to have that kind of hangup get together as friends and put out great music.

Avi Kaplan is a solo singer-songwriter now. Reactors, vocal coaches etc in the U.K. compare him to Rag N Bone Man or Hozier. Most of what he sings are his own original compositions (15 released and 7 additional performed but not released yet) but he is covered alot by bass singers in particular. "The Summit" and "Aberdeen" along with "Change On the Rise" are the most popular for that. The only 3 songs he has formally covered in his solo work are "House of the Rising Son", "Hey Ya!" and "Lean On Me". If you want the whole American a cappella community one of your next should be Peter Hollens. He and Avi did a cover of "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair" that is gorgeous. Additional bands would be Street Corner Symphony and The Collective which are very interconnected as well. Homefree's baritone Adam Chance used to sing with Streetcorner and Kaleb Thomas Jones of the Collective is now in Avi Kaplan's band. Both Streetcorner Symphony and the Collective came together to backup Avi when he first started singing again in 2019 and Daniel Ellsworth of Streetcorner Symphony has a co-writing credit on 2 of Avi's songs, "I'll Get By" and "Sweet Adeline pt 2". All of those singers plus Avi and Austin and Tim Foust of Homefree live in Nashville, Tennessee now. Everyone I mentioned including Peter Hollens was also on the television competition show The Sing-Off for acappella over the 2nd, 3rd and 4th seasons. A very tight community.

I love your enthusiasm in reviewing this view. Your reaction is totally real and I appreciate that. I found these guys about 6 months ago and not a day goes by that I don't watch at least (definitely more)b of their videos. You were right, Adam is the beat boxer's name.

Yes Adam Rupp.

If you're going to react to Avi's solo work you will thank yourself a lot to hear him do his original "Change On The Rise" and "It Knows Me".

Watching the smile come over your face when you first hear Austin sing was so awesome! I'll be looking for more HF reactions!

You should watch the Home Free sing off version. I remember watching it at age 13. That was the first time my jaw dropped watching a TV singing performance, because I was stunned and having so much fun listening to Adam Rupp’s phenomenal percussion! 🤯😁🙌. His awesome skill is what caused me to become a Home Fry recently.

I'm consistently mind blown at the fact Tim has a vocal range that spans 5, that's right, FIVE octaves.. 😱🤯

Home Free is at the very top of the tier of a cappella groups.

Avi stated Tim helped him go low like does. Tim also helped Geoff of VoicePlay.

You're the 1st one to point out Avi taking his hat off to Tim's low note. Brilliant point!!!

Love ya that you love this so.... so fun that they made it sound Island sound.

Much love dear!! great reaction!!

You really need to do Geoff Castellucci singing Tennessee Ernie Ford's "sixteen tons".

Thank you for your reaction to "Ring of Fire" ... I have 2 Home Free recommendations for you , the first is "My Church" and the second is the cover of "Hopelessly Hoping" both are excellent ...

Avi is so deep with his voice

Wow, these guys are just brilliant, I'm always smiling when I listen to them :D And you benefit from this ;) Great reaction! I love your excitement

I would love to see all the bases Avi from PTX, Geoff from Voiceplay and Tim from Home free record a song together it would be epic.

Love,love Home Free!!❤

While this is the "Sing-Off" lineup, the addition of Kaplan provides a preview to HF's current sound. The baritone in this video, Chris Rupp, left the group in 2016. Adam Chance, his replacement, is a bass-baritone whose range is roughly from F1 to F5. That means he covers the bass when Foust sings lead.

They all did so good with harmonies and Adam Rupp’s beatboxing! Great reaction! I love Home Free😊

If you like this, just wait til you check out my favorite Home Free cover, Folsom Prison Blues! 🔥 Their original songs Land of the Free and Dive Bar Saints are 2 of my favorites in my music library! As much as I enjoy Home Free covers, their originals are the ones that I listen to the most. Thank you for reaction coach.

You should check out Avi's "Change on the Rise"

No offense to Avi, but you really need to react to Home Free's version of this when they performed it on The Sing Off. Hear the judges' reactions.

Loved your reaction! These guys are great and Avi is one classy dude. ❤

By the way June Carter-Cash, Johnny's wife was the co-writer of this song (she was a member of the legendary Carter family - one of Country Music's "royal" families. She wrote it about falling for Johnny while still married to someone else !!

Hey Phil to really start to grasp how good Home Free are and to test their professional status, please react to their cover of Helplessly Hoping. I think you'll really be impressed....they are so much more than the "country bumpkins" most people just relegate them before even seeing what they are capable. These are college trained professionals

Check out Avi singing "Black is the Colour of My True Loves Hair".

Best video ever

Adam has a drum solo 🔥🔥🔥

You've barely scratched the surface of Home Free's music. 3 of them are song writers so there are lots of originals as well as covers. Tim Foust (bass) has a 5+ octave range. The beatboxer (Adam Rupp) is incomparable (and also has an impressive vocal range). They're all vocal chameleons and sing everything from goofy to gospel and have collaborated with such legends as Kenny Rogers, the Oak Ridge Boys, Alabama, Charlie Daniels, Don McLean & Lee Greenwood.

Actually Avi was replacing his beanie with a cowboy hat, almost like he was saying..... look what I just did.....a country song.❤

Love this! Great vid

These guys are so great.

We'll make you a full-fledged Home Fry yet!

You should check out Avi's solo song Change is on the Rise if you enjoy his stuff

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Lmao!!!! Love your chair dance. 😂😂 Home free is just awesome!!!!

You should check out The Teskey Brothers - "Rain" and also their song "Hold Me"

If you want to react to Avi he has alot of solo stuff now! But one song I always find beautiful is Standing By (PTX, of solo version) and Otherside from Avi kaplan himself. For the rest Home Free has a lot of amazing stuff. They rock with "down by the honkeytonk"!

When I saw him switch hats, I thought it was a little tribute to The Man in Black, Johnny Cash.

I don't know if anyone in the 100+ comments mentioned this, but at the end, Avi wasn't taking off his hat in deference to Tim. It was a joke move that he took off his iconic (at the time) knit beanie and replaced it with a cowboy hat. And now that I'm commenting a year after you posted this reaction, I can recommend that you check out Avi's newest album, an 11-song, all-original album that was released May 20 this year, a day before his US tour started. All 11 songs are great, but 2 good starters are "I'm Only Getting Started" and "When I'm a Fool" (that one for the bass). But a bigger suggestion would be that you watch and maybe react to the solo version of a duet he co-wrote and performed with Grammy-winning Joy Williams - "All is Well" done in a church in Utrecht, Netherlands a few months ago while on his European tour. The natural resonance of his voice is enhanced by the acoustics of the building. A stunning piece. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qbSalaRyz6yYhJs.html

Great reaction! Love Homefree! They are brillant!!! Harmonies unmatched! Hope you do react to more Homefree! You should react to their cover of John Mayer's " In the Blood". Thank you for your reaction!

Good reaction to a classic Johnny Cash song. You might like their cover of Johnny’s Folsom Prison Blues. Also try Helplessly Hoping by them…it’s so beautiful!

Good reaction. Please more Home Free! Try Sold, My church, In the blood and all others!

Tim has worked with Avi to teach him how to sing lower. Tim is the beast!

Someone gave that hat to Avi and he was putting it on 😊

Avi was pouring the hat ON. 😁

We heard Homefree sing this live in Sydney. My daughter wanted to record it to share Tim's final low note with her friends. When she played it back, the phones microphone hadn't picked up the note. I can only assume it was too low 🤷‍♀️

austin and his high vocals

If you listen to Tim’s singing, you will find he has a 5+ octive range, and can sing naturally with ease in any of them.

He didn't have his hat on before that. He only had the material cap.

Johnnie's up in Heaven saying well done boys

reminds me of king of spain by moxy fruvous.

June Carter wrote "Ring of Fire."

You need to listen to Tim Foust will you love me tomorrow/Stay

He did not take his hat off to Tim. He switched from a Beenie to a CVowboy Hat. Just so you know. LOL, awesome video. Side note, you cut off the last note.

Please do some of Dave Fenley stuff! Grandpa is such an amazing song and God in it is another great one! Would love to see your reaction to them!

Loved your reaction to this. You should also check out Voice Play 's Sing (tick off the skills involved by the appearances) Will be well worth your time.

I hate to spoil it but Johnny didn't write the song. His wife, June Carter Cash wrote it. The Beatboxer is Adam Rupp. And the newest member is Adam Chance. He replaced Adam's Brother Chris Rupp, who is wearing the cowboy hat at the start & throughout this video. 🎶👱‍♀️👗👠👠💓

just wondering if you have reacted to any of Avi's solo stuff yet?

Actually a bit of a switch. Avi took off his cap and put on a cowboy (country and western) hat. All in good fun!

If you want some fun try Hill Billy Bone

Here are my favorites by Pentatonix: Carol of the Bells (Christmas) (14 November 2012) The Wizard of Ahhhs by Todrick Hall ft. Pentatonix (16 July 2013) Daft Punk Medley (4 November 2013 Grammy winner) Mary, Did You Know? (Christmas) (11 November 2014) Hallelujah (Christmas) (21 October 2016) Bohemian Rhapsody (7 April 2017) Matt replaces Avi as bass Havana (23 February 2018) The Sound of Silence (15 February 2019) Can You Feel the Love Tonight? (23 August 2019) Blinding Lights (1 July 2020) Dreams (22 July 2020) Amazing Grace (5 November 2020) also.. Home Free produces some GREAT a cappella covers such as.. Ring of Fire featuring Avi Kaplan (25 July 2014) How Great Thou Art (28 October 2016) Mayday (17 November 2017) Helplessly Hoping (27 April 2018) Man of Constant Sorrow (28 September 2018) Go Rest High On That Mountain (3 April 2020) Folsom Prison Blues (25 September 2020) American Pie featuring Don McLean (3 February 2021) When a Man Loves a Woman (12 February 2021) listen to Mayday LAST you'll understand why later ;p ** Also.. check out another a cappella group called Voiceplay. My favorite of theirs is Oogie Boogie's Song. Also, their bass singer Geoff Castellucci has produced some great ones including The Headless Horseman Sixteen Tons and Blackbird. Thanks ..

Tim helped Avi learn to get lower using growl and subharmonics

Wow! Three videos in a row and no sign of the nerd goggles! You might be cool enough now to go to a club... Keep going. I know you're planning more Pentatonix, but if you're diggin' on beatboxers extra heavy, check out Voiceplay's Moana Medley. Layne put in the work on that one! Cheers!

Actually Avi was putting his hat on.

Great reaction! Check out their cover of End of the Road or Take Me Home, Country Roads... both are incredible! We'll make you a full-fledged Home Fry!

Check out champagne taste on a beer budget for a sneak appearance of avi

I'm sorry, but I had to comment when I heard you mention that this was written by Johnny Cash. It was written by June Carter Cash

Do Disturbed Sound of Silence please.

Hi Phil. Good reaction to Home Free and Ari! Will you react to Citizen Queen? They're a great, all-women (even the beatboxer!) a cappella group that works with Pentatonix. Their most popular video is a cover medley, "Evolution of Girl Groups" (21M views), but their individual covers of "Señorita" and "No Tears Left to Cry" are also excellent and successful (over a million views each.) Do you also take requests for covers with music, or only a cappella? Btw, you have an interesting niche for your channel: channel growth + making great covers. 👍

While Avi and Tim are certainly good friends, I'm thinking the black cowboy hat was done as respect to Johnny Cash, aka the Man in Black.

Blue Ain't Your Color by Home Free

PLEASE REACT TO TOMI P: HELLFIRE IT CONTAINS HIS MASSIVE SIX OCTAVE RANGE AND HE IS A BASS AS WELL

Both of them blow speakers...

Avi doesn't need to take his hat off to anyone. He is in my opinion superior to Tim though Tim is good. Avi has a much superior, weighty Basso sound to Tim. His resonance is better than any one I have heard. You really should react to some of Avi's solo work. He produces Americana Folk, Nature Boy work.

Guess you've never heard Home Free...?

Is it just me ..... or if you were to give this guy a red balloon would he look just like pennywise?

Johnny Cash didn't write this song. His wife June Carter Cash wrote it when she fell in love with the then married Johnny.

Fun fact, Johnny Cash didn't write this song, his wife did.

It's been a year and you still don't do a reaction to Avi... So... What are you waiting?

Johnny Cash didn't write the song--June Carter did! but Johnny Cash made it unfoirgettable

Jesus loves everyone

If you want this channel to take off you're going to have to work on your pause timing and what you think is really relevant to discuss during those pauses. If it were to stay as is it would be very frustrating for viewers and not likely promote subscribing. Just my opinion.

Too many interruptions. Didn’t sub because of this.