There is a theme that begins it, and then you start to turn this cauldron of inspiration and other music comes from it. It’s interesting what Keith Richards said when they asked him how he writes songs, and Keith said he plays three Buddy Holly songs in a row, and the fourth one is his. But, no matter how many lines come out, along the way something will start flowing, and that’s what happens with the songs. Where does it come from? You have to be in a certain frame, like a writer has to be sitting down with a pencil, and you have to be in a certain frame for any lines to come out. This is interesting how songs are formed, and where they come from. And he said, “I didn’t do it.” And they said, “What did you mean you didn’t do it? You wrote the song, you performed it.” And he said, “Oh, no, all I did was create the circumstances for it to happen.” Once they asked the pagan priest, a pagan ritual guy, “How did you do that?” because some people were moved.
I’m the first audience, and I am privileged to hear them as they emerge. Entertainment plays a big part of it, because that’s a skill. Where did those images and melodies come from?ĭonovan: I open the film (“Sunshine Superman”) with the words “I am a poet,” and this is the poet’s job, to lead the people into an inner world. Your songs have this very mystical imagery. So directors, of course, realized, and ad directors realized, that my songs are like mini movies, and I performed them so. Like the film “Children of Men” wanted a song called “There Is An Ocean” from Essence to Essence. It’s interesting which songs are being asked for. And when I started hearing “Catch The Wind” being requested again and again and again, it was extraordinary, and then people were saying they were hearing it on the radio more and more - two to three times a day - and then they’re hearing it in various places. Students get my songs for a dollar when they’re making a student film.
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I mean, these are the kind of covers I like, yeah.Įvery three weeks there’s a call for one of my songs for TV and film. And “Happiness Runs” is being used in schools for children to be in singing in community.
Covers are obviously so satisfying to me… when you write a song that becomes seminal, meaning “Season of the Witch,” and it becomes something that bands can play for three days… nonstop! (laughs) Zeppelin used to warm up their rehearsals with it to get into the mood. I love that version, and “There Is A Mountain” by the Allman Brothers, which has become a staple of their shows. How about the Al Kooper version of “Season of the Witch”?ĭonovan: Of course. And then another version of “Hurdy Gurdy Man” by Eartha Kitt was enormously, extraordinarily unsuccessful.
Is that just because you like to say “Butthole Surfers?”ĭonovan: It’s a completely hilarious version I love it. Who would you say did the best Donovan cover?ĭonovan: Well, I guess The Butthole Surfers doing “Hurdy Gurdy Man.” Very New York, very jumpy, and I looked very calm and very laid back.
He was very hyper and very up and very hip and very city. I had asked him to sing “It’s All Over Now,” but it was in that room. In that clip, it’s very obvious Bobby is listening and not once taking a drag from his cigarette - two folk singers meeting. Donovan: Joan Baez evidently took great delight in introducing me to Bobby, and I needed to meet Bobby.
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