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SIERRA FERRELL
09/13/23 | 24m 40s | Rating: TV-PG
West Virginian Sierra Ferrell says, “I want my music to be like my mind is—all over the place.” Swirling her spellbinding voice with time-bending sensibilities, Ferrell makes music that’s as fantastically vagabond as she is herself, transporting audiences with a repertoire that spans Bluegrass, Techno, Goth metal, Jazz, and cowboy music with undertones of Latin and the blues.
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SIERRA FERRELL
- Hidden deep beneath the Cumberland Mountains in Grundy County, Tennessee, lies one of the world's most magical, musical adventures.
"The Caverns Sessions", three million years in the making, pure acoustics offer music from the heart of the American experience, center stage and deep inside the mountain, this time welcoming Sierra Ferrell.
Fall in love... - It's deep down musical diversity at the "The Caverns Sessions".
Coming up next.
(cheering and applause) (upbeat country music) (upbeat country music) I don't want your silver dollar I don't want your wedding ring All that I want is a place I can come to To give away the love I have inside me (upbeat country music) I'm out here in all of the honky-tonks I'm finding out all my dos and don'ts Last shot I took it went straight to my head And I'm out here dancing with you, I'm not home instead (upbeat country music) I don't want your silver dollar I don't want your wedding ring All that I want is a place I can come to To give away the love I have inside of me (upbeat country music) (upbeat country music) Well, everything in life it comes back to you full circle So don't do something to someone You don't want done to you Oh, no, no it ain't funny Bread, bread, bread, we all need that money (upbeat country music) Ow (upbeat country music) I don't want your silver dollar I don't want your wedding ring All that I want is a place to surrender All of the love inside of me Well, all of the love I have inside of me, now All of the love I have Inside of me... (audience cheering) (audience applauding) (cheering and applause) - One, two, a one, two, three.
(upbeat gypsy jazz music) (upbeat gypsy jazz music) Don't be afraid of the darkness No, don't be ashamed of the light My love for you's a deep blue ocean, baby I just wanna swim inside I wanna go with you everywhere Yes, even I would write your name upon the stars My love for you is a fire in motion, baby You make me feel alive Well, shiver, shiver shake How my poor head is gonna break Can't quite wrap it around you No, I don't know what I should do... (upbeat gypsy jazz music) (upbeat gypsy jazz music) So why'd you do it, why did you do it Why did you fall in love?
For it's a hard fall from way up there Won't you come down, dear, that's enough So why'd you do it, why did you do it Why did you fall in love It's a hard fall from way up there Won't you come down, dear, that's enough (upbeat gypsy jazz music) (upbeat gypsy jazz music) You love me with your body But it is never with your heart Now I'm gonna find somebody who won't tear my world apart So why'd you do it, why did you do it Why did you fall in love?
For it's a hard fall from way up there Won't you come down, dear, that's enough Why did you do it, why did you do it Why did you fall in love?
It's a hard fall from way up there Won't you come down, dear, that's enough Woo, woo, woo, well, come down, dear, that's enough (upbeat gypsy jazz music) (cheering and applause) (cheering and applause) (ambient instrumental music) (ambient instrumental music) (cheering and applause) (ambient instrumental music) (upbeat guitar music) (audience cheering) I hope I'm in your dreams The way you are in all of mine Mm, you got a love so fine I wish that I could make you mine (upbeat guitar music) Won't you sit down, you know I love you, honey And you look so tired I know it's hard, how we're thrown into this life Then one day we must die (upbeat guitar music) But that river we'll flow on Even after we're all long gone That river will flow on Take me with you now before I'm one (upbeat country music) (upbeat country music) I walk into the room and there you sit There you sit, you're so alone and quiet I can't help but stare How I love you and it just ain't fair (upbeat country music) (Sierra vocalizing) (Sierra vocalizing) But that river will flow on Even after we're all long gone That river will flow on Take me with you now before I'm one - Sing it with me.
(Sierra vocalizing) (Sierra vocalizing) (Sierra and audience vocalizing) (Sierra and audience vocalizing) But that river will flow on Even after we're all long gone That river will flow on Take me with you now before I'm one Ooh, take me with you now before I'm two Take me with you now before I'm three (cheering and applause) (upbeat country music) (audience clapping to music) (audience clapping to music) (audience cheering) (audience applauding) (Sierra vocalizing) (cheering and applause) Thank you.
(chuckles) (cheering and applause) - I'm really excited about this next song, and it's called "Fox Hunt".
You know, I've never really been into hunting.
It's not that I'm against it, I just didn't really grow up.
And when I say I'm from West Virginia, people just automatically assume that I grew up with a banjo on my porch, (audience laughing) and that there's like lots of land around.
But you know, I grew up in the projects.
(audience laughing) But um, anyways, this is my ode to hunting, so.
(lively bluegrass music) (lively bluegrass music) (Sierra vocalizing) (audience vocalizing) (Sierra vocalizing) (audience vocalizing) We'll take the path down to the river It is hunting time Clothe the kids and feed the children Oh, the mead is fun Don't let them dogs out of your sight Don't let them slip through your hands Chase that fox down through the pine To the cold river bend (lively bluegrass music) (lively bluegrass music) We'll take the path down to the river It is hunting time Clothe the kids and feed the children Oh, the mead is fun Don't let them dogs out of your sight Don't let them slip through your hands Chase that fox down through the pine To the cold river bend (lively bluegrass music) With a gun in hand and my man we go into the woods I'll know just what I'll need to do And yes it's understood Rumbling belly, shaking limbs We're gonna try and make a stand No, we're not going anywhere without a prize from the land (audience cheering) (lively bluegrass music) (Sierra vocalizing) (audience vocalizing) (Sierra vocalizing) (audience vocalizing) I'm just a hunter... I'm just trying to survive... whoo... I'm just trying to stay alive (lively bluegrass music) I'm just a hunter... (cheering and applause) I'm just trying to survive... (cheering and applause) - Thank you.
(cheering and applause) - I love playing that with them.
(tuning music notes) - Well, in the past few years I got the privilege of being on a tribute record to John Anderson.
(cheering and applause) And I would like to do one of his songs, and here's the song, "Years" for you.
(cheering and applause) (gentle country music) Years, everybody knows you gotta let 'em go And they kinda roll by like tears Just a measure of time Playin' with your mind and passin' you by, those years Look around, up and down They're nowhere to be found Like the wind, my old friends They come and go again Don't look back in sorrow Just hope you see tomorrow Those years Everybody knows you gotta let 'em go And they kinda roll by like tears Just a measure of time Playin' with your mind and passin' you by, those years (audience cheering) (gentle country music) You and me came to be We raised a family When we're gone, they live on To see what we won't see Don't look back in sorrow The children have tomorrow Those years Everybody knows you gotta let 'em go And they kinda roll by like tears Just a measure of time Playin' with your mind and passin' you by, those years Everybody knows you gotta let 'em go And they kinda roll by like tears Just a measure of time Playin' with your mind and passin' you by, those years (Sierra vocalizing) (gentle country music) (Sierra vocalizing) (cheering and applause) - Thank you.
(cheering and applause) - Well, thank you so much, y'all.
This has been amazing and very magical too.
(cheering and applause) This is gonna be our last tune here for you.
(cheering and applause) (upbeat country music) (audience cheering) (upbeat country music) (upbeat country music) Oh, Jeremiah, tell me what have you done... You took all the love she gave Took it all and away you run (upbeat country music) You can't keep all your love bottled inside You give it away to women Almost a different woman every single night You think that you can hide from the morning light Well, you forgot about sweet Sue And the promises you said you'd do She's gonna put you back up on the shelf She does better by herself (upbeat country music) (upbeat country music) Oh, Jeremiah, won't you place the ring upon Your finger Don't you leave it at home again tonight Or inside of the pocket of your blue jeans You swear this time tomorrow You will be a different man You'll change for the better I hope you keep to your promises I hope you keep them, my sweet Jeremiah Well, you forgot about sweet Sue And the promises you said you'd do She's gonna put you back up on the shelf She does better by herself (upbeat country music) (audience rhythmically clapping) (upbeat country music) (upbeat country music) (cheering and applause) Well, she will make sure to Keep all the dust Away from you... (Sierra howling) (audience howling) For you are like wine You will get sweeter with time.... (musical ending) - Thank you so much!
We'll see y'all in a bit!
Oh, Jeremiah.... whoo-whoo-ooo (cheering and applause) - Thank you.
(cheering and applause) - One more time for Sierra Ferrell, everybody!
(cheering and applause) (cheering and applause)
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