i agree with everything you say, fezo...it was great for him to take a song from local and record it...i loved seeing Gord play Country Singer live and then acknowledge McKewn in the crowd...it sounded really good live also
i heard Gord's cut of Bobby McGee on radio today and thought it sounded wonderful but then thought of some of my latter choices in the poll ranking and thought how Gord's vocal performances were so much more compelling in those (for instance, Pride of Man...it's like black and white)...i guess some folks responded to the poll as to which "song" do they like best...that works too, i make the polls non-anonymous and i hope all are fine with that
i didn't realize Gord omitted a verse from Och's Changes...one of the darker ones, perhaps...
"The world's spinning madly, it drifts in the dark
Swings through a hollow of haze
A race around the stars, a journey through
The universe ablaze with changes"
anyhow, it's #1 on my list by a few lengths (even though the vocal is not necessarily challenging, in other words, i may have just contradicted myself
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Originally Posted by fezo
Well, at least I Used to be a Country Singer is getting some votes. I love that and he gets bonus point for finding a song that no one would have picked up otherwise.
No such thing as a bad choice in there.
I think the fact that I'd heard a couple of versions of Me and Bobby McGee before Gord cut it may slant my thinking. it's good but might not make my top list. The first time I heard it was by Roger Miller.
Changes is up there but (he says ducking) no one did it better than Phil Ochs.
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