Same song but ....

Subject: RE: Same song but ....
From: Deckman
Date: 30 Jun 03 - 07:19 PM

Many years ago I was enthralled when a favorite singer of mine, Don Normark,(Seattle), did a version of "Cowboy's Lament." If you'll think about it, there are two totally different and accepted melodies. One starts high and descends. The other starts low and stays there. What Don did was amazing, and I've never heard it recorded or sung by anyone else. He combines BOTH melodies. He sang the verse in the lower register, and did the higher melody for the chorus. It requires that the singer have almost a two octave range. It's taken me some serious work over the years, but I'm very pleased that I can now do it also. Try it ... you'll like it! CHEERS, Bob

Subject: RE: Same song but ....
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 30 Jun 03 - 10:18 PM

Dylan troll woken?

Who could sleep listening to that voice?

Subject: RE: Same song but ....
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 01 Jul 03 - 12:00 AM

I'd like to hear someone sing Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" in a slow mournful style, with an acoustic blues guitar arrangement, rather like the way David Bromberg performs Dehlia (click to play). (I'm not sure the link will work; if not, go to Yahoo! Shopping > Music and search for DEHLIA.

Keb' Mo' does something a bit like what I had in mind on the various artists' CD Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash.

Subject: RE: Same song but ....
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 02 Jul 03 - 05:52 AM

Martin Gibson. Dylan has made a number of refences to the fact that he was impressed by The Animals version of " The House of the Rising Sun". The reasons are obvious. First, here was a song that Dylan had recorded with just a guitar, but then along come The Animals who take Dylan's version ( they admitted this to me, personally, back in 64 - that's name-dropping for you) and turn it into a rock masterpiece ( according to general opinion ). Secondly, Dylan hears The Animals version and bells start ringing. He starts to think, "If they, The Animals, can have a hit record with my material, then, maybe, I can across over into the rock market. Which, of course, he did.

Subject: RE: Same song but ....
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 02 Jul 03 - 11:17 AM

And of course, Tunesmith, Dylan intimately told all of this to you one day in 1964 and some of his other most private thoughts. Did he confide in you that Pete Seeger would get mad at him?