Post #355510 by pablus on Thu, Jan 17, 2008 8:08 AM

Mahalo for all of those links.
Very nice tune. Can't remember the last time I heard it.

I clicked on this link and got the Kinney version a few times. So I didn't get to hear the Robbins second version.

This was VERY sweet. That is some tasty steel, sonically and musically.

I have one observation. In the original, the vocalist was reticent to stay right on the 1 and drifted over to the 2 to begin the phrase (on the "Drifting in dreams...) and just sort of lilted around the beat. I liked that and didn't pick up that sort of laid back interpretation from any of the other versions.

That's one of the things I am hoping to achieve when I sing or play this music on my plunky uke. Trying to share the sense of location and meaning that I feel when I play it. I think, in many songs, that's as important as technique.

But most important of all is how many drinks I can have and still play it well. :wink: