Leo Kottke - Rings

[musicmaker1961]

I love this version of the song ! thanks very much for the post! :)

[WEISSERZWERG]

@musicmaker1961 you´re welcome :)

[ADR10723]

Great Eddie Reeves tune

[likenumnums]

52000 views and only 113 likes?

[TheVet1971]

Saw LK in Hawaii about 1974. Great then, still great.

[johnnyandricherd]

THE 1 DISLIKE IS LABRON JAMES CUZ HE DOSNT HAVE ANY!!

[ch604]

one person doesnt like weddings...

[McLushi]

I like especially this version, cause it has got a beautyful variation on2:10 .But anyway it is one of his most beatuyful songs.

[goldsteaknugget]

played this at bannaroo in like 04 i think. KICKASS

[jeeperforlife]

Leo helps me realize why I write the things I write on a piece of paper when I have nothing else to occupy my mind. Hes just a bit more public about it.

[fatchuk812]

He is an unbelievable talent. No one else like him.

[neorunt]

@fatchuk812

Saw Leo in Toronto about 15 years ago, he opened for Michael Hedges RIP.

He played this tune a bit slower.

I'd gone to the concert alone, this song had tears streaming down by face.

I was moved. Deeply.

[pacificlnd]

When Lobo covered this song in the 70s-80s, he (not they...Lobo was a one-name guy like Cher) changed it from "Mel Blanc" to "the Allman Brothers" on one album, and "James Taylor" on another. The song was written by Alex Harvey, Edward B Reeves and I don't know if they ever wrote another, or another popular song.

[kingston1201]

@pacificlnd Alex wrote lots of popular songs recorded by many different artists. check my page for a few of Alex's tunes

[goldsteaknugget]

hmmm thats crazy i was wondering who mel blank was

[jfingers15]

@goldsteaknugget Mel Blanc was the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and all the other great Warner Brothers cartoons.

[pacificlnd]

The original song referred to "Wilson Pickett" on the radio. LK, as always, is just goofin' around. He's just great, isn't he?.... I'm a guitarist and he amazes me.

[rudysan24]

I shook his hand once at show

[daf827]

Leo is a national treasure. I've been a fan since "6 & 12 String Guitar" (the armadillo album on Fahey's label). His playing transports me. Sublime,

[jamsmi174]

I have my Kottke Poster .. Signed .. still hangin on the wall

[yoodrew]

You're right, the way Kottke sings it scans much better. But then why Mel Blanc, who's best known for voicing Bugs Bunny and friends? That's what puzzles me. I thought Kottke meant Mel Tormé because this is a corny love song, and Tormé is known for singing love songs.

[JonniDark]

Kottke has a very very weird sense of humor and he's not all that interested that Everyone pick up on it. That's all this Mel Blanc thing was. Cheers everyone. Lighten up :)

[matonguitar]

Thanks for this video. Great song. I love the way he makes that guitar ring!

[yoodrew]

I've been wondering about a change Kottke made to the original lyrics to this song. Instead of "James Taylor on the stereo," he's listening to "Mel Blanc on the radio." This strikes me as odd because although Blanc had a radio show in the 1940s, he was primarily a TV voice actor by the time Leo first recorded this in the early '80s. Did Kottke mean to refer to Mel Tormé, the singer?

[yoodrew]

Thanks to YouTube, I've heard "Rings" sung by more artists than I can count -- among them Cymarron (who were the first to record it), Lobo, Charlene, and Tompall & the Glaser Brothers. What a terrific song. If I had to choose, though, I'd have to go with Kottke's version, and this video is his best performance I've come across. His guitar picking is just mesmerizing.

[nomiclas]

the one thing that nobody talks about is his dry and deep sense of humor.how 'bout "when shrimps learn to whistle"or "in jesus christ christ there is no east or west"?the's give this guy some cred!

[zohar52]

This is one of my favorite songs. It reminds me of growing up in a small mountain town. Leo Kottke, by far is the best musician to come around in a long time.

[pongchamp5]

He looks so happy when he starts the song...like he knows everyone will love it!!

[Tman4000]

This is off of the Home and Away Revisited DVD, yes?

[suredunno]

So beautiful. I agree, JeffW77...most romantic song ever....sigh...

[JeffW77]

Thanks again Leo. Same comment as on another version. I think this is the most romantic song ever written. Great meaning for me in late June 2001. God Bless you Leo. God Bless you Cymarron. God Bless you Eddie Reeves and Alex Harvey. Jeff...age 52. Portland, Oregon

[rvcrvc2]

Absolutely beautiful - looks so easy the way he plays

[jnklaz]

I too would love to know if anyone has the tab for this. I've been trying to figure it out for years now. Drop "D" is about all i've been able to come up with.

[WEISSERZWERG]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEmail :)

[WEISSERZWERG]

send me your email...

[picker38]

What can you say about Leo?

[magicdave93]

what a technique thank's

[skip3d]

Makes me want to give up the guitar. He has to be from another planet!

[TheGregWoodBand]

I know what you mean, he has more than one brain; the one in his head and one brain in each hand and the 3 make a band when they work out a tune.

[sulacoR]

wish I had half his skills

[mrrichardfeder]

Thought this song sucked.

Changed my mind.

[hern8]

let the doorbell ring

[bbisking]

Fuckin' sweet!