Tag: janis-joplin

Me and Bobby McGee, by Kris Kristofferson / Janis Joplin.

I did a cover of the original but I know the more famous cover better and kinda sang it like that sometimes and like the original sometimes. Got that?

[reads Wikipedia once]

Actualllllllly… Kristofferson wrote it; Roger Miller recorded it first; then everyone else in country music, inclusive of Kenny Rogers, then Janis makes it a #1 hit. (Two years have passed since the original recording at this point.)

Who else records this song later? The Grateful Dead, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Loretta Lynn, Olivia Newton-John, (Jennifer Love Hewitt, for that matter), Joan Baez, etc.

It’s late, and it’s simple, and it’s yours.

Mercedes Benz, by Janis Joplin.

Please do not buy me a Mercedes Benz, O Lord.

If you think I look tired in this one, wait until tomorrow night.

This evening I read the instructions for the wrist brace. They start with the words “FOR LEFT HAND USE” and reader, I gasped, because I did not know the splint belonged on the palm side, and I’ve been wearing this thing so wrong it was causing me pain, though certainly stabilizing my wrist well enough.

Might as well work on the acapella-adjacent harmony things if I can’t use two-handed instruments, right?

I tried a whole “sing along to a chord so you actually stay in the same key this time” approach, and it went okay. Then I transposed it up a fifth and sang along to that, too. Then I dumped all the Casio backing tracks and just left the simple drum loop and three vocal tracks. It’s only as terrible as my singing.

This song should never have been in a Mercedes commercial.