Prince, found and published to the network a home-made version of the ’78 to ‘I feel for you’

The archive of the Prince, now in a data center of Iron Mountain in Hollywood, continues to offer surprises to the fans of the musician in Minneapolis, mn. This is a demo recorded in the winter of 1978, I Feel for You”, a recording made at the same time that Prince was releasing his debut album, For you and in which of course, already thought to the songs of the disc of the next year, Prince. At that time the Prince has twenty years and played a completely acoustic in an intimate and informal, but this does not detract from the efficacy of his interpretation. If you pay attention, in addition to the picking of the strings of the guitar and at the time held it with the heel of the shoe, you can hear the typical noise of the “play” button of the recorder for the young musician of Minneapolis press at the beginning and at the end of the song.
“When I listened to it I was dumbfounded,” said the clerk, Prince, Michael Howe. “There is a Prince of twenty years who thinks out loud, and feels what he sings. His talent shines through on an acoustic guitar, an instrument he played, but that has put rarely in the foreground, and then there is her voice that is absolutely extraordinary”. The final version of I Feel for You ” will be released in his second album of 1979, the one that bears his name, of which this year marks the fortieth. In 1984, Chaka Khan made a version that won him a Grammy.