Cover Songs

[LuthierJustin]

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John 5 is so awesome, I love his work with albert lee as well

that explains a lot.

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John 5 is so awesome, I love his work with albert lee as well

that explains a lot.

[dogstar]

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Michael Stipe and Patti Smith at Patti's annual NYE show at the Bowery in NYC doing Jimmy Webb's "Wichita Lineman".

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Kevin Russell of the Gourds (aka "Shinyribs") covering "Waterfalls" by TLC. He did this a few years ago when he opened a show for the Gourds at the Lincoln in Raleigh but I missed his set, dammit.

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A friend of mine on the Guitartown listserv collects versions of "The Weight", this is his most recent finding:

[RolanK]

A friend of mine on the Guitartown listserv collects versions of "The Weight", this is his most recent finding:

Nice "item" to collect. Whats your friends favorite version then?
The one on The Last Waltz is up there imo. I also like this one, although it is without vocals:

[LBRod]

A classic version

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A friend of mine on the Guitartown listserv collects versions of "The Weight", this is his most recent finding:

Nice "item" to collect. Whats your friends favorite version then?

Straight from the horse's mouth:

I'd probably go with the Staple Singers' version as being my favorite. Even though "The Weight" isn't really a gospel song, it's always felt like one to me. And that's their original version that i'm talking about, although their Last Waltz take with The Band and the version they did with Marty Stuart are both wonderful as well.

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does he haev the Giant Sand version?

[RolanK]

Straight from the horse's mouth:

I'd probably go with the Staple Singers' version as being my favorite. Even though "The Weight" isn't really a gospel song, it's always felt like one to me. And that's their original version that i'm talking about, although their Last Waltz take with The Band and the version they did with Marty Stuart are both wonderful as well.

Your horse has got excellent taste in music.

[LuthierJustin]

Beautiful Neil cover

[Iowan]

Mr. Isbell knows how to cover a tune.

[Steve French]

This is a cover: I dont know the original song. I dont particularly like this song: I just like how they're doing it.

[Steve French]

Michael Stipe and Patti Smith at Patti's annual NYE show at the Bowery in NYC doing Jimmy Webb's "Wichita Lineman".

THIS. THIS IS FREAKIN" AWESOME!

[Steve French]

John 5 is so awesome, I love his work with albert lee as well

that explains a lot.

I thought it was pretty cool. I am a huge White Zombie/Rob Zombie fan and like his stuff with Rob too.

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Michael Stipe and Patti Smith at Patti's annual NYE show at the Bowery in NYC doing Jimmy Webb's "Wichita Lineman".

THIS. THIS IS FREAKIN" AWESOME!

Yes, it is. Something tells me Stipe is going to miss making music more than he lets on. By the way, there's some pretty kick ass stuff happening down in Mexico in Peter Buck land:

[RolanK]

Cool. Heard about this via Steve Wynn's Facebook.

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Cool. Heard about this via Steve Wynn's Facebook.

One of my favorite concerts in recent memory is when The Baseball Project played the Cat's Cradle to around 20-30 of us a couple of years ago. We got some cool covers ("The Ballad of John and Yoko"), tunes from the Dream Syndicate, the Minus Five and others. I sure hope they see fit to play this area again in the near future. One thing that baffles me is why people don't seem to know who Peter Buck is outside of the confines of R.E.M. It seems like all the shows he's done at the Cradle over the years with Robyn Hitchcock, the Minus Five, Tuatura, etc. would have been packed out with R.E.M. fans but other than the two Robyn Hitchcock concerts I've seen there, the attendance was pretty low. Same thing for when Patterson played here with the Screwtopians a few years ago. Certainly, if someone is a fan of the Drive-By Truckers it would stand to reason that they know who Patterson Hood is. By the way, I'm not bitching as that Baseball Project show was intimate to the point of seeming like an open rehearsal, I just don't understand how someone could be a fan of R.E.M. or the Drive-By Truckers yet be completely unfamiliar with who Peter Buck or Patterson Hood are.

[LuthierJustin]

Hank III doing a Cheech & Chong classic

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A study in contrasts. I can appreciate the Move from a historical perspective but that doesn't stop Cheap Trick from absolutely owning this song.

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Three different takes on Goodman and Prine's original, including a version Goodman performed live in light of David Allan Coe's version of the song (which I'd never heard before). In the intro to Prine's version he tells the story of how he came to write the song with Goodman (which I'd also never heard before). In David Allan Coe's version from an old episode of Austin City Limits (which I have heard before) you can see Warren Haynes performing in Coe's band. I saw David Allan Coe for the first time many, many years ago at a club called Night Moves on the Circle in Atlantic Beach, NC (sight of my first beer in a bar, albeit illegal as I was underage at the time). I'm pretty sure this was during the same time period when Haynes was in Coe's band but I've yet to figure out if he was actually at the show I saw. In the interest of spinning a good yarn I usually tell folks he was. I only saw David Allan Coe one more time after that when he played at Roadies in Goldsboro, NC. He was too drunk to perform so he sat on a stool that night. I also seem to remember someone in the crowd pulling out a pistol. Ah, those were the days...

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The Backsliders' version of the Beat Farmers' "Gun Sale At the Church". Not sure where this rendition comes from as it was never on any of their official releases.

[LuthierJustin]

Three different takes on Goodman and Prine's original, including a version Goodman performed live in light of David Allan Coe's version of the song (which I'd never heard before). In the intro to Prine's version he tells the story of how he came to write the song with Goodman (which I'd also never heard before). In David Allan Coe's version from an old episode of Austin City Limits (which I have heard before) you can see Warren Haynes performing in Coe's band. I saw David Allan Coe for the first time many, many years ago at a club called Night Moves on the Circle in Atlantic Beach, NC (sight of my first beer in a bar, albeit illegal as I was underage at the time). I'm pretty sure this was during the same time period when Haynes was in Coe's band but I've yet to figure out if he was actually at the show I saw. In the interest of spinning a good yarn I usually tell folks he was. I only saw David Allan Coe one more time after that when he played at Roadies in Goldsboro, NC. He was too drunk to perform so he sat on a stool that night. I also seem to remember someone in the crowd pulling out a pistol. Ah, those were the days...

David Allen Coe doing Soulshine with Warren on guitar

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When I saw David Allan Coe that first time, it was with a very rockin' band (that also included a couple of his sons) which also leads credence to my Warren Haynes theory. I believe he was touring in support of his Human Emotions album at the time.

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[LuthierJustin]

[Zip City]

so 20 years later, Al finally records a Buck Satan record?