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Topic: Sweet Baby James country style. |
Gary Peters
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Posted 9 Dec 2020 8:40 am |
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Hi All
My projected covers album is turning into a kind of musical autobiography. I used to sing this song in the folk clubs in the UK when I was 18. I decided to try it in 4:4 rather than as a waltz...just to be different. Hope you approve.
https://soundcloud.com/user-581188416/sweet-baby-james-james-taylor
Thanks for listening
Gary
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Mike Bacciarini
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Posted 9 Dec 2020 4:32 pm
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Thanks Gary, that’s a nice version. Of course the 3/4 time is etched in our brains, but if someone had never heard the original, they would simply find this a very sweet and poignant song. I approve!
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Edward Efira
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Posted 10 Dec 2020 5:28 pm
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Cool version Richard.
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Gary Peters
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Posted 11 Dec 2020 1:51 am Sweet Baby James
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Thanks guys! (and I'm assuming Edward means me and not 'Richard')
I've realized how tricky it is to put together viable versions of songs you've listened to and admired your whole life. Particularly, in the case of JT, where the song has been played to death for 50 years and the singer has been increasingly incorporated into an over-sentimentalized version of American culture (partly of his own making). That said, I still think JT is a genius...just no more Christmas or standards albums please!! And no more phoney films of chopping logs in New England when you've clearly never held an axe in your life!...Think of your (false) nails if nothing else.
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Jim Pollard
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Posted 11 Dec 2020 7:32 am
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Gary Peters
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Posted 11 Dec 2020 9:58 am Sweet Baby James country style.
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Thanks Jim
I'm glad you heard every minute because I think the last minute is the highlight, certainly better than the penultimate minute, which I think begins to drag a bit. But then I snatched it from impending disaster with some background steel twiddlin'. Always works!
G
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Edward Efira
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Posted 11 Dec 2020 5:51 pm Re: Sweet Baby James
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[quote="Gary Peters"]Thanks guys! (and I'm assuming Edward means me and not 'Richard')
And rightfully so Gary, please accept my apologies, I downloaded your album on iTunes and listen to it every day, I should have known by now 
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Gary Peters
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Posted 12 Dec 2020 4:23 am Sweet Baby James country style.
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Edward, you are forgiven. Remembering, of course, what the philosopher Jacques Derrida said: it is only the unforgivable that can be forgiven.
At least you're listening to my music on a daily basis, so maybe your soul is not lost to us. Or maybe it is! It depends on which of my albums you bought.
G
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