Hawkwind, Silver Machine
1972
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Cover day - Jerry Garcia does Jimmy Cliff.
Harder They Come, Jerry Garcia Band, 11-28-7
It’s a wonderful record and a great cover too.
The album fairly overflows with images of greenery and the natural world, as Wienk’s lyrics abound with fiddlehead ferns, waves of seafoam, various forest critters, and romantic beds of pine needles and moss. Throughout the album, however, a dark undercurrent of trouble and dissonance lurks beneath these deceptively placid idylls. (via Fern Knight: Fern Knight: Pitchfork Record Review)
Badfinger, Day After Day
Another top 10/all time song.
Black Rebel Motorocycle Club, Ain’t No Easy Way
These guys clearly want to be rock stars, they think big and far, don’t always succeed but when they do it’s amazing, like this song.
