"Different Versions" series

[Lightning Rod]

This is another installment of my "different versions" exercise.

My sister and i wrote this tune some years ago and here are three different versions of it done by different artists.

The first was done by Robert Shelton.

http://doreenperi.com/Garbo6.mov (recorded 2002) (it's severely compressed for the web, so it sounds a bit tinny)

The next one is doreen peri on vocals and Lrod on instuments (recorded 2005)

http://www.studioeight.tv/musicpost/garbo.mp3

The last one is Wanda Wunderlich on vocals, Rene Lawrence on guitar, Hendrix Tolliver on bass, Zeke Durrell on drums and LR on flutes. (recorded 1978)

http://www.studioeight.tv/musicpost/garbowanda.mp3


I think it is fascinating how a single piece can take on a different color in the hands of different artists.

As a writer it is gratifying to me when I see that a piece "has legs" and can travel on its own.

Do you have any pieces (music, poetry, prose, paintings, anything) that others have interpreted and given you a new outlook?