"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:45:48 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

Even great songwriters know when to leave things alone. In an interview I
heard a few years ago, John Prine said that when he does one of his rare
live performances, he almost never sings any song he's written for Bonnie
Raitt. Why? Because he knows he's a great songwriter, but a 3rd rate
performer. There's no point in phuquing up a song that's been done
beautifully by someone else

There's a lot of truth in that.

I only need to point at Kinky Friedman as a perfect example.

"Pearls in The Snow" is a collection of Friedman songs performed by
various artists and two cuts off that album, "Nashville Casualty and
Life" done by Lee Roy Parnel and "Rapid City, South Dakota" sung by
Dwight Yoakam are outstanding examples of why song writers shouldn't
do their own songs.

Have you ever seen this guy, or heard his music?
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30345