Before we get to the results, I wanted to let everyone know how much I appreciate you continued support of BATTLE OF THE BANDS and particularly your support of MY BOTB. While I was traveling over the first of June I had intended to post a BATTLE and then some health issues kept me from doing so. That and a few other incidents recently had me contemplating giving up blogging. Thank goodness for a freind who talked me out of THAT.
I am going to only be posting BATTLE OF THE BANDS on the first and the fifteenth of July and August with the results posts on the following seventh and twenty-first respectively. I also plan to post for the IWSG on the first Wednesday of the month, but I think that's about all I can manage during the summer. We'll see what happens during the fall.
I've noticed that a lot of you are cutting back during the summer months so you probably won't even notice, but please forgive me in advance if I miss a post or two of yours, as I'm trying desperately to catch up and even get some writing done.
NOW, onto the business at hand. Poor ole Kris Kristofferson didn't get much love in this BATTLE. In fact, Johnny Cash, a buddy of his, beat him out by four to one.
I cast my vote for Kris and I'll tell you why. Personally, I'm not a big fan of either of these guys vocal talents. I think Johnny usually talks through most of his songs, and in a monotone at that. Kris did a lot of talking on this one too, and the tempo was slowed down to almost a crawl, but I really liked the instrumentation in his version. That overall slowness was at least a departure from the original, as though he was trying to make it something different.
This was certainly a BATTLE of the geratrics. Johnny was 68 when he recorded 'I Won't Back down, and Kris, who recorded it only recently for the TV series 'Texas Rising', is 78, so what do you expect. I gotta give them both credit for still putting themselves out there and doing what they love, even if that love isn't returned. As a side note Kris also has a role in 'Texas Rising' playing President Andy Jackson. How many of us will still be in the workforce of our chosen field at 78 years of age?
At any rate, it appears to be the opinion of at least one voter (I'm looking at you Mr. Six), that Kris should retire, or maybe he thinks he should have chosen a different career path altogether. It's kind of hard to tell as Mr. Six doesn't actually come right out and tell us exactly how he feels. Ha, ha, ha! (I love my commenters!)
The final tally was:
Johnny 20 votes
Kris 5 votes (including mine)
Have a happy and safe rest of June. I'll see you back on Wednesday, July 1st with a double whammy of a post. Until that time; Happy Trails!
