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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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You can count on bluegrass musicians to take songs from pretty much any genre and put their own spin on it. I even came up with a phrase for that--"they bluegrassed it." Here's one of probably countless examples of that.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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Okay, I'll try to stop for now, but I'm sure I'll be back later. In parting a couple wonderful remakes by the Wailin' Jennys.
Actually this brings up another point. Many musicians perform cover tunes in concert. They don't always get around to recording those songs in studio. In this case the Jennys were regularly including these in concert but put them on vinyl eventually.
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Anne Elk BrontosaurusTheorist
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Anne Elk
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Sun May 26, 2019 9:26 pm
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"There are yahoos out there. It’s why we can’t have nice things." - Tom Mahood
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Always thought Kurt wrote the good Courtney songs. But, really, he just told her which ones to cover.
Credit in the Straight World:
Young Marble Giants
1980
Hole
1994
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FiveNines Member
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The Boss was Blinded a few years before Mr. Mann
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I grew up listening to Thomas Dolby.
I Scare Myself
1984
Just discovered Dan Hicks last year.
Dan Hicks + Hot Licks
I Scare Myself
1969
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FiveNines Member
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Dylan gave away (sold?) more than he kept is probably not a true statement. But still
Sheryl Crow
Mississippi 1998
A few years later in my parents car, listening to Dylan's Love and Theft CD, 2001. "Hey Bob Dylan covers my favorite Sheryl Crow song?"
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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This is one where I much prefer the remake.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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Here's another where I was surprised to find out the version I knew wasn't the original.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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There's probably a ton of Beatles covers. I really like this one (from a Vancouver, BC band).
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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Dwight Yoakam popped up earlier. He's had several nice covers.
What better way to do a cover than to get the original artist to duet with you?
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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Speaking of Gram Parsons (he was a member of the Flying Burrito Brothers), he's probably had quite a few of his tunes covered.
He even covered his own song when Emmylou Harris was in his band. I love the BR549 version though.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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Julie Miller isn't a household name, but she and husband Buddy Miller are behind the scenes superstars. Both write and sing, Buddy produces and does session work as a guitarist, and he was in Emmylou's band for a while.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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Townes Van Zandt is probably mostly forgotten but you've probably heard some of his songs.
This one has been covered numerous times.
I didn't even realize how much this song has been done, everybody has a version of it.
It just keeps going. Mumford and Sons, Lyle Lovett, Guy Clark, Joey+Rory, Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White, and on and on. Just based on the list of people who have covered it, I gotta think this is one of the best country love songs ever written.
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Anne Elk BrontosaurusTheorist
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Mon May 27, 2019 5:04 pm
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OlderthanIusedtobe - That's some good sampling of "Cosmic American Music", as Parsons used to say. 30+ years ago I saw Dwight at Bumbershoot, in the opera house. K.D. Lang and the Reclines opened for him. This was back in the day when she was still largely unknown (but not to me, thanks to my Canada connections). Lang was in her punk cowgirl phase. I thought she put on a better show than Dwight did. She was so high energy she made Dwight's performance look like he was bored and just trying to get thru it. Many of my faves in your posts.
"There are yahoos out there. It’s why we can’t have nice things." - Tom Mahood
"There are yahoos out there. It’s why we can’t have nice things." - Tom Mahood
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