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Me and Bobby McGee (COVER)

Andrew Russe

Uploaded February 10, 2013 6:51pm.

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I was flapping around working on something else with just vocal and guitar the other day. It wasn’t going well, so I just started slapping the guitar and singing one of my favourite songs.

What I didn’t realise was that I was recording it…

So, here we have Kris Kristofferson’s Me and Bobby McGee.

It has the odd issue – spot of distortion on the original vocal, a fluffed chord when I noticed the record light was on, too much noise because I was dancing about, etc.

But… my jaw dropped when I heard what had ended up “on tape”. And the missus said POST IT!!!! So the other thing can wait for a bit.

I’ve been singing this song for years and years and years. I absolutely adore it.

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Colleen Dillon said June 14, 2020 5:42pm

One of my all time favorite songs.... I love to sing this one too!!!

Guest said June 13, 2020 4:31pm

goot

thetworegs said August 12, 2015 3:25pm

Can't believe I missed this beauty .....

slkrell said May 14, 2014 3:24am

The missus has great taste , most complete

The Old Grey Wolf Ltd Co said August 3, 2013 9:22pm

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose - surely one of the greatest lines every written, great version.

Guest said March 20, 2013 5:01pm

Fan-fucking-tastic. Boggie XXXX

Jason Earls said February 17, 2013 4:18pm

outstanding cover, fantastic vocals.

Roger M. Harris said February 16, 2013 2:12pm

Yep agree Cool man

Johnny Stone said February 16, 2013 12:20am

Really cool cover.

Andrew Russe said February 13, 2013 7:40pm

It's three mics. A Rode NT1000 large condensor for the vocal. The guitar had two SM57s on it, one at the 12th fret, one just below the bridge, panned hard left and right. If I had more condensors I'd use them on the guitar - when I track things separately I always use the Rode on an acoustic (unless it's a resonator, that pushes a condensor too hard) - using the 57s like this seems to produce are fair amount of hiss!

Dirty Spirits said February 13, 2013 7:00pm

sounds great. What microphone are you using?

Guest said February 13, 2013 4:15pm

If I had a pound for every time I played this I could probably buy a very nice Gibson, but I would love to have done it just like this. I bet this was closer to how it was written.

Wildgeas Music said February 13, 2013 1:44pm

Nice take on a great cover.

bitterwind said February 13, 2013 2:48am

Nice job Andrew! I really like the laid back feel to it. Your voice is especially good. Great cover of a great song.

Guest said February 13, 2013 2:02am

Nice!

informal grae said February 12, 2013 7:21pm

Passionate, emotional, gripping, and huge - all words found in my dictionary to describe this. Thanks, Andrew. G:)

Stan Gadziola AKA (gadzooks) said February 12, 2013 12:47pm

Great vocals! and a real FEEL version of a great tune ...

richardlaceves said February 12, 2013 6:39am

a really really nice retelling of a great song!! your vocal and playing is so rich

JR James said February 11, 2013 4:20pm

Back again....

JR James said February 10, 2013 10:01pm

This would bring the room down! Set it on fire! Killer!

Guest said February 10, 2013 8:51pm

..dynamic vocal and slowed down bluesy essence..don't know why you bother with all the other instrumentation when you breath life into a song the way you do with just a bit of plunkin' 'n' gruntin' ..excellent..

Greg Connor said February 10, 2013 7:13pm

One of my favorite songs too! I like how you belted it out. That's the ticket. You can feel the grit in there. Well Done!

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