Is there a single one of these videos that doesn’t have Harry Dean Stanton playing a sad looking old man?
Spoiler! There’s only one that I can find.
This time around we see Stanton hanging around a black-and-white house with a dog and a fiddle.
While Stanton goes about his normal routine, we see Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris in color as ghosts trolling Stanton. I wonder if this was for the same reason that Bob Dylan wasn’t in the Bob Dylan video that stars Stanton.
Stanton still finds a way to have some enjoyment by doing a bit of Gene Kelly mop/broom dancing from Thousands Cheer (1943).
Thousands Cheer (1943, dir. George Sidney)
That’s really all there is to the video. It has Stanton and it’s a nice recognizable Country song. Stanton does a fine job as always. I kind of like the idea of Parton, Ronstadt, and Harris being ghosts even if I can’t keep myself from wondering if the video is this way because they couldn’t get them in the same room together. It works anyways.
Unlike almost any video I cover, this one comes with credits.
I can’t find anything about White Copeman except that he seems to have directed at least one other video for Dolly Parton.
There’s a little more information on producer Caldwell. He and his wife sold a house in Venice, Los Angeles back in 2014 for about 2.56 million dollars. I can also find some scattered mentions of him online that amount to the fact that he works as a music video producer. There are at least producing credits on three videos and graphics work on another one.
Enjoy!
Harry Dean Stanton Retrospective:
Through the Shattered Lens 