Stairway to Heaven

[3waycross]

Ignore the part about Obama. I defy any generation to claim that they had better music. BOOMERS ROCK

http://www.splentale.com/this-sensation ... peechless/

 

[melking]

In my opinion, one of the greatest song ever.

 

[sim.-ang.king]

Great song, and listen to it when ever I can.

 

[john250]

rings of smoke through the trees

 

[Alan]

Great song and a great cover from heart! Thanks for the link!

 

[James T]

Ignore the part about Obama. I defy any generation to claim that they had better music. BOOMERS ROCK

http://www.splentale.com/this-sensation ... peechless/

Great pick 3way! Just listened to that and then Gold Dust Woman by Fleetwood Mack, another favorite.

 

[greybeard]

I'm for anything that leaves Obama speechless.

 

[inyati13]

I enjoyed that.

 

[dun]

I have some hearing damage that makes all but 3 women singers and 1 group(that I've found so far) sound like screech owls. This one isn;t among those 3. The 3 are Wynona Judd, Ann Murray and Reba McEntyre. The group is Wild Rose. Years ago I heard one song by Whitney Houston that didn;t hurt my ears and give me a headache. There was only one and I don;t know which one it was.

 

[chrisy]

I don't usually like cover versions I'll give her that this one is good.

 

[Jogeephus]

That was good. Those Wilson girls are good.

 

[Nesikep]

Cover songs are very hard to do... Jesse Winchester did respect to Gordon Lightfoot's "Sundown", and there's a couple others I can't think of just now...

 

[greybeard]

IMO, Willie and company did a lot better cover job on Pancho and Lefty than it's writer and original singer Townes Van Zandt or the recording Emmylou Harris did.

Pancho and Lefty" is a song written by country singer and songwriter Townes Van Zandt. Often considered his "most enduring and well-known song," Van Zandt first recorded it for his 1972 album, The Late Great Townes Van Zandt.[1] Emmylou Harris then covered the song for her 1977 album, Luxury Liner. Also in 1977, Hoyt Axton recorded it on his album Snowblind Friend. The song became a number one country hit in 1983 when Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson adopted it as the title track of their duet album Pancho & Lefty.

 

[dun]

Something that irritates me is when an artist does an original version of a song and does it really well, then later tarts it all up trying to "improve" it.
Roger Miller did that a lot but in his case it may have been the booze and dope that clouded his memory how it was originally done.