Why We Build the Wall - Anaïs Mitchell | Live from Here with Chris Thile

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  • @mypanoramiclife
    @mypanoramiclife 5 ปีที่แล้ว +326

    It's insane that she wrote this almost 10 years ago, the song's relevance now.......chills.......

    • @clarinamascarenhas7499
      @clarinamascarenhas7499 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It wasn't meant to be literal. People are just bastards.

    • @Yusuf-fs4fn
      @Yusuf-fs4fn 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kind of the story of human history and literary archetypes. Doesn't even apply to Trump well.

    • @totlyepic
      @totlyepic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      She wrote it in 2006, actually. She said so in the Tiny Desk that recently aired.

    • @frbe0101
      @frbe0101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      SCARY AS FUCK!

  • @azaleajanemusic
    @azaleajanemusic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +365

    Thank you Olly Thorn (Philosophy Tube) for exposing me to this song!
    Thank you Anaïs Mitchell for writing it!
    I really legitimately want this to be an antifascist anthem now. It's so good.

    • @bengrillet
      @bengrillet 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Trouble is, those who would most benefit from an understanding of the irony in these lyrics, it simply flies over their heads - whoosh!
      I witnessed a tragic comment exchange elsewhere below a performance of this song, and this guy was raving about how right it was, and how that's exactly why we need to build the wall, to keep our the poor who want our stuff, etc. People tried to explain but it was no use. Just makes you want to weep.

    • @cjhunt9532
      @cjhunt9532 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      same

    • @wdirtymonkey
      @wdirtymonkey 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Most people get it though. Surely..

    • @alangivre2474
      @alangivre2474 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@bengrillet my racist aunt grandma thought it was serious :S

    • @kilimenjiro3753
      @kilimenjiro3753 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@bengrillet I just saw the show on Broadway and some folks walked out of the theater after this song.

  • @TrollCatcher2010
    @TrollCatcher2010 7 ปีที่แล้ว +277

    Made me cry this time. This is THE protest song. Accidental. Written before the wall was even an idea. Exceedingly prescient. Anais Mitchell is a genius. Come play in London??

    • @Sam-qf5pq
      @Sam-qf5pq 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      TrollCatcher2010 its in london right now!! (with probably the best cast ever haha)

    • @Aresftfun
      @Aresftfun 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      the ruling class will always use nationalism to build more walls. walls between neighbors and walls of the mind and walls of the price of rent. It's all walls

    • @charaboehm9214
      @charaboehm9214 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I don't believe this protest song was accidental. Even if the writing pre-dates the current situation, societies and despots who have more have long created "walls" to keep people with less out - and control the people within.

    • @QuikVidGuy
      @QuikVidGuy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      it was written in 2009. The Wall has been an idea for decades.

    • @robertarisz8464
      @robertarisz8464 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Chinese wall, Hadrian's wall, Berlin wall... The idea and practice of walls have been around for a looooooooong time.
      But leave it to pumpkin head to come up with ancient solutions for current problems.

  • @gharcourt1
    @gharcourt1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Anais is maybe the most under-appreciated face on the contemporary music scene. She is a real treasure!~

  • @Ring0fSaturn
    @Ring0fSaturn 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    This song is so poetically powerful and beautifully sad. Thank you Chris Thile for inviting Anaïs Mitchell to lead this fine performance.

  • @IanAlmond
    @IanAlmond 8 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    Saw her for the first time in Nottingham the night after Trump was elected and she played this song. A mesmeric performer - she connected instantly with the audience and every song is played with genuine feeling and that twitchy energy she exudes.

    • @vicredshaw1155
      @vicredshaw1155 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      damn , how come I keep missing great gigs like this in Nottingham ?

  • @jrwasco1978
    @jrwasco1978 8 ปีที่แล้ว +390

    Eerily contemporary for an anti-propaganda satire written about 7 years ago

    • @adamp3223
      @adamp3223 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Art is never about the present.

    • @KingoftheJuice18
      @KingoftheJuice18 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Prescient.

    • @tmarritt
      @tmarritt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Still relevant, sorry to say. English boy here from Billy brag

    • @Yusuf-fs4fn
      @Yusuf-fs4fn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@tmarritt it will always be relevant

    • @99meimnot
      @99meimnot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello from the future.

  • @kenb521
    @kenb521 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    OMG! Congratulations on winning the Tony Award for Best Original Score - Music and Lyrics for Hadestown. I'd mostly knew you for your folk music years, being an old folky from the sixties. I'm stunned to see you so sophisticated and professional. How wonderful someone so lovely and so talented as you should make it all the way to the top!!!

  • @MobiusHighway
    @MobiusHighway 8 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    This gave me serious goosebumps about twenty hours ago. One of the most perfect things I've ever heard.

    • @wupeide
      @wupeide 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      eh... not that great... were you smoking at the time ;)

    • @MobiusHighway
      @MobiusHighway 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't think I could handle watching PHC if I was toasted. I'd be so mellow I'd die.

    • @robtherub
      @robtherub 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Harley T. Johnson proper songwriting, fairly rare these days

    • @felixeisenmenger1914
      @felixeisenmenger1914 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Im listening to this high and you are not far off.

  • @sleeping885
    @sleeping885 4 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    As a German, this is so reminiscent of the way the "neccesity" of the Berlin wall / hard border between East and West Germany was justified by the GDR government. Mesmerizing.

    • @Rackergen
      @Rackergen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is especially how the border around Europe is justified by roundabout every politician.

    • @chriss780
      @chriss780 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      to be fair any excuse to shoot random Germans is funny though, you guys really did have it coming.

  • @SuperBSmeter
    @SuperBSmeter 8 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    You had me at "Sung by Hades of the underworld and Cerberus..."

  • @TheWildheartmuse
    @TheWildheartmuse 7 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Hadestown is amazing. The more I listen the more I love it. I want everyone to hear it! Thank you!

    • @em5522
      @em5522 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lesli D A cover for it just randomly showed on my recommended lists. I've never heard of it before and now I'm hooked :D

  • @southamericanredneck9471
    @southamericanredneck9471 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This song gives me the chills, so spookily prophetic....

  • @trebor3377
    @trebor3377 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I remember reading a review of the Hadestown record which referred to Greg Brown's "subterranean" vocals as Hades. He knocks this song out of the park on the record for anyone who hasn't heard it. Greg was such a big part of PHC, hearing this wonderful performance brought this back to mind.

    • @wdirtymonkey
      @wdirtymonkey 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just listened to it. Chills.

  • @avvvqvvv99
    @avvvqvvv99 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Anaïs is the best, Hadestown is the album of our times.

  • @MsPammyhammy
    @MsPammyhammy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Amazing piece. And props to Chris. He just slides into everything like he's played it 1000 times.

  • @comradegarrett1202
    @comradegarrett1202 5 ปีที่แล้ว +280

    who's here from p-tube

    • @AbMaSync
      @AbMaSync 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Present, wait, you're not taking attendance are you?

    • @comradegarrett1202
      @comradegarrett1202 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@AbMaSync nah just vying for internet points really

    • @CaptainHoers
      @CaptainHoers 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      don't play with matches

    • @WarMomPT
      @WarMomPT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      YOU'RE NOT JUST DEALING WITH A NORMAL FASCIST KAKAROT
      I HAVE REALISED THE LEGEND

    • @TheGoblinoid
      @TheGoblinoid 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Concerns have been raised

  • @chelseapoet3664
    @chelseapoet3664 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I've only just discovered her and this may sound audacious but to me this song is on a level with some of Dylan's best protest songs.

  • @punchbrothers
    @punchbrothers หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks so much for watching clips of Live From Here, if you enjoy this checkout Chris Thile and Punch Brothers new musical variety show, The Energy Curfew Music Hour. Season one is streaming here: bit.ly/ecmh-season1

  • @bryntendo
    @bryntendo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This song never fails to give me goosebumps

  • @sonmihae-joo6286
    @sonmihae-joo6286 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Thank you so much for using this great song Olly, so glad I know it now.
    To anyone wondering why this comment section is suddenly full of people mentioning Philosophy Tube, go check out his latest video on Steve Bannon, it is bonkers !

  • @ChristiRich
    @ChristiRich 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I'm still tuning in and enjoying these shows each weekend. It seems like Chris Thile is imitating Garrison Keillor's vocal style and character, and I hope that he eventually finds his own voice for the show.

  • @dodt14
    @dodt14 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    a song written before its time and so relevant today!

  • @ramonselby
    @ramonselby 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    What a wonderful piece of music. Wonderful band, too.

  • @faucetsrunning
    @faucetsrunning 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The female vocal on this is so fresh and sour!

  • @lauratude5132
    @lauratude5132 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This sounds so beautiful in a lower tone. Chills.

  • @OliviasHands
    @OliviasHands 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can’t stop hearing this now that I have.

  • @DeadWhiteButterflies
    @DeadWhiteButterflies 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm just blown away by this. It's so well put and so painfully true.

  • @kezman74
    @kezman74 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    so glad you posted this, it was my favourite of the night.

  • @colinjohnrudd
    @colinjohnrudd 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great song!!.... wish more folk wrote this kind of stuff.

  • @jacquelinecadwgan4633
    @jacquelinecadwgan4633 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I only heard this song first time today - chills me to the bone

  • @carolinaarroyo9117
    @carolinaarroyo9117 7 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I wish Leonard Cohen had recorded the Hades part in this song, it would fit his voice.

  • @garychap8384
    @garychap8384 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Now THAT was amazing! I don't want to hear it sung by anyone else... perfect as it is ; )

  • @frankrusselldesign7563
    @frankrusselldesign7563 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I came here after hearing Billy Bragg's version. This is awesome.

  • @jannatnoor5816
    @jannatnoor5816 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    it came in my feed a few tears after i first listened to it, and i can not remember why I listened to it initially, but something led me to it. maybe a reference in a fiction

  • @joshtimmons7332
    @joshtimmons7332 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Sarah Jarosz on backup vocals. She is another great artist

  • @kelgrrl
    @kelgrrl 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Love her. Love this.

    • @pseudop0d
      @pseudop0d 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This song is so good I had to look it up. I guess I wasn't the only one.

  • @filiptomic8531
    @filiptomic8531 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How do I keep accidentally coming across Chris Thile. First Punch Brothers, then with Vulpeck, now with Anais Mitchell

  • @lorinafshun6961
    @lorinafshun6961 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    LOVE!

  • @SusanGarriques
    @SusanGarriques 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Excellent!!! WooHoo!!!

  • @bobbailey5072
    @bobbailey5072 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Amazing.

  • @maggyfoster8699
    @maggyfoster8699 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I got chills

  • @mclmrtn
    @mclmrtn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    She seems lovely

  • @brianbailey7128
    @brianbailey7128 ปีที่แล้ว

    Deep lyrics here. I had heard the version that you spoke of - with the lower voice. Thanks for sharing.

  • @jganske9720
    @jganske9720 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Chris u are so crazy, and I love it. jack white and your music, I love I love! thank u!

  • @stephanmichaels7215
    @stephanmichaels7215 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brilliant. So prescient.

  • @emgee44
    @emgee44 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've watched various versions of this song: NPR Tiny Desk, her solo performance on a couch in a field, the cast version sung in a studio, even Billy Bragg. No matter how many times I hear it, its still just as powerful.

  • @MattRosemier1
    @MattRosemier1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    WOW! You rock!

  • @wdchrismon
    @wdchrismon 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So apt.

  • @cindypeterson227
    @cindypeterson227 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing!!!

  • @sparkizoidful
    @sparkizoidful 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Saw her last night - she's great!!

  • @iamhayes9317
    @iamhayes9317 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    what a great song!

  • @MemTMCR
    @MemTMCR 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love how this entire video is a second shorter than what seems to be the official version of the song

  • @Scribblerjohnny
    @Scribblerjohnny ปีที่แล้ว

    Ive been looking for this!

  • @billbernhard3582
    @billbernhard3582 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Who do we call the 'enemy' ? We call the enemy "poverty" ! Only prosperity can set us free !

  • @aureateblues
    @aureateblues 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I. Love. This video.

  • @paperclover
    @paperclover 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is so different from the Broadway recording, I love both though

  • @Mike-ms6he
    @Mike-ms6he 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    simply stunning

  • @alexhenry9256
    @alexhenry9256 8 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Jaysus, I'm gonna have to start listening to PHC again. These guests (and the house band) are basically my playlists and pandora stations.
    Great job so far!

  • @Liero1234
    @Liero1234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Sort of sounds like it's Persephone singing instead of Hades, and her view on it. More sympathetic and more of a kind and peaceful communal indoctrination.

  • @lukusr
    @lukusr 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You go cousin!

  • @talkingalltimechina9678
    @talkingalltimechina9678 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    To work to your hearts content in utter insanity while possessing such skill. If that is all you want. So shall you recieve.

  • @robertbristow-johnson6362
    @robertbristow-johnson6362 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    prophetic

  • @roodsandreeds2015
    @roodsandreeds2015 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Such a great song, heard it first as a cover by Billy Bragg on a German music festival and was touched at once, but Anais's own version is even better!

  • @schr4nz
    @schr4nz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In a way, to me, it's kind of funny reading comments saying "wow, it's almost she predicted this..." ... guys, this separation of humanity is as old as time itself, it goes back to the early days of civilisation, and pre-civilisation when we lived in tribes, if anything, the way we behave in a modern political context only shows how far we haven't come, how much we haven't achieved, and how far we have to go...

  • @85sparrowhawk
    @85sparrowhawk 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    She clearly stated at the beginning that this song is sung by Hades of the underworld and his minions.

  • @stevencorley3296
    @stevencorley3296 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    music starts at 1:10

  • @v.b.vallennes2928
    @v.b.vallennes2928 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    CHILLS

  • @RickReiley
    @RickReiley 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Such a fine, fine piece of work! Thanks!

  • @ryno4ever433
    @ryno4ever433 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Noone would have thought that the wall would become a literal threat

  • @abbanjo13
    @abbanjo13 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Philosophy tube sent me here.

    • @wdirtymonkey
      @wdirtymonkey 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I listened to the whole Hadestown album last night, it's beautiful, especially Wedding Song at the beginning - and of course this one.

    • @abbanjo13
      @abbanjo13 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@wdirtymonkey I'll have to check it out. I have yet to listen to it.

    • @sjk7467
      @sjk7467 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah he just played a short snippet but I knew instantly I had to hear the whole thing

  • @scottmarsh2991
    @scottmarsh2991 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Song starts around 1:09

  • @rath60
    @rath60 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Here because of olly from philosophy tube.

  • @kilimenjiro3753
    @kilimenjiro3753 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    People in this comments section who can't seem to handle the fact that a) the song is not about Trump and in fact pre-dates him a good ten years and b) the song is satirical and as written and performed is literally sung by the God of the Underworld and therefore should not be taken as serious recommendation of policy are really, really stupid.

  • @shnootch
    @shnootch 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I know she's not dolly, but this song and her singing have me thinking of 'joleene'. love dolly, btw...

  • @wyrm1899
    @wyrm1899 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    greg brown is phenomenal but this really has a whole other vibe that im really digging..

    • @JustJoeT
      @JustJoeT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      On my first hearing of this awesome anthem, it's sung by Greg Brown ... with whom I glommed on it

  • @redd9493
    @redd9493 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    music starts at 1:10!

  • @kaethanaalba
    @kaethanaalba 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Гениальная песня.

  • @BruceKaplan
    @BruceKaplan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Most of us didn't see it coming - Anais Mitchell sure did! What a prescient song that connects Orwell and Trump in one straight line!

  • @ukeinfused
    @ukeinfused 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Just heard this on a re-run of PHC, had to come find it.
    SO GOOD. Is the NY show still playing?

  • @fataldawg
    @fataldawg ปีที่แล้ว

    Trumpers listening to this song right now punching the air!!!!!

  • @lksings5378
    @lksings5378 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I have a burning need for a woman to play Hades now.

    • @Yusuf-fs4fn
      @Yusuf-fs4fn 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hope not. Kind of destroys the story and vocals.

    • @astolat2262
      @astolat2262 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Yusuf-fs4fn idk I'm into it

  • @terrykrall
    @terrykrall 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Chris Thile is to the mandolin what Jimi Hendrix was to the Electric Guitar

  • @CaitlinGilliganMusic
    @CaitlinGilliganMusic 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fucking glorious

  • @harleydoge310
    @harleydoge310 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Anyone got a match?

  • @typingnoises
    @typingnoises 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Who's here from hadestown?

  • @joshtimmons7332
    @joshtimmons7332 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    who is the other female vocalist ?

  • @876Abb
    @876Abb 8 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Dedicating this song to Mr. Trump. I'm sure he can relate.

    • @susanh986
      @susanh986 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      True, it is not about Trump's wall, and she wrote it some 10 years ago, but can you not see the parallels? I get where My Daddy is coming from. The lyrics are hauntingly prescient for the current situation.

    • @markbosy2065
      @markbosy2065 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for that April x

    • @michaelpierce9076
      @michaelpierce9076 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I find the song very relevant. The enemy is poverty. Our country has never been more inundated by foreigners with their hands out. Our boarders are such that calling them boarders is an incorrect definition. So they come and keep coming, while our own government turns its back on the people whom are supposed to be here and sees to the needs of those whom aren't supposed to be here. Every word of this song is true.

    • @MumbledDaydreams
      @MumbledDaydreams 7 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      hi michael i realise i'm writing this two months after the fact, but have you ever thought critically about anything in your entire life?

    • @badmudda
      @badmudda 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Mumbled he is right though. If you come to a country illegally, take money and send it back to your home, have no plans of assimilating, then you should not be suprised when you are targeted as a contributing factor to weakening the nation, because that's what you are doing. I support keeping a sense of cultural identity, but at the end of the day, if you come to a country with plans of living there, you abide by there laws and moral principles. It's the equivalent of moving to japan to wear a cowboy hat and shout 'merica #1everywhere. It makes no sense to be overly proud of a country you left and shit on the one thats feeding you now.

  • @execrewrites
    @execrewrites 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The King of Hades sounds a hell of a lot like DJT.

    • @ayoungethan
      @ayoungethan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The King of Hades is much more intelligent and articulate and cunning and Machiavellian. More like Putin vs the immature entitled oafy impetulance of DJT

  • @royeh893
    @royeh893 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

  • @sunspotdawn1261
    @sunspotdawn1261 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The enemy is poverty.

    • @ayoungethan
      @ayoungethan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      A euphemism for classist/racist fear of "poor" people, "because they want what we have got"

  • @axelhalbardier8874
    @axelhalbardier8874 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Propriety is steal!

  • @robtherub
    @robtherub 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    excellent mandolin solo. trump can make this number one. this is the best version - biglove to all the protestors from London sound peace not war revolutionation suggest non oppositional revolutionary philosophy and technique STRICTLY FLUFFY ACTION I recommend rolling soundsystems check my channel but these days a big blue tooth pack better and you need the right tunes. this is one. (much better than fox playing you shouting virtue signaling spur of the moment stuff too easy to pick out bits make you look bad lockup reclaim the streets UK 90's preceded antiglobalisation movement its all about soundsystems trust me)

  • @timothyLucasJaeger
    @timothyLucasJaeger 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    important premable and song starts @th-cam.com/video/LBGUqMyyvnI/w-d-xo.html

  • @dougie8747
    @dougie8747 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Billy Bragg brought me here.

  • @fustigate314159
    @fustigate314159 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    She's a cross between Joanna Newsom and David Crosby.

  • @dougie8747
    @dougie8747 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Billy Bragg sent me here.

  • @andrewmills6347
    @andrewmills6347 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    In the UK we have brexit...

  • @edwardshea5084
    @edwardshea5084 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    it is strange to see the people sing

  • @dr.terridaniel4653
    @dr.terridaniel4653 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I cry every time I hear this song, and I've been hearing in since at least 2012. A scary pre-cursor to the Trump administration. Yikes!