Ramblings, hearsay, and other musings
Nov
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William Bell - You Don’t Miss Your Water
In honor of the Big O Foundation awards gala in Atlanta tonight I give you the original version of one of my favorite Otis covers. A beautiful song, by a Georgian and one of Stax’s legendary song writers, William Bell. The Byrds later covered this on the seminal Sweetheart of the Rodeo album, which was heavily influenced by another Georgian (though not native), Gram Parsons.
Enjoy.
PS - Find the Big O’s cover of this song and get ready to be moved. Gotta wonder what would have happened had that plane not gone down almost 42 years ago in that cold lake in Wisconsin. What a shame.
