Steve Earle, “The Mountain”, performed by Benjamin Tod of Lost Dog Street Band // GemsOnVHS™
A compilation of footage we shot out in Wyoming and South Dakota. The train line is the Union Pacific’s overland. The portion taped is between Cheyenne and Green River, Wyoming. This is the first transcontinental railroad in the history of mankind. Ben plays a favorite Steve Earle song in Cheyenne, Wyoming in front of the Chief Washakie statue at the state capitol. The song is not in its original arrangement.
Big thanks to our executive producers, Brad Sirois, Mitchell Davis, Keith McQuillan, David Jameson, Lisa Galvan, Irvin Maddox, Josh Collins, Brady Jones, Julie Nestoroff, and VJ Arizpe for making this thing possible.
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@JohnDoe-s2c6s
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
Trains
@MichaelC-tj8rr
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
I think of the mountain metaphorically as 🇺🇸 and yes this we'll defend
@growmusicfood
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
Original better. This pretty good
@myyoutube7144
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
Chills
@JasonGross-o9j2v
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
Your awesome Benjamin, your music helped give me the strength to overcome a life of addiction and show my boys that it's ok for a man to fall but not to stay down.
@bootZ-q5s
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
Miners granddaughter and proud ❤
@Ureconstructed
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
Love that he’s wearing a CS belt buckle.
@Spl01nk2
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
To anyone that reads this, life can be tough. Addiction, loss, growth. You can do this. I believe in you.
@kodykarlik5221
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
I would have to fuck my cousin to have a good time at a concert
@jerv9827
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
fun fact: if American hydrocarbon miners weren't so lazy, we would not need to rely so heavily on the gulf states for energy.
@davet2783
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
I listen to this song for about 10 years and it’s one of my favorite songs Benjamin sings. I grew up on a little mountain in the desert in Utah at a time. It was near a small town that town has grown. The mountain has been annexed. They’re charging farmers more for property taxes to push them out so they can build. The mountain has been hollowed out by gravel companies. We don’t have very much water anymore either, but I remember when I was a kid and it was paradise. They knocked all the timber, and they stripped all the land and they wrote it all off as the progress of man.
@cacamou3275
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
no song feels like like this one, this probs my 3000th time playing this but it never ever gets old, makes me feel like im still climbing up the best tree around, drinking round the fire with my best friends, making love to my frist girlfriend, and smoking my frist smoke and hanging around the place i was raised in smellling of cow shit, this shit is good , and if they ever delete that one imma riot
@yokomgcruz
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
Crazy im just now hearing this
@RoseHighsmith
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
Beautiful brings tears to my eyes , when hard work was HARD WORK , why have kown idea!!
@Mr.SudzBudz
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
I was born on this mountain
This mountain is my home.
@logansnyder1910
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
Benjamin Todd, you have an extremely punchable face but you make some of the best music I’ve ever heard
@burnedtorso2
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
One of those occasions the cover out shines the original.
@CaseyCefalu-yt5ct
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
Just heard Jesse Stewart passed away about a year or so ago. I know he had his personal demons and unfortunately they won. Another good and talented person taken too soon. RIP brother
@davidschuerenberg6689
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
old charter 😋
@richarddevlaminck5501
May 3, 2026 at 6:35 am
i play guitar and banjo, i love this song.ben is a blessing. hes inspired me so much.i am 62 and play the daylights of his songs. thanks buddy!
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