Topic: Something I found ironic
I had "Drift Away" in my songbook. The person whose work it was asked that Chordie take it down and Chordie did. That's fine and appropriate and no hard feelings. What I found funny about it was that the person who worked out the chord chart didn't even know who wrote the song or who performed the song - crediting nobody but "Unknown". It seems to me that if you're going to care enough about propriety to claim work as your own and request others not to provide it that you also ought to care enough to spend the 16 seconds to Google the song title and provide proper credit to the original artist or author. I don't know. The irony humored me.
For the record, it was written by Mentor Williams and the well-known version is performed by Dobie Gray. I saw Mentor Williams perform at a country package show. He did the song, and in his talk-up claimed that he enjoyed the humor of a country artist writing a song about rock and roll being made famous by a soul artist. The song speaks to everyone apparantly. Good song. I'll find another version. If anyone knows the three lead-in chords in the intro progression of the Dobie Gray version, I'd be grateful if you'd share them with me. I've been using Cmaj, C, C7 - not right.
- Zurf
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