Todays upload is Evie (Parts 1, 2 & 3) by Stevie Wright. It is a rare song in describing an entire relationship from Meeting, to being in love, to the birth of their child coinciding with her death during childbirth. Also, rare that it features all of these and (the original particularly) rocks really hard. Stevie Wright was better known as the songwriter/frontman for the band ‘The Easybeats’.
Unfortunately, when he performed Evie a few years back he wasn’t able to sing all the versus and didn’t stand up throughout the performance. Sadly, he has pretty much fried his brain and body with drugs while he was popular. For this reason, it was recently performed by the supergroup ‘The Wrights’ (consisting of members from Living End, Jet, You am I, Spiderbait, Dallas Crane, Grinspoon and even the Easybeats) to raise money to help drug rehabilitation.
Both the original and the cover are really fantastic rocking songs. Have a listen to them if you haven’t already. Interesting trivia: Evie is (reportedly) the only 11 minute song to ever reach #1. I hope you enjoy it. My voice is now at least a little shot…
