The Last Thing On My Mind

[spinks31]

One of my all time favourite songs and your rendition is right up there - especially your picking - loved it!

[forinstance872]

just a beautiful cover of a great song

[astoms1954]

Thumbs up !

[jonasjar]

Excellent! Professional grade more or less, and you do perform, don't ya?

[Sophie11121]

Very nicely done. Always a favorite, and now a new, true version to return to.

[jonasjar]

Probably the best last-thing cover on youtube. It will take a lot of hard work to beat this excellent version.

[Northman1066]

Wonderful performance - really enjoyed it!

[montreemtx]

Greeting from Thailand.

Really wonderful play and sing.....you're great...

Sporting Life Blues...please..

[jonasjar]

excellent picking, novel arrangement! I've done this song for many years, nice to see the variety you can find in the way people do them.

[bloodonthestrings]

Great singer and picker ! I am working out this song and post it as soon as ready...

All the best to you and a blink from France.

[plastiqueadapte]

Très belle interprétation ! / Very nice rendition !

[alonzogarbanzo]

@plastiqueadapte Mon Francais est tres mauvais, je pense. Mais merci beaucoup.

[hochbob]

Fantastic cover! I love your right hand strumming and picking technique. Thanks for posting.

[manriq47]

Back for another listen to this classic. Sounding just as good as ever. Hope you are off to a great new school year. Bet you class is one your students really look forward to. All the best. ~ Mark

[forsburgers]

Delightful folk guitar style and very nice vocals. I so enjoyed this and will keep returning. Please add to what you have done here

[alonzogarbanzo]

@forsburgers Thanks for that, and if you click on my user name here it will take you to my channel page, wherein lie about 225 additions to what I did here!

[firefoxzombie]

Nice rendition of a great song. What's the other chord beside the G, C,and D? Thanks.

[micromanjg]

perfect job!..i listened to it many times.

[s6824s]

You are awesome>  Great cover!!

[OleBlues]

Excellent!!!!

[ThymeBottle]

I just love your guitar style. This is a striking performance and your vocals are always so impressive. Bravo!

[judyb10]

I love the way you play this old song. You make it sound new and fresh.

[alonzogarbanzo]

Thank you. It's such a great song to begin with, I think it could be played on a kazoo and sound beautiful.

[jonasjar]

really vigorous picking with a nice bouncy feel, like it a lot!

[treasureincgp]

Read PeterVadim...I'm 76 and you have the best rendition of this really great song I've ever heard. I'm sitting here crying.....

Francis Graham

[alonzogarbanzo]

That's high praise.  Thanks.

[alderbaran1]

This is the second Tom Paxton song I've heard you do, and I'm hooked. Thanks for the music! Now if I can just figure out what you're doing with those picking fingers....

[jonasjar]

pretty unusual with the Am at 3:34, what is it that creates the beat-tapping sound?

[alonzogarbanzo]

My foot tapping, picked up with a mike and subjected to a lot of compression and Q. Some folks hate the sound, but I don't, so there.

[jonasjar]

thats a great version! excellent guitar with a nice swing and unusual variation. You have an index pick? your black sweater makes you look disembodied, a bit spooky really. Any way this is great, bet you a dollar your dad would have loved it! :)

[alonzogarbanzo]

I like to believe he would have. Thanks. Yes, I like the "floating head" look---it's really pronounced in some of my other vides (see "The Monster"). And I use plastic picks on index and thumb, even on bass.

[manriq47]

Love your interpretation of this classic from way back when. Really like your choice in music. Thanks for posting music worth listening to again and again. - Mark

[raymondcrooke]

I missed this the first time around. Thanks for making it a video response to my rendition. I've added your name to the list of the great performers who do this song.

[alonzogarbanzo]

I'm TOO honored to be included in that pantheon. And I love your version. We have such different ways of approaching a song but it comes out pretty OK, don't it?

[AmericanDiaz]

Damn that's an awesome acoustic! I can tell you got to have the best for what you do. People these days don't understand quality, hence the high cheese factor, pervading modern pop culture. Oh well that was my speech, lovely rendition, hats off to you!

[alonzogarbanzo]

Surely there must be some quality cheese out there.

[PeterVadim]

Haha, not that we have heard of. There are alot of 'fake' people out there getting away with tequila shots with talk show hosts, and making millions by the time they are 18 on fad performances. I love what you do, and it truly saddens me that you don't get your own little spot on today's mtv, no disrespect intended.

[alonzogarbanzo]

None taken! Rhanks for the thought. I do wonder, though, how many 61-year-0ld musicians are on MTV these days unless they were famous when they were young? I don't see TV, so I really don't know the answer to that, but I suspect it's "not a whole bunch"!

[PeterVadim]

Haha, I wouldn't know I don't watch MTV...last time I took it seriously was when I was in 7th grade I think? Now I am 17, and unlike other kids my age I am really into the blues, and they only have that on STC haha.

Yeah, most of the 'music veterans' who are older than the younger musicians these days made it big in the 60s, and 70s.

[commonteri]

Absolutely beautiful!

[bagup59]

One of Paxtons best and you did it perfect, thank you.