"I'll give you my Vincent to ride."

[short bus president]

I don't have the poll privileges anymore. Sue me.

Best version of "Vincent Black Lightning:"

- Richard Thompson
- Del McCoury Band
- other (please specify and tell me where to download)

;-)

[Fenris]

1. Thompson.

[indigobusiness]

2. Interesting question...hmmmm????

What is your favorite Richard Thompson album?

[asthmaticeog]

3. Thompson. No contest.

n/t

[punpirate]

4. Richard Thompson, no doubt about it. n/t

[Bossy Monkey]

5. Can't really vote as I haven't heard the McCoury cover

but Thompson's live performance in Brooklyn, on a record with David Byrne (An Acoustic Evening With David Byrne & Richard Thompson) is absolutely unreal.

[indigobusiness]

8. Yes

Yes it was and is.

[greendog]

6. Thompson....

....nobody doe's RT like RT.

Have you heard Greg Brown's version of Vincent Black Lightning? ...on one of his live albums. I love Greg Brown, but I don't care for his version of Vincent Black Lightning.

I'll have to check out Del McCoury's version....which album is it on?

[Socialist Dem]

7. Having read about Doc Thompson's lust

for the Vincent Black Shadow, I think any of them will be great.

[Sufi Marmot]

9. The Richard Thompson version where....

...I sing along with the last verse at the top of my lungs and then get a shiver down the back of my spine. Yeah, that's the one.

-SM, in whose opinion, there's nothing in this world, beats a '52 Vincent and a red-headed girl.

[leftofthedial]

10. richard's own, but

Del's is excellent too

[JSJ]

11. "i see angels and aerials in leather and chrome...

...swoopin' down from hea-ven to carry me home.
And he gave her one last kiss and died, and
he gave her his Vincent... to ride.

[lakemonster11]

12. I heard Ralph Stanley sing it once.

But I've never been able to find a recording of him.

[KG]

13. the greatest motorcycle song ever written.

sho nuff