Universal Soldier---Donovan Cover

[Facemask93]

Just me and the trusty old Washburn----1st track guitar 2nd track vox-----onboard mike---i still can't get the vox sound that i'm 100% happy with--maybe that will jut evolve over time.


Facemask93

Written by Buffy Sainte-Marie

[Satchwood]

You've got a good voice - nice folk tune!

[Ted]

Nice!  I've never heard this song before and have been meaning track it down ever since someone told me about it when they heard me perform Anarchist Heart for a songwriters group.

[launched]

Perfect all around - Never heard this song before, either. The playing and the vox sound great!!

Later,

Mark

[Ferryman_1957]

Well, I do remember this one, sadly I was there first time round. A bit too young to remember the first playing but my older brother was a folkie who played lots of Donovan so listened to him playing it a year or so after it was first released.

You did a nice job here - can't believe this is the same guy that did the vox on John Barleycorn! You have a nice gentle vocal here, you have great control in your voice. Good stuff.

Cheers,

Nigel

[Oldrottenhead]

Well, I do remember this one, sadly I was there first time round.

me too i can vaguely remember donovan having his own show on primetime saturday night on bbc.


robert excellent post, a great song well done. with a name like robert burns you must be like myself and donovan ... scottish..... no?

[Facemask93]

I have to say no also------a Brummie born and bred and proud of it and found out recently i have Irish roots-- my dad though was in the Black Watch--- i'm now a plastic Southerner living in Surrey



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[Geir]

You most certainly have a versatile voice!!!  This is a great version of that classic protest song! Great playing and great playing.

Thanx for another great performance!

BTW:
Don't know what you don't like in the recording of the vox, but I find that the closer you get the better, I usually hold it just a few inches away, tilting it 45¤ and  singing over it to aviod breathing straight into the mic.

[Flash Harry]

I do rembember this, although I don't know if I remember it from it's first release date. You've done a good version, and it's nice to hear some Donovan without Donovan telling us how good he is or how brilliant his latest book/record/recipe is, which I do find irritating.

Good track.

[xicpanad]

Ah what a good tune! It sounds so natural, If I had listened to this in some other ocasion, I would think it was from some famous folk singer.
Really liked it!
Cheers