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Cover to Cover: Take Me Home Country Roads

Henry Irving
Henry Irving Posts: 85,204
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Do you prefer the West Virginia original version by John Denver or the West Jamaica cover by Toots and the Maytals?

No other versions considered

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vrEljMfXYo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yzriHohCOU
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  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,361
    Hermes House Band.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Toots by default, the Denver version is an abomination
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,587

    As much as I love Toots, John Denver for me. My dad was a big fan and I've got fond memories of him playing his records on a Sunday morning when I was a kid. Then at lunchtime he'd take me and my uncle off to The Woodman in his Austin Cambridge for a couple of pints before dinner.


  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,689
    as to be mi bredren Toots
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    McBobbin said:
    Toots by default, the Denver version is an abomination
    This times one billion-trillion-squillion-trazagabillion.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Toots Hibbert. No argument.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,840
    Toots
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,993
    No argument ... Toots 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,835
    John Denver
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,204
    Lots of Toots fans, surprised that more people don't rate the Denver original which me and Lady Irving sang in the car while driving through West Virginia
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  • addick05
    addick05 Posts: 2,348
    Henry Irving said:
    Lots of Toots fans, surprised that more people don't rate the Denver original which me and Lady Irving sang in the car while driving through West Virginia


    How weird! Similar thing for me and the missus. Driving down the Shenandoah Valley back in 2003 and it came on the radio! Have always been a massive JD fan and went to see him in concert whenever he came over.

    Far out man!!

  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,218
    Do you want to hear my version?  There are several different clips of me wailing this over the years.  All far superior to the above!
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    John Denver
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,204
    Curb_It said:
    Do you want to hear my version?  There are several different clips of me wailing this over the years.  All far superior to the above!
    yes please
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,204
    addick05 said:
    Henry Irving said:
    Lots of Toots fans, surprised that more people don't rate the Denver original which me and Lady Irving sang in the car while driving through West Virginia


    How weird! Similar thing for me and the missus. Driving down the Shenandoah Valley back in 2003 and it came on the radio! Have always been a massive JD fan and went to see him in concert whenever he came over.

    Far out man!!

    We drove down the Shenandaoh Valley SO we could sing the song!
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    You can't beat a bit of Toots. 
  • Horsfield9
    Horsfield9 Posts: 3,081
    Toots for me too.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Henry Irving said:
    Lots of Toots fans, surprised that more people don't rate the Denver original which me and Lady Irving sang in the car while driving through West Virginia
    Anything by Toots Hibbert floats my boat, but having said that this was the first song I ever learned to play on guitar and will always watch JD play it when the chance arises.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Curb_It said:
    Do you want to hear my version?  There are several different clips of me wailing this over the years.  All far superior to the above!


    Open mic, B?

  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,821
    I always preferred the Mike Masters and the Music Makers lyrics -
    Take me home
    Jonty Rhodes
    To the veldt of Transvaal
    Orange Free State
    Good oold Joburg
    Take me home
    Jonty Rhodes
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  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,804
    Not as easy as many of these for me. I much prefer generally Toots and the Maytals style but on this track, the Denver original takes me back to my dad’s LPs and the female counter harmony does it for me every time.

    A reluctant John Denver. 
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    C&W is another easily dismissed and underestimated musical genre, like jazz maybe, both wrongly in my view.
    However this is an easy pick, Toots is irresistible and wins this one for me.
  • Beardface
    Beardface Posts: 1,128
    John Denver all day every day. 
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,204
    I'm a big reggae fan but Denver gets this one for me.
  • orpingtonRED
    orpingtonRED Posts: 3,474
    Henry Irving said:
    Lots of Toots fans, surprised that more people don't rate the Denver original which me and Lady Irving sang in the car while driving through West Virginia
    That sounds cool. Closest i have come to that is driving along in the sunshine with a vest on singing UB40 Kingston Town. And yes i was on the way to Sutton
  • orpingtonRED
    orpingtonRED Posts: 3,474
    Toots version for me aswell
  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    Listened to them both. Equally great. I'm abstaining.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,981
    edited March 2019
    orpingtonRED said:
    Henry Irving said:
    Lots of Toots fans, surprised that more people don't rate the Denver original which me and Lady Irving sang in the car while driving through West Virginia
    That sounds cool. Closest i have come to that is driving along in the sunshine with a vest on singing UB40 Kingston Town. And yes i was on the way to Sutton
    Weird coincidence. There was a UB40 documentary on a couple of weeks ago, which I recorded.
    I watched it today and was then playing Kingston Town a couple of hours ago.
    Interesting documenatry btw. 

  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,840
    edited March 2019
    Covered End said:
    orpingtonRED said:
    Henry Irving said:
    Lots of Toots fans, surprised that more people don't rate the Denver original which me and Lady Irving sang in the car while driving through West Virginia
    That sounds cool. Closest i have come to that is driving along in the sunshine with a vest on singing UB40 Kingston Town. And yes i was on the way to Sutton
    Weird coincidence. There was a UB40 documentary on a couple of weeks ago, which I recorded.
    I watched it today and was then playing Kingston Town a couple of hours ago.
    Interesting documenatry btw. 

    Seeing them at the O2 next Saturday - well Ali's half (bit more than half!).
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,981
    edited March 2019
    bobmunro said:
    Covered End said:
    orpingtonRED said:
    Henry Irving said:
    Lots of Toots fans, surprised that more people don't rate the Denver original which me and Lady Irving sang in the car while driving through West Virginia
    That sounds cool. Closest i have come to that is driving along in the sunshine with a vest on singing UB40 Kingston Town. And yes i was on the way to Sutton
    Weird coincidence. There was a UB40 documentary on a couple of weeks ago, which I recorded.
    I watched it today and was then playing Kingston Town a couple of hours ago.
    Interesting documenatry btw. 

    Seeing them at the O2 next Saturday - well Ali's half (bit more than half!).
    They are/were all bankrupt/skint brassic.
    All the money went and no one knows where.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b084j56n/promises-lies-the-story-of-ub40

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