Johnny Cash "Tear Stained Letter" vs Richard Thompson "Tear Stained Letter"

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I been liking these two songs a lot recently, so this is a pretty difficult one, and my answer probably will change from day to day. today its the man in black. but i do love richard thompson's chorus so so much

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Sunday, 15 June 2003 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know the Cash one at all - what's it on? I have several versions of the Thompson one, and particularly like it live when he is in very rocking mood and goes on for like eight minutes or something. I also have a storming cajun version by Joel Soniez.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 15 June 2003 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

its on american IV: the man comes around. when i first saw the tracklisting for that i was wonderin if it was a thompson cover, but its cash's own song.

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Sunday, 15 June 2003 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)

i love it when thompson rocks out too, great soulful guitarist

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Sunday, 15 June 2003 13:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't that a completely different song, yet with the same title? I know Richard Thompson wrote his.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Sunday, 15 June 2003 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't that clear from what Bob said?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 15 June 2003 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought Bob was saying Cash wrote it, not Thompson. Otherwise, what's the point of comparing two completely different songs, just because they have the same name?

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Sunday, 15 June 2003 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

You're new here, aren't you? That's more excuse than people normally have!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 15 June 2003 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

everyone hates my thread

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Sunday, 15 June 2003 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Bob, if you love both Richard Thompson and Johnny Cash, then you can't do wrong.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Sunday, 15 June 2003 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

BTW, what's everyone think about RT's new one? I've heard both damning reviews and high praise. Haven't yet heard it myself.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Sunday, 15 June 2003 22:16 (twenty-three years ago)

yep, got love for both cash and thompson. i do need to pick up "old kit bag" fairly soon, most reviews ive read were pretty positive, and now im listening to him heavily so it'll be a pretty much essential purchase for me.

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Sunday, 15 June 2003 22:33 (twenty-three years ago)

the new thompson is STRONG, and perhaps his most direct and unadorned since Shoot Out The Lights. It's fairly morose, and filled with some great songs. Be sure to pick it up.

I'm saying this as someone who fully loved all the Froom albums, esp. You? Me? Us? and Mirror Blue, and disliked most of Mock Tudor, if that helps.

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 05:03 (twenty-three years ago)

the two new tour-only CDs Thompson's selling are also good. "more guitars", recorded live in-studio 1988 (lots of solos), and 'one thousand years of music', thompson's covers of his favorite pop songs written over the past one thousand years.

― jl, Tuesday, 17 June 2003 06:29 (twenty-three years ago)

saw Thompson doing this on The Whistle Test Years which is totally my favourite show on TV at the moment. after Thompson they had REM doing 'Moon River' and 'Pretty Persuasion' which sounded invigoratingly marv.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 08:15 (twenty-three years ago)

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