Friday, 17 February 2012

Danny Boy

What's the best version?
I skip Johnny Cash and Tom Jones. I shiver just to think of Nana Mouskouri and the Kelly Family.
The Dubliners? Pretty good. Irish Tenors? Classic, but they have their touch. The Pogues? Pretty good, rooting in today's world with yesterday's sound.

update

Dave Matthews Band: no!
Eric Clapton: some horrible plonky-guitar version
Sarah Vaughan: too theatrical, as if she is in a musical