Bird On A Wire renditions

YankovicGretzky · Post by **YankovicGretzky** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 3:34 am

My favorites are the Johnny Cash rendition and the Aaron Neville rendition. Have any of you heard the Aaron Neville version from 1989? It's upbeat.

Anne · Post by **Anne** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 4:27 am

Aaron Neville has a lovely voice. It is a beautiful cover. That being said, I think I still prefer to listen to the version by Johnny Cash. I love the deep voice thing.

Einat · Post by **Einat** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 11:37 pm

The Neville Brothers version.... I dare to say: It's better than the original!

Beautiful singing , exellent production , it has a kind of vibe and enegry that doesnt exsist in the original version.
I have always thought Cohen's songs could sound so much better if he had chosen better producers.

Anne · Post by **Anne** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 5:39 pm

I just got the Johnny Cash box set "Unearthed". It is a collection of songs from the American sessions. Included is a live version of Bird on a Wire with an orchestra! Quite an interesting effect.

mamalex · Post by **mamalex** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 11:19 am

better than any cover i've heard, and better than the versions officially released in u.s., is the live version, from either warfield or montreaux. if u haven't heard i urge u 2 seek it out asap-it is yruly amazing.

Epurcelly · Post by **Epurcelly** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 6:33 am

The Tim Hardin version of Bird On a Wire is my favorite. Better than the original, Neville Brothers... Can that happen, better than the original?

raws · Post by **raws** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:26 am

I like Willie Nelson's version because of his ability to hold the note:

"And if I have ever been unkiiiiiiind. . ."

Cash doesn't handle it as well, but I'm just grateful that he recorded it. I wish that all Willie and Johnny fans could get turned onto LC!

Sophistikitten · Post by **Sophistikitten** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:25 pm

I much prefer Johnny Cash's version of Bird On A Wire compared to the Neville Brothers. For some reason, Johnny Cash makes the lyrics sound more real than them.

And Anne - I agree! Unearthed is great!

justinburnett · Post by **justinburnett** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 4:41 am

I happen to feel that there are few sounds as aggressively, overbearingly horrible as that of Aaron Neville's singing, and therefore I tend to feel that his cover of Bird On A Wire is quite gloriously awful. I'm at a loss to think of similar butcheries. It's certainly far, far worse than Bono's Hallelujah.

Take care
-J-

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 3:55 pm

I love Willie Nelson's cover - always have. Johnny Cash really made it his own though. I'll bet there is a whole generation of people that think Cash wrote Bird...

linda_lakeside · Post by **linda_lakeside** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 3:59 pm

I think Willie Nelson's version is great, I love it but I think Johnny Cash really made it his. I'll bet there is an entire generation of country fans who think Cash wrote Bird...

As for Bono's Hallelujah, I don't know why they even included it on Tower of Song - it stinks.

Bird On A Wire renditions

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