Guys, I'm 69 years old. I remember when the radio played this song constantly because it was a huge hit! I loved Ernie Ford's arrangement. He'd be proud of what you guys have done to it. I've heard others try and pull it off but not to my liking. You guys did a fabulous job! Much thanks.
Tennessee Ernie Ford had a highly distinctive Voice and he has been one of my Favourite Singers for a lot of my 83 years .... This rendition was very good
@@smmmokin Hey youngster ... Old!!!! Nah ... But getting better!!!! YES!. So when my little Piranha tells me I am a crusty old Bugger!!! I say YES and I am getting better at it!!!! A few years ago a Mate of mine told me he was looking at going into one of those retirement Estates and maybe I should also.. I quickly rejected and such suggestion by saying "What and LIVE with all those OLD people" ... Likewise I am totally unbelieving of those during the Corona Lockdown who are complaining of boredom...Not enough time in the day for me to become bored as I have so many Positive things to do that I am never Bored except that is for listening to those whingers being BORED!!!. I have always appreciated good melodies and extremely Talented Singers such as obviously Ernie, Nat King Cole, Michael Holliday, Matt Munro, Jane Morgan, Shirley Bassey, John Williamson(Australian Balladeer), Kathy Kirby, Harpers Bazaar, The Seekers, Buddy Holley, Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli Time to say goodbye, Johnny Cash, Joe Brown, Lonnie Donnigan .... Louis Armstrong.... Can't stand the current batch of SCREAMERS ... they are just angry. Hope you also like my slightly extended tastes in GOOD Music.
@@altaylor3988 you sound like a rebelous young punk! I agree with you. I like some new music but I'm very selective. A lot of stuff that's popular I just don't understand why it's good. It's cool seeing younger people recognizing artists of the past and carrying it forward. I'm 34 and feel like a crotchety old man already. I just hope I can hold it off for another 49 years and have at least 1/10th of whatever it is you have when I get that age. Thank you for the reply Sir! You have the best week ever.
Hahaha. Reading about how there's no pretentious nonsense above with these blokes and then I read this comment. Pretentious garbage that is so cliched and hackneyed it's repeated ad nauseum without any thought as to whether it's true or not. (Hint: It ain't.)
@@Munrubenmuz i would kindly disagree. i dont consider myself stuck- up but I acknowledge that the importance of silence between notes, however short is sort of underrated,...it s just another way of listnening to music that makes you realise things.
Saw them in concert on Father's Day weekend with my 6 and 13 year old. My daughter yells out, 16 Tons! Carson said, sure, I think we can do that one and they started playing it. Made my daughter's night and she was already having a blast. Kids got a chance to talk to Carson, Josh and Skyler who happened to be there as well. We will definitely be going to see them again.
@@justanotherbaptistjew5659 .. *Update:* TEF has finally paid his debt to the company store and has happily answered St. Peter's call. RIP Ernie where the streets are paved with gold. No more coal mining, no more straw boss, no more mornings without the shining sun. Please stake a claim out for me!
@@jeannie1renee2 ... Of course not Jeannie, not the *_real_* Ernie, only the Ernie in the fantasy of the song and in the surreal and sarcastic humor of some of the comments here -- which are not funny if you have to explain them to someone without a sense of humor. 😜
Extremely well considering that these guys probably have never even seen a coal mine (as if Johnny Cash had?). On one version Merle Travis himself ends the song by singing "I owe my soul to Tennessee Ford"! Which version is the "right" one then, when even the composer makes fun of it?
Great version of this song. Brings back memories to the time my son was still alive.He died 37 years of age and for some reason your music helps me a lot. Thanks again for keeping these great songs alive. Amazing how you young people do this.Greetings from The Netherlands.
I've stared at my son, wondering if he'll live or die. He was OK and is happy and healthy now. It hurts me sometimes to even think about how life would be if things had ended up otherwise. I can't fathom how much that hurts. You have my condolences, even though I'm just some guy on the internet. I hope you're able to still find happiness in daily life. I know as someone of your son's age that if I were to die I would want my parents to be not feel selfish or somehow 'wrong' for not spending the rest of their days in sorrow.
@@RunningLemonStudios Well. You misunderstand my comment. You see, you didnt connect my comment with the words of the song. About slaving under an unfair system. I didnt say it was a bad thing to look typically priviliged and young. Like I said. Vs the words.
This is an old Merle Travis song. He once said he was not real fond of the song until Tennessee E Ford recorded it. He said he began loving it when the royalties started rolling in. My dad was an old friend of Merle’s back in Muhlenberg Co KY.
Been playing guitar for about 14 years now. Your videos are one of the motivating forces that always keep me wanting to learn new techniques and practice more. I certainly hope you're still a long ways off from TH-cam-Retirement!
You two are a hoot! Outstanding rendition. Sloppy??? Are you kidding me? This was perfect in every way. The voices, the guitar picking and even the finger snapping. You guys are a breath of fresh air!
First heard this song by Tennessee Ernie Ford. His deep voice really impressed me. I had never heard someone sing that low. I must have been five years old. I'm now 73 and still like the song. It played on the radio a couple months ago. I turned up the volume. Fabulous rendition by these two fine young lads.
When I was your age, I was amazed seeing Simon & Garfunkel performing with just one guitar, one microphone and two voices in front of thousands of people and making them trhill.... You hold the flame with astonishing talent !
If I ever in my life play anything this smooth even once, I would say I damn near finished the 'music' storyline. These guys play like this in hundreds of videos.
For those that are unaware of the line "I owe my soul to the company store" is reference to the practice of "trade dollars" used in mining towns when the company would create and pay the workers with their own currency. The company also conveniently owned all the retail establishments.
Josh, you are making Carson famous :) When you boys smile the screen lights up! Obviously you are loved by thousands, feels good huh :) Carson great job on that note dude, long, warm, and confident, super great! Josh, you need another compliment? lol, I love you, stay gold. Great video, big thumbs up!
For those who are too young to know, "I owe my soul to the company store." refers to being indebted to the company, that is to say, what you get paid is less than it takes to survive, therefore you got to take out a loan from the company store to survive. So, everything you get paid, goes right back to the company, (as though they didn't pay you in the first place, and not only that, you end up owing the company rather than them owing you. It was a way of keeping employees needy and subservient to the company owners.
People don't understand the way company towns were and some still are. Basically the entire community is dependent on a single industry operated by a single company. With mining towns back in the day the companies would allow miners to work in unsafe conditions and then when the father/breadwinner died in a mine collapse they would provide for the widow and her sons with the assumption those boys would grow up to work in the same dangerous mine because there were so few opportunities to get out of the cycle when you're born into that kind of isolation and poverty. This is my favourite song. Slavery and indentured servitude are wrong in all forms.
Not only that, but the company wouldn't always pay cash. Often you would receive what was essentially company credit which also served to keep families trapped working for the company.
Wow, Carson. I almost didn’t click on this because nobody can do justice to the great Ernie Ford - but you did. I’m speechless. Thanks, for bringing this back. It’s as relevant today as it was 50 years ago.
There is a larger message. So deep in the history of this country. So sad & so proud. Thank you for your musical prowess. Thank you both. (it is coming around again)
I'm 72...l'm not an Italian...but a Brazilian who've lived in 2 English-speaking countries. I started learning E when l was 21...so I had a lot of catching up to do. Some songs l'd hear but didn't follow the lyrics...especially non-melodic songs like "16 tons". I was amazed to realize I followed the lyrics of "16 tons" sung by Carson and understood the whole meaning for the very 1st time. As you see, it's never too late for anything.
I’m well into my 40s and have loved this song since before I could walk, (according to my mother,) I’ve heard plenty of covers but I don’t know of many that could hold water to this one. Well done gents, faithful to the original but you definitely put your own stamp on it! Really enjoyed it.
I saw the pic of you 2 young bucks and thought I don't want to listen to them screw up T E Fords awesome song but I do like the song, lets see what they do. T E Ford would be smiling, you did an awesome job. I wish you well and may the Almighty protect and guide you. Thank you.
Same when Josh and Carson are with Reina and Toni, all four could be swirling around in a tornado singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and be clearly recorded.
I sang this song with my high school choir a few years back, I’ve been watching a lot of your videos lately and hearing this song again was amazing, you bet I sang my heart out
This is absolutely brilliant. I just love the way Carson manages to smile so beautifully while he is singing. His voice is excellent. Josh is also excellent.
Well I am 497 years old thanks to my Transylvanian Uncle which I won't go into here. I have not heard anything this good since my sisters band, 'The Salem Sisters' brought out their hit song, 'Witches are doin it for themselves'! Lovin it guys!!
Great vocals, excellent guitar work, just a fantastic rendition of this tremendous classic...….excellent job - very impressive and sooooooooo enjoyable to listen to...….you guys nailed it!!! I spent 40+ years in the coal mining industry in W.VA. and my parents used to take me to the "Company Store" and use scrip (a company issued form of currency), to purchase food, furniture, gasoline, etc. from the Company Store. Years later mom and dad finally escaped the grasp of the "Company Store" and since those days the Company Stores have dwindled away one by one. Thank you so much for the top notch job you did on this Merle Travis/Tennessee Ernie Ford classic!!!
Great. I remember watching the Tennessee Ernie Ford SHow and you really bring back his wonderful sound. He was such a big star that EVERYONE wanted to be on his show,and other stars shows added episodes for him to be in so they’d get a boost in ratings.. I know kids today can’t imagine that but he crossed all the music genres. KEEP IT UP YOU’RE GREAT !
One from the very distant memory came across a couple videos from writer and the gentleman who had the hit with it and thought I'd search it by The Other Favorites and there it was, should have known you'd done a version, Quality.
Excellent performance. His vocals are note perfect with no deviation from the original record by Ernie Ford. These guys are very talented are dedicated to excellent performances.
Guys, I'm 69 years old. I remember when the radio played this song constantly because it was a huge hit! I loved Ernie Ford's arrangement. He'd be proud of what you guys have done to it. I've heard others try and pull it off but not to my liking. You guys did a fabulous job! Much thanks.
Needs more TEF gravel tone. But. Great to hear again.
I also remember it well. I am not an american but I am 68 and I remember all the words. I thought it was very well sung.
Bruce Mac Sr. They were doing a cover, not an impersonation. You are just a whiner!
I am 77 and agree with these kids😎
These guys are great. Better than the screaming headbanging or rap ! Kuddos to you guys !!!
This guy has a distinctive compelling voice. No affectation or pretentious nonsense .
Raw talent. And raw talent doesn’t need gimmicks.
Absolutely
Probably these two would be super stars if born in the 1930/40s...
No true tone
He sounds just like the original. Kids these days are ruined by auto tune natural talent just seems “compelling.”
Tennessee Ernie Ford had a highly distinctive Voice and he has been one of my Favourite Singers for a lot of my 83 years .... This rendition was very good
The future of the world is ingoods hands with young people like these.
@@jamesscott1932 One can only Hope
You're old!!! Great taste in music my friend :)
@@smmmokin Hey youngster ... Old!!!! Nah ... But getting better!!!! YES!. So when my little Piranha tells me I am a crusty old Bugger!!! I say YES and I am getting better at it!!!!
A few years ago a Mate of mine told me he was looking at going into one of those retirement Estates and maybe I should also.. I quickly rejected and such suggestion by saying "What and LIVE with all those OLD people" ... Likewise I am totally unbelieving of those during the Corona Lockdown who are complaining of boredom...Not enough time in the day for me to become bored as I have so many Positive things to do that I am never Bored except that is for listening to those whingers being BORED!!!.
I have always appreciated good melodies and extremely Talented Singers such as obviously Ernie, Nat King Cole, Michael Holliday, Matt Munro, Jane Morgan, Shirley Bassey, John Williamson(Australian Balladeer), Kathy Kirby, Harpers Bazaar, The Seekers, Buddy Holley, Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli Time to say goodbye, Johnny Cash, Joe Brown, Lonnie Donnigan .... Louis Armstrong.... Can't stand the current batch of SCREAMERS ... they are just angry.
Hope you also like my slightly extended tastes in GOOD Music.
@@altaylor3988 you sound like a rebelous young punk! I agree with you. I like some new music but I'm very selective. A lot of stuff that's popular I just don't understand why it's good. It's cool seeing younger people recognizing artists of the past and carrying it forward. I'm 34 and feel like a crotchety old man already. I just hope I can hold it off for another 49 years and have at least 1/10th of whatever it is you have when I get that age. Thank you for the reply Sir! You have the best week ever.
Tennessee Ernie Ford would be so proud. What a tribute!
This performance serves as a great reminder that the rests, the space between notes are just as musical as the notes played.
Indeed. Most music happens between the notes.
Hahaha. Reading about how there's no pretentious nonsense above with these blokes and then I read this comment. Pretentious garbage that is so cliched and hackneyed it's repeated ad nauseum without any thought as to whether it's true or not. (Hint: It ain't.)
This statement is well put!
@@Munrubenmuz i would kindly disagree. i dont consider myself stuck- up but I acknowledge that the importance of silence between notes, however short is sort of underrated,...it s just another way of listnening to music that makes you realise things.
Saw them in concert on Father's Day weekend with my 6 and 13 year old. My daughter yells out, 16 Tons! Carson said, sure, I think we can do that one and they started playing it. Made my daughter's night and she was already having a blast. Kids got a chance to talk to Carson, Josh and Skyler who happened to be there as well. We will definitely be going to see them again.
Your daughter has great taste! :D
Thanks for getting my mind off the bs for 2.5 minutes. It is appreciated.
Man I literally thought the same thing as I just listened to it
Hell yeah!!!. That was cool 😎
Joe Gibbs Me too!
Add me to the list... thanks guys.
*2.51
Thank you so much, Ernie Ford would be very honored
TH-cam algorithm nailed it today. Fantastic rendition of a classic
Love seeing this much style and soul come from young guys like this. Not nearly enough of that these days.
Tennessee Ernie is smiling from heaven and saying, _"Bless your pea pickin' hearts."_
@facite non victimarum
Well, St. Peter called, but he couldn’t go.
@@justanotherbaptistjew5659 ..
*Update:* TEF has finally paid his debt to the company store and has happily answered St. Peter's call.
RIP Ernie where the streets are paved with gold. No more coal mining, no more straw boss, no more mornings without the shining sun. Please stake a claim out for me!
@@facitenonvictimarum, he did a great job singing about it, but not sure even Ernie ever dug coal.
@@jeannie1renee2 ...
Of course not Jeannie, not the *_real_* Ernie, only the Ernie in the fantasy of the song and in the surreal and sarcastic humor of some of the comments here -- which are not funny if you have to explain them to someone without a sense of humor. 😜
@@facitenonvictimarum, hmm...didn't strike me as humor....
I can hear the happiness in the main singer's voice when he smiles.
The measure of greatness in music can be determined in the joy that was felt while performing it. Well done guys.
And listening to is as well!
Extremely well considering that these guys probably have never even seen a coal mine (as if Johnny Cash had?).
On one version Merle Travis himself ends the song by singing "I owe my soul to Tennessee Ford"! Which version is the "right" one then, when even the composer makes fun of it?
Dunno. Often, sure, but I find some things are utterly exhausing when I do them right. The joy happens after the fact.
K9insomniac Without a doubt, those are words to live by...
Yeah, and every video shows it. I suspect that being able to earn money from playing is just a bonus for these guys.
Great version of this song. Brings back memories to the time my son was still alive.He died 37 years of age and for some reason your music helps me a lot. Thanks again for keeping these great songs alive. Amazing how you young people do this.Greetings from The Netherlands.
You are welcome into the States anytime
I've stared at my son, wondering if he'll live or die. He was OK and is happy and healthy now. It hurts me sometimes to even think about how life would be if things had ended up otherwise. I can't fathom how much that hurts. You have my condolences, even though I'm just some guy on the internet. I hope you're able to still find happiness in daily life. I know as someone of your son's age that if I were to die I would want my parents to be not feel selfish or somehow 'wrong' for not spending the rest of their days in sorrow.
Condolences to you, my friend.
Unbelievable musicianship - Carson’s voice, Josh’s guitar playing… INCREDIBLE!
I love Carson's deep rich voice. The guitar licks by Josh are awesome. Your voices blend so well.
However, they both look like champagne socialists.
He's really grown to a wonderful vocalist. He has a beautiful vibrato and tone to his voice.
@@Flapjackbatter Should we all come to your channel and knock you for your appearance, or would that seem unfair?
@@RunningLemonStudios
Well. You misunderstand my comment.
You see, you didnt connect my comment with the words of the song. About slaving under an unfair system.
I didnt say it was a bad thing to look typically priviliged and young. Like I said. Vs the words.
S Robin Dittrich This is the comment I wish I'd thought of. 😎
This is the best cover of 16 Tons I have heard in a long time.
Carson your voice is getting better everytime ! Deep and warm ! Josh always amazing guitar playing :)
Totally agree! Great harmonies too! :)
Listen to Harmony Hall of that two genuis. Carson convinces from basement up to the rooftop, ... and Josh relaxed beside him. 🤩
This is an old Merle Travis song. He once said he was not real fond of the song until Tennessee E Ford recorded it. He said he began loving it when the royalties started rolling in. My dad was an old friend of Merle’s back in Muhlenberg Co KY.
Nailed it note for note. Thanks for keeping it alive!
Absolutely brilliant.Thank you so much for sharing.From the UK
@I Em Hoo I Iz, easy tune??? Let's hear your version. It's not easy to cover the great Ernie Ford and do an admirable job. Carson did great!
@I Em Hoo I Iz you just said lol wt
That's awesome - not just the performance, but the fact that young folks have dug up another classic and paid respect!
I see a Josh Turner YT notification, I immediately stop what I’m doing...
Pondering Presbyterian yup
Me too 😉😅
I stopped watching America's Got Talent.
same
@John McNair ya load 16 tons :)
Ladies and Gents, the GREAT, the Talent-oozing *Carson McKee* on vocals, and the DAZZLING, jaw-dropping *Josh Turner* on guitar! :-)
I absolutely cannot stop watching this... I've been watching it 2 times a day for the last 2 weeks and I won't stop soon
Really nice gents. Such a great voice Carson!
Look at his range over the videos they've posted through the years. He's got it!
TWO great voices!!!
Always a good day when Josh uploads a video, makes it even better when it's with Carson.
Seyfert absolutely !
Been playing guitar for about 14 years now. Your videos are one of the motivating forces that always keep me wanting to learn new techniques and practice more. I certainly hope you're still a long ways off from TH-cam-Retirement!
You two are a hoot! Outstanding rendition. Sloppy??? Are you kidding me? This was perfect in every way. The voices, the guitar picking and even the finger snapping. You guys are a breath of fresh air!
First heard this song by Tennessee Ernie Ford. His deep voice really impressed me. I had never heard someone sing that low. I must have been five years old. I'm now 73 and still like the song. It played on the radio a couple months ago. I turned up the volume. Fabulous rendition by these two fine young lads.
Best version of “Sixteen tons” I ever heard.
Tennessee Ernie is smiling down on you guys. Well done.😊
I couldn't agree more. I love their version. They're as good as Ernie, himself!
Tom Jones best version, but this is OK
I'm sitting at my computer and actually clapping my hands, in applause. Fantastic job. Thank you Josh and Carson.
The talent of these kids is mind boggling. Their volume of work is very impressive. I wish them the best in their careers.
My father worked at Climax and would listen to this song 😊 RIP Pop 😔🙏💜
Awesome Gentlemen. Thanx
When I was your age, I was amazed seeing Simon & Garfunkel performing with just one guitar, one microphone and two voices in front of thousands of people and making them trhill.... You hold the flame with astonishing talent !
OMG my mom used to sing this to me at bedtime when i was a kid, Ive never clicked a video so fast :D
Real musicians here, you guys have that intangible musical quality that only comes from years of playing together. So very tasteful, well done
If I ever in my life play anything this smooth even once, I would say I damn near finished the 'music' storyline. These guys play like this in hundreds of videos.
For those that are unaware of the line "I owe my soul to the company store" is reference to the practice of "trade dollars" used in mining towns when the company would create and pay the workers with their own currency. The company also conveniently owned all the retail establishments.
Here in Hawaii we would yell
“Hana hou!!”
One more time!
👍🏽👌🏽👏🏽🤙🏽😁
🤝🏼
Josh realized his/our boy was killing it😁somewhere out in the woods.
It would be so easy for these guys to do over do it. A lot of their talent is registered in their good taste and restraint. Amazing.
Oh hi Buddy Holly! Thank you youtube algoritm for this gem, you did great this time.
One of the best songs ever from my childhood. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Josh, you are making Carson famous :) When you boys smile the screen lights up! Obviously you are loved by thousands, feels good huh :) Carson great job on that note dude, long, warm, and confident, super great! Josh, you need another compliment? lol, I love you, stay gold. Great video, big thumbs up!
Day made. See y'all in August!
💚
It's Saaaaaaaammy!
Originally written by the late great Merle Travis, Famously covered by Tennessee Ernie Ford. Great Job btw!
50才になるまで聴く機会がなく、CDを聴いて、日本語訳を調べ、なんで曲に胸を打たれるのか納得しました。ありがとうございます。🎶👍
Wasn't expecting a voice like this out of a guy like that... Good job
Josh "Pretty sloppy on my part" Turner 😂 Wish I was as "sloppy" as that
Me too!
LMAO right?
Yeah, if I played as sloppily as Josh, I might actually not be afraid to play in front of people.
Yeah super sloppy. Horrible Martin sound to boot...
...said no one ever when watching Josh and team. 😉🤭
Yeah Josh, you are a diamond NOT in the rough
Watching again, again, again, again, again, .......
Beyond the hard work and talent. The pleasure. Pure fun making music together.
Tennessee Ernie would be happy with this. I dug it.
My favorite!
Wow, what a voice Carson has! Tremendous!
Your show in Memphis was a highlight of my year. Thanks for a fun night fellas
For those who are too young to know, "I owe my soul to the company store." refers to being indebted to the company, that is to say, what you get paid is less than it takes to survive, therefore you got to take out a loan from the company store to survive. So, everything you get paid, goes right back to the company, (as though they didn't pay you in the first place, and not only that, you end up owing the company rather than them owing you. It was a way of keeping employees needy and subservient to the company owners.
People don't understand the way company towns were and some still are. Basically the entire community is dependent on a single industry operated by a single company. With mining towns back in the day the companies would allow miners to work in unsafe conditions and then when the father/breadwinner died in a mine collapse they would provide for the widow and her sons with the assumption those boys would grow up to work in the same dangerous mine because there were so few opportunities to get out of the cycle when you're born into that kind of isolation and poverty. This is my favourite song. Slavery and indentured servitude are wrong in all forms.
Everyone should be born free.
Wow I didn't know that, very interesting. Thanks.
Not only that, but the company wouldn't always pay cash. Often you would receive what was essentially company credit which also served to keep families trapped working for the company.
who doesn't love some capitalist slavery? :D
Wow, Carson. I almost didn’t click on this because nobody can do justice to the great Ernie Ford - but you did. I’m speechless. Thanks, for bringing this back. It’s as relevant today as it was 50 years ago.
I never thought, that young people would ever make a cover of this song. Sound great!!
It's wonderful to see that there still a small generation still keeping American classic music alive wonderful rendition gentleman keep it up
I love it when the artist can smile while they perform.
Not sloppy at all young man, I’m happy that the music of my generation is safe in your hands, both of you. Thanks.
They look like they are having so much fun
Outstanding, gentlemen... outstanding. Raising a glass and tipping the hat. Dad and Merle'd love this.
And you should know!
Beautiful rendition, thanks for posting it 👍🏼
The thought that you guys might mess up a classic never comes to mind anymore. I just look forward to each one.
I’m 61, my dad used to sing this when I was a kid. You brought back great memories, I thank you. Very well done.
There is a larger message. So deep in the history of this country. So sad & so proud. Thank you for your musical prowess. Thank you both. (it is coming around again)
I'm 72...l'm not an Italian...but a Brazilian who've lived in 2 English-speaking countries. I started learning E when l was 21...so I had a lot of catching up to do. Some songs l'd hear but didn't follow the lyrics...especially non-melodic songs like "16 tons". I was amazed to realize I followed the lyrics of "16 tons" sung by Carson and understood the whole meaning for the very 1st time. As you see, it's never too late for anything.
And this was on their day off...Jeez...Thank you. Much love from Liverpool, where we know truly great talent when we see it.
I’m well into my 40s and have loved this song since before I could walk, (according to my mother,) I’ve heard plenty of covers but I don’t know of many that could hold water to this one. Well done gents, faithful to the original but you definitely put your own stamp on it! Really enjoyed it.
Tennessee Ernie Ford got a great hit in an era of really hard manual labor. This rendition is really excellent.
I saw the pic of you 2 young bucks and thought I don't want to listen to them screw up T E Fords awesome song but I do like the song, lets see what they do. T E Ford would be smiling, you did an awesome job. I wish you well and may the Almighty protect and guide you. Thank you.
I wanna learn how to play it like you do josh
Sonorous. That's the word I've been looking for to describe Carson's beautiful voice.
Great diction and inflection, too.
Young folks playing real music is always a beautiful thing to witness.
It does my heart good to see two young men with respect for the classics.
Check out Mary Lou by the Creative Force, amazing
I am old enough that I used to watch Tennessee Ernie Ford on ‘Live Television... They are very good...
Real quality all the way around!
Nice job. It's amazing the mic picks up everything as well as it does. Who needs a studio.
When you have talent it can be heard.
Same when Josh and Carson are with Reina and Toni, all four could be swirling around in a tornado singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and be clearly recorded.
I have sung this tune in my head for 60 years and even with all that work you two are just so much better to listen to and sing along with.
First vid where Josh’ guitar takes a back seat to Carson‘s singing and deservedly so. Great job!
mv11000 I agree. But they are both still good.
Love that old song.
My mum had an old 75 (record) of this. I loved this as a child and played it over and over. I still love it and very much enjoyed this. Thank you!
I sang this song with my high school choir a few years back, I’ve been watching a lot of your videos lately and hearing this song again was amazing, you bet I sang my heart out
This is absolutely brilliant. I just love the way Carson manages to smile so beautifully while he is singing. His voice is excellent. Josh is also excellent.
there are SO many examples of yalls talents and versatility on YT, but. this is the purest..... great job boys....
Well I am 497 years old thanks to my Transylvanian Uncle which I won't go into here. I have not heard anything this good since my sisters band, 'The Salem Sisters' brought out their hit song, 'Witches are doin it for themselves'! Lovin it guys!!
These guys always seem so happy when making music...that's the way it should be.
Great vocals, excellent guitar work, just a fantastic rendition of this tremendous classic...….excellent job - very impressive and sooooooooo enjoyable to listen to...….you guys nailed it!!! I spent 40+ years in the coal mining industry in W.VA. and my parents used to take me to the "Company Store" and use scrip (a company issued form of currency), to purchase food, furniture, gasoline, etc. from the Company Store. Years later mom and dad finally escaped the grasp of the "Company Store" and since those days the Company Stores have dwindled away one by one. Thank you so much for the top notch job you did on this Merle Travis/Tennessee Ernie Ford classic!!!
Great. I remember watching the Tennessee Ernie Ford SHow and you really bring back his wonderful sound. He was such a big star that EVERYONE wanted to be on his show,and other stars shows added episodes for him to be in so they’d get a boost in ratings.. I know kids today can’t imagine that but he crossed all the music genres. KEEP IT UP YOU’RE GREAT !
Soulful, simple, tasteful & fun...maybe my fav of all your recordings.
One from the very distant memory came across a couple videos from writer and the gentleman who had the hit with it and thought I'd search it by The Other Favorites and there it was, should have known you'd done a version, Quality.
Wow! I am beyond impressed!! Tennessee Ernie Ford, Probably would be impressed too!
Excellent performance. His vocals are note perfect with no deviation from the original record by Ernie Ford. These guys are very talented are dedicated to excellent performances.
One of my favorite songs, since I was a little boy, and more so now that I'm an adult.
I listen to this rendition of 16 Tons over and over again. You give us one of the best performances ever!
Timeless
Excellent!
I love the lower register of Carson's voice.
Another fine video from you two. Thank you!