Not an edit. Another great song from John Sebastian's 1974 album "Tarzana Kid". Though the album was a commercial failure and did not chart it contains some amazingly beautiful precious gems you really wouldn't want to miss. Here is the first one on the album, a smashingly well done sound, proving John is a master in sound recording and a great musician. A genious. I heard a lot of sixties and seventies albums and the major part has a poor sound quality. John stands out from the crowd! A seventy four year old album that sounds like being recorded seventy four minutes ago... More songs of this album are published on this channel...
The first time I heard this song was while watching the movie "Walk The Line", the story about Johnny Cash, where Reese Witherspoon plays this tune. By the way: though it is not nice towards Johnny and June, I must admit that Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon sang some outstanding covers in that movie, some sounded even better than the original ones!
Considering the massive list of people who contributed to the album it must have been so very hard for John Sebastian to deal with the fact that the album was a commercial failure... let this be a comfort: in the early sixties when the Beatles were introduced to the Dutch tv audience, some backward tv host's talent scouting program concluded that they didn't stand a chance... or: a commercial failure doesn't at all represent the fineness of an album...
Personnel on the album:
John Sebastian – vocals, guitar, harmonica, autoharp, banjo, marimba, harmonica, dulcimer
Phil Everly – backing vocals
Emmylou Harris – backing vocals
Ry Cooder – mandolin, slide guitar
The Pointer Sisters – backing vocals
Lowell George – slide guitar, guitar, harmony vocals
Jim Gordon – drums
Kenny Altman – bass
Milt Holland – drums
Amos Garrett – guitar
Russell DaShiell – guitar
Richie Olson – clarinet
Bobbye Hall – congas
Jerry McKuen – guitar
Buddy Emmons – pedal steel guitar
Kelly Shanahan – drums
David Lindley – fiddle
David Grisman – mandolin
Ron Koss – guitar
WILDWOOD FLOWER
"Wildwood Flower" is a variant of the song "I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets", published in 1860 by composer Joseph Philbrick Webster, who wrote the music, with lyrics attributed to Maud Irving. Other versions of the song have evolved, including "The Pale Amaranthus" (collected in Kentucky and North Carolina, reported in 1911), "Raven Black Hair" and "The Pale Wildwood Flower" (collected 1915–1919), and "The Frail Wildwood Flower".
The original Carter Family first recorded "Wildwood Flower" in 1928 on the Victor label.
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