0:00:08 > 0:00:11Welcome to the Transatlantic Sessions,
0:00:11 > 0:00:13the best of Nashville, Ireland and Scotland.
0:00:13 > 0:00:16A Highland location all to ourselves,
0:00:16 > 0:00:19it's been called the greatest back-porch show ever,
0:00:19 > 0:00:21and that's what we're here for.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37I do this every day!
0:00:37 > 0:00:3843, take two.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02# Love created songs... #
0:05:02 > 0:05:05He just wrote it, like brand new Willie Nelson.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08It's amazingly inspiring.
0:05:08 > 0:05:12Lifetimes can go by and he still comes up with stuff like that.
0:05:12 > 0:05:13He's just a genius.
0:05:17 > 0:05:22# I guess my heart just settled back to earth
0:05:24 > 0:05:32# I rode a dream so wild and free for all that dream was worth
0:05:32 > 0:05:39# But true love can be a blessing and a curse
0:05:40 > 0:05:46# I guess my heart just settled back to earth
0:05:48 > 0:05:54# And now I just how you felt so long ago
0:05:56 > 0:06:02# When the dream for you had ended and you let me know
0:06:03 > 0:06:07# So I rode from sky to sky
0:06:07 > 0:06:12# Trying to keep the dream alive
0:06:12 > 0:06:18# But everything I did just made it worse
0:06:20 > 0:06:26# I guess my heart just settled back to earth
0:06:28 > 0:06:35# Love created songs that I still sing
0:06:35 > 0:06:43# Love we knew still makes the rafters ring
0:06:44 > 0:06:50# So tonight I'll sing for everything I'm worth
0:06:52 > 0:06:58# For all the hearts that settle back to earth
0:07:32 > 0:07:39# Love created songs that I still sing
0:07:40 > 0:07:47# Loving you still makes the rafters ring
0:07:47 > 0:07:54# So tonight I'll sing for everything I'm worth
0:07:56 > 0:08:02# For all the hearts that settle back to earth
0:08:16 > 0:08:18# Oooooooh
0:08:18 > 0:08:23# Oooooh-oooooh-oooooh
0:08:30 > 0:08:38# Our love will never have a final verse
0:08:40 > 0:08:48# I guess my heart just settled back to earth. #
0:08:57 > 0:09:00I think it broadens people's minds when they come here
0:09:00 > 0:09:04because when you see what they can do with all these instruments, then they can change.
0:09:04 > 0:09:08Maybe they're in a band with the same instruments all their life
0:09:08 > 0:09:10and then they come here and say, "Well, yeah..."
0:09:10 > 0:09:14- Then they go home and fire everybody!- Yeah, they fire everybody!
0:09:14 > 0:09:21# In the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky
0:09:23 > 0:09:29# That's the place where I trace my bloodline
0:09:29 > 0:09:37# And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone
0:09:37 > 0:09:45# "You will never leave Harlan alive"
0:09:50 > 0:09:57# Well, my granddad's dad walked down Katahrins Mountain
0:09:57 > 0:10:03# And he asked Tillie Helton to be his bride
0:10:03 > 0:10:11# He said, "Won't you walk with me out of the mouth of this holler
0:10:11 > 0:10:16# "Or we'll never leave Harlan alive"
0:10:16 > 0:10:24# Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning
0:10:24 > 0:10:32# And the sun goes down about three in the day
0:10:32 > 0:10:38# And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you're drinking
0:10:38 > 0:10:42# And you spend your life
0:10:42 > 0:10:46# Just thinking of how to get away
0:10:48 > 0:10:54# No-one ever knew there was coal in them mountains
0:10:54 > 0:11:00# Till a man from the north-east arrived
0:11:02 > 0:11:04# He was waving 100 bills
0:11:04 > 0:11:08# And he said "I'll pay you for your minerals"
0:11:08 > 0:11:16# But he never left Harlan alive
0:11:24 > 0:11:29# My granny, she sold out cheap and they moved out west to Pineville
0:11:29 > 0:11:36# To a farm where big Richland River winds
0:11:36 > 0:11:39# I bet they danced them a jig
0:11:39 > 0:11:43# And they laughed and sang a new song
0:11:43 > 0:11:51# Who said we'd never leave Harlan alive?
0:12:20 > 0:12:26# But the times got hard and tobacco wasn't selling
0:12:26 > 0:12:32# And old Granddad knew what he'd do to survive
0:12:32 > 0:12:37# He went and dug for Harlan coal
0:12:37 > 0:12:41# He sent the money back to Granny
0:12:41 > 0:12:48# But he never left Harlan alive
0:12:49 > 0:12:54# Where the sun comes up
0:12:54 > 0:12:58# About ten in the morning
0:12:58 > 0:13:02# And the sun goes down
0:13:02 > 0:13:06# About three in the day
0:13:06 > 0:13:09# And you fill your cup
0:13:09 > 0:13:14# With whatever bitter brew you're drinking
0:13:14 > 0:13:21# And you spend your life digging coal from the bottom of your grave
0:13:21 > 0:13:24# And the sun comes up
0:13:24 > 0:13:28# About ten in the morning
0:13:28 > 0:13:32# And the sun goes down
0:13:32 > 0:13:35# About three in the day
0:13:35 > 0:13:38# And you fill your cup
0:13:38 > 0:13:42# With whatever bitter brew you're drinking
0:13:42 > 0:13:44# And you spend your life
0:13:44 > 0:13:52# Digging coal from the bottom of your grave
0:14:15 > 0:14:18# Oh, you will never
0:14:18 > 0:14:25# Leave Harlan alive. #
0:17:32 > 0:17:37Ally's a massive inspiration to me and lots of other young musicians from Shetland
0:17:37 > 0:17:41and for him to ask me to come along was just great
0:17:41 > 0:17:44'and Julie Fowlis from North Uist who's a singer and whistle player,
0:17:44 > 0:17:50'she's here as well so it's nice to have one of my comrades around about.
0:17:50 > 0:17:54'It's great to have someone to experience it all with as well
0:17:54 > 0:17:56'and talk about it for years to come!'
0:18:12 > 0:18:15# Oladh neo na oladh cach i
0:18:15 > 0:18:19# Biodh i lan aig ceann a' bhuird
0:18:19 > 0:18:23# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:18:23 > 0:18:27# Deoch slainte le fear an tuir
0:18:27 > 0:18:31# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:18:31 > 0:18:35# Chunnacas bat' air an fhairge
0:18:35 > 0:18:39# 'S an laimh dhearg air an stiuir
0:18:39 > 0:18:43# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:18:43 > 0:18:47# Deoch slainte le fear an tuir
0:18:47 > 0:18:51# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:18:51 > 0:18:56# Chunnaic mi dol seach' an caol i
0:18:56 > 0:18:59# 'S badan fraoich 's an t-slait shiuil
0:18:59 > 0:19:03# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:19:03 > 0:19:07# Deoch slainte le fear an tuir
0:19:07 > 0:19:11# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:19:18 > 0:19:22# Fhir a chunnaic air an t-sail i
0:19:22 > 0:19:26# Beannaich an long bhan 's a criudh'
0:19:26 > 0:19:29# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:19:29 > 0:19:33# Deoch slainte le fear an tuir
0:19:33 > 0:19:37# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:19:38 > 0:19:42# Beannaich a cruinn ard 's a h-acfhuinn
0:19:42 > 0:19:46# A cuid acraichean 's a siuil
0:19:46 > 0:19:50# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:19:50 > 0:19:54# Deoch slainte le fear an tuir
0:19:54 > 0:20:00# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:20:25 > 0:20:29# Ged a tha mi 'n seo an Colla
0:20:29 > 0:20:33# B' e mo thoil a dhol a Rum
0:20:33 > 0:20:37# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:20:37 > 0:20:41# Deoch slainte le fear an tuir
0:20:41 > 0:20:45# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:20:46 > 0:20:50# Agus as a sin a dh' Uibhist
0:20:50 > 0:20:53# Nan d' fhuair mi mo ghuidhe leam
0:20:53 > 0:20:57# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:20:57 > 0:21:01# Deoch slainte le fear an tuir
0:21:01 > 0:21:05# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:21:05 > 0:21:08# Deoch slainte le fear an tuir
0:21:08 > 0:21:16# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin. #
0:21:50 > 0:21:55'You have to cut loose a bit and hope that everyone else's input takes it to another place
0:21:55 > 0:21:58'and sometimes it's not very far from where it first originated
0:21:58 > 0:22:01'and other times, it might be miles away,'
0:22:01 > 0:22:06but the trust and faith of the other people involved is just amazing.
0:22:08 > 0:22:13# This is really not my home
0:22:13 > 0:22:17# Oh, where are you my lovely Johnny?
0:22:18 > 0:22:22# I'm afraid and all alone
0:22:22 > 0:22:27There is no peace for me
0:22:28 > 0:22:33# I'm sitting in the stranger's room
0:22:33 > 0:22:39# Playing at the stranger's table
0:22:39 > 0:22:43# Shining empty like the moon
0:22:43 > 0:22:48# There is no peace for me
0:22:48 > 0:22:53# But in the darkness struggle cold
0:22:53 > 0:22:59# I think about a garden valley
0:22:59 > 0:23:04# Gentle as the leaves unfold
0:23:04 > 0:23:09# Singing out across the bay
0:23:09 > 0:23:14# Distant and so far away
0:23:14 > 0:23:18# There is no peace for me
0:23:19 > 0:23:24# I'm blinded by your city lights
0:23:24 > 0:23:29# I wander through these fearful places
0:23:29 > 0:23:34# The colours fade to black and white
0:23:34 > 0:23:38# There is no peace for me
0:23:39 > 0:23:45# And these are not the friends I know
0:23:45 > 0:23:49# These are not their smiling faces
0:23:49 > 0:23:54# A desert that no-one should know
0:23:54 > 0:23:58# There is no peace for me
0:23:59 > 0:24:04# But in the darkness struggle cold
0:24:04 > 0:24:09# I think about a garden valley
0:24:09 > 0:24:14# Gentle as the leaves unfold
0:24:14 > 0:24:19# Singing out across the bay
0:24:19 > 0:24:24# Distant and so far away
0:24:24 > 0:24:28# There is no peace for me
0:24:51 > 0:24:56# Now I know and feel it well
0:24:56 > 0:25:02# Poor immigrants' deep sunken feeling
0:25:02 > 0:25:06# Standing at the gates of Hell
0:25:06 > 0:25:11# There is no peace for me
0:25:12 > 0:25:17# Burned out by their master's greed
0:25:17 > 0:25:22# Cruel exile transportation
0:25:22 > 0:25:27# Robbed of every love and need
0:25:27 > 0:25:31# There is no peace for me
0:25:32 > 0:25:37# And in the darkness struggle cold
0:25:37 > 0:25:43# I think about a garden valley
0:25:44 > 0:25:49# Gentle as the leaves unfold
0:25:49 > 0:25:54# Singing out across the bay
0:25:54 > 0:25:59# Distant and so far away
0:25:59 > 0:26:03# There is no peace for me
0:26:03 > 0:26:11# There is no peace for me. #
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