Jefferson Airplane - Tobacco Road

[freakaknight]

Sorry but David Lee Roth's version will always be the best..

[LanceHelmut]

just WTF would these guys know about tobacco rd...what a stylistic abomination. i'm from tobacco rd and those english guys (nashville teens) who were just as culturally removed as the airplane interpret this song with more guts than this eviscerated crap.

[greenishblob1]

greatest song ive heard all day!

[sebradfield]

I owned this album when it came out (1966). It's still one of my favorite albums, and this is one of the best songs on it.

[florenceale]

best version for me

[slutypet]

screw tabacco, long live the herb!

[doom696mented]

@slutypet fuck yeah, man

[nehouma]

New phrase for you.....artistic endeavor. It's like when you put 100% of you time, patience, emotion, and creating a piece of art. This accomplishment is the sum total of such focused thought that makes the artist better as time goes on !!

If something does not disturb you to the point of inspiration, how can you be good at it, what just because you wanted the job of singer...do I need to go on?

[LawriiTree]

Amazing amazing amazing. Flows like water <3

[pardyhardly]

Why do the drums sound so weird on this album? It sounds like they're putting some kind of phasing effect on the drum track or something.

[installLSC]

@pardyhardly Probably it's that the drums are only on the left channel. In the sixties it was very common to do stereo mixes that seperated the instruments on different channels, which makes it sound very weird to modern ears.

[Baggs4299]

@installLSC The concept was to make the sounds have location. Bass/perc. on L-.....guitar on R -......vocal in middle. Through speakers at some distance it would blend. In Psyche music, they also often used panning trying to mess with heads.

[nehouma]

@pardyhardly Dude, like that a reverb....gives an echo effect. They are concentrating their efforts on creating an echo. They play slowly, and sing slowly....blues, and they use an electronic device, might even us a room created for the effect.

[rhinomanowar]

MA QUANTI ANNI SONO PASSATI NON ME NE SONO ACCORTO

[pataphysician66]

OOOh Marty was soo hot looking when he was young!

[tapeduk]

I adore the intro

[trulychloe]

what's the name of that song about germany?

[MrPigglesworth]

@trulychloe never argue with a german

[maddi206]

This is a blues song and this doesn't sound anything like the blues. My fav version is Eric Burdon. Man he could do the blues great!!!!

[algernon821]

this is bs, they aren't from tobacco road, they need to stop ripping off the music of the south because they aren't even doing a good job of that

[pq02lamzo]

He may have been the first leader of the band but the band became great because they went in the Paul Kaetner/Grace Slick direction.  And overall it's hard to say anyone was really the heart and soul. What would they have been without Jorma? Or Jack? Or Kaetner? Or Grace? In fact the only one who didn't seem that indispensible was Balin.

[garrettda1]

lol hell yea song about my city

[SurrealisticEvening]

What about the Blues Magoos' version? It';s great too.

[bigguy4570]

Edgar Winter's cover is way better then this one.

[TheStoney76]

NA I Love Edgars Music but this is the best version of this song that I know ...

[bigguy4570]

Thanks for your replay another good cover is Eric Burdon and the Animals check it out.

[bongpotsmoker]

can someone pm the tabs of the intro??

[wesselbindt]

Just figure it out yourself.

[ladidah9]

As deeply as I love The Airplane, Marty is no master of the blues.

[florenceale]

this is absolutely the best version of this song...thousand miles ahead from all the other ones...

[mafiasefic]

Edgar winters is better much much better

[bucktoofus]

this version is so terrible

[LordSirpiko]

i agree.

this version does blow lol

john d loudermilks crushes this version, he at least sings it from the heart,this sounds like a 1970's flaming homo gathering

[6749er]

This one flashes me back to The Fillmore & the hot new band in town from The Matrix when it was still local & real nice..

[ultimatebozo]

The Nashville Teens version was great, but I think the Blues Magoos did it best..

Thanks for posting this. Signe Andersons contributions to early Airplane, are so overlooked.

[seb538835]

Around 1:20, I think its Paul Kantner who echoes the 'yeaaaah', and he sounds really like Morrissey (imo)

[FLHTP07]

Lets correct that. Morrisey sounds like Paul Kantner.

[ioriorioriorio]

@seb538835 Morissey was a diaper baby when this was even ciscussed,,.....how dare you compare generations like that ... no difference, pal......eeeeeeyeah!

[frereslumiere]

Can't forget the Nashville Teens. Good as this is, theirs set the standard.

[sparkyization]

Tobacco road?  Okie flats? Tin pan alley?

We all started somewhere!

Sometimes I'll drive thru' just to look back

[dollytime]

excelente este album debut y mi gusta bastante el timbre de voz de signe toly, de hecho no se nota tanto el cambio cuando entra grace; en fin es un gran album, saludos

[donnaloka]

magnifica her voice, is better than grace..

[gypsyjazzer]

r u 4 real? dat's a guy!

[JanekJG]

the main voice youre hearing is marty balin... the back up vocals are female... singe anderson :)

[george666gollin]

Poo poo on you, gender mis-identifier. Ho ho ho, Moe.

[B4001950]

Truely their best album, surresalistic pillow being the next. I Love You Signe..

I saw you at the Winterland in 66....

[pholzer5]

Wonderful rendition of this classic song. Originally a folk song by John Loudermilk. The song describes growing up in the impoverished area of East Durham, North Carolina. Lou Rawls also made great renditions of this song.

[maida1982a]

40+ years later, Marty still sings really well. To me, he was always the heart and soul of this band, which was chock full of talent.

[chargecreuse]

the monterrey version is the best

[muskratrowdy]

Different sounding version of a classic song. Slower than the Blues Magoos and P. Revere and the Raiders. They still played this for a while after Grace joined the band.