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boygenius - Cowboy Take Me Away (Live on KEXP)
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- Published on Mar 4, 2019 veröffentlicht
- KEXP.ORG presents boygenius (Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus) performing "Cowboy Take Me Away" live at Avast! Recording Co.. Recorded November 24, 2018.
Host: Cheryl Waters
Audio Engineers: Tom Hall, Julian Martlew & Kevin Suggs
Audio Mixer: Julian Martlew
Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Scott Holpainen & Kendall Rock
Editor: Jim Beckmann
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Such beautiful voices in exquisite harmony, but I do wish they'd given the violinist credit in the description. Her contribution is an important part of what makes this performance so special.
Right? I'm pretty sure that's Camille Faulkner though.
@J James Thank you! I don't know who Camille Faulkner is, but now that I have her name, I can go searching for more videos. I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know.
Agree, that violin is a marvellous contribution to that beatiful song
It is her
It is. But if you listen to the whole track more songs they talked about her. Listen to this monterrage from like 1 to 5 or 6. Awesome and great!!!
southern 90s kids who rode around in their moms car listening to country radio will get the feels listening to this
kifferei this exactly. i feel safe
They played this everywhere
this comment was way too specifically me.
45 minute drive to sister's soccer practice, 45 minutes to the gym, 20 minutes to the grocery store.
Now I write country shit. Shout out.
not just southern my friend
Lucy’s voice is sublime.
WOW!! Julien Baker...I used to work at guitar center off Stage rd/64 (outside of Memphis) and she was a youngster in there buying up effect pedals. I remember helping her often bc she had really good taste in pedals and knew her gear! Congrats to you and all your success!! Love the cover and it appears you're surrounded by AMAZING SOULS 👏
Yeah this checks out lol. These women are all super tone-conscious and their stuff always sounds impeccable.
These girls make me believe that the lint in my pocket has meaning.
Wtf
We were wondering if that was lint or you were really happy at seeing her.
lmao
😂
I just can't believe the absolute sheer talent these 3 have as a group. Just magic.
This song has been covered since probably 1999. By far my favorite!!!!!!
arent there 4?
This Dixie Chicks CD was the first CD I ever owned as a kid. Hearing my favorite band now cover it is so unbelievably magical and nostalgic
I like this version better. The DS is overproduced, the singing “nasaly”. DS rocked it up whereas BG sings it with longing.
The chicks…..lol
Nice, that's a great intro to music! The Dixie chicks really are something else and boygenius does a great job
@Dallas *The Dixie Chicks
Fly doesn’t have a single skipable song on it tbh
Me as a kid: sure, I'm too cool for this, but I've gotta admit they can both sing and play
Me now: damn, they rolled up romance, religion, and pastoral fantasy all together like salt, flour and lard, a dang ol' fluffy pastry of a song
I was a huge Dixie Chicks fan and they continue to hold a very special place in my heart to this day. This was always one of my favorites of theirs and hearing boygenius, one of my all time favorite bands ever, cover it is nothing short of heaven.
i was raised on The Chicks and somehow only just discovered this cover and i LOVE boygenius and all its members solo careers so you can imagine i'm freaking out rn
Dixie...
@Old Chunk of Coal just respecting the fact they changed the band name :)
Lucy's verses are just so damn good
I could listen to Lucy sing all day. I love them all
The way Julien delivers that first "sounds good to me" reduces me to existential sobs every time.
We need an official release of this
Isn't this just beautiful and etherial? And not so different from the original? I love when bands can make something sound like them without also not making it NOT sound like the song we're familiar with. That's artistry.
All three of them have such amazing voices
90's country is a special kind of nostalgia. Puts me back in the backseat of my grandmas '90 Escort, studying the detail of the Nasa sticker I had stuck to the back passenger window, mouthing the words to every song.
Damn. This hits hard. Field parties, sliding on fresh gravel roads on a curve going too fast, drivers ed final was getting bait and fishing. The list goes on.
Man…. We all had the same childhood huh? But my grandma had a 4-runner
My grandma would let my drive her S-10 on the barn roads
How lucky for us these ladies found each other to come together as a very talented group. And they even have fun doing it! 💖💖💖
i want a studio version of this on boygenius 2
their smiles have my whole heart melting ... there is nothing more perfect than this
Everything about this is mesmerizing: their voices, the sounds, all of them.
This is absolutely amazing. They can sure harmonize. Brings tears to my eyes...
This is so outrageously stunning. I’m completely blown away
Seeing Julien smile while she's singing makes me feel so many things but mostly Gay
she has the best smile.
Ad trans to that and samesies. To quote Morel Orel (of all things) "Tiny female Jesus!..."
Same
Wtf?...why can't someone just enjoy beautiful music & not try to make it about something else......music doesn't fall into genders?..or your sexual preference?...when she sings it beauty....please don't ruin it.
Who cares but you? That a personal thought that would be better kept to yourself.
Just when I thought Julien Baker couldn't get any better she goes and does this.
These girls kill it. Gorgeous and they can actually sing. Nice! I love it. The red lipstick girl is amazing.
hi:) her name is lucy dacus and she has two wonderful albums out called “no burden” and “historian” !!
If you want to check out their solo stuff they’re amazing! The one who starts out singing is Julien Baker and she has a very sad discography (I’d recommend everybody does and appointments). The second girl is Phoebe Bridgers and she’s more folksy artist (I’d recommend Scott Street and Smoke Signals). Lucy Dacus is the red lipstick one and literally everything she does is gold!
She is Lucy Dacus. Wonderful voice. And further to the comments below, check out the Brooklyn Steel Pitchfork Live Boygenius concert on Clip-Share from Nov 2020. Each of these gifted artists performs a 30 minute set of their own material with their own bands, and then they come together at the end as boygenius and perform their entire EP. It is magical to say the least.....
I think I've listened to this 100 times in a row by now. Well, not really, but it sure feels like it. This is damn good.
Wow !! You girls did an awesome job covering the Chicks. Simply beautiful. So far this is my favorite cover of Cowboy Take Me Away. Thanks so much.
I saw Lucy Dacus perform at First Avenue in Minneapolis last year. The show was amazing, and because she had an injured back, she had to either sit or lie down through the entire show. If boygenius goes on tour, I will be there!
Those little giggles at the end of the song just help emphasize that those absolutely amazing musicians are just young girls. Blows my mind how good they already are!
Best cover of this song I've ever heard! GREAT job ladies, I'll be waiting to hear from you gals in your future! Great job
THEY BLEW THE WORLD AWAY WITH THIS COVER!! INCREDIBLE!!
Wow! what a cover and a tribute to the chicks. These harmonies are sublime!
I often wake up with country songs from my childhood; my mom's music; stuck in my head. Usually it's infuriating, soulless, overproduced Nashville pop country. Sometimes it's the Chicks or other great stuff. Whenever it's this song, and it often is, I'm glad. And this is the best version of it I've ever heard. Fantastic.
The best version was the original
Oh, I love this song and this band. Beautiful Harmonies😍😍
why isn’t this on spotify i’m dying
That IS what passionate intensity looks and breathes like! Bravo to the staff at Avast for a great job with the audio. No credit for the violinist? Comon'...
Extremely impressive. I admire these women. Phenomenal.
So nice hearing such incredible vocals, and so refreshing not sung in American Idol style that has become nauseatingly ubiquitous.
So good. Thank you for sharing your talent with us. I absolutely love this version. Wish it was a track I could find outside of Clip-Share.
Much better version here with everything stripped down and simplified. So pure and clean. Love it!
I think I fell in love separately with each of them at different points during this song
Love you Julien and Phoebe so much! Two of the best musicians in these hard times.
My job is really stressful these days and playing this song on repeat calms me down
im late to this but lucy in the upper register for the second verse is PEAK
Damn that's beautiful. Soooo relaxing to listen to, like a massage through your ears! 👍
It's Julien's smiles for me 🥺
Very good cover. Don’t be afraid to let yourself go vocally. You clearly have the voice. Let it rip
This cover always takes my breath away...hits different right now.
I like this version better than the original.
Beautiful.
Easily one of the best covers I’ve ever heard
feels like I am in a movie when I hear this song
thanks for this -- beautiful song. and another gorgeous audio recording by KEXP -- really nice, warm, rich audio.
God bless you all girls!!! Congrats for your bright talents
Country fits boygenius like a glove.
Outstanding! Well done.
Great job ladies!! Keep it up!!
Damn, does the girl playing violin get a credit? This cover is pretty good but SHE makes it beautiful.
It's Camille Faulkner! She tours with Julien all the time, such a talent.
Country fits boygenius like a glove.
Her playing gave me chills.
Is she the same girl in a video from 2011 on a channel called " Aron van Selm"? Looks a lot like her and doing a violin / piano cover of Chevalier de sangreal from Divinci Code. The sound is the same also.
She’s amazing
Good loorddddd this is fantastic. I never thought I'd see the day I'd see julien baker singing dixie chicks.
This is "fantastic" in so many ways!.....I am reminded that the Chicks had to make the point to their label that they weren't giving up their instruments.
Makes sense to me. Dixie Chicks were part of a resurgence of feminism. An Ode to them is perfect.
A good song is a good song
Beautiful voices & Beautiful strings! THANKS!
Julien's SMILE IS EVERYTHING
this... is the greatest thing I've ever heard. It's almost infuriating. This was on Clip-Share for me to enjoy for a whole SIX DAYS before I found it????????????? Unforgivable.
seeing this performance was my introduction to this song and i am grateful for that. their love for it and smiles was infectious and so beautiful. such a gorgeous rendition.
The harmony here is tasty - right on tune almost every time
Such incredible talent...
I'm sure the Chicks are flattered that you covered this track , nice work !
This a beautiful version of this song🖤
Beautifully done.
Absolutely beautiful!
Never a Dixie Chicks fan...BUT, that was an amazing song. Amazingly done!
First time listener of this band. Beautiful sound.
This warms my heart through and through
Brilliant job, ladies 🥰
wow. literally got the chills.
Love it, fantastic cover. The girl on the fiddle is special
This is beautiful. Never heard you before and so glad I did.
GREAT JOB GIRLS ...LOVE IT... KEEP IT UP...I'M A MUSICIAN....
I said, I wanna touch the earth
I wanna break it in my hands
I wanna grow something wild and unruly
I wanna sleep on the hard ground
In the comfort of your arms
On a pillow of blue bonnets
In a blanket made of stars
Oh, it sounds good to me
I said, cowboy take me away
Fly this girl as high as you can into the wild blue
Set me free, oh, I pray
Closer to heaven above and closer to you
Closer to you
I wanna walk and not run
I wanna skip and not fall
I wanna look at the horizon and not see a building standing tall
I wanna be the only one for miles and miles
Except for maybe you and your simple smile
Oh, it sounds good to me
Yes, it sounds so good to me
Cowboy take me away
Fly this girl as high as you can into the wild blue
Set me free, oh, I pray
Closer to heaven above and closer to you
Closer to you
I said, I wanna touch the earth
I wanna break it in my hands
I wanna grow something wild and unruly
Oh, it sounds so good to me
Cowboy take me away
Fly this girl as high as you can into the wild blue
Set me free, oh, I pray
Closer to heaven above and closer to you
Closer to you
Closer to you
Cowboy take me away
Closer to you
This is so, so good!
Oh my god, how good is this? And I'll apologise now but how beautiful is the violinist?
This is a stunner. Also I don’t own nearly enough personalized blazers.
I love this song so much
Love! That violin player needs to be a permanent member of the band.
The album ‘Home’ from the (Dixie) Chicks is one of best country albums ever.
They're amazing
Not my absolute favorite song, but definitely my most favorite song of the last 20 years.
I got tickets to see them at red rocks, im so stoked!!
The violinist is absolutely stunning!
Masterpiece, nuff Said
Beautiful cover of this song of The Chicks! I love it! 🥰🎶🎵🎶🎧🎤🎻 I would love to lie on the grass, under the stars with you my love 🌟⭐🌠🌔🌌🔥❤
This is just beautiful
Wow they are great
These young ladies give me hope. Wish them well.
Hi boy genius - you guys are so cool!🙂❤️ what a bunch of beautiful music makers! Thank You so much! 🙂❤️✌🏻🌻⭐️☀️🐰🦄🤘🐯Bw.🦋
Cool cover by my close personal friends Julien, Lucy and Phoebe
beautiful voice..
Well done 👍
These talented young ladies have a huge future in Country Music . I would keep and eye on them .
Dave Brewer if you like the countryish sound from them listen to Ketchum, id you would like it
@dbrew2u And perhaps Phoebe's "Graceland Too," which features Julien and Lucy. 'Good recommendation from @aidan9004.
this is my favorite cover of all time
Beautiful ♥️