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Dave Matthews and Emmy-lou Harris Long Black Veail (Original Post) OAITW r.2.0 Nov 2021 OP
That's a spine-tingling song! Haggard Celine Nov 2021 #1
great song, but i like this version better- mopinko Nov 2021 #2
love the whole thing mopinko Nov 2021 #3
Long Black Veil (the 1959 original) watrwefitinfor Nov 2021 #4
Many great cover versions Beausoleil Nov 2021 #5

mopinko

(70,127 posts)
2. great song, but i like this version better-
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 12:32 AM
Nov 2021


i was obsessed w this record.
i dont like harris' voice. just too nasally. there's a fine line between gimmicks and style. seems over that line.

watrwefitinfor

(1,399 posts)
4. Long Black Veil (the 1959 original)
Thu Nov 11, 2021, 12:21 PM
Nov 2021

by Lefty Frizzell, and the answer song by Marijohn Wilkin, who also wrote the original with Danny Dill:



Do stick around and listen to the answer - her voice is perfection. The notes say the answer song wasn't released until 1994!

The comments are fun, except for a dreadfully incorrect post that states Frizzell went to prison for killing his wife. But the replies to that post (and many biographical sites) show it was a different country singer named Spade Cooley who was pardoned from prison for beating his wife to death - NOT Lefty Frizzell.

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