Robin Hitchcock River Man

Robin's great version of River Man starts with a bit of chat with Joe Boyd.
Recorded at the ICC Birmingham 17/05/09

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Music

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• Robin
• Hitchcock
• River
• Man
• Nick
• Drake
• Joe
• Boyd

[ssls1100]

Nice try, Robin, but this just doesn't work...

[Happyvalleypondman]

To be fair to Robin, he has sung this song in concerts much more melodically than his busked version at this informal get together. As an ex-public schoolboy, he's probably one of the few singers left in Britain who could reproduce Nick's accent- if he wanted to....

[deapestsea]

got he sounds awful... how disappointing is this :o(

[Happyvalleypondman]

Well, Robin's vocals have always divided us punters. Some people don't like his heavily accented English accent, but that's one of the reasons he appeals to me.

At the Songs of Nick Drake concert on the previous evening, I thought Graham Coxon's vocals were terrible, but as we came out, a couple of teenagers were talking about how his performance was head and shoulders above everyone else....

[robotorb]

Oh man, this is really awful! Thing with Drake is.... if you can't play it, you shouldn't! Although his does have good taste in music, this confirms my distaste for Hitchcock. I am not at all a fan of his.

[NektarVision]

I SAID THE GUITAR IS OUT OF TUNE!