Long Black Veil.......Best version of them all?
hlk
>
> This has to be one of the most performed songs no one has ever heard of outside
> country circles.
> At a party of 30 old fucks like myself (all 40+) NOT A SINGLE ONE knew this
> song!
> The Band performed it at Woodstock for fuck sakes!
> Mick Jagger sang it with the Chieftains.
> It's one of the best country songs of all time.
> Maybe someone will have to convince the Back Street Boys to perform the fucking
> tune...if they haven't already!
One of my favorite Bay Area bands, Charming Hostess, performs a
fabulous version of this song live. And they ain't country.
Al Muzer
al
JeffW
>
>This has to be one of the most performed songs no one has ever heard of outside
>country circles.
>At a party of 30 old fucks like myself (all 40+) NOT A SINGLE ONE knew this
>song!
>The Band performed it at Woodstock for fuck sakes!
>Mick Jagger sang it with the Chieftains.
>It's one of the best country songs of all time.
>Maybe someone will have to convince the Back Street Boys to perform the fucking
>tune...if they haven't already!
Nick Cave covers it, and Johnny Cash. Bob Dylan's performed it in concert.
It's a great, great song. (Jagger really rose to the occasion with the
Chieftains.)
Balecox
that about numerous versions for all I know...just to keep from alienating a
singer!
P
Jeannie
>
>This has to be one of the most performed songs no one has ever heard of outside
>country circles.
>At a party of 30 old fucks like myself (all 40+) NOT A SINGLE ONE knew this
>song!
>The Band performed it at Woodstock for fuck sakes!
>Mick Jagger sang it with the Chieftains.
>It's one of the best country songs of all time.
>Maybe someone will have to convince the Back Street Boys to perform the fucking
>tune...if they haven't already!
>
>JP
Here's to admitting that I am a TOTAL nerd on the internet:
I like Burl Ives' version. :)
Jeannie
mslinda
I like Marty Stuart's.
Linda C.
TOFOG
Jac...@faux.aol wrote:
> This has to be one of the most performed songs no one has ever heard of
> outside
> country circles.
> JP
My vote for 2nd best version would have to go to Rick Danko of the
Band, when the Band did it. First best would be Johnny Cash.
Tofog, Keeper of 30 Odd Foot of Grunts and in serious negotiation for Dwight
Yoakam
Dean Eaton
dena
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Ronald Smyth
>
>This has to be one of the most performed songs no one has ever heard of outside
>country circles.
>At a party of 30 old fucks like myself (all 40+) NOT A SINGLE ONE knew this
>song!
>The Band performed it at Woodstock for fuck sakes!
>Mick Jagger sang it with the Chieftains.
>It's one of the best country songs of all time.
>Maybe someone will have to convince the Back Street Boys to perform the fucking
>tune...if they haven't already!
>
>JP
Gotta be Lefty Frizzell.
Ron Smyth
Nshvlbrat
SINGLETARY cd!!! Just this morning,,,
Talk about goosebumps! It's so good it hurts.
-Brat
The only thing self-cleaning in
my house is the cat.....
Janice Brooks
Dale watson does a good live version
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Otter
guys).
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Dan
encore. I love the song and they do a great job on it...
Dan
<Jac...@faux.aol> wrote in message
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BAmuzed
I love the song and they do a great job on it...<<
Dave Matthews and Emmylou Harris did a nice version on the Johnny Cash tribute
show that aired a few years ago.
I wonder if they will be reprising that on the JC tribute album currently in
the works...?
Imogen
Imogen
TOFOG <thirtyoddfoo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In article <o87p3u047g6370q28...@4ax.com>,
> Jac...@faux.aol wrote:
> > This has to be one of the most performed songs no one has ever heard of
> > outside
> > country circles.
> **snip**
> > JP
>
> My vote for 2nd best version would have to go to Rick Danko of the
> Band, when the Band did it. First best would be Johnny Cash.
Okay, you're right. Johnny Cash is the correct answer.
Imogen
Revdonaldo
LONG BLACK VEIL. Favorites include versions by THE KINGSTON TRIO, MIKE NESS,
COUNTRY GENTLEMEN, and FLETCHER HARRINGTON.
Tribe
Dickens and Alice Gerrard.
Tribe
RayGun Sharp
encore.
I love the song and they do a great job on it...<<
Dave Matthews and Emmylou Harris did a nice version on the Johnny Cash >>
Not for nothing, but Dave Matthews sucks.
hollowell
> Lefty's is still marginally the best for me, but one of Joan Baez's
> versions is close behind. (She recorded it twice, at least; in one
> version she sings the chorus after the first verse, in the other she
> waits until the second verse to sing the chorus, the way most
> interpreters of this great, great song do.)
>
> The Kingston Trio did two versions, the first not very good, but the
> second version (on "Twenty-Five Years On," I think, or "Looking For
> The Sunshine," albums cut around 1982 with only Nick Reynolds of the
> original Trio remaining) was pretty good too. It starts out with a
> hollow banging noise, (drums?) as of the sound of a hammer building a
> gallows.... Very macabre.
John Anderson did a pretty good version on his
"Wild & Blue" album and even had Merle sing
one of the choruses...very tasteful.
Chris Pisarra
<tahiun...@post.harvard.edu> wrote
> I wish someone would put together two or three CDs with ALL the
> versions. There would be hours of great listening....
That's what Morpheus/Gnutella/bearshare are for.
Chris
This Guy
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> ... Dave Matthews sucks.
Not as much as you do.
Ambrose Meineke
interested, but I thought I'd offer a traditional version of LBV with chords
that most anyone can play. I'm only doing this because it was in discussion
already so don't be asking me for "Stairway to Heaven " or "Dust in the
Wind," or anything because I get enough of that in my day to day life.
Ambrose
Long Black Veil
G / / / | | | | Ten years ago, on a cold dark night, there was D | |C |G | |
someone killed 'neath the Town Hall light.
There were | | | | few at the scene, but they all agreed that the D | |C |G
| man who ran looked a lot like me. She (Chorus) C |G |C |G | | walks these
hill in a long black veil.
She C |G |C |G | | visits my grave while the night winds wail. | |C | |
Nobody knows, nobody sees, C |D |G | Nobody knows but me. The judge said:
Son, what is your alibi If you were somewhere else, then you don't have to
die. I spoke not a word though it ment my life For I'd been in the arms of
my best friends wife. (Chorus)
Wormwood
>Nick Cave covers it, and Johnny Cash. Bob Dylan's performed it in concert.
>It's a great, great song. (Jagger really rose to the occasion with the
>Chieftains.)
I've only heard the Johnny Cash version, and it is simply one of the
most beautiful & haunting songs I've ever heard, and I fuckin' HATE
C&W! Now that I'n getting broadband internet access this Monday, I'll
have to check out the Chieftians rendition in the MP3 groups, where I
recently saw it posted. Before when I had 56K dial-up (actually I
*still* have it until the day after tomorrow) I was forced to be very
selective in what I downloaded -- took me hours & hours to download a
single friggin' CD. Now I'm gonna cut loose & get all sorts of crazy
shit I'm not too familiar with but have heard good things about. :-Þ
--worm
