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December 23, 2008

And Then She Takes Your Voice

Something about the cast of characters in this song...

Hungry women.  Saint Annie.  My best friend the doctor.  Sweet Melinda, the goddess of gloom.  The peasants.  The cops.  The boasting authorities.  The sergeant at arms.  My brother Carl, who left looking like a ghost.  No one to bluff.  Tom Thumb.

And, of course, since it's a cover of his song, Bob Dylan.

The song below is Nina Simone's version of Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues.  Originally, it's track 8 on Highway 61 Revisited.  In my opinion, Nina took a cool little poem and turned it into a fully bad ass song.

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December 07, 2008

Windshield Wipers Slapping Time

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Really, Janis?

Or were The Dead on to something when they adjusted it?

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to do.

Great song, regardless of who's singing and how.

But.

There is one line that worries me:

But I'd trade all my tomorrows
For one single yesterday
To be holding Bobby's body next to mine

That's a scary state of mind.

Janis Joplin originally published Me and Bobby McGee as track 7 on Pearl.  The Grateful Dead version posted here is track 7 on the second disc of a four CD live album recorded in New York City in April 1971.

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