From Left to Right: Emmylou Harris, Kathy Mattea, Trisha Yearwood, Pam Tillis, Patty Loveless, and Suzy Boggus with Mary Chapin Carpenter singing lead.
My mother left my father when he was deep in alcoholism and we were living, scared, in a boat on the Grand Union Canal. Every night was terrifying. She took me to a cafe early one morning. Instead of taking me to school she asked me, 'what would you think if we left this place and never came back?' I told her 'yes, please'. We finished our breakfasts and left town. I was 7. My mother listened to this song that entire period and I will forever associate it with her and the strength it took to do what she did. "It's Emmylou Harris!" And she'd point to another woman who gave her strength and inspiration. She died when I was 16. I love her.
What a wonderful mother -- she asked you before doing it. She had you as well as herself in mind. What a wonderful mother -- it takes courage to leave an abusive relationship! My hats off to your mama.
I'm very saddened about your parents' relationship. Your Mother made the right decision. She thought it through. As a mother myself, I'm SURE it was a VERY DIFFICULT and HEARTWRENCHING decision. And, it takes tremendous COURAGE. I know this, because that was MY reality. NEVER stay "for the children's sake". This teaches them that a VERY WARPED union of two is "how marriage should be". Every argument, every hatefilled statement made by either parent (or parents) rips another wound into their child's soul; causes fear; and gives the WRONG impression of what a "marriage" SHOULD BE. Too few are in ADULT, EQUAL, Loving, Mature, Respectful! relationships. Too many stay together "for the children". (In my Opinion, which is based on MY experience as a child ). Peace, to all who are in an UNBALANCED "relationship". I HIGHLY recommend leaving it. (I did. It's one of the best decisions I've EVER made.)
I watch this at least once a week! You can’t help but be in a better mood after listening! If these ICONS appeared on an awards show today, playing this song, they would blow every competition out of the water! This is a peak performance!
Hi Nicole, yes I agree with you, this video is the greatest I've seen in years, there will never be women singers like this ever, they were the best and I miss that style of country music, oh so much, these girls of the 90's have made history in my books. I miss them all so much!!
@@rogersmith7808You crossed generations. That one generation had more talent than the others. I look back and wonder why we’ve gone backwards. Yes we have strong female leads in Country but too few. The early/mid 90s were peak. Shania arrived and the landscape changed, ultimately for the worse. 😥
@@katherineroland6008 "best female artists ever" which would include crossing generations. And as far as the genre being better or worse, it's all subjective.
Growing in the 90s, watching my mom leave my dad, i hated this song. As a happily married dad in 2023, I understand it better. I never ignore my wife's state of being. She's my #1 priority.
There ya go. Cool song and all those ladies totally into making it an awesome performance for their annual awards thingy is why this is an in tune classic live event
from left to right: Emmylou Harris, Kathy Mattea, Trisha Yearwood, Pam Tillis, Patty Loveless, Suzy Bogguss AND Mary Chapin Carpenter. She was a little stick of DYNAMITE. (and helluva songwriter) The Best.
Yeah. And in typical feminist indoctrinated woman fashion, she raises hell at a harmless commercial from years past of a "white patrichial male oppressing a woman" paranoid delusion narrative, while simultaneously not so much as even blinking an eye at the black male rape of white women epidemic all across the country. Yeah, women's rights, my ass. Behind every feminist is an unapologic race traitor. They're not anti-male, they're anti-WHITE male.
I moved to America in 1996 from Bangladesh, and remember going to Best Buy with my brother who had moved 10 years earlier and was a country fan. He bought the album with this song and would listen to it constantly. But the one that really struck my chord was the First song on the album The Hard Way. Man I just listened to it the other day and it holds up even better!!
My fave on that album is "Only a Dream" I had this kind of relationship with my brother; going thru all the same situations as this song. I will have this played at his funeral. IMO, he walks on water!😁😍
The band is MCC's band. This was a Women in Country special that came out in the early 90s. All of these women performed. I used to have it on VHS. I wish I could find it again!!
Wow what a lineup! A fan of all these ladies. It would be awesome to go back 30 years and be young again and live through my twenties listening to all of them
Late 80's and early 90s were the Golden Age of Country.. even classics from the 60s and 70s were eclipsed in this era.. and being an 80s baby, I grew up taking great country like this for granted.. never knew it would get so bad so soon
I did love the 60s and 70s county but the music you grow up with you usually have a better connection with. 80s and 90s is my favorite country time but I was also born in the 80's.
Empowering to leave a guy that did nothing wrong, cause a woman is bored? And the only reason she's bored is because he broke his back to give her everything. Lol. What a buncha worthless ingrates western females are.
Music needs more Rickenbacker guitars. They produce a sound that Gibson, Fender and Ibanez cannot replicate. The notes are so clean and whole with zero distortion.
Greatest girls! Patty Loveless was about to have vocal cord surgery right after this and nobody knew it but her husband, and Tony Brown, and of course her "brother" Vince Gill. They were gonna do a duet album together at the time but it never came to be. I remember watching this on CMT as a kid and I feel the same way when I see it now. Just awesome.
I am a male and totally get the premise of this song....we guys tend to take our ladies for granted at times. I have lost count of how many times I've watched this video. I love it.
@@Dallas-Nyberg I definitely want it too. I kinda keep my distance when I sense she’s very depressed or when she goes on a manic rant. Music especially from Mary Chapin helps. Have you ever seen her live??? I did in 2016 and I saw Sawyer Brown the night before and got an autograph from them.
Look up ,"tolerable level of unhappiness". This song is a perfect example. Women can now earn enough to have great lives without a man. We want an equal, not another kid of whom we have to parent.
This song is actually about a woman that’s tired of being married and taking care of her family. I guess minimum wage is an improvement over stability.
Of course, the biggest unspoken truth is that most men are turned on by a woman who is assertive, sexy and fun (not a man-pleasing doormat) and all of these women (especially MCC) make that case beautifully.
No we're not, bro lol. We want a woman to be womanly, not exhibit masculine traits. This is why feminists are manless and/or resort to lesbianism and loneliness due to quality men turning them down. Nobody wants a feminist PERIOD!
now THAT'S MUSIC! 20 years already, man time flies very fast i love this song and what a great team of back vocals la cream de la cream, you can hardly get any better...i think!
If I had to name the best song from Mary Chapin Carpenter, I would have to go with “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her.” She sang the kind of music I call “coffeehouse country.” Mary had carved out a niche for herself and made it work. You can’t hear her songs on today’s country music stations. A crying shame, that’s what it is. And how about her backup singers!
ACC's #32 song of the '94 survey year. Mary-Chapin hit #2 in Billboard, 3-26-94. God bless you, countryback, for postin' it. Have a blessed rest of the week!
Qué maravilla de canción, hermosas voces con un espectacular respaldo musical con un aire muy rockero. Que grande es la Chapín Carpenter.. Incombustible y eterna. Una leyenda viviente del folk rock norteamericano.
I was working on Music Row during these years, and personally knew most of these wonderful women. Didn’t realize it at the time, but these were special days. And terrific memories. I was a very fortunate fellow
You know you've made a positive impact as a new artist when you have these six ladies singing backup for you. Mary Chapin-Carpenter must've felt very overwhelmed while she was recording this song.
I recorded the audio this from VHS HiFi back in the day. That audio recording has traveled through my life with me, DCC Digital Tape > DAT Digital Tape > CD > MP3.... With me at every evolution of audio technology. I still play it frequently. Love, love, love it!
Absolutely beautiful from an era that was truly the best! Back when the singers were real and had talent, the 80s and 90s will never be paralleled. Thank you for this wonderful video a blast from the past.
When country was starting to drift more towards pop but still was country, Mary Chapin Carpenter put out some really good music. I am a Town being my personal favorite of hers 👍🏽
From Left to Right: Emmylou Harris, Kathy Mattea, Trisha Yearwood, Pam Tillis, Patty Loveless, and Suzy Boggus with Mary Chapin Carpenter singing lead.
You got it.. One of the great performances ever!!
What a terrific collection of talent!
I remember all those powerful lady country singers, all these strong women helped to shape my musical taste.
Fabulous women of country music
And I'm in love with all seven of them !!!
My mother left my father when he was deep in alcoholism and we were living, scared, in a boat on the Grand Union Canal. Every night was terrifying. She took me to a cafe early one morning. Instead of taking me to school she asked me, 'what would you think if we left this place and never came back?' I told her 'yes, please'. We finished our breakfasts and left town. I was 7. My mother listened to this song that entire period and I will forever associate it with her and the strength it took to do what she did. "It's Emmylou Harris!" And she'd point to another woman who gave her strength and inspiration. She died when I was 16. I love her.
What a wonderful mother -- she asked you before doing it. She had you as well as herself in mind. What a wonderful mother -- it takes courage to leave an abusive relationship! My hats off to your mama.
That was the most hauntingly beautiful thing I've ever read.
Thank you for sharing this with us all. You're a beautiful soul.
I'm very saddened about your parents' relationship. Your Mother made the right decision. She thought it through.
As a mother myself, I'm SURE it was a VERY DIFFICULT and HEARTWRENCHING decision. And, it takes tremendous COURAGE.
I know this, because that was MY reality.
NEVER stay "for the children's sake". This teaches them that a VERY WARPED union of two is "how marriage should be".
Every argument, every hatefilled statement made by either parent (or parents) rips another wound into their child's soul; causes fear; and gives the WRONG impression of what a "marriage" SHOULD BE.
Too few are in ADULT, EQUAL, Loving, Mature, Respectful! relationships.
Too many stay together "for the children".
(In my Opinion, which is based on MY experience as a child ).
Peace, to all who are in an UNBALANCED "relationship".
I HIGHLY recommend leaving it.
(I did. It's one of the best decisions I've EVER made.)
Your mom is a hero ❤
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THIS is when country was at it's peak. I miss these days. Nashville should look back and learn.
90s country was good. so was 90s music
I consider her just a great singer/writer and one great person.
Yesterday said Charlie Major and Garth, Paul and art! Paul and art,Simon and Garfunkel
I agree COMPLETELY.
Personally - sadly - I think humanity was at it's peak (thus far) during the 1990's.
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Agreed
This is the greatest gathering of female country stars I have ever seen! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Agreed Country music fan since birth from Australia
Agreed! What a bunch of talented and fine looking women!
And they never had to sdcc how their breast or asses to.become legendary.
All these Ladies could show this younger generation a thing or two...or 5!😁 The 90's was a FANTASTIC time for female singers; I miss them!
I watch this at least once a week! You can’t help but be in a better mood after listening! If these ICONS appeared on an awards show today, playing this song, they would blow every competition out of the water! This is a peak performance!
Agreed!
Hi Nicole, yes I agree with you, this video is the greatest I've seen in years, there will never be women singers like this ever, they were the best and I miss that style of country music, oh so much, these girls of the 90's have made history in my books. I miss them all so much!!
@@rc2605-s9o
absolutely
AMEN
couldn't have said it better
bow down to this perfection :-) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never fails to raise the spirits ❤
Top class all round.
R.I.P. John Jennings 😢
@@rc2605-s9o They had so much class and they dressed nicer too.
The talent assembled on this stage is 2nd to none. Wow.
Arguably the best female artists ever. That drummer was on point, too!
The whole band was.
@@jimaiello750
absolutely !!!! AMEN !!!!!!!
Jerry Douglas as the icing on the cake!
They're good but let's not get crazy. How about Reba, Dolly, Loretta, Shania, Faith, Patsy, Miranda, Crystal, Martina, Tanya, Tammy, Barbara, etc etc
@@rogersmith7808You crossed generations. That one generation had more talent than the others. I look back and wonder why we’ve gone backwards. Yes we have strong female leads in Country but too few. The early/mid 90s were peak. Shania arrived and the landscape changed, ultimately for the worse. 😥
@@katherineroland6008 "best female artists ever" which would include crossing generations. And as far as the genre being better or worse, it's all subjective.
kids this is what REAL country music sounds like
Growing in the 90s, watching my mom leave my dad, i hated this song. As a happily married dad in 2023, I understand it better.
I never ignore my wife's state of being. She's my #1 priority.
Final chorus harmony is glorious.
I don't know how many times I've watched this, and that final chorus never stops giving me goosebumps!
Yes that’s true. The bass line moving differently harmonically too adds much.
Look at all of these incredibly talented goddesses on stage...perfection!
Seven beautiful country stars on one stage!!! Country music can't do THAT today!!! I'm in love! *sigh*!
There ya go. Cool song and all those ladies totally into making it an awesome performance for their annual awards thingy is why this is an in tune classic live event
You can't possibly mean the main singer too, right?
from left to right: Emmylou Harris, Kathy Mattea, Trisha Yearwood, Pam Tillis, Patty Loveless, Suzy Bogguss AND Mary Chapin Carpenter. She was a little stick of DYNAMITE. (and helluva songwriter) The Best.
Song resonates SO strongly. One of the best.
Just count off all those country women stars singing back-up for MCC. THAT is some respect! She was a rocker at heart.
And although she’s not present we can’t forget Rebe McIntyre!
Thank you Jesus. Thank you for making sure that I was born to enjoy this great music in my prime of life.
I read that Mary got the inspiration from the commercial, "my wife, I think I'll keep her".
Yeah. And in typical feminist indoctrinated woman fashion, she raises hell at a harmless commercial from years past of a "white patrichial male oppressing a woman" paranoid delusion narrative, while simultaneously not so much as even blinking an eye at the black male rape of white women epidemic all across the country. Yeah, women's rights, my ass. Behind every feminist is an unapologic race traitor. They're not anti-male, they're anti-WHITE male.
Geritol.
Puts a HUGE smile on my face every time I watch this!
I moved to America in 1996 from Bangladesh, and remember going to Best Buy with my brother who had moved 10 years earlier and was a country fan. He bought the album with this song and would listen to it constantly. But the one that really struck my chord was the First song on the album The Hard Way. Man I just listened to it the other day and it holds up even better!!
My fave on that album is "Only a Dream" I had this kind of relationship with my brother; going thru all the same situations as this song. I will have this played at his funeral. IMO, he walks on water!😁😍
1990’s country was so great.
Agree! I listened to metal back then (still do), but Id secretly listen to country back then (still do).
Thanks Mary for all the great music, hope you know how much it helps the world to hear sounds like that !! Thanks
Country legends. Back when artists could actually sing. Not this pop stuff like today.
To all the Swifties: THIS is how you write an anthem about hating men with style. MCC is a straight-up badass and always has been.
Stop it with the Swift comments, they are both very different artists and it does nothing to bolster MCC to try and contrast her with Swift.
@@Karnakthemagnificent Sit down
Sure Mr 3 likes
@@Karnakthemagnificent Sit
I bet Taylor Swift would be willing to compare bank accounts and I’m not a swift fan
One of the all-time great live country performances. Just wonderful.
I saw Emmylou in Glasgow about 30 years ago and Mary in Edinburgh some years ago
Great to see them together with the other great ladies
Grahame
Wow! Patty Loveless all dolled up! Beautiful.
My now wife's ex husband DIDN'T keep her.. ❤ thank you! Shes the greatest thing that EVER happened to me!
Geez, I love that. These ladies ruled the radio in the early '90s ... they owned Nashville and this proves it! This is so good.
Hell they are all sexy lot of talent on that stage that's a bad ass bunch of women!!! MUCH RESPECT!!!!!!!
Sexy ladies bad ass song and a reminder to know yourself before you marry!!! Seriously that helps
What an incredible group of ferociously talented women. Doesn't get much better than this folks!
She DRIVEs all day, love the way she sings that!
Now, this is country music right here.
The band is MCC's band. This was a Women in Country special that came out in the early 90s. All of these women performed. I used to have it on VHS. I wish I could find it again!!
In case you haven’t found it in the past 9 years. th-cam.com/video/Z47WWKrftts/w-d-xo.htmlsi=EnKbT6puvtIYWAw_
Wow what a lineup! A fan of all these ladies. It would be awesome to go back 30 years and be young again and live through my twenties listening to all of them
Great performance by a great group of women, the little difference in the sound of this version is the Rickenbacher 12 string, love that sound.
Late 80's and early 90s were the Golden Age of Country.. even classics from the 60s and 70s were eclipsed in this era.. and being an 80s baby, I grew up taking great country like this for granted.. never knew it would get so bad so soon
Same here
I did love the 60s and 70s county but the music you grow up with you usually have a better connection with. 80s and 90s is my favorite country time but I was also born in the 80's.
The queens training the young ones -- beautiful
Here 30 years later, and love it even more that I did the first 50 times I listened to it back then!
I love this song. So empowering!
Empowering to leave a guy that did nothing wrong, cause a woman is bored? And the only reason she's bored is because he broke his back to give her everything. Lol. What a buncha worthless ingrates western females are.
One hell of a stage full of talent!!
Where are these ladies in 2023 . ? ❤
Patty Loveless (in yellow) was just inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Trisha Yearwood just released a new single and had a top 20 single in 2019.
love it then,and love it now!
Thank you all for your talent, including the band. Such great memories
Watching again July 2022 and Still Lovin it!!!!!
Good for Mary. That's an all star cast backing her up. And here I thought she was only all about the Twist and Shout.
Listen to John Jennings great Electric Guitar playing ...RIP!!
it doesn't get any better than this
Wow, what a phenomenal performance. And that Rickenbacker sounds🎸🎶🎤
Music needs more Rickenbacker guitars. They produce a sound that Gibson, Fender and Ibanez cannot replicate. The notes are so clean and whole with zero distortion.
@@RyanPetrynka I totally agree🎸🎶
Greatest girls! Patty Loveless was about to have vocal cord surgery right after this and nobody knew it but her husband, and Tony Brown, and of course her "brother" Vince Gill. They were gonna do a duet album together at the time but it never came to be. I remember watching this on CMT as a kid and I feel the same way when I see it now. Just awesome.
One of the few times I prefer the live version of a song to the recorded one.
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Wow!!! Old school!!!! Nothing better. Miss it so much! Patty Loveless and Suzy Baugess I am still in love after all these years!!!
One Word . BRILLIANT ❤❤❤❤❤
watching this award live on tv in Sweden was a moment I never will forget.
The best country song, i love it. Thank you from Russia
such a brilliant song I remember listening to it years ago one of the best country songs
I am a male and totally get the premise of this song....we guys tend to take our ladies for granted at times. I have lost count of how many times I've watched this video. I love it.
That makes two of us Dallas!! I’m almost 35, sober since February 11th 2023 and trying to make peace with my bipolar wife. Wish us luck.
All the very best for the future to you and yours. I hope it works out for you both. 👌
@@Dallas-Nyberg I definitely want it too. I kinda keep my distance when I sense she’s very depressed or when she goes on a manic rant. Music especially from Mary Chapin helps. Have you ever seen her live??? I did in 2016 and I saw Sawyer Brown the night before and got an autograph from them.
Look up ,"tolerable level of unhappiness". This song is a perfect example. Women can now earn enough to have great lives without a man. We want an equal, not another kid of whom we have to parent.
This song is actually about a woman that’s tired of being married and taking care of her family. I guess minimum wage is an improvement over stability.
Of course, the biggest unspoken truth is that most men are turned on by a woman who is assertive, sexy and fun (not a man-pleasing doormat) and all of these women (especially MCC) make that case beautifully.
No we're not, bro lol. We want a woman to be womanly, not exhibit masculine traits. This is why feminists are manless and/or resort to lesbianism and loneliness due to quality men turning them down. Nobody wants a feminist PERIOD!
This is one of my top 100 songs in my life .. Come On Come On one of the best albums of the 90's !
The talent on that stage is staggering!!!
Seven very talented ladies. Fortunate we are here to hear them.
now THAT'S MUSIC! 20 years already, man time flies very fast
i love this song and what a great team of back vocals la cream de la cream, you can hardly get any better...i think!
30 years ago now 😭
Impossible to get better!
I was 11 when this come out 😭 i miss these days
That's a bunch of bad asses!!!
It's hard to believe this was 30 years ago, STILL GREAT 😊
If I had to name the best song from Mary Chapin Carpenter, I would have to go with “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her.” She sang the kind of music I call “coffeehouse country.” Mary had carved out a niche for herself and made it work. You can’t hear her songs on today’s country music stations. A crying shame, that’s what it is. And how about her backup singers!
Wow ! What a cast!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll always be a fan ❤
Without question, one of the best vocal performances ever.
The female OG's of country music
ACC's #32 song of the '94 survey year. Mary-Chapin hit #2 in Billboard, 3-26-94. God bless you, countryback, for postin' it. Have a blessed rest of the week!
Back in ‘94 I drove my daughter back from Texas to CT in her car after she graduated college and we played this album over and over on the drive.
Qué maravilla de canción, hermosas voces con un espectacular respaldo musical con un aire muy rockero.
Que grande es la Chapín Carpenter..
Incombustible y eterna.
Una leyenda viviente del folk rock norteamericano.
Anyone got any idea on obtaining the DVD of this show, its really a keeper
From the 1993 Women of Country special.
The year of my divorce...song was so appropriate....
I was working on Music Row during these years, and personally knew most of these wonderful women. Didn’t realize it at the time, but these were special days. And terrific memories. I was a very fortunate fellow
Absolutely incredible
LOVE! It’s like checking in with old friends.
I just watched Women of Country Loved every moment of it.
Loved it when I first saw this on tv. It was great. I love this and ut was fun trying to id all the ladies.😂❤😂❤
You know you've made a positive impact as a new artist when you have these six ladies singing backup for you. Mary Chapin-Carpenter must've felt very overwhelmed while she was recording this song.
I love her music. I love the band. when you're that good you attract the greatest musicians
Oh the talent of the first ladies of county
Such a great time in my life and the music made it over the top ! 68 yrs
One off the best version's ever made brilliant production, wow just brilliant.
Omg what a line up right there
I recorded the audio this from VHS HiFi back in the day. That audio recording has traveled through my life with me, DCC Digital Tape > DAT Digital Tape > CD > MP3.... With me at every evolution of audio technology. I still play it frequently. Love, love, love it!
You know you got an A list band when you relegate Mark O'conner to acoustic guitar...
I always say that you are only as good as the guys behind you. Band together, Kathleen
I agree, Mark O'Conner n Jerry Douglas, Lotta talent on that stage.
@@algatte2441And they just like playing on awesome songs!!!
I was sitting in a "Gentleman's Club" when this song came on for the dancer. (35 yrs. ago) That was the LAST time I ever set foot in such a place.
Patty Loveless looks PHENOMENAL.
And Trisha looking in the camera 2:14 Holy Moly
Great song!!!
Well done so much talent ❤
Absolutely best song ever
Absolutely beautiful from an era that was truly the best! Back when the singers were real and had talent, the 80s and 90s will never be paralleled. Thank you for this wonderful video a blast from the past.
I still watch this constantly. Still ❤️ it. Great ladies of country and the song is an anthem for us ladies.
What a lineup of talent and beauty.
Love Mary and her background singers!!!
I've had a crush on Patty Loveless forever! What incredible talent on that stage!
I miss those days in music, pure talent.
Suzy, Patti, Kathy, Pam Tillis, there’s some beautiful woman on that stage 😍
Trisha Yearwood knocked it out of the park singing back up vocals for MARY!! That must of been such an honor!! ❤❤
When country was starting to drift more towards pop but still was country, Mary Chapin Carpenter put out some really good music. I am a Town being my personal favorite of hers 👍🏽