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This is a must!! Top notch guitar playing and vocals we can all appreciate!! Keep on strumming my fellow Bards!

I was thinking about some of my favorite current female singer-songwriters and Lori is simply one of the best songwriters today, male or female. I was looking for one of her songs to share and this is the one. Nothing fancy, just 3 chords, a melody, and incredible writing.

I don't want to spoil the song, but it is literally me and my wife and our lives over the last 15 years. This song makes me cry every time I hear it.

I'm learning how to play this song and it's kinda kicking my ass. The melody and rhythm of this song combined with the fingerpicking technique used by Elliot in this song is a bit haunting. The song is 120 bpm, in Am, and a capo on the 5th fret (respective to standard tuning). The first couple of chords used in the intro are kind of interesting, relative to the capo: Bm (open low E and A strings) -> A -> Bm6 (open low E, G, and high E strings) -> Bm6/A (open low E, A, G, and high E strings) -> G. It's that second Bm shape that sounds a bit haunting. He adds a number of flourishes throughout the song that are subtle but add depth to the song. I think it would be interesting to discuss the chord choice, fingerpicking style, the way he connects the pieces together with the base notes, and an approach to learning how to play fingerpicking songs.

Hope this video works, it hard to find a live version that show both hand placement and sound decent.

Hey Michael just wanted to say a huge thank you to you and your amazing community. I've wanted to learn guitar for years and after rediscovering your reacts videos about a week ago I finally got the inspiration to pick the thing up.

I've seen your past Mandolin Orange videos and hope you will enjoy this cover of a Bob Dylan classic as much as I do.