Thanks, Stefanie - I'd never heard that version.  My son (who has friends who play in that genre, and sometimes does himself) disdains "Wagon Wheel" as "stringband 'Freebird'", but I like it a lot.

Tonight we're going to go see local bluegrass band Truman's Ridge; they do it -and I enjoy their version right up until Bruce sings "...caught a South-bound trucker, had nice long talk....".  Drives me nuts.

Peter

We're playing it in one of our new years eve sets. I think it's a pretty fun easy song and people seem to like it.

Jimmy and Tinsley 

Stefanie, cool tune!  I hadn't heard it before ( I live under a rock), thanks!   

Well, Bruce flubbed the lyrics, so I didn't have to cringe at him not singing "toke".  And they have a new mandolinist, who is at least as good as the old one - and plays fiddle & guitar as well (in both sense of that phrase).  Plus, since I lat saw them they added a Dobroist, who ain't bad. 
And it was free.........

Peter

OK, here's (and kinda wish I still was.....).

Peter (Who does realize that yes, he got the lyrics wrong in his first post complaining about the guy singing it wrong; I hate when that happens!)

Oh wow!! That version is super cool. I love the orchestra, and that accordion. Zoiks! Thanks!

I may be uniquely qualified to comment here.... but here actually in 'Roanoke', if you got any game at all, save "Wagon Wheel" for the last set tip-jar tally, and the entire bar will sing the 'nice long toke' verse for you. BT-DT... many, many times.

I'm not one much for committing gratuitous bass solos, but that tune used to be one opportunity to get away with it. That was what got me over having to do it so much.

That sounds fun. My band leader would never put a bass solo on Wagon Wheel. He puts my gratuitous bass solo on the end of Comfortably Numb. I can take as long as I want, at least. Go figure. One per show. -__-;

I used to play in a semi-regular acoustic "Parlor Jam".  6-8 players going around in a circle picking songs.   After a while we agreed on a "No Wagon Wheel" rule.  It got to be like "No Stairway to Heaven" from Wayne's World.  I hadn't thought about it for a while until I saw this thread.  I don't understand Peter's post about "Bruce flubbed the lyrics"  (Bruce Springsteen?  Bruce Lee? Bruce Willis? Jack Bruce? Bruce Banner?), but the thread raised my curiosity as I didn't remember "toke" in the song - I just sang harmony on the chorus.  So I looked up the lyrics on-line and was flabbergasted to find the song was co-written by none other than Mr. Zimmerman himself!



Bill, tgo

Bruce is the banjo player for Truman's Ridge, who does the lead vocal on it for them.  See my post about 10 above this one.

Here's , but didn't use, for Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid; this is what Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show heard (decades later) & wrote the verses we use now.


Peter

A bass solo to end Comfortably Numb?

This ?

Cool!

Here's a nice instrumental from .

Man, that was nice, Dave! And from the sidebar on it -  can you ever have too many all-star versions of ??  Why, no - no, you can't!

Peter

Speaking of sidebars and covers this one popped up for me.

A Flash Mob cover version of Disturbed's cover version of Simon and Garfunkel's Sound of Silence.

I have heard Disturbed's version before and was prepared to be thoroughly underwhelmed... this flash mob and the audiences reaction is beautiful - wish I had a tissue.