While listening to Leo Kottke's "A Shout Toward Noon" CD Thursday, I was struck by how perfect his cover of The Allman Brothers Band's "Little Martha" is. The Duane Allman-penned original version of the acoustic guitar instrumental sounds as if Kottke composed it.
Because it's so in keeping with his style of guitar playing, Kottke's version, in my view, is as strong as the original. Randy Kerber's synthesized backing adds to the tune's warmth and punctuates the melody all the more.
It isn't often that I wish for two versions of a song to come up equally during shuffle mode sessions, but that's the case here.
