Covers

[Googstar]

This song (Because the Night) has been covered by a few different artists but my personal favorite is by Garbage and the Screaming Females. Just skip the first 30 seconds or so....

 

[stax on the mull]

St. Vincent's Latinaires - Roasted or Fried 1972
Willie Bobo & The Bo Gents - Broasted or Fried 1971

There's something about this recording that sets it apart from the original. I can't really explain, just the groove feels deeper in the cover version, maybe an accidental result of the studio recording process, and it's nowhere near as sophisticated as the more jazzy original, but there's a kind of echo between the beats and the horn arrangement which alternate between sounding close up and far away from each other.

 

[Vincent Hanna]

Who hasn't covered The Beatles? But I love DY and he did a stellar job with this one:

 

[stax on the mull]

This series called Imaginational Anthem is up to volume 13. To quote from the label, their intention is to "bring together pioneering acoustic guitar heroes of the 60's and 70's alongside a new generation of amazing players".

They were usually instrumental albums, though I haven't listened to them past Volume 3, except Volume 12, which was a tribute to Michael Chapman by guitarists from Yorkshire UK, and this latest volume is a tribute by North American musicians to the Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn - so it's as much song/lyrics interpretation as guitar variations. I've never listened closely to Cockburn's music but was vaguely aware of him via one or two songs when he had some commercial FM radio airplay sometime in the 1980's - back when most music stations were still on AM radio.

This song called "Fall" is covered by the Powers/Rolin Duo, and not really indicative of their albums which are longer tunes of guitar/dulcimer psychedelic folk melodies. I hadn't heard Matthew Rolin sing before, and his voice is fine, maybe better than most of the contributors on this compilation. I also hadn't heard the original by Bruce Cockburn (I have now), I just had a feeling while hearing one of the verses that it sounded like something familiar, maybe a feeling of something ancient or lost.

Will be checking out more of Cockburn's early 1970s stuff.

 

[Spearman]

Been hitting the Stones lately on my regular revisit, especially the Brian Jones era. Some great old, Brit blues...
here's a couple of covers that I've been enjoying...
Keith doing what Keith does best....


78 Some Girls tour, stripped down and punky, best version of Just My Imagination