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Richard Shindell also does a good version of Willin’. It’s a great song, one of my favorites to play.
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I'm putting that one on the list, too.
I'm so happy they moved this thread to Play and Write. I might not have ever gotten here but what a fabulous resource and wealth of knowledge. I have been looking at the photo from the cover of the Seatrain album. I think it looks a lot like the Marin Headlands. Does anyone happen to know where the photo was taken? Google tells me they started in Marin, but relocated to Mass. |
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I'm old enough and I do remember them, although I don't remember much beyond "13 Questions". I'm sorry but to me this is just a hatchet job on a truly great song from Lowell George. I may be biased as I'm a huge Little Feat and Lowell George fan, but I've never heard a version of "Willin" I thought was better than the original. And Peter Rowan? The best thing he ever did was team up with Tony Rice.
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To each his/her own. My mother always told me if you can't say anything nice then don't say anything at all. Probably should have kept my mouth shut but it just struck a nerve.
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The Seatrain songbook arrived from inter-library loan. It's interesting because it's actual sheet music with guitar chords but not tablature. It makes me wish I knew how to read music for real. It'll be a challenge to see if I can figure out how to actually play any of the songs.
Also, in their version of Willing, according to the sheet music, they do "Alice, Alice, Alice" vs. "Alice, Dallas, Alice." I guess everyone has to put their own spin on things! |
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I know this has been mentioned already, but the song "Willin'" was penned by the late Lowell George, of Little Feat fame. But like others, I first heard it on the Seatrain album back when I was in college. In fact, I used to have their first three albums (I think they only recorded four).
Anyway, a quick fix for questions like this always leads me to two online sources: Ultimate Guitar and Chordify.
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I have a Robin Trower songbook from the 1970s and the "tab" used in it is so far removed from anything seen today that it's almost like a different language. But that's because tablature hadn't become standardized at that time.
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After just a preliminary attempt to follow the sheet music while listening to the song, I see I have much to learn! It's nothing at all like trying to follow a chord sheet or a tab. It's like trying to read a foreign language. And whoever did the chords in this book must've been from a different planet where they don't actually play guitars! One song I really love off that Seatrain album is called "Broken Morning." But who ever wrote a song with so many flats, minors, minor flats, flat minors, etc? My next task, other than trying to roll my own chord sheets from some of these is to learn how to transpose to a much simpler key. And because the key signature is also in musical notation, I can't even tell which one it is! But we've got a long holiday weekend coming up, and I just decided today to go out and buy myself my very own real "big girl" guitar (that's called a S-NGD - Stealth NGD, when you sneak it in as a casual mention and then wait to see who notices), so that should keep me plenty busy. Thank you for posting the photo of those song books. It's a beautiful trip down memory lane. |
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You are the only one so far.
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