Betsy Legg "In The Early Morning Rain" 1971 US Private female Psych Folk
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2019
- Betsy Legg “Betsy” 1971 US Private female Private Psych Folk
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This week’s An Album A Day theme is, “Covers! Covers! Covers!” That is, albums that feature unique arrangements or interpretations of recognize able songs. And what better way to kick off the new week than with an album that is comprised entirely of covers! Sadly I don’t know too much about this album, but it was released in 1971 by BCG Records (as far as I know they don’t have any other releases). According to the liner notes it was recorded at KINTEL Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. The “band” was pretty minimal, with Betsy performing acoustic guitar and singing alongside Pam Rose (lead guitar), and Laymon Jackson (bass).The songs were written by Tim Hardin, Bob Dylan (two songs), Leonard Cohen (two songs), John Denver, Gordon Lightfoot, Kris Kristofferson, Judy Collins and Ian Tyson.
Although plenty of pictures of the album cover exist online, not much in the way of biographical information is available on Betsy. It’s a shame this Betsy Legg isn’t the recording artist or I might be more inclined to ask about that album she recorded back in the early 70s. Then again, when was the last time I posted a private-press LP and had a plethora of information about the artist? It doesn’t happen all that often. Usually I put out the call for someone else to contact me if they know more, and maybe 70% of the time someone comes through. Other than that, it’s kind of up in the air when it comes to learning about who Betsy is (was?) and what became of her.
As for the songs? They’re pretty good! It’s hard to get an idea of her talent when she’s playing other people’s songs, but she’s an adequate guitarist with a decent voice. It’d be interesting to learn if Betsy ever wrote her own songs. And why didn’t she use the correct song title for “Famous Blue Raincoat” if she was going to give Cohen credit for writing that tune? I mean, that’s probably the least important question I’d ever ask Betsy, but I think it’s funny the song bears a different title…~
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You're absolutely right Mary, how are you doing?
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She has one of those voices that grabs your attention and begs you to stop and enjoy for a little while
I really miss the 70's life as a teenager back then was so much simpler than now, there seemed to be more to look forward to back then
I'd hate to be a teenager in 2023, there seems to be nothing for them now
I absolutely agree with you,our generation was very lucky enjoying true beauty,love and peaceful times ( at least in the west) with a dream soundtrack,not to mention gastronomy and good health...I wish you the best,brother
73 yrs. old ! Never heard of her. Just goes to show.
I’m 68, same here. The album cover brings me back to my teen years, though.
This is a Gordon Lightfoot classic. Gordon wrote many great songs, some of them also played by different artists, such as Elvis. Gordon was born in 1938 In Orillia Ontario and still tours and performs as of this date. Update: Gordon died May 1 2023 in Sunny Brook Hospital in Toronto.
I saw him in his prime 74 or 75 at the Opry House in Nashville.
Great artist.
The Edmund Fitzgerald. Can't get any better listening to Gordon and that song.
One of the all time greatest singer/songwriter/performers
@@Astro_touches_children yep.....
Perfectly balanced between Joni Michell and Joan Baez, her voice is as as clear as the summer sky.
I agree….so clear and beautiful.
And, if you haven’t heard a a young artist in England named Lucy Thomas, she has a similar clear singing voice. She is a rising young star. She has many videos here on YT. I think my favorite is Desperado.
softer than Baez, and stronger than Joni Mitchell. Perfect. Just perfect.
Her singing makes me feel like I'm walking barefoot with sunshine all around me.
Ah, the ‘70’s. How I miss them.
@@virginiaviola5097 BOTH OF YOU SHOULD LAY OFF THE DRUGS!
Spoken like someone who lives where fire ants have not invaded...
@@seanseoltoir 😂 Very true!
Her voice reminds me of Joan Baez.
Her vibrato reminds me of Joan Baez. What a lovely, unique voice ❤
Yesss, she and Joan ,voices unforgetables
Kind of a cross between Joan and Anne Murray.
Yes yes yes ... :))) I am mad after Joan Baez
@@bellgab not related to this comment, but do you also like Judy Collins? I like her!
She looks like her!!
Gordon Lightfoot was such a great songwriter. We won't see another like him again. We are just fortunate to have shared the Earth with him for a time.
I never heard of her before now. I'm so glad I found this. Thank you so much for sharing with the world.
mee too!
Me too..wow❤
Same here, I'd never heard her before and I used to think I'd heard all of the great talents of that era!
same here
its excellent
Copyright's a bugger, isn't it 😄
Wow. This version of this song is likely the best that I've ever heard. Her voice is amazing.
What a crystal clear beautiful voice.
Agreed.
No masculine harmonics. V6x kills these voices. 🤣
Wow. She should have been famous. The song creates the true emotions of such experiences.
So much beauty lost to the wind
I used to play in the same club, in Atlanta, that Betsy played in. I always loved her voice and style. She is one of a kind.
There’s zero info about her on the Internet. Could you share any?
He wouldn’t have anything that any liar couldnt make up on the spot…
“Played the same club “Im calling some minor BS …🫡
@@Skylarking00 most useful info you'll get by following the posters' link in the description. Recorded in Georgia (even if this non-American don't hear any southern accent) plus some session players. Bit of websearch found a 73 year old Betsy Legg (b 1950) up in Ashtabula, Lake Erie, not quite next door to Atlanta.
There isn't much information about her. What was the name of the club in Atlanta?
I remember seeing her at Dante's Down the Hatch in Underground Atlanta around 1976.
Written by Gordon Lightfoot and on his first album in 1966. Wonderful song.
R.I.P Gordon Lightfoot. He passed away on May 1 2023 in Sunny Brook Hospital in Toronto.
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It's called melody folks and is one of the foundations of music that stands the test of time - RIP Gordon Lightfoot.
Beautiful woman, very beautiful voice! It's a pity she didn't have a more noteworthy career.
I love this song and I don’t believe I have ever heard of this artist. Boy it puts me back to a certain time and space. ❤
Me too.
Oh yes! Friends faces all rush back, long ago, and far away. I wish them all well, wherever they are. We had the best of times.
Yes it is. The world seemed vage but quiiet, bautiful and real.
Written by the great Gordon Lightfoot
@@stevebengel1346 indeed.
Any fans of Judee Sill here? Another unique artist of similar vintage. But Betsy, this is my first time hearing her. Very sweet and authentic. TY for sharing.
Beautiful song, just Love the female folk artists of that era.
Joni Mitchell…Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Mimi Farina, Ian and Sylvia, Buffy St Marie…..Hedge and Donna…..
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 My fave of your list: Ian & Sylvia. I was fortunate to meet Sylvia a couple of times when she was touring with Cindy Church and the late Rankin sister who sang so beautifully way up high. Their blend and vibe was perfect art-if there is such a thing. I wonder if Sylvia is still singing. If so, I must look to see where she is playing these days.
@@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 geoffrey you are forgetting my favorite judith durham of the seekers please check out some of her solo songs
@@cobaltblueviolet i have heard of sandy denny i will have to check out maddy prior thank you very much
Feminist?
Just love these dreamy imaginary simple folksy tunes of the late 60s/early 70s......
I heard her play and sing one night in some small joint in Underground Atlanta in the spring of 1977 or 1978. I was 1000 miles from home in Atlanta for some fool professional convention or another, and I never rencountered her again. Besides being talented, she was cordial, stopping at my table for a few minutes of chit chat. In those days, there was plenty of good local talent around the country that would not tour much. But it is surprising that there are 692 comments here with such a scarcity of info turning up.
It took me 2 seconds to go from what the h*** is this, to I love this rendition!❤
Check out Eva Cassidy's version - ruclips.net/video/P9U_g7ftEyk/видео.html
Never heard of her. The algorithm brought me to this song. It's gorgeous! What a lovely voice!
Hard to believe that so many have never heard of this lady!
I remember this from my high school graduation days but I never knew who sang it until now... Those were the days of Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Carly Simon and Joni Mitchell...etc...
Such a pure voice. It just carries the song along like water in a brook.
Lovely, dont know why I havent heard of her before now.
What a beautiful find!!!❤️🎼🎶🎵🦋🦋🦋a gift for me this morning 🌄✌️🌻
I forgot her. Been a while. Hearing the Melody brought back summer memories. Yes..a liitle of Joan...
I've always loved this song, but Damn... What a beautiful voice!
Frohe Weihnachten Hammi 🎄🎄🎄 Danke!
RIP GORDON LIGHTFOOT and thank you for all your beautiful music :)))
💕 I Iove the finger picking too .. ah the memories ..
Smiles, hi Linda 👋
60's, 70's the golden age of music and songwriters.
Perfect. Without autotune. Those were artists.
Sometimes I have to wonder if Swifties know about autotune. Even that young lady's publicist once admitted on the record that she's "not a technical singer". Meaning she can't carry a tune in a bucket. I'm sure she's a good enough performer and quite attractive ... but a real singer? Gimme a break!
@@frostyfrances4700 what does "technical singer" mean?
What I meant is that f*ing autotune is not necessary and that "perfection" is the myth of the morons.
Besides Betsy Sings in tune and that's it, period.
Not everything is autotune. Far from it.
@@rcpmac nowadays I'd say that almost everything is with autotune.
Perfect voice of a virtuoso. Best ever performance of this song or any folk song. Wow! A real treat. Eternal fame for Gordon Lightfoot too.
I've never known of her, even though I was brought up in the sixties and seventies around all kinds of music. I would have listened to her a lot!
I like her much better than Joan Baez. Not that I tend to pit artists against each other, but I could listen to this ethereal, earthy, humble, honest, comfident voice forever.
Why wasn’t she all over the radios. Beautiful voice
Payola 😮
Because she is just singing the songs that hundreds of others were performing that time.
because the "music industry" is a fixed game. Everything is fixed and YOU can't change it. Sit there and suck it up.
She sounds a whole lot like Joni Mitchell, don't you think? It's hilarious, seeing everybody in the comments skirting the issue.
@@Da_Publick She don't sound a bit like Joni. When ever i hear Joni Mitchell i projectile vomit. I don't do that with this singer.
I’m born in the late 70s but this girl reminds me of a great time .
Smiles, how are you doing Fiona?
I didn't know the lady. Decided to listen because I happen to love the song (know both the Gordon Lightfoot and Peter, Paul, and Mary versions). Her voice and version is beautiful.
The version by Jerry Lee Lewis is good, too.
For me it was the Dylan version that had me pause...Did Little Richard roll it out?
Chad and Jeremy too
Man, that takes me back to the good days of music.😢
Man, that takes me back to the good old days of "real" music.
If this doesn't take you back to the 60's, nothing will. Beautiful!
I love it when I’m surfing you tube and come across a gem like this, thank you ♥️
Danke 🎄🎄🎄 Frohe Weihnachten 🎄 Hammi 🎄
As someone else already pointed out, this isn't "psych folk". Having said that, she sounds great. Very nice voice on a nice song.
WOW! I've never heard of her before. I'm a big Fan of 60's & 70's Folk Rock and I guess, she slipped past me! LOL!! Very good voice.
you heard it a bunch of times, but you were too stoned to remember.
@@johngillon6969 Sorry, you got the wrong Guy! LOL!
The artist and arrangement are things of ethereal beauty.Not much of that afoot in 2023!May God help us all in this Fourth Turning !
Gordon Lightfoot was a formidable talent. His songs should live on for generations.
Never heard this beautiful voice before, so beautiful.
Smiles, hi Rosemarie 👋
Wow. What a beautiful voice
Wow! Such a clear voice. Like a violin. Reminds me of Judy Collins.
rare raw voice that recorded after today💪
Powerful lyrics no matter what kind of music you prefer to listen too.
There are many songs that could easily cross over the line, could by play on any station.
This is the first version of this song that made me feel like crying.
Thanks, needed this right now.
a perfect song and a perfect voice to sooth my weary soul...my son has been locked up in a psych ward again "with an ache in my heart.... a long way from home, I miss him so.!!!""
Beautifull warm lovely voice had forgotten about her😊
Psych folk?
Never heard this term before.
Beautiful version 👍
The only version of this song I've ever heard till now was the 1966 cover version by the Grateful Dead. Perhaps because of that version, it was dubbed Psych folk. Or simply just the era in which it was recorded.
know it well , it makes me cry
She is simply breath taking. My Hammock under a Southern oak music.
My dad played this song when I was a young child. I didn't know any better and thought he wrote the song. Not that he said he wrote it, but childhood assumptions. Gorgeous piece of music. Hadn't heard of Betsy before this video, but she sounds great.
Wow….I was so into this style of music…from 1964-1970 or so, but I never heard of this artist. But question: never heard of psych folk. That wa not a term we used back then. But if anyone qualifies for that designation, it would be Donovan. This is straight up Folk genre….pure and simple.
Or PF Sloane, look up his "Divinations".
So good, English indie rocker Thom Yorke and Radiohead (which themselves at times could quality as Psych) decided to lift the melody for their Street Spirit.
it`s very nice to hear an old folkie again...back then everyone was called a folksinger now it`s very uncool ?? everyone has to be called a singer/songwriter....Betsy thankyou for being on youtube and singing an old Lightfoot tune plus you have a very on-tune singing voice....this was a time when men were men and women were women....today nobody knows anything etc etc....anyways thankyou Betsy toronto,canada and may i add also Mariposa was something back then today its hog wash !!!
We sang a simple version of this in basic training in the 70s. We just echoed back what the drill sergeants sang. Good times.
She is amazing. She does the song justice.
I'm another that didn't know of Betsy . She sung the song so beautifully ! Thank you for bringing her to my attention.
Smiles, how are you doing Sandra?
This song brings back so many memories. Beautiful.
As a flight crew this song touched me thank you for sharing !
Loved this song for years, never heard this haunting version coming out of the past.
I thought I was familiar with the work of all the lesser known folk artists of the 60s, but this comes straight out of nowhere to me. I would have loved to have known about her back then and been able to appreciate this album all these decades. The set list on the label is fantastic. Thank you for the post.
Hello Katt,
I too am into some of the lesser known folk artist's from the 1960's.
Are you familiar with Dayle Stanley? I have known about her for a very long time. She was from Massachusetts and two wonderful LP's in the 1960's.
You can hear her songs from both albums on RUclips. Sadly, she passed away a few years ago now and never had any other records other then the two released in the 1960's.
kaat.......the is the Canadian Icon Gordon Lightfoots song from 1964 that made it to the onto the charts by a number of artists including Bob Dylan.
I stand with you, Kaat. I wish I would have known about her back in the 60's.
@@carolerichoux4891
Hi Carole,
I'm hoping that someone seeing all these posts of interest in Betsy Legg will know something, maybe knows her, etc and will post a message.
Do you still listen to folk music? I do, all the time. Besides all the well known folk artist's and folk groups, I know of many obscure ones too.
@@carolerichoux4891 Carole -- There was an album I had back in 1974 that came out in 1970 on a San Francisco label by a female vocalist named Victoria, called The Secret of the Bloom, kind of a folk-country feel, and I always loved it. There's a nice version of Warren Zevon's "Tule's Blues" and Stephen Stills' "Helplessly Hoping," but my favorite song on it is the second cut on Side A, called "Out in the County" (usually mistyped as Country). I think there may be some Internet info on her, can't remember. But if this message allows me to I will paste the RUclips link to her album that somebody uploaded. Scratches and pops, and much, much better listening on your own record player, but it suffices. It the link isn't here, just search RUclips for Victoria - Secret of the Bloom and it will take you right there. I think she had a second album, but not sure it was ever released. Love her voice. - KaatClove ruclips.net/video/MjH5RFByJoM/видео.html
Listening to Betsy Legg I close my eyes and hear Joan Baez. Both ladies have magnificent voices.
My Lord I was not expecting something so beautiful!
Beautiful cover of the Gordon Lightfoot song. She has a simple and pure vocal style that's quite good.
Not much info out there for this beautiful soul with an awesome voice
Lovely. Wish I had heard of her years ago.
My comment is like several I just read. Never heard of her. She is one one THEM. Best top league folk singers period. Peculiar she is so obscure. I have no doubt all her contemporizes know her well. She's a LEGEND.
I guess she's close to my age (70). Surely she looks better than me today. Great rendition of Gordon's song.
Very nicely done. I’ve never heard of her but she definitely has a beautiful voice. Great song from a fantastic Canadian musical icon.👍👍
it takes so much work to achieve artistry so it's good to preserve whatever of it that we can.
Unlike most commenters, I do remember the track but not the name of the artiste but that's because I was one of the resident DJ's at a large north London pub at the time and I was the one that used to buy the records each week.
Unique voice and style. The song takes us into another age. Like fabk2 commented, 'it reminds of Joan Baez'.
This is heartbreakingly beautiful
A lovely song and great lyrics and a voice like velvet
Una ballata particolare, forse nostalgica che in me suscita un sentimento di vicinanza alla natura con la sua bellezza , come essere nel verde e camminare in cerca della propria essenza. Incuriosita ( non conosco l'inglese..) vado a cercare di tradurre le parole, chissà!?
Comunque appena finita c'è la voglia di risentirla❤ grazie Pietro
first time of hearing her & this version of the great gordon lightfoot original..her version is really well sung in perfect tune & i guess he'd be glad to hear it also.
I absolutely love this! Betsy's voice is like angels singing. That is a long forgotten style that I attempt to keep alive every time I perform.Thank You Betsy for your inspiration and vision!
Another classic
Thank you
Such an absolutely beautiful voice. I love this kind of music, and I always have. I can't believe I've never heard of her before.
I remember this with great fondness. I had never seen a picture of her before and now that I do I am struck by how much she looks like my oldest sister. ♥
A popular look for a reason. Natural and beautiful. This artist did covers so you may be remembering the song with the original artist? She would have made a bigger name for herself if she'd written more of her own material.
One of the first songs I learned on guitar in summer school ‘72. Still a fave! Dig that travis picking 🌻
well that's just lovely, thank you
Beautiful voice, unknown to me before now. An Easter egg. She uses the PPM minor chord change which makes the melody better.
She's a treasure. She's not on Spotify . . . yet.
Was just going to check!
I remember hearing this on the AM stations on my transistor radio back in 1971.
It was a big hit even on rock stations.
This is my first introduction to this heartfelt soul. I walk away better for it. Thanks Betsy.
What a beautiful voice❤
Smiles, how are you doing Linda?
Beautiful version.
GRH Gordon Lightfoot 😢 Miss Betsy Legg Beautifully Compliments Your Song 🎶🎶🎶🙏
Perhaps my favorite Gordon Lightfoot song. Absolutely enjoyed Ms Legg's version, which I am hearing for the first time. Thank You for sharing🤙
Beautiful voice, controls her power wonderfully..voice and simple backing music..makes today's so-called singers look 10th race..who in today's pop world could sing that song..