Dolly, Emmylou and Linda - After the Goldrush

Artist: TrioSong: After The Gold RushAlbum: Trio II - Dolly Parton/Emmylou Harris/Linda Ronstadt"After The Goldrush" - released in April 1999 was shot in an old synagogue in New York. It reached #9 on the CMT Top Twelve Countdown.* I DON'T OWN THIS VIDEO Well i dreamed i saw the knights in armor comingSaying something about a kingThere were peasants singing and drummers drummingAnd the archer split the treeThere was a fanfare blowing to the sunThat was floating on the breezeLook at mother nature on the runIn the twenty-first centuryLook at mother nature on the runIn the twenty-first centuryI was lying in a burned out basementWith the full moon in my eyesI was hoping for replacementWhen the sun burst through the skyThere was a band playing in my headAnd i felt like i could cryI was thinking about what a friend had saidI was hoping it was a lieThinking about what a friend had saidI was hoping it was a lieWell i dreamed i saw the silver spaceships flyin'In the yellow haze of the sunThere was laughing, crying and colors flyingAll around the chosen oneAll in a dream, all in a dream, the loading had begunFlying mother nature's silver seed to a new home in the sunThey were flying mother nature's silver seed to a new home...Dolly Parton :"I loved that song from the day I heard it on Neil's record. Then that girl a cappella group, Prelude, came out with it. And I loved it then, and I just remember thinking all of the things I thought it meant-the song was so visual. And I thought, 'What does that song mean?' I just thought it meant everything...And I thought, well, I'll interpret it like the Second Coming, or an invasion of the aliens, or whatever. And so when I took the song to the Trio project — me, Linda [Ronstadt] and Emmylou [Harris] — and it was one of the songs... we all took our own suggestions and batch of songs. They both knew the song and had worked with Neil. So we did cut it, although that Trio album's never going to come out because it died on the vine. But we did cut the whole album, and then Linda put "Goldrush" in her album right after that, which didn't do anything. But I just still felt so strong about the song. And so, anyway, when we were doing the Trio album, I asked Linda and Emmy what it meant, and they didn't know. So we called Neil Young, and he didn't know. We asked him, flat out, what it meant, and he said, 'Hell, I don't know. I just wrote it. It just depends on what I was taking at the time. I guess every verse has something different I'd taken.' So when I did it, I thought, well, if Neil can't interpret it, then I'm just going to make it my own. So in this version, I put it in the 21st century. When I said 'something about a king' instead of 'something about a queen,' I thought that could be Jesus and the Second Coming. And then, at the end, when I talk about the space people, I was thinking that the Mayans always said they'd be coming back in 2011, so I thought, well, the 21st century, that's when something is going to happen. So I thought, well, I'd put it over in the 21st century. I don't know. What do you think the song's about?" I confess that as much as I loved "After The Goldrush," I'd never even thought about the Mayans. "Well, I do," Dolly starts right back, "because I'm a writer, and I just kept trying to think about what Neil meant. I just loved the song. But when I first heard it, you know, when he says, 'I was lying in a burned-out basement,' I just saw the Second World War. I just saw buildings and burned-out cities — I saw every kind of thing, and I thought, 'What does the song mean?' I guess it was the acid." [©Dollyon-line.com]

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Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
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