I was 8 years old when I first heard this song (62 in Feb) later I had a go and became (what I like to call) a modest singer/songwriter. Though my style is nothing like Bobbie Gentry's, I can't think of a bigger influence (popular music) on my listening and writing than her. The distant laconic delivery, the lonely voice, but mainly the masterly setting of the real time scene through different angles/characters. When listening to this whole wonderful Album you get hints of it in preceding songs. The whole thing is a masterpiece
* A special mention to Jimmie Haskell's gorgous strings arrangement (Young Fagen and Becker must have noticed too cause they used his services a few years later...)
Sam Fender did a really interesting doc on the late Alan Hull from Lindisfarne - available on Iplayer. A really good watch and Sam came across really well.
My mate and me used to do some dance moves to this. Every beat of the chorus hit your legs then a clap before a mimic of a you firing an arrow. hard to explain, either way, what a loser.
this is another one. My Nan and her daughter loved this even though i kept saying to them its April comes she will is better but it was a choice by them for, well, you know, the worst. tbf it is better. god i miss them.
Simon and Garfunkel - Like a bridge over troubled water
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Though my style is nothing like Bobbie Gentry's, I can't think of a bigger influence (popular music) on my listening and writing than her.
The distant laconic delivery, the lonely voice, but mainly the masterly setting of the real time scene through different angles/characters.
When listening to this whole wonderful Album you get hints of it in preceding songs. The whole thing is a masterpiece
* A special mention to Jimmie Haskell's gorgous strings arrangement (Young Fagen and Becker must have noticed too cause they used his services a few years later...)
ELO...Don't Bring Me Down...
The Highwomen - Highwomen(with Yola and Sheryl Crow)
Classic that one, mind you, I prefer the original...
The Pretenders...2000 Miles...
Molly Tuttle - good enough
Gordon Lightfoot - If you could read my mind
Johnny Cash - Like the 309
The final song he wrote.
My mate and me used to do some dance moves to this. Every beat of the chorus hit your legs then a clap before a mimic of a you firing an arrow. hard to explain, either way, what a loser.
(shame Youtube are heartless bastards with their ads)
for me its the Waterboys with Stolen Child..
Simon and Garfunkel - Like a bridge over troubled water
Elvis (the master, bit old fashioned i know but man what a voice) An American trilogy -
The Pogues...Fairytale Of New York...
A very emotional song.
I wish i knew how it would feel to be free - Nina Simone
Find this song both uplifting and sad.
Leaving on a jet plane
John Denver - Country roads