Janis Joplin - Summertime
Stunning version, to me this is Janis Joplin at her best.
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Amarante - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Acoustic pop cover of The Smiths, so nicely done.
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Diana Krall - Simple Twist of Fate
Bob Dylan Cover
People tell me it’s a sin to know and feel too much within
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Phish - Loving Cup (Rolling Stones cover)
Bob Dylan was a remarkable lyricist, obviously, but even after listening to him thousands of times one is still struck by the power of his simple phrasing, even the way he uses syllables. The opening line to Visions of Johanna - “Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re tryin’ to be so quiet?” - is phrased as a simple question, yet if you have ever had insomnia you’ve asked this question a million times over and over.
Van Morrison had this ability too - his greatest love song begins with an exquisite declaration of everlasting life: “We were born before the wind, also younger than the sun.”
Lou Reed too: “Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.”
So why don’t we often think about Jagger/Richards - as rock songwriters they were almost unparalleled. But as lyricists we don’t often put in the same league as Dylan et al. I think that’s because they primarily wrote about being the Stones. Not about being people, individuals, but about being the Glimmer Twins, the greatest band in the world, sticky fingers and let it bleed and all the stray cats they could devour.
Oh what a beautiful buzz
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Iron & Wine with Calexico - All Tomorrow’s Parties
Drop dead gorgeous rendition of the Velvet Underground classic. What makes this cover so special is that it’s the perfect merger of two distinct styles - the whisper-like folk of Iron & Wine and the desert-noir stylings of of Calexico. Sounding like he almost can’t get the words out due to their heartbreak, Sam Beam lingers along, slowly and tentatively, until being pulled in by the horns Calexico adds to the mood. But when they do, he starts humming, then laying into the last verse, where the heartache is multiplied, by the words and the harmonies, until the song ends, finally.
For Thursday’s child is Sunday’s clown, for whom none will go mourning
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Neko Case - Buckets Of Rain
Bob Dylan cover.
Life is sad, life is a bust. All ya can do is do what you must.You do what you must do and ya do it well
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Patti Smith - After the Gold Rush
A stately, respectful cover of the Neil Young Classic, from her new record
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Indigo Girls - Blister in the Sun
Violent Femmes cover, we listened to this song alot back in the day
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The Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze
The Isley Brothers kick the ass of Seals & Crofts for cover friday.
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Nirvana - Here She Comes Now
Velvet Underground cover. Nirvana puts a quaalude-type spin on this song that releases into an epic denouement, in an early demo of theirs. Man he could sing; just amazing.
