Joni Mitchell wrote sort of a heartbreaker of a holiday song back in the 70s. Her song, "River", is on her album, Blue. I've always loved that album for its intimacy and Joni's vocals, which at that time were pristine.
In those days, she was doing a lot of work with James Taylor, who did his own version for his holiday album a few years ago. I actually own the Hallmark version of JT's album, but he later released one that included a few more songs that were on other albums that I already owned.
Here she is listening to James sing her song.
My YouTube friend shargram also covered it, quite decently, I might add… which inspired me to try it too. I see now that a shitload of people have done "River" on YouTube.
Nevertheless, though this song is equivalent to a musical 'ho, I think it turned out pretty.
As a red blooded child of the 70s and 80s, I am familiar with Sting and his beautiful song, "Fields of Gold"…
Later, this song was covered by Eva Cassidy and immortalized by Michelle Kwan, who skated to it…
Being a bit of a purist, I was never a big fan of Eva Cassidy's version of this song. But then my Scottish YouTube pal shargram played two versions on his channel…
So I decided to try it too… and I did Eva's version, because the key worked better and I didn't feel like changing the key in a different program.
I think it turned out pretty nicely. Maybe I should listen to more of Eva Cassidy's stylings.
