But Driscoll/Auger’s is perhaps the finest, despite Auger admitting, “I never imagined I would ever be doing a Donovan cover. Jett’s version is strangely spectral Thompson’s is tired and world-weary. Of these, Pesky Gee!’s version is simply shimmering, with Kay Garrett staking her claim amongst the most astonishing, and astonishingly unsung, British vocalists of the late 1960s. Soon these bad cats would come calling at my door.” There is a line in it that goes ‘some other cat looking over his shoulder at me,’ and there were certainly cats looking over their shoulder at me. The lyric of ‘Season of the Witch’ proved to be prophetic in the months to come. My early practice on drums found its way into the groove. “The tune was seminal,” Donovan wrote of “Season of the Witch.” “The riff is pure feel. For me, the singer shapes the song, and so working with a different singer gives a whole different vibe to the music.” It also offers a startling contrast with Greanvine - whose debut album is forthcoming, but who can already be heard via one of the most compulsive collections of recent years, the Witch Songs, and a version of Donovan’s “Season of the Witch” that you need to hear right now. “CPM is very much about Rosemary Lippard's voice. Of these, Country Parish Music epitomizes an element of folk song that is very close to Collins’s heart, and which fans of the genre’s most original practitioners, at least, will agree.
