![]() ![]() With the title character name of Bobby, she can convert it to a man with no problem. As the tempo picks up so does her powerful vocals and the free spirit she exudes fits perfectly in a song about that free spirit. Janis Joplin’s vocals are a little of that Janis squeak and full of the grit we love. It is a blues rock song and gives a third completely different take on the song. The end of the song is a full on jam with the piano getting a solo, the organ thrown in and some fine guitar work. The song is more uptempo and they add some killer organ and piano elements to give the song a whole new dynamic. There is a little more drumming in the song and still has that guitar pickin’ feel to have the country vibe. Janis Joplin’s version has that country feel, but a little more gusto and brings in a little of the rock edge. Overall, it is a great version of the song. But he sounds like he is celebrating his time with her. His singing is more pleasant and has a more upbeat, happy tone and I think misses some of the sadness and regret the narrator has after Bobby McGee. Roger’s vocals are great and he sings in a pretty traditional country delivery. That is the only reason I can see for the change in the song. I believe the beginning had a more country / blues feel as they were in New Orleans and then by the end of the song they are in California and that is the more mariachi sound. Then the last part of the song turned in to a little more uptempo with some horns added that gave the song a slight mariachi sound. Roger’s version was country slanted full of guitar pickin’ and a mouth harp at a relatively mid-tempo. ![]() This is about which version is the best so we will get to that part of the show. I could go in to more depth about the song and the lyrics, but then this would turn in to a My Sunday Song episode where we deep dive in to the songs. They end up breaking up and going their own ways and the singer is filled with sadness and regret about them parting as I believe he loved that Bobby McGee. They are hitchhiking, singing the blues and discovering the land and each other. The song is about a couple that is traveling across the southern part of the country. Kris didn’t think he could write the song, so he avoided Foster for months until he finally got it written. The song was started by Fred Foster, the head of the label Kris was signed, when he went to Kris with a song title called “Me and Bobbie McKee” which Kris thought it he heard McGee. There were actually two other versions released in 1970 by Gordon Lightfoot and the Statler Brothers and then in 1971, Jerry Lee Lewis released a version. The versions we are covering are the original release by Roger Miller (1969), Kris Kristofferson’s own version (1970) and then the version by Janis Joplin (1971). This time we are discussing the song “Me and Bobby McGee” which was written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, but let’s be honest, Fred only gave the song the title. the Cover and this time it is another trio of versions. Having a song named after you is always a pleasure, but, ‘Me and Bobby McGee’ is no ordinary song and is a true highlight in Janis’ Joplin’s career that remarkably wouldn’t have existed without Eden.It is time for another the Original vs. This accolade was something she never expected, but, she has remained forever grateful about. When Eden heard the song on the radio, she couldn’t quite believe it, noting: “Then I started hearing it on the radio and I would just go crazy every time I heard that song.”Įden has been memorialised forever in history on this track. Kristofferson initially gave the song to Roger Miller who had a hit with the track in 1969, before releasing his version on his debut album Kristofferson, which came out in 1970. But I just thought it was the most fantastic song I had ever heard.” Kris said he couldn’t sing very good, but he’ll try. “Fred came in and said, ‘I want you to meet the real Bobby McKee and here’s Kris Kristofferson to sing your song for you,'” Eden recalled to the Star Tribune in 2015. At the time of the song being penned, she was a 29-year-old working as Bryant’s secretary and nicknamed Bobbie. I had it finished by the time I got to Nashville.” I took an old experience with another girl in another country. It was raining and the windshield wipers were going. “One day I was driving between Morgan City and New Orleans. But it must have stuck in the back of my head. Fred Foster, the owner, called me and said, ‘I’ve got a title for you: ‘Me and Bobbie McKee,’ and I thought he said ‘McGee.’ I thought there was no way I could ever write that, and it took me months hiding from him, because I can’t write on assignment. In Twang – The Ultimate Book of Country Music Quotations, Kristofferson recalled: “I had just gone to work for Combine Music. ![]()
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