Live Performance Battle: Gold Dust Woman

[drzubritsky]

The Dance, hands down for me. My only quibbles with it are Lindsey's oddly subdued playing of the lead guitar lick (a signature part of the song), and the use of Stevie's backup singers on the coda. But any version with a wail as awesome as that is a winner. I also love the way she sings the "So rock on ancient queen" line...really evoked her 70s voice and was the last hurrah for that softer, almost whispered vocal before she began singing everything from the gut with virtually no dynamics.

But I agree that with the above comments that this song has worn well as Stevie's voice has changed over the years; rarely is there a bad performance.