Comments on: Cover Wars: Angel From Montgomery Edition

By: Janices ghost

Janices ghost — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:26:47 +0000

MARCH 5 1971 a LITTLE SONG WAS FIRST PUBLICLY SUNG IN ULSTER IRELAND ” THERES A song bird who sings in a tree by a brook ooohhh ooohhh”

By: Janices ghost

Janices ghost — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:03:15 +0000

SHOOT sining COUNTRY twang is HOW you get your wings to be an Angel ? I guess that Heaven won`t allow any one but them there white Americans to get in? Knock Knock If you be sportin Tony lamas and a steston will think about it?Maybe

By: headyesq

headyesq — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:42:24 +0000

If Tea Leaf doesn’t win this then this voting system, along with that by which we have elected our current president, is flawed.

By: Dgold

Dgold — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:03:48 +0000

I was hoping to vote for Tea Leaf Green playing “Angel From Montgomery” acoustic on my radio show (6-12-07 linked above), but after an honest listen to all 8 of the versions you’re streaming in the cover-wars, Susan Tedeschi is the stand-out vocal performance! Damn girl!! Incredible vocal nuances and so much feeling, plus a fine backing band. I also liked the backing music Strangefolk played on their version.

On TLG’s, note “the flies a-buzzing” color that Tim Carbone (Railroad Earth) adds on violin. He made the fiddle buzz for that line.

I can see why DMB stopped playing this.

SUSAN T for the win! Everyone listen to her version. -Dgold

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:02:13 +0000

I love this song. Gotta go with Bonnie. The Keller version is really good too, and Strangefolk.

I actually have a different version that Dave Matthews performed with Tim Reynolds. I like that one better than the one here.

By: Joel Berk

Joel Berk — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:49:22 +0000

Susan or Bonnie for sure. None of the others really come close. (Boyd, TLG…really?)

That said I’m going with susan.

By: DaveO

DaveO — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:51:55 +0000

That’s Boyd Tinsley, the fiddle player from DMB on lead vocals, with Dave on backup, that’s the way they always performed the tune I do believe…

By: Rupert

Rupert — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:58:40 +0000

That’s tough. TLG’s is incredible, but Keller and Bonnie Raitt are right up there.

Do you khow who is singing on the Dave Matthews one?

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:21:22 +0000

Can I do a write-in entry?

Ben Harper & Tom Freund from the album Pleasure & Pain in 1992.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/nkshw3