Mark O'Connor/James Taylor/Yo-Yo Ma/Edgar Meyer - "Hard Times Come Again No More" video free download


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Uploaded: 2010/02/04

The classic Stephen Foster tune here given a new rendition by Mark O'Connor, James Taylor, Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer. It was featured on their 2000 recording "Appalachian Journey." Here performed live on Live At Lincoln Center, PBS.

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Comments

9 years ago

c morris

Ahhhhh...... Let Us Pause........

9 years ago

Barbara Shuman

Beautiful

9 years ago

Nate Herman

Another beautiful version is by The Nashville Bluegrass Band.

10 years ago

Kevin Maness

For the New Year

10 years ago

Joe Herald

I love this song and have heard performed by the best singers of our time. Many beautiful and different interpretations, as is this one. I think my all-time favorite is oddly by Mare Winningham from the 1995 movie "Georgia" the mood, tempo and arrangement in her version, are to by ear just about perfect. 

10 years ago

progressiverebel

Times Are Tough All Over. My buddy Curt of 47 years friendship died last year and I am older. I mourn him,for some od us life goes on, I am way too thoughful, age, perception? They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears.It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are.

10 years ago

rbsmiles

Beautiful American lyrical lament...so true to the history and deeply felt.

10 years ago

Mike McCullough

Great tune well performed - a universal prayer.

10 years ago

Dennis Parker

It is true that Stephen Foster wrote music that was racially offensive but his music reflects a change in his attitude toward slavery over the course of his life. But even more important, art can transcend the frailities of the artist. This song has an amazing universality. Some of the most powerful arrangements and performances are by African Americans including Mary J Blige and Mavis Staples. Like "Amazing Grace", written by a slave trader, this song expresses feelings that transcend race.

11 years ago

MrMikeEngland

Lovely. I have transcribed this arrangement and posted the score and audio on YouTube if you'd like to see it.

11 years ago

Kallie McHale

My cousin sang this at my dad's funeral.

11 years ago

Wayward Vessel

Not too shabby of a string section!

11 years ago

elyse marshall hook

I most certainly feel blessed.

11 years ago

hommefriday

So beautiful! Musicians of varying styles playing together - no place for war!

11 years ago

libertypsych

I've followed JT's music for 40 years, but never heard this one til now. Very moving.

12 years ago

John Holliday

Absolutely beautiful.

12 years ago

oldikins

@flintstone9812 I really like your comment. You are right in so many ways. Music is the language of life.

13 years ago

Wallas Wookie

I sense the anguish of the past in the comments below. Sin only brings pain, and prevents us from living in the present. Prepare for the future through forgiveness and love.

13 years ago

nycbassist

Respond to this video... I don't get troubled feelings when art rises in defiance of the times imposed on them. I DO get troubled feelings when art is in support of those structures, as in Wagner. Clearly, Foster's lyrics on this song show a much deeper understanding of the human condition that I would have imagined. Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky had to create under oppression but NEVER supported that. I'm not sure what your argument really is..but your hostility is really misspent. No cross here.

13 years ago

nycbassist

@Mandolin1944 You really are quite a reactionary person, Mandolin, and I'm not sure what your hostility is about. I think, if you would read, instead of reacting that I said at the very start that this song IS quite beautiful. As a musician I think it has potential in the jazz idiom I play in. That was the FIRST thing I said, and I take imsintx's comments to be much more constructive. I think you're totally misunderstanding what I'm about. Art never takes place in a vacuum.

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