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Thread started 07/08/11 5:17am

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Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam - The Wind

Was just listening to some beautiful versions of this poignant song on YT and thought I'd share. music

From yesteryear...

...and from more recently.

I think this is my favourite though -- featuring a reflective Yusuf on vocals, guitar and comfy hoodie.

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Reply #1 posted 07/08/11 8:15am

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I got into Cat last year when i bought Tea For The Tillerman.... he made some just amazing songs! and he gives me chills.

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Reply #2 posted 07/08/11 9:51am

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Gunsnhalen said:

I got into Cat last year when i bought Tea For The Tillerman.... he made some just amazing songs! and he gives me chills.

I need to investigate his back catalogue more fully, I think. nod I only really know his big hits, but I've loved this song since I heard it a few years ago.

Everything's so overproduced and oversung, these days, it's nice to hear a performance of something so small and unassuming that still has you hanging on every word. And as someone said in one of the comments, you get a sense that this song means more to him now, looking back on his life, then it did when he wrote it in his twenties.

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