Matt Heckler, "Blue Eyes Dancing," ft. Benjamin Tod // GemsOnVHS™
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- In a very special edition here, we find Matt Heckler (formerly of Deep Chatham) teaming up with Benjamin Tod (of Lost Dog street band) to play a tune of Matt's on the porch. Not just any porch, however. This is the house where Guy Clark used to live, and later Townes Van Zandt. Some parts of Heartworn Highways were filmed here. Benjamin is friends with Townes daughter, and filming on that porch just felt dang right.
Matt himself is one of those artists who can hold an entire room with a solo performance. His voice reaches and booms, and his fiddle playing accompanies that voice perfectly fine. The way he holds his fiddle is also of interest - what some may call the "incorrect" or unorthodox way. Doing things really well the wrong way is something we encourage here, for sure, and old time has a long tradition of it. Here's an excerpt from a great article on chest level playing -
"There are two striking habits that appear among a considerable number of old-time fiddlers: their tendency to hold the fiddle against their chest rather than the classical way, and their tendency to hold the bow in all sort of weird ways, often gripping it away from the frog. For a classically trained violinist the image of someone playing this way is alien. However, these habits among old-time fiddlers should not be seen as restricting or simply wrong. I believe they are deeply meaningful and rooted in legitimate stylistic and musical aspirations."
Learn more here;
www.learningfid...
You can listen to this field recording on Spotify (open.spotify.c...) and on all other streaming platforms. You can follow Matt on Instagram at @mattheckler and Ben at @benjamintodmusic.
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When a musician sounds even better live and raw than they do in a studio, you realize the pure genius of their talent.
Matt and Ben are exactly that.
Nick shoulders is the same way
@Chauncey Bilton no one cares except maybe your gf
@Chauncey Bilton pretty weird man
Is this real music!!!???
THIS is what the world now needs more of
what the world, needs now, is love, sweet love.
GemsOnVHS very true
J.D Lawhon so. Fuxking. Good.
Damn right
Damn right
You know it’s good when you’ve only got a fiddle and a guitar and it sounds like a full band
need the violin back in here
Don't forget to give props to the sound engineers!
Ain’t that the truth
Fiddle paired with banjo or guitar creates a sound bigger than the sum of their parts.
@@zachb8012Fiddle and banjo are the two loudest of the traditional bluegrass instruments.
This has quickly became one of my all time favorite songs.
Mine too
Your a hottie
@@christopherchimp9615 thank you
You need to hear some new songs
You can copy and paste this on all this channels videos and you'd be right
Benjamin always give me hope. Theres something about that guy
I know that shit crazy maybe he's a angel lol he's on every play list I got check out (life ain't sweet )
Word.
Hes awesome I had the privilege to meet and hangout with him in Charlotte saw lost dog and a couple other bands play then after the show all the bands got together and went to a shed and they all played together all night me and 2 of my friends were the only ones there listening to them all was probably 12 to 15 people in there playing all together it was a really amazing night
@@charliejenkins7314 lucky man you are, Charlie Jenkins.
Have you looked into his back story? He’s been saved by music and people he’s had the good fortune of stumbling upon. It’s pretty inspiring what he’s been through to still end up where he is now.
My brother passed five months ago, he introduced me to this song... I'm so happy to have it as a sort of theme song for our last few months together. It's beautiful
💜
That's beautiful brotha
We go hard in the hills
He's forever at your back.. but don't forget life is at your front
Every time I hear the Lost Dog SB.. I go back to my days in Martin County and Inez when I had to cross the river between Beauty and Lovely on that one lane bridge to go to work at the mine in Mingo up Marrow Bone. It was around 75.. 76.. I was always stoned.. and there was a tavern where this old girl made cherry pies. I'd just buy me a whole pie and listen to them hill jacks play while I ate. It was a scream and the corn liquor was the best you ever had. They say when you die.. you go back to the times when you were the happiest. If that's true.. I'll be back up that holler again. Thank yee fellers.
Absolutely. I’m from Inez as well and i couldn’t have said it better myself
Yeah I hear ya keep on keeping on
I think you might have a song in that paragraph Snuffy or at least part of one.
@@eddiepeet492
Thats what I'm a thinkin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Especially this part.............
"They say when you die.. you go back to the times when you were the happiest. If that's true.. I'll be back up that holler again"
Perfect.
Benjamin Todd is so humble “I fell in love with his music, I guess he liked mine”
The two of them are the most down to earth guys I have ever had the privilege of talking to
This was the song my wife son and I walked out of our wedding to!
I've lived in a city for a long time now. This song makes me want to move back home, to the mountains. Music takes you where words cannot. Thanks for the amazing music.
Where ya from originally
Amen brother, mountains is our only friends, the older I get the more accurate it gets
Man I know. I want to go back to the farm I grew up on in Alabama. Money social status luxury it's over rated boys. Bout had my feel of it. However my children lol and wife. Nah it's the
Cement hell for me now. After they get out of school be on the next thing to LA. Lower Alabama. I want to float down the Alabama and Tombigbee again about midnight with jugs catching yellowcat bugs eating you alive cricket rock band blaring not one human sound or light for miles. See a kids face bloodied 3rd weekend in Nov there Daddy re telling the story over and over with pride. Or hear some beagles hot on a cane cutter, ok thunder chicken gobbling his head off before daylight about this time of year. Cold beer crawfish dirt roads cutting a switch and War Eagle!! The greatest times of my life and I just wanted out. Now I just want to be back in the land of cotton.
The world needed this union
The fiddle player has really let herself go... Come on, I'm just kidding! Great tune and great talent from Gems, as usual!
cocaines a helluva drug
Mattshley Maeckler
I'd smash.
LMAO
I laughed really hard at this, thanks pal. :)
I've literally listened to this 100 times today alone. And the day ain't over.
Camron Fox so about 346 times you could listen to this in a day 😀
That’s my boy!
I watch this anytime I need to feel better about anything
The guy on the fiddle is killing it. Love Benjamin Tod too
Her name is Ashley Mae. She doesn't look the same anymore though...
She goes by Matt now.
Evan Daniels how brave of her
oh you buggers, you made me spit coffee all over my laptop now...!! lol..
It's dripping down the screen like the tears of laughter running down my cheeks...
Matt Heckler is so good man..
For 20 years I've listened to strictly electronic based music. Then, divorce, stolen dogs etc. September Doves was my first intro to back REAL music, with real and honest lyrics. He prolly won't read this, But f it, Thank You Benjamin. Your pen saved me.
No matter how rubbish my day has been I can sit down with a whiskey, listen to gem and it all just melts away. Music is like magic!!! Love it!!
September doves is a hell of a song
All music that moves your soul is real, be it top 40 or eclectic, letting the music grip, tame and guide your soul is the best of lifes dirty pleasures.
I listen to everything, I find my moods arnt content with one type of anything...but living in blueridge, this shit speaks to my soul
Welcome back.
Adore this...one of my daily listens. 💗 As a punk rocker it took me years to embrace my Appalachian roots but now I love this kind of music now
Same bro, started off with Black Flag and Minor Threat to Matt Heckler and other bluegrass artists
I'll chime in as the third. I love bands like social d, alkaline trio, and no use for a name but find these boys got it too
Trust me when I say I’ve searched TH-cam upside down, and I can’t find another piece of music even remotely close to this masterpiece.
Who in the hell gave this a thumbs down?! This is beautiful
RHEC618 they just missed the like button bro😂
@Heather Cremins umm whats a lil yachty ....lol
Probably had their phone upside down.
People with no Soul that’s who.
Most of the friends that I have now, I disliked when I first met them.
Still pissed me off when he said he didn’t like Ben at first
I drove up my local mountain with a beloved friend and a couple beers I remember playing this song breathing in the fresh air walking thru a small meadow and the forest. Perfect song to a perfect moment live life and love each other people
1luvcuzzin🧡
I hope we can see some more of him in the future! Matt playing with Benjamin sounds so natural.
more of them both is coming down the line
Hell Yea!
I really hope so
Don't leave me hangin
From a willow tree
Honey cut me down
Cause I cant breath
I'm up the mountain
I ain't coming down
No you wont see me
Around your town
I'm high and lonesome
I'm runnin dry
I'm givin up
On gettin by
So come home honey
Don't ya make me beg
Take out your fiddle
Tune up and play
And I know its hard
When the sun goes down
To be alone
On shaky ground
Go get some matches
And kerosene
We'll burn it down, honey
Run out and leave
I'll bleed out slowly
In my Sunday vest
When you come around
In that Sunday dress
With your blue eyes dancin
Drawin me in
And sideways glancin
Honey where've you been
I know its hard
When the sun goes down
To be alone
On shaky ground
Go get some matches
And kerosene
We'll burn it down, honey
Run out and leave
Don't leave me hangin
From a willow tree
Honey cut me down
Cause I cant breath
I'm up the mountain
I ain't coming down
No you wont see me
Around your town
I know its hard
When the sun goes down
To be alone
On shaky ground
Go get some matches
And kerosene
We'll burn it down, honey
Run out and leave
I know its hard
When the sun goes down
To be alone
On shaky ground
Go get some matches
And kerosene
We'll burn it down, honey
Run out and leave
Still gives me cold chills to this day
I've been listening to Ben for YEARS. I just found this/Matt yesterday. I cannot stop listening...
Man ran across this song two weeks ago on TH-cam music and when im down and feeling blue I throw this on repeat and ill be dance and smiling by the third time
The world needs more music like this, stuff you can actually feel in your bones. Much respect!
Going on four years now, we’ve been blessed with this helluva duo of folk musicians! Cheers y’all to being blessed with the ability to be surrounded by such awesome music!
After a 10 hour day in the sun. This is a blissfull breeze
I know the feeling. Check out Tom Proudfit channel
Got stoned and here I am
I did the same thing an now I‘m here 3 times I‘m here.
Today for the first time with legal weed 😃
Two years later and im here cause im.stoned heard a bunch of Benjamin now I'm going for the one I haven't heard
Welcome, wontcha stay a while
We all did😂
Samsies
Saw Matt open for Lost Dog in Louisville KY and was blown away. Saw this video and was blown away. This man is music.
This song is a prayer answered to me. Asking God to show me how to live and how to ease my pain that I've carried for so long. Watching these 2 men share there passion for music has inspired me to let people back in my life.
I can't stop playing this. Its practically been on repeat. Both Ben and Matt are so easy to listen to. 👌 Give us more guys!
Same. I've been listening to this(and other stuff from Matt and from Lost Dog street band) for almost two years now, lol.
@@sharkydog6306 Same!!! And it doesn't get old, I keep coming back.
The talent of these 2 are off the charts!
At work welding in Barnesville Ohio. It's hot n muggy here so ol Ben t'z music goes right along with my day, cheers😎
Everything goes away when I listen to this, puts me in a place I can't describe... Totally magical, I've heard it 100rd times. Never changes the feelings of hearing it.
My 5yr old son listened to this for the first time tonight he said, daddy "this is the only song I like, its good music how do those guys sound so good" made me happy!
he has good taste
Gems On VHS is the new Alan Lomax. Thank you all so much for what you are doing for the music of our generation.
thank you buddy. that's high praise.
Accurate!
@@GemsOnVHSjust need to be more prolific like he was! Your channel saved my life when I got sober months before the pandemic and I had to adapt to a series of huge upheavals, even beyond my quitting and society totally restructuring. Can't possibly thank you enough for introducing me to both of these artists, without whom I very well may have given up in 2020 and not lived to have seen this day.
This sound is tearfully beautiful.
I've loved music like this all my life, and I'm over 50.I still remember when I purchased my first Doc Watson record and attended my first bluegrass feastival. The last few years this music has really caught on with a lot of people. It's refreshing when what's on the radio and the pop charts, and even worse what's on country radio stations, is really awful.
Maybe it's because these guys have a punk/metal background which is where most of my roots are in terms of what influenced me musically in my younger years, and so they truly know and appreciate the power that can come from simplicity, but either way, this song feels so powerful despite it literally being a 6-1-5-1 progression THE ENTIRE WAY THROUGH. so simple yet it rocks me even after the 100th time listening. well done Matt
I don’t think it was simple! Nothing simple about it!!
Know wat you mean ithought same first hearing this..its bootn it
“What’ll it be fellas, mustard or ketchup?”
Whiskey
Loved Deep Chatham! I discovered them busking in Monument Square in Portland, ME like 16 years ago and bought their CD. I still listen to it.
I still listen once a week. Great tune from great musicans🤘🤘🤘🤘😎
I play this everytime I go back to granite Oklahoma. Where most of my childhood was spent.
I found out about Benjamin Todd because my brothers buddy was at a alcohol store and ran into him in there and ever since I’ve been listening to this guy.
I just keep coming back to this
The way they edit the hard strum when Matt says, "I drank 16 beers," is art in its own.
Saw Matt open for The Lost Dog Street Band in Madison back in May and was absolutely blown away by his voice and talent. When he stepped on stage I didnt know what to expect but once he started singing I was blown away. Seeing him get any kind of platform warms my heart. When I saw him I fell in love with his music and between sets I bought every bit of merchandise he was selling for himself because I wanted to support him (also his music isnt available online and i needed that now!). I also got a chance to speak to him briefly and he is just a genuinely cool dude.
he sure is a cool dude. im sure he will get his music online here soon.
This collaboration is just absolutely amazing.. we need more!
Real damn music... vibrates the bones of my very soul. I play clawhammer banjo and jam along to this song every day. Thank you Ben, Matt and GemsOnVHS! You all are bringing more good to this world than you could Imagine, keep following your spirits, and keep playing your hearts out for the world to hear!
What are the chords they sound like bm (I might be confusing it with dm right now I had a few drinks) d and a?
After realizing I wrote d definitely bm lol
I'd honestly have given a years salary to have been on that porch for this entire day.
I really love how they are keeping the tradition alive!
So much soul and just overall genuine human emotion in this! Makes you feel alive!
I really can't explain how happy I am to have seen both of y'all in Nashville and smoking a cigarette with Matt after he played. Honestly one of the best moments of my life to be able to meet legends in the making.
I sat and talked with him in Tulsa and I totally get it. Such a down to earth dude as well.
This is my all time favorite recording gems has ever brought us. Thank you so much for this Anthony Ben and Matt!
i used to listen to this w my friends..... i miss having friends
im your friend
@@GemsOnVHS Things like this make you my favorite! Haha.
Man there's just something extra in Matt and Ben's playing that I don't think any amount of hard work or practice can achieve unless you're Matt and Ben. It's like there's a whole other set of lyrics to this song that are being sung through their instruments. The words tell you the general story, the instruments fill in the details. Gems on VHS couldn't be more appropriately named. These two truly are rare gems in this world
I drove 4 hours 1 way to see Lost Dog's first performance in Lincoln Nebraska. Matt was one of their openers and he was one of the most humble and fun guys to see perform. Talking to him after the set you could just feel how much he loves his music. Can't wait to hear more from him!
hot off the press! great song! love the description! Rest in Peace Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt!
I just keep coming back to this song
Can't believe how good this is! If I would have discovered this kinda music sooner I probably wouldn't have gone through such a large portion of my life telling people I hate country music
Beautiful , enjoying from the heart of Appalachia
Wow there are some really good vibes.
The fact they don't have a duo album is a shame great artist
I wish Matt would put his stuff online. I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
same. it's a work in progress - i'm talking to him about getting his new stuff out.
His new album just released today on Bandcamp
Know it's an old comment, but if you didn't see it's even on Spotify now!
One of my favorite songs of all time.
Heck I love this song can’t stop listening to it
Wow, it's been 2 years already? And yet, still I come back to this song.
Chords: B-D-A-D
Lyrics:
Don't leave me hanging
From the willow tree
Honey cut me down
Cause I can't breath
Climb up the mountain
I ain't coming down
No you won't see me
Around your town
I'm high and lonesome
and I'm running dry
Not giving up
On getting by
So come on honey
Won't you make me beg
Take out your fiddle
Tune up and play
Cause I know it's hard
When the sun goes down
To be alone
On shaking grounds
We'll get some matches
And kerosene
We'll burn it down honey
Burn out and leave
I'll bleed out slowly
In my Sunday vest
When you come around
In that Sunday Dress
Your blue eyes dancing
Drawing me in
With sideways glances
Honey where you been
I know it's hard
When the sun goes down
To be alone
On shaking grounds
We'll get some matches
And kerosene
We'll burn it down honey
Burn out and leave
I know it's hard
When the sun goes down
To be alone
On shaking grounds
We'll get some matches
And kerosene
We'll burn it down honey
Burn out and leave
Thanks for the chords
I think its "I've given up on getting by"
Thank you
The B is a minor cord. Ben plays with a capo on second fret in C. So from there the cords are C, Am, C, then G. the order and changes change a bit in the chorus. I've been obsessed with this song for over a month now, so I had to sit by the fire and figure it out one night. Good luck trying to make it sound as good as these guys. Ben is a Hell of a rhythm picker. And Matt is matt! Have fun trying tho
Ya I just try to do a 'cover' with my own rhythm cause he's too good! thanks for the chords
Amazing performer, one of the few people that sounds even better live. The recording doesn’t do his voice justice, he has an incredible bellowing sound. That and seeing Matt playing the fiddle live is a real show
Still a fantastic track in 2019!!
love love love this.... style, its calllll style! distinct beautiful life enrichening style!
hey folks, we're on instagram. @gemsonvhs and @lostdogstreetband
GemsOnVHS I believe I owe you a debt of gratitude. Your channel has introduced me to more amazing, heartfelt, incredible artists than I could have ever asked for. Thank-you so much, truly, for all of the amazing music you have shared.
Thanks for all this great music GemsOnVHS. I found a lost dog video of yours called green eyed gal. Been addicted to lost dog and your channel since. Has prolly saved my life to be serious. But anyways, thanks a lot man. It's appriciated wholeheartedly.
shit thanks panther
thanks buddy, not quite a genius but we definitely know good music when we hear it.. cheers, love the UK and Ireland, can't wait to go back.
GemsOnVHS how the hell can I meet Benjamin Todd like for real he has changed my life
I keep coming back to this video When I need a small sip of life. Always use it as a trampoline into fun porch/bonfire hang outs.
Bless these two.
I drank 16 beers
This is where it’s at. So much love
Don't leave me hanging from the willow tree
Honey cut me down cos I can't breathe
I'm up the mountain ain't coming down
No you won't see me around your town
I'm high and lonesome I'm running dry
I've given up on getting by
So come home honey don't you make me beg
Take out your fiddle tune up an play
And I know its hard when the sun gos down
To be alone on shaking grounds
Go get some matches and kerosene we'll burn it down honey
Burn out and leave
I'll bleed out slow my Sunday vest
You come around in Sunday dress
Your blue eyes dancing drag me in
Sideways glances honey where u been
And I know its hard when the sun gos down
To be alone on shaking grounds
Go get some matches and kerosene we'll burn it down honey
Burn out and leave
Don't leave me hanging from the willow tree
Honey cut me down cos I can't breathe
I'm up the mountain ain't coming down
No you won't see me around your town
And I know its hard when the sun gos down
To be alone on shaking grounds
Go get some matches and kerosene we'll burn it down honey
Burn out and leave....(x2)....
billy bong thanks so much, was waiting for somebody to find the words. I’ll get it up on UltimateGuitar with chords now
I was sitting here listening trying to figure out the cords by ear. First I thought it was in G straight to Am. But if you listen to the changes it sounds like rhythm in the cord of C. C then Em I believe then bounces between G and C with the occasional F toward the end of the verse. Not had a chance to try and play it yet but I feel like that should be pretty close. Could also be an Am instead of Em. Ben playing this definitely gives it incredible drive. Ben is a Hell of a rhythm player. As well as Matt sawing the shit outta that fiddle!
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I think is Sunday best, not vest
Always find myself coming back to this version. Helps a guy stay out of the darkness. God bless
Matt Heckler's got a great voice! Amazing. Not that Benjamin Tod isn't also fantastic. In fact, it is weird to hear him be backing vocals seeing as how he's so great a singer.
I'm into metal but stangely, really digging this folk music.
Folk and blues is the original metal ! Gotta love it haha
Words can’t describe how much I love your all’s music.. it’s breathtaking
Hey y’all, this field recording is now available to stream on our spotify. Check it out here:
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Songs like this hit me in my soul for some reason. It calls back to family I never knew that stilled in the mountains and woods here in Tennessee, and grandparents that ran barefoot through small backwoods towns in old jeans and t-shirts.
Fcking love america. Thank god for this 🔥
this is how it is in canada too
The US is still the source of the best music in every genre. Britain had it going on for a while, but those days are over.
I just picked up the fiddle because of Matt's music 💚 would love to learn this one day.
I saw him play in Minneapolis. I bought his CD and I haven’t taken it out of the CD player in my car since May. Love you, Matt!
damn not even i got a CD
If you can get one, do it! its totally worth it!!!
Which one did you get? I just bought his "Heckler's Lament" at his most recent concert, but I'm kicking myself for not buying his first album. Trying to find it. I'll trade you digital files if you have the first one! lol
Jeff I got both Katskillachia and Hecklers Lament!
Would you be willing to help a fellow music lover out? Could you send me Katskillachia if I gave you my email.? I can't find any of his albums anywhere on line. :(
Always come back to this. Just can't get enough!
More Matt Heckler please! This guy opened for Lost Dog in Chicago a while back and I’ve been yearning to hear more by this man.
more on the way i promise.
@@GemsOnVHSThank you for all the videos you put out, I have found so much to relate to. How does a hobo, like myself, work with your productions?( recording and hanging out?) I got pitch?
th-cam.com/video/SQrxS70uPXg/w-d-xo.html
"Morning Sun" Joshua Simons.
My late wife and I wrote it about our homeless friends in Ft. Collins Colorado. It's about seeing your street family in the morning and knowing everyone made it through to the next day.
Please let me know what you think.
When th3 fuck was lost dog in chicago im gonna shoot myself in the foot.
They have a show coming up in Chicago next month at Reggie’s!
Is there a way to buy Matt Heckler's stuff? I'm kicking myself for only buying one of his albums at Lost Dog's most recent concert!
Hello Matt and Ben canada loves your music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This should get 600 million views
thank you for making real music.
This should be on Spotify. Real crime.
In 2019 I find this to be bangin
I keep humming this song out of the blue and I have to keep coming back here every few months.. Matt Heckler is becoming a favorite..love his style. Excited for his new album on itunes.
This is absolutely incredible
DUDE!!... The way Bens guitar and voice goes with Matt. It sounds majestic!
Bring back the Appalachian south.
Hell yeah
@@traditionalfascists3303 it never went nowhere. been here all along
Bring it back? You think it left? Son, Appalachia will never die. Promise
I finally got to see both you guys in Nashville. I even got to smoke a cigarette with Matt after he played. Please y'all gotta keep this up. This is a revival of what music should be.
best vid in an age, incredible tune.
The more Heckler I listen to the more I like it. Great artists. Had the pleasure to see both live front row. Impressive sound a lyrics from both.