I love REKs seemingly lazy vocal style.

Jill Sobule does a decent cover of this.

Something went wrong, it seems, after his second and fourth LPs, as his promise seemed to wilt, and there seemed to be a flurry of diminishing live returns, pandering more to his more humourous songs. Seriously folks, if you like long narrative songs like "Lily Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts"(and this site says as many don't as do!) or the Elvis/T Bone collaboration, the Peoples Limousine, then you will love both "The Road goes on forever but the party never ends" from West Textures and "Jesse with the long hair hangin down" from A bigger piece of the sky.
G'wan, try it!