This live version is quite the most beautiful performance…the consummate performer, singing a song written as a 21 year old adding 30 years experience. Reduces me to a blubbering wreck every time…
I have posted this before but the local band played this in the boozer the other night and it blew me away, so no apologies for posting it again…
Here’s one. Cover of a Jimmie Rodgers song, and a very quirky one at that, with a 15-year-old boy doing the singing.
And here’s another. Very famous song, which goes back a long way. The earliest version I know is by Mississippi John Hurt, entitled Frankie and Albert and recorded in 1928. Can this be considered a cover? What the hell, it’s a great version.
Done fell down the St Vincent rabbit hole again. Remembered she used to do this quite a bit. It’s pretty good, fuck she’s amazing. I really love her.
This thread will be more than resurrected now that I have an ulterior motive.
The guitarist and I are into pop songs done as guitar songs. The other two are a bit rock n roll, so we’ve probably got some work to convince them that this is the way to go.
She played me this.
I played her this (both might have been linked before)
Like I said, we’ve got some convincing to do, but I reckon it’s a no-brainer.
Always loved Jaq’s voice and singing an Iris Dement song is just perfect… stunning… (if you like a bit a old fashioned country swing)
I saw Iris at the Wedgewood Rooms back in the '90s…stunning I cried all the way through “My Life”…Love Jacqui Abbott too.
That is pretty cool LITSL - rather envious.
The oddest gig I ever saw at the Wedgewood Rooms, completely different demographic where I wasn’t anywhere near the oldest in the crowd. All seated, lots of cowboy hats and blue-rinses.
This
He could have learnt the words.