^ Wow ! She has an extraordinary voice ! Two very different songs, but I`m glad to see that she`s honouring her early days with a Fred Neil composition.

You could try giving her a thread, or wait and see if the album you nominated for the album club generates a thread in a week or two.

Congrats on your detective work, fazstp; you`ve tracked down a forgotten culprit, suspected of making some good music. :)

My thanks to whoever voted in this Fred Neil poll yesterday :thumb:

What you'll notice is that just with a vote, the thread is bumped to the top of the forum section, so it'd be great to post a comment at the same time.

I'm a huge fan of thread-bumping, on account of the past is still relevant imo, even on an internet forum. In this specific case, this poll is really hotting up now:-

Is Fred Neil good or is he just ok ? Voters are split right down the middle on this divisive issue....could go either way....results are still coming in....

I voted good. I know everybody is talking about 'Everybody's Talkin', but I'm actually partial to Dolphins.

^ :laughing: Yes, that's one of the best tracks imo too, along with "I've got a secret".

One time in an interview, Dylan talked about how this album was a huge influence on him when he made one of the biggest stylistic changes in his career and recorded the John Wesley Harding album. He said that Fred Neil showed him something that had not occurred to him before: that you can take a traditional song, add in your own words and mix things around so that no-one can tell which lyrics are yours and which are traditional. That's true on the best tracks here, as FN shares his thoughts and quotes bits of remembered songs in the laid-back pace that Dylan also copied for JWH.

If we accept what Dylan says, we could make the case that the whole Americana revival made popular by The Band started with Fred Neil's album.

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^ So you and I arrived at the same place by different routes ; I've never heard those two cover-version songs that you mention.
But, yes, I really like That's the Bag I'm In. At first I treated it as a bit of a joke because of that beatnik-era slang of the title, but it's a nice song, with its small-scale observations about life. It doesn't make any grand statement, and FN is smart enough to keep it short, leaving us wanting more.