Here is an exclusive performance from WXPN Studios back in December 1994 featuring all the original members of Dave Matthews Band.

Dave Matthews Band - Ants Marching (LIVE At WXPN Studios, December 1994)

Pearl Jam - Better Man - Live Sportpaleis Antwerp 2006

'If The Roses Don't Kill Us' out now!

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Christopher Denny (ft. Erika Wennerstrom of Heartless Bastards) - Our Kind Of Love

Elvis Presley & Jerry Lee Lewis - Be Bop A Lula (cover - Almost Quartet)

I want you to imagine the moment the sun is low, painting the sky in a bruised gold, and all you have for company is the steady sound of hooves hitting the dust. That feeling—the raw, aching solitude of riding away from something you can’t get back—that’s what I poured into this song.

When I sat down to write "The Heartbeat in the Saddle," I was lost. My memory felt like a phantom limb, always trailing right behind me, like a shadow I couldn't shake off. Every rhythmic chord from the acoustic guitar in the intro is meant to sound like the trot of a horse, a physical, constant presence to anchor the grief. The mandolin—that light, shimmering sound—is the fragile whisper of my memory, and the fiddle is the soul itself, echoing the long, mournful cry of longing that just won’t cease.

I know, because I lived it, that the hardest part is that final, undeniable moment: the "gone, and I ride away." This ballad is my way of singing through the tears, wishing I could turn back time and make you stay.

But what truly lifts this song is the spirit of Kathy Trevelyan. Her voice is the very air over those lonely fields—it’s soft, filled with longing, yet possesses an incredible, soaring, soulful ache that captures every bit of my despair. When she hits those final notes in the chorus, you don’t just hear the words; you feel the genuine, broken heart beneath them. She makes the sorrow sound beautiful, and she turns my lonely ride into a journey we can all understand.

I hope that when you listen to the Bridge—the part where I sing, "Maybe someday I’ll find my peace"—you feel that fragile, supportive flicker of hope, too.

[Verse 1]
Riding through the fields, with tears in my eyes,
Thinking ’bout the love that’s gone, and how I cried,
Your memory’s a shadow, trailing behind,
Lost in the lonely night.  

[Verse 2]
The wind’s whispering, just like your name,
Across the land, I feel the pain,
Each hoofbeat echoes my despair,
Wishing you were here.  

[Chorus]
Riding through the tears, beneath the sky,
With a broken heart and a longing cry,
Wish I could turn back time, make you stay,
But you’re gone, and I ride away.
In this saddle, I’m all alone,
Longing for the love I’ve known,
Tears in my eyes, I can’t deny,
I’m still lost in your goodbye.  

[Verse 3]
The sun dips low, shadows grow long,
I sing my sorrow in this song,
Your memory’s a fire I can’t burn out,
But I’m riding on, no doubt.  

[Bridge]
Maybe someday I’ll find my peace,
Until then, my heart won’t cease,
Riding through this lonely land,
Missing your touch, your hand.  

[Outro]
So I ride these trails, with tears in my eyes,
Hoping someday, beyond the skies,
I’ll find you waiting, in the great unknown,
Until then, I’ll ride alone.

Riding Through the Tears

Grace Potter – Nobody's Born With A Broken Heart

SINGER/SONGWRITER/GUITARIST AND ACTIVIST MELISSA ETHERIDGE HONORS THE RICH MUSICAL HISTORY OF LEGENDARY MEMPHIS LABEL STAX RECORDS

RECORDED AT ROYAL STUDIOS BY LAWRENCE “BOO” MITCHELL, MEMPHIS ROCK AND SOUL FEATURES CLASSIC STAX REPERTOIRE

 

Melissa Etheridge has done some pretty gutsy things in her stellar career. She’s shown no fear in forthrightly standing up for her truths, both in her songs and her life.

But as an artist she’s never quite laid it on the line like she does on MEmphis Rock and Soul, scheduled for release on October 7, 2016 via Stax Records, a division of Concord Music Group. Sure, she’s sung songs by some of her biggest heroes before. But Otis Redding? Mavis Staples? Sam and Dave? Rufus Thomas? These are some of the names, some of the voices of music at the pinnacle of an era in American music, the people indelibly identified with the songs on this album. Captured at the historic landmark Royal Studios with a band of some of the preeminent figures in the Memphis scene, the album includes veterans of some of the city’s most cherished recordings. The songs themselves are all core to the famed Stax Records label, and the album is Etheridge’s loving tribute to the role the music of Stax played in her life, and in modern American life.

Melissa Etheridge: Hold On, I'm Coming

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Rocky Ground

You've Got It

Sample of us :O) Recorded Live at the riverside theater Coleraine, Northern Ireland   

Fields of Gold / The Petersens and Tommy adding his 25 cents in

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