> I'm not sure that I understand your comment, Garrett...why is it strange
that
> Stevie is singing Woodstock? His soulful vocal can wrap beauty around
> whatever he sings, and the lyrical message is certainly appropriate. "We
are
> stardust, we are golden, we've got to get ourselves back to the garden..."
> there are not too many artists like Stevie Wonder who can unite and
galvanize
> people like him!
>
actually. what i meant was that he was absolutely the last person i could
imagine singing a joni song, let alone woodstock (at the time the only
joni covers i knew were Amy Grant's BYT and Matthews Southern Comfort doing
Woodstock:-) i don't think that "appropriate" was the right word to use. i
wasn't even thinking of what the song says; merely the fact that it *was* a
joni song. now, however, i've heard all sorts of strange and wonderful
interpretations of Joni's music and am more open to them than i iwas at that
time.
i didnt really like his version. but then i never really liked him (not due
to my sisters OVERplaying of two of his songs!) so was probably biased in
that way to start with. i should have listened to it again, i'm sure it
would have grown on me, as a lot of Joni covers do
GARRET
NP- Eva Cassidy, Over the Rainbow
