When Stephen is in his house Mr Bojanges is playing, but its not Mr Bojangles it had different lyrics and was very new big band sounding.
I've looked at a few websites and they all say its a Neil Diamond version, I might be going crazy but I'm pretty sure it wasnt.
Does anyone know what the song was or am I going insane?
I would love to wear his t-shirts of his bedroom floor the morning after the night before
Its Neil Diamond:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObtMBQOsA14
Saw the film last night and fell in love with this version.Fantastic.
and WHY isn't that music on the soundtrack of the movie?
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It was written by Jerry Jeff Walker. The best known, perhaps definitive version is the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Bob Dylan did a version, too, on his least praised album Dylan (outtakes from the equally loathed Self-Portriat). I rather like his version. The one in the movie is Neil Diamond.
shareBut the very best version, IMHO, is the one David Bromberg did live (it's on "The Player: A retrospective"). David played guitar for Walker for years, and he knew the song inside out. His version is heartbreaking. It occurs to me that the song has real relevance for Ayers's condition. It's about another vagabond artist who's viewed by people only as comic relief for their lives. It's only when Walker shares a jail cell with him for a while that he realizes what depths the man has, and how imprisoned in his life-style Bojangles is, and how that life-style will undoubtedly continue once they're let out on the street again. By giving a little more of the back-story, Bromberg gives you a little more to think about. (And, of course, being Bromberg, the guitar work as absolutely phenomenal. If you don't know who he is, he's the sort of guitarist that other guitarist listen to when they want to find out what can be done with the guitar.)
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Thanks tent - that's the connection I was looking for. I mostly made the connection subconsciously, but you put it into words.
That's the version lots of us know..I have a UA Silver SPotlight series reissue of the NGBT version, full with Uncle Charlie, dog Teddy..
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