Wednesday, March 31, 2010
What DOES One Do With Good Ol' Boys Like Me?
It has been brought to my attention that we as a people need to perform more Don Williams songs. I am in a little over my head with this one, but it is my favorite. This is a shout out to our old college friend, Ellen...'member...'member...Ellen?...She was awesome! She introduced me to this song so many years ago. (She did a great version of this song, I can't believe i never archived a copy of her singing it.) Bad archivist...naughty, naughty archivist!
I had to edit out some false starts, and when i rendered the final edit, my editing software formatted it in this odd version. I tried to fix it, but this is it I guess.
After you endure my rather hamfisted and oddly jaunty rendition of this song, check out this guy's version at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix_E_DENLOY
he is just great!
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8 comments:
OMG, this makes me miss you even more. I can really hear how good your guitar sounds in this one, and I love that song! I don't know why you insist that you're a bad singer. You sound like Al. And for the record, I do not remember Ellen.
thanks for the compliment, since i started 'talk singing' my way thru songs, i feel a bit more confident. it's just that more and more i would love to have a real singing voice.
i would not be surprised if you had already moved to the twin cities by the time Ellen was in school.
This is SOOOOOO good . . . i just LOVE this song. It's so unexpectedly dark and sweet and contradictory--who knew Don Williams was so complex?? That he admired Tom Wolf and Tennessee Williams???
I DO remember Ellen!! I wonder what the heck she's up to now? And I'll try not to be TOO disappointed in you for not keeping a copy of her redition. Of course, I AM disappointed in you . . . but this video goes some way toward mitigating that.
I suppose that lapse in archiving would disturb the librarian types here...Ellen's doing fine, though. She's got a good gig on Idol right now.
Love this song. wish it were on that tape that kept circling in my dad's buick.
i remember when you learned this one..
also i remember the light on the fields when we drove to Mitchell to see Don at the Corn Palace...that was awesome.
Ellen, last I knew was living in Stone Mt. Georgia, and working in a library.
you are right that guys version is really good. I also remember you learning amarillo by morning by watching an old vhs tape of george over and over....
oh, gawd, boomer! half the month is gone, and i finally got your april fools reference about ellen...oh well, it is still april so i don't feel like a total fool!
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