As a kid, I first heard this song by Gordon Lighfoot, and it took me into another space. It was the 2nd song I learned to play and sing on guitar. Everytime I played it, I felt my heart open up to soar into the wild just a little more unfettered than it was before. Creation was calling.
I am fortunate enough to have a mother who shared Lightfoot with me as a child, and growing up I can appreciate it so so much more than I could as a child. I have grown to be a drummer but Gordon has always been my largest inspiration. Can’t exactly play his songs on a drum set 😆 I will make it a goal to learn this song on guitar before next year. Thank you so much for sharing your story! I hope to feel the same emotion you do ❤️
Loved Gordon Lightfoot, "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" was always one of my favorites. Nice to hear a subdued Tony Rice playing accompaniment. Seems like the camera man was mostly somewhere else when TR stepped up.
Yes, just perfect and done with the latest high high quality equipment. I'm 70 years old and I'm only now discovering Lightfoots incredible library. Tony's rendition of in from the forest is another great song!
Such a wonderful version of one of Lightfoot's greatest songs. I wouldn't change one note or nuance, and the solo by the late Tony Rice is absolutely sublime. Probably my favorite AK vocal, and there are many.
Alison Krauss is superb. Such a great Lightfoot song. Her backing band is outstanding and to have Tony Rice is just wonderful. What a great musician. I love their version of this song. Such control in her vocals.
Some of the finest,best of the best players ever. The contributions that each one of these have made to bluegass,and the americana,and Nashville sound is legendary
This is just the best cover of this song done by the best of the best. Alison sure has a way of making any song her own. I sure wish that this had made the CD.
Gary has recorded me many times. He has an engineering touch second to none. I pay close attention every time he does, hoping some will rub off. Thanks for posting.
I love this rendition AND YET there is minimal screen time for Tony Rice, even during his solo. This was his arrangement of the Lightfoot classic, done when Jerry Douglas was in Rice's band.
@@ckp2ator389 That’s Jerry Douglas, who played with Rice for several years (when Douglas was a kid) You can find “Shadows’ live by Rice and a very young Douglas does Al’s most the exact same solo.
Would it be at all appropriate to casually mention that this song was written and originally recorded by Gordon Lightfoot. Just thought I'd mention that among all the accolades for everyone else.
+John Fennessy Lightfoot never wrote a more beautiful tune or more soulful lyrics. I still love his own version of this, even though he didn't have the guitar man that Tony Rice is. Alison brings a freshness, but in Lightfoot's voice there's that ambivalence, that melancholy, that he never left out of a love song. Love knows pain, and somehow Lightfoot finds it every time.
As much as I love Alison Krauss, this is a Gordon Lightfoot composition....and nobody can cover his music. For the simple reason -- Gordon has a voice that reaches into my soul and can quiet any demons with any song he sings. For his fans -- who attend his concerts -- they are all totally mesmerized. I've gone to many, and you can hear a pin drop. We are a loyal group of people -- Gordo's fans.
I agree with you. As a Canadian living in Ontario, I've been to some GL shows too. Nobody can do a Lightfoot song like Lightfoot. I gotta admit though I do not hate this!
Respectfully, that which is true for you might not be for me and others. I discovered GL in '66, and he is a great, great artist. But I'm always open to other interpretations of his songs from other fine artists. Alison Krauss and Tony Rice have both covered this song with outstanding results. Rice is a sensitive interpreter of GL, having devoted an entire album to his compositions.
Makes me wonder if Lightfoot and Tony Rice ever met each other. I'm sure there'd be accolades on both sides. Such beautiful bluegrass arrangements of Lightfoot's work.
Amazing song and playing by everybody. They should really hire musicians to be the camera operators for this stuff...no closeup of Tony Rice's hands during his guitar solo?
Well said CGO. Happens all the time - camera man shows he has no idea who is playing their little run. He's showing some ordinary but good rhythm guitar, while Rice is doing magic. How do they get away with it?
Word is that Tony wasn't happy with his solo and dubbed it in later. Some of the cam shot wouldn't have matched. (This info may be somewhere down the page.)
A lot of times for recording multi-angle video, the musicians are playing and singing along to pre-recorded audio. In that case, as with many virtuosos, the solos are often improvised and can't easily be played the same way twice. So the video won't match the audio being used. The other possibility is that the video was recorded with one or two takes and the solo was overdubbed later, and the video would also not match the audio being used. My guess is the former, where Tony was such an improvisational player that he wouldn't have been able to play the same solo twice without listening to what he did and carefully committing it exactly to memory. I've experienced this first-hand with a mandolin virtuoso who couldn't play the same solo twice without carefully listening back and committing his previous take to memory.
I thought I already posted this comment but I must have not hit "comment". If this is redundant, I apologize, but the message is worth saying twice. Alison Krauss, known for her vocal abilities, was the Illinois State Fiddle Champion in 1983 at the age of 12! She has only gotten better. Her virtuosic playing sometimes goes unheard because she defers to Tony, Jerry, or whomever when it comes time for the solos. That is NOT ok. Make the song longer, but we need to hear more of Alison on fiddle.
For music geeks: All the instrument handling shows that they're playing in C, except Rice, who's capoed up 4 and playing G shapes. Sure enough, it comes out in B. Everyone but Tony is retuned a half-step down.
+Jim Stack Well i always thought it was Ron Block ( or Dan ) and to be honest, i hadnt heard of Tony ? But these were amazing guitar licks. I play this almost daily !!!
because, if you listen and watch closely, you can tell that the lead guitar licks (all signature T.Rice) on the track do not match what his hands are doing (unlike all the other musicians) through the whole song. The video was carefully edited to obscure it. But I'd guess he was not happy with his playing on the live take, and did an overdub.
It pisses me off that there are no camera shots of Tony Rice soloing. He's the one who covered so many Lightfoot songs with such creative charisma. Great sound, poor video editing.
She's nice, but I'll take my music heroe, Gordon Lightfoot any day. He wrote and sang this, you know. Also, check out Dylan's impromptu session on this. It's on TH-cam. Love those guys aging voices. RIP, Mr. Lightfoot
I love AK but there was something about the desperation in Tony’s singing and playing that just made this song belong to him and no one else-not even Gordon.
RIP, Gordon Lightfoot and Tony Rice.
As a kid, I first heard this song by Gordon Lighfoot, and it took me into another space. It was the 2nd song I learned to play and sing on guitar. Everytime I played it, I felt my heart open up to soar into the wild just a little more unfettered than it was before. Creation was calling.
I am fortunate enough to have a mother who shared Lightfoot with me as a child, and growing up I can appreciate it so so much more than I could as a child. I have grown to be a drummer but Gordon has always been my largest inspiration. Can’t exactly play his songs on a drum set 😆 I will make it a goal to learn this song on guitar before next year. Thank you so much for sharing your story! I hope to feel the same emotion you do ❤️
A Gordon Lightfoot song: FABULOUSLY presented
Great synergy of Gordon Lightfoot’s unsurpassed musical poetry with some of the best performers in the business.
Wonderful to run across this version of Gordon's song by Alison and her friends. Sadly, Lightfoot passed on May 1st, 2023, but his music survives.
depressing, I hate thinking about old people dying, life is a nightmare
Loved Gordon Lightfoot, "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" was always one of my favorites. Nice to hear a subdued Tony Rice playing
accompaniment. Seems like the camera man was mostly somewhere else when TR stepped up.
Gordon was one of the most gifted composers, guitarists, and singers. He was so overlooked and underrated.
Yes, just perfect and done with the latest high high quality equipment. I'm 70 years old and I'm only now discovering Lightfoots incredible library. Tony's rendition of in from the forest is another great song!
Total agree with “Home from the Forest”! My favorite Tony rendition of Gordon’s songs! Tony was probably a top 5 all time guitarist!
I can't understand how this doesn't have 100 million views.
I've watched it that many times, at least
So bummed that Tony has passed. He was so great. Now the best acoustic guitar player in Heaven. RIP
Yep
How proud Gordon must be. What a wonderful version of his song.
I Love this Woman.......I don't know what's more Beautiful, her or her Voice.....they both Knock me out!
She's easy to fall in love with.
For me, neither. It was that tone she gets out of the fiddle. That is a divine gift.
The voice of an angel!
No one spins a tale like Lightfoot. Awesome song!
Isn't that the truth.
Such a wonderful version of one of Lightfoot's greatest songs. I wouldn't change one note or nuance, and the solo by the late Tony Rice is absolutely sublime. Probably my favorite AK vocal, and there are many.
It’s clearly mentioned in the description
Wow, just WOW. One of my favorite Lightfoot songs (if not my very favorite) sung by this lady. Just amazing...
Alison doing Gordon Lightfoot! It doesn't get much better than her voice and his musical genius!!
One of the best covers of a Lightfoot tune that I've ever heard!!
I love Lightfoot's version. I love this version.
What an all star cast. One of the most beautiful arrangements in existence.
It doesn’t get any better than that.👍👍🇨🇦
Alison Krauss is superb. Such a great Lightfoot song. Her backing band is outstanding and to have Tony Rice is just wonderful. What a great musician. I love their version of this song. Such control in her vocals.
one of his most beautiful songs , very well done by Allison.
These guys are some of the "cream of the crop", and they are awesome, awesome, awesome!!!
Thank you Alison and Tony. A perfectly lovely tribute to our Gordon. With love from Ontario Canada🍁
All you need to know about Tony Rice's brilliance can be summed up at 2:33 impeccable swing and understatement. No BS, just great. Get well Tony.
Well said. Also, 1:36 a phrase one couldn't improve upon.
Classic CANADIAN SONG BY LEGEND GORDON LIGHTFOOT.....
She’s angelic
She put you at peace
Damn it!! this version brings tears to these old ass eyes every time
REAL music ! Exquisite vocals and superb musicianship. Wonderful !
So beautiful, so poetic.
Never heard this song by her before..... absolutely beautiful!!!
Rest in peace, Gordon Lightfoot
Some of the finest,best of the best players ever. The contributions that each one of these have made to bluegass,and the americana,and Nashville sound is legendary
This is just the best cover of this song done by the best of the best. Alison sure has a way of making any song her own. I sure wish that this had made the CD.
Gary has recorded me many times. He has an engineering touch second to none. I pay close attention every time he does, hoping some will rub off. Thanks for posting.
Randy kohrs I enjoy your dobro style and wish I could emulate it. I also really like your song with Rhonda Vincent.
Sublime. As good as music gets.
They are "super" no doubt and her voice is crispy clear. Thxs for sharing.
Always a pleasure to listen to her; has she done anything of late ?
sonice57 :: Thxs, just visited the vid, love it.
I love this version, but it is bittersweet to have Tony Rice be unable to sing it anymore.
I will know I am in heaven when I hear Tony Rice playing and singing again.
Check out the Tony Rice Sings Gordon lightfoot LP. His version is as good as this one to my ears.
I know the talent here is great, but Paczosa is the man! Beautiful tones all the way across the board.
YAASSS!! =)
yup
I love this rendition AND YET there is minimal screen time for Tony Rice, even during his solo. This was his arrangement of the Lightfoot classic, done when Jerry Douglas was in Rice's band.
Yes, that was strange. I kept expecting close-ups of Rice but instead they focus on the guy with the guitar flat on his lap.
@@ckp2ator389 That’s Jerry Douglas, who played with Rice for several years (when Douglas was a kid) You can find “Shadows’ live by Rice and a very young Douglas does Al’s most the exact same solo.
@@georgetdiferdinandojr.2523 Thanks for the info.
Pure beauty
HOW, could this not, be written by Gord'?! ...Thank you Alison & Co.!
Would it be at all appropriate to casually mention that this song was written and originally recorded by Gordon Lightfoot. Just thought I'd mention that among all the accolades for everyone else.
+John Fennessy Lightfoot never wrote a more beautiful tune or more soulful lyrics. I still love his own version of this, even though he didn't have the guitar man that Tony Rice is. Alison brings a freshness, but in Lightfoot's voice there's that ambivalence, that melancholy, that he never left out of a love song. Love knows pain, and somehow Lightfoot finds it every time.
Tony Rice would be the first to appreciate Gordon Lightfoot's song writing. Given his 1996 album "Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot".
Thank GOD... you all acknowledged Gord on here. I'm thrilled to hear Alison sing it... but we "gotta" tip our hat the the original!!
John Fennessy didn't know that. Thanks for opening another avenue of musical brilliance to me.
The whole GL 'Shadows' album is excellent
She got the best voice I have heard.
Can’t help but think about this girl I really miss right now, I ache from within 💔😭 Great melody to it, just breaks me open. 🥥😭
Oh how mich music such as this can heal. Peace and love
As much as I love Alison Krauss, this is a Gordon Lightfoot composition....and nobody can cover his music. For the simple reason -- Gordon has a voice that reaches into my soul and can quiet any demons with any song he sings. For his fans -- who attend his concerts -- they are all totally mesmerized. I've gone to many, and you can hear a pin drop. We are a loyal group of people -- Gordo's fans.
I agree with you. As a Canadian living in Ontario, I've been to some GL shows too. Nobody can do a Lightfoot song like Lightfoot. I gotta admit though I do not hate this!
You should check out Tony Rice performing Gordon Lightfoot songs back when before his ability to sing was taken from him.
Respectfully, that which is true for you might not be for me and others. I discovered GL in '66, and he is a great, great artist. But I'm always open to other interpretations of his songs from other fine artists. Alison Krauss and Tony Rice have both covered this song with outstanding results. Rice is a sensitive interpreter of GL, having devoted an entire album to his compositions.
@@richardmindemann6935 cheers! We are each unique! 🎧☺️
Makes me wonder if Lightfoot and Tony Rice ever met each other. I'm sure there'd be accolades on both sides. Such beautiful bluegrass arrangements of Lightfoot's work.
Beautiful🌟. Love the songs you choose and the beautiful videos. Thank you for blessing my days❤️
Alison and a super band... From France.
This is beautiful!
Such a great song.
loveeeee this
Alison has a beautiful voice, but nobody does this song justice like the original Gordon Lightfoot!
Purest music ever made! No other words for it.
So awesome.
Impeccable
Wow! Wow! Wow!
Sooo special and beautiful...
This is my good thing.
Perfect.
Great.
O tempo pasa e a boa musica rica siempre nas nossas mentes.
wow, that was amazing!
American music at its finest.
Penned by a Canadian, of course.....
Amazing song and playing by everybody. They should really hire musicians to be the camera operators for this stuff...no closeup of Tony Rice's hands during his guitar solo?
i guess they're trying to make it hard for us to transcribe it, lol....
Well said CGO. Happens all the time - camera man shows he has no idea who is playing their little run. He's showing some ordinary but good rhythm guitar, while Rice is doing magic. How do they get away with it?
Word is that Tony wasn't happy with his solo and dubbed it in later. Some of the cam shot wouldn't have matched. (This info may be somewhere down the page.)
A lot of times for recording multi-angle video, the musicians are playing and singing along to pre-recorded audio. In that case, as with many virtuosos, the solos are often improvised and can't easily be played the same way twice. So the video won't match the audio being used. The other possibility is that the video was recorded with one or two takes and the solo was overdubbed later, and the video would also not match the audio being used. My guess is the former, where Tony was such an improvisational player that he wouldn't have been able to play the same solo twice without listening to what he did and carefully committing it exactly to memory. I've experienced this first-hand with a mandolin virtuoso who couldn't play the same solo twice without carefully listening back and committing his previous take to memory.
I got to see them do this ! ~
Just perfect
I thought I already posted this comment but I must have not hit "comment". If this is redundant, I apologize, but the message is worth saying twice. Alison Krauss, known for her vocal abilities, was the Illinois State Fiddle Champion in 1983 at the age of 12! She has only gotten better. Her virtuosic playing sometimes goes unheard because she defers to Tony, Jerry, or whomever when it comes time for the solos. That is NOT ok. Make the song longer, but we need to hear more of Alison on fiddle.
Thanks again Gordon lightfoot
Im sure Gordon would love this rendition.
@@ltlarrow1 Not Lightfoot.
isso é maravilhoso
a como amo essas canções
So good!!
this is so good...
this is great
I LOVE YOU BABY!!!
The personification of sound
But they made a beautiful job of it 😊
I just wish there was a close up shot of Tony Rice. Great audio though.
❤❤❤❤❤❤
That is the best of the best.......
良いね
For music geeks: All the instrument handling shows that they're playing in C, except Rice, who's capoed up 4 and playing G shapes. Sure enough, it comes out in B. Everyone but Tony is retuned a half-step down.
Why the hell did they show every other musician play while Tony Rice picked his solo in the middle here ? Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!
+Victor Young I agree! The guitar licks being played throughout the whole song have to be Tony, even though they never show him!
Thanks Jim !
+Victor Young it could be Ron Block playing a lot of those guitar licks too. He is a monster picker.
+Jim Stack Well i always thought it was Ron Block ( or Dan ) and to be honest, i hadnt heard of Tony ? But these were amazing guitar licks. I play this almost daily !!!
because, if you listen and watch closely, you can tell that the lead guitar licks (all signature T.Rice) on the track do not match what his hands are doing (unlike all the other musicians) through the whole song. The video was carefully edited to obscure it. But I'd guess he was not happy with his playing on the live take, and did an overdub.
A little surprised Tony Rice got so little camera time! But good take
I agree, I feel they needed a better set up angle to get Tony's run.
Tony punched in. Watch what they did record of him playing- he came back and tracked it later. You can catch it at 2:44
Damn.
I LOVE U 💏
I would dearly love to see the lyrics to the song "shadows " sung by Alison K. Anyone out there have it ?🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼💐💐💐💐
You could found the lyrics in the comments of this video :-)
Does anyone knows why this didn’t actually make it on the hundred miles or more album??
What a massive amount of gear! But the sound is great.
Nice interpretation of a Gordon Lightfoot song.
I would be willing to max out my credit card in order to hear Alison sing an IKEA assembly manual.
RIP Gordon Lightfoot
Alison's voice is beautiful but all involved in this track need credit.
Is this on Amazon music
Have you noticed that not only is Tony Rice not shown much, but Gordon Lightfoot is in this clip as well, eh?
sonice57
Watch the whole thing carefully. The guy by himself on the right with the acoustic. Guitar. Long hair, older. Look familiar? It's Lightfoot.
Not seeing it. I see Krauss, Tyminski, Block, Bales, Douglas, Rice, and Paczosa. Where's Lightfoot? "Guitar. Long hair, older" describes Tony Rice.
Look harder he's there. Tall reddish hair brown jacket.
I looked again You're right, It is Tony Rice. It's that he and Gordon LIghtfoot look very similiar.
Tony couldn’t sing but you could sure hear him speak on this
It pisses me off that there are no camera shots of Tony Rice soloing. He's the one who covered so many Lightfoot songs with such creative charisma. Great sound, poor video editing.
u r simply beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just saying :0)
Did they record any songs together at all?
She's nice, but I'll take my music heroe, Gordon Lightfoot any day. He wrote and sang this, you know. Also, check out Dylan's impromptu session on this. It's on TH-cam. Love those guys aging voices.
RIP, Mr. Lightfoot
Congrats. The Worst coverage of Tony Rice on any video mentioning his name in the title. Kept waiting. Not one good look at him KILLIN it. 😡
I love AK but there was something about the desperation in Tony’s singing and playing that just made this song belong to him and no one else-not even Gordon.