David Gans - Me and Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin / Kris Kristofferson cover)

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I learned this song when I was a baby singer-songwriter in San Jose, California in 1970 or 1971. Many of the musicians I admired in our scene had already adopted it, many of them from a Gordon Lightfoot album. It was already firmly and permanently in my repertoire when I heard Janis Joplin’s hit single, which I expect is the best-selling and most widely-heard of countless cover recordings.

After I became a Deadhead in 1972, I heard “Me and Bobby McGee” on the double album Grateful Dead (aka Skull & Roses) - soulful and American in a whole ‘nother way.

For my recording, I chose a simple presentation because this is how I first performed the song nearly five decades ago. I’ve played it in bands, duos, and solo sets, on stages and in living rooms and around campfires. I love “Me and Bobby McGee” just as much today as I did when I first learned it.

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from Cover Me Turns 10: A Covers Tribute to Covers, released October 26, 2017

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