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16 Sep 04 - 02:58 PM (#1273315) Subject: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Eric the Streetsinger We've seen a good number of folk tunes from unexpected sources- what about great pop-rock covers by folk singers? I'm thinking of "Rag-Doll" and "Rave On" by Steeleye Span just now (as they are playing on my "iTunes" player) Also I'm recalling Mary McCaslin's renditions of "Pinball Wizard" (on the banjo! incredible!) and "Set Me Free" |
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16 Sep 04 - 03:21 PM (#1273340) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: alanabit Martin Carthy has done a couple, including Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Nothing Rhymed". |
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16 Sep 04 - 03:23 PM (#1273343) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Clinton Hammond Len Wallace (Accordion god and sometimes Mudcat Guest) does a truly KILLER cover of Taking Care Of Business Mick O'Brien and the Distractions are world-reknown for their cover of "Blister In The Sun" by The Violent Fems... and "Last Kiss" by J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers... Luther Right and the Wrongs redid the whole Pink Floyd album "The Wall" as bluegrass... and it SMOKES! John Hiatt does a great bluegrass version of "I Wanna Be Sedated" by The Ramones -I- cover the hell outa Prince's "When Doves Cry" (Luca Bloom can eat my shorts) and Duran Duran's "View To A Kill"... not to mention "Too Old To Rock N Roll: Too Young TO Die" by Jethro Tull, and "After Midnight" by JJ Cale... Oh... and "Overkill" by Colin Hay (Men At Work)... but no one knows that song but me... heh :-) |
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16 Sep 04 - 03:24 PM (#1273345) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Ernest De Dannan made an album named "Hotel Connemara" covering Pop/Rock songs, then there are the Chieftains with Tom Jones doing "Tennessee Waltz", and propably a lot more someone else will think of... Best Ernest |
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16 Sep 04 - 03:30 PM (#1273351) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Sooz Dave Burland's version of "I don't like Mondays", and Sharon Fountains "Heavy Horses". |
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16 Sep 04 - 04:00 PM (#1273387) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Teresa Battlefield Band's version of "Bad Moon Rising". A collaboration by a bunch of U.S. East coast folk ... _Only Human_ has a neat version of Bruce springsteen's "My Home Town" T |
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16 Sep 04 - 04:19 PM (#1273404) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Mark Ross Dave Van Ronk had a great version of ALLEY OOP with the Hudson Dusters. Mark Ross |
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16 Sep 04 - 04:23 PM (#1273411) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Cluin Hayseed Dixie did a couple of albums of rock tunes done bluegrass style, funny and pretty good too. The first one was a tribute album to AC/DC (how they formed their name). |
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16 Sep 04 - 04:27 PM (#1273415) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Joe Offer Steve Goodman did a great medley of "dead teenager songs," and John McCutcheon regularly does a rock 'n' roll hit or two. It's a nice break from the folk music, and keeps the performer from getting overly serious or sickeningly sincere. I think Beach Boys songs would be particularly good for folk performers. -Joe Offer- |
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16 Sep 04 - 04:48 PM (#1273439) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Clinton Hammond I've heard Garnet Rogers do a wicked cool cover of "Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits... |
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16 Sep 04 - 05:05 PM (#1273457) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: McGrath of Harlow Martin Carthy's Heartbreak Hotel. |
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16 Sep 04 - 05:15 PM (#1273474) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Cluin Dolly Parton singing Stairway to Heaven. (really) |
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16 Sep 04 - 05:18 PM (#1273479) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: GUEST,milk monitor Cluin I REALLY don't want to believe that, say it isn't so. |
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16 Sep 04 - 05:48 PM (#1273499) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: ThreeSheds Norma Watersons version of Solid Air I'd rather hear this version than the original |
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16 Sep 04 - 06:14 PM (#1273522) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Fiona I like Dick Gaughans cover of 'Ruby Tuesday' |
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16 Sep 04 - 06:17 PM (#1273525) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Jim Eldon does Bat out of Hell, and Can't Start a Fire. |
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16 Sep 04 - 06:29 PM (#1273541) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Murray MacLeod Martin Simpson does a great instrumental version on slide guitar of Cat Stevens "The First Cut is the Deepest". There are indeed some rock songs which to the imaginative ear are just crying out for a folkie treatment. These are songs which ideally lend themselves to being played in alternate (alternative) rhythms in open tunings. The one I am working on at the moment is "Whiter Shade of Pale", in Open D, but I have a feeling that Open G may work even better. |
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16 Sep 04 - 06:35 PM (#1273549) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: GUEST,Guest, granny 2 I'm suprised nobody's mentioned Tickled Pink's version of Kraftwerk's "The Model" described by them as a " country & western tango from Dusseldorf" - quite the best thing I've heard in ages! |
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17 Sep 04 - 04:15 AM (#1273820) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: GUEST June Tabor sings Joy Divisions "Love will tear us apart" on the new Big Session CD. |
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17 Sep 04 - 06:40 AM (#1273907) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: GUEST,Gigix Niamh Parsons sings Tom Wait's "The Briar and the Rose", and Mark Knopfler's "Done with Bonaparte". The latter on a different tune. Both great. Luigi |
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17 Sep 04 - 11:52 AM (#1274161) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Steve Parkes Eric Winter, I think it was, used to do Blue Suede Shoes to the tune of The White Cockade! (I've done it myself once or twice, with success.) Someidy else did/does Heartbreak Hotel to the same tune. Steve |
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17 Sep 04 - 12:35 PM (#1274195) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Rain Dog As mentioned earlier, Niamh Parsons does a cover of the Tom Waits song ' The Briar and the Rose ' . This song has also been covered by Cloudstreet , The Cottars , Popcorn Behaviour,The Granary Girls.There is also a cover by Dave Donohoe ( with Niamh Parson on backing vocals ) Dave Donohoe also does a version of 'GRapefruit Moon ' by Tom Waits Solas have done a cover of the Tom Waits song ' Georgia Lee ' . The song has also been covered by Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman. Georgia Lee is a very fine song, well worth listening to even if the subject matter is not the most cheerful. If anyone knows of any covers of Tom Waits by 'folk' artists, please let me know. I am always interested in tracking down covers of his songs. |
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17 Sep 04 - 12:47 PM (#1274207) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: PoppaGator Tom Rush's first (eponymous) album included tunes by both Chuck Berry ("Too Much Monkey Business") and Bo Diddly ("Who Do You Love?"), along with eight or ten of the more traditional folk/blues numbers one would normally expect of a "folksinger." I always enjoyed that album, and thought highly of Rush for recording the songs he enjoyed, regardless of how the "purists" of that era might react. This was in the early-to-mid-60s, at the peak of the "folk revival" and years before Dylan went electric and people began using the phrase "folk-rock." |
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17 Sep 04 - 12:53 PM (#1274212) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Once Famous Cluin, I've heard Dolly's Stairway to Heaven It really was quite OK. she also did "Shine On" which I believe was a U2 song. Somehow she can make anything work. |
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17 Sep 04 - 01:11 PM (#1274223) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Grab Can't believe no-one's mentioned Show of Hands (although they're probably not known much outside the UK). Covers of "First we take Manhattan", "Time after time" and others. Murray, I've arranged "Whiter shade of pale" in drop-D. I've not written it down, but PM me if you want, and I'll send you my version. Though I do say so myself, it works pretty well. (I also do "Sweet dreams" by Eurythmics in open Gm7. :-) Graham. |
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17 Sep 04 - 01:16 PM (#1274230) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Brakn Luke Kelly - Days(the kinks) |
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17 Sep 04 - 02:09 PM (#1274269) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Eric the Streetsinger Murray, I do "Whiter Shade"fingerstyle in open "C", capoed on 4... lets me have a nice segue into "Bad" (U2) that way, and a lovely tune by the Pushstars called "Wild Irish Rose". The trio is one of my favorite set pieces. |
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21 Sep 04 - 04:22 AM (#1277081) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Cluin I never said it was bad, MG. That whole album is pretty good. Since her return to more bluegrass and trad material, I'd like to hear her re-record "Jolene" in a more acoustic and folky trad way, with bluegrass instrumentation. To me, that song always sounded like it had an old-time ballad feel to it. |
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22 Sep 04 - 12:13 AM (#1277944) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: sharyn Swan Arcade did a killer version of "Lola" by the Kinks. |
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22 Sep 04 - 02:07 AM (#1277960) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: alanabit Sting's songs often cover well. I forget which folk singer or group covered "We Work The Black Seam Together", but it sounded very much like a traditional song. Don't forget Johnny Cash's excellent version of "I Hung My Head". Some of these songs could be around for a while. |
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22 Sep 04 - 05:16 AM (#1278038) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Folkien "I'm thinking of "Rag-Doll" and "Rave On" by Steeleye Span" Steeleye also did a version of 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' with David Bowie guesting on sax. Truly awful. |
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22 Sep 04 - 07:06 AM (#1278098) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: alanabit Even the Beatles sounded pretty wet doing "To Know Him Is To Love Him" (ammended slightly to be more gender appropriate). It's a bloody awful song. "Rave On" was great though. I listen to that version often. |
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22 Sep 04 - 07:07 AM (#1278099) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: alanabit Which reminds me of the Arizona Smoke Review's version of Springsteen's "Factory". I always thought that was a gem. It sounds so good a cappella. |
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22 Sep 04 - 09:32 AM (#1278199) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Mrs_Annie Oysterband do 'Road to Nowhere' and 'Rockin' in the Free World' live. The first now recorded on their limited edition CD '25'. |
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22 Sep 04 - 01:03 PM (#1278386) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: GUEST,mandotim Whole album full of old soul classics; The Reel and Soul Association. Kelly While, Thea Gilmore, Maartin Allcock et al. Some really good stuff on here, but my special fave is (Let me rock you in my)Warm and Tender Love, complete with Uillean pipes solo; stunningly pretty playing. Tim |
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22 Sep 04 - 01:25 PM (#1278407) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: shepherdlass Gregson and Collister's "Heard it through the Grapevine". Also Ms Collister's solo version of Fleetwood Mac's "Songbird". Basically the woman has a fantastic blues/soul voice as well as being able to handle traditional stuff with great delicacy. |
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22 Sep 04 - 05:10 PM (#1278606) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Terry Allan Hall Joan Baez covered a few rock tunes...don't recall the album title...wasn't, in my admittedly biased opinion, her finest work, I'm afraid. |
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22 Sep 04 - 06:38 PM (#1278665) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: GUEST,Murkey Back in the late 60s/early seventies, a whole group of people from the English Fairport/Steeleye/Thompson folk-rock scene recorded an album called Rock On under the name, The Bunch. I haven't heard it yet, but it was all covers of classic rock and roll tracks. It was recently reissued by Fledg'ling. I remember that Show of Hands covered Radiohead's 'High and Dry'. And of course Richard Thompson covered everyone from the Who to Squeeze, Abba to Britney Spears on his 'Thousand Years of Popular Music' LP, although you could argue that he moved on from being a folk artist many years ago! I'm pretty sure I read that Norma Waterson covered a Freddie Murcruy song, alongside quite a few other contemporary numbers on one of her solo albums. Love to hear the Oysterband/Tabor take on 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'! |
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22 Sep 04 - 06:44 PM (#1278673) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Chris Green Does it exist?! I'd love to hear it too! |
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22 Sep 04 - 09:40 PM (#1278767) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: YorkshireYankee It's already been mentioned, but Richard Thompson doing "Not That Innocent" is absoloutely brilliant – listening to him sing it made me realise – for the first time – all the irony, scorn, edge – and wit – that can be found in that song. It was amazing! Also, The Four Bobs (an a capella group) doing Purple Haze... totally awesome! YY |
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23 Sep 04 - 10:01 AM (#1279094) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Paco Rabanne Amazing Blondel doing "Paranoid" |
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23 Sep 04 - 11:05 AM (#1279142) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: GUEST,Gadaffi Give Simon Ritchie's new CD 'Squeezebox Schizophrenia' an earful. Everything from 'Sweets for my Sweet' to 'Anarchy in the UK' with a wicked version of Dylan's 'Tangled up in Blue' for good measure. (X-Tradition TMM 1956). John K and Chris Partington managed the Who's 'Squeezebox' at Sidmouth this year. I've often murdered Cliff's 'Travelling Light' unaccompanied, and the Move's 'Flowers in the Rain' at music sessions. I also recall Lawrence Heath dressed as a mole at Bracknell performing a solo jig to Blondie's 'Sunday Girl'. |
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23 Sep 04 - 12:35 PM (#1279199) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: GUEST,Murkey Yeah Thompson's take on 'Oops I Did It Again' is cool (although it always was a good song, old Britney's had a good few great singles!). Rather interestingly he also performs an 'Anonymous fragment from the 13th century, possibly from Brittany, to bring us full circle' entitled 'Marry, Ageyn Hic Hev Donne Yt'. It's at the end of the in concert album, but when I saw him in London he did it straight after 'Oops...'. Amusingly it is somewhat familiar, being more or less the melody to 'Oops I Did It Again'! Goes to show that as much as muisc has evolved it's still basically the same thing! My mate evn heard Thompson's version of 'Oops' played on the radio, although I've yet to find out where, when and why! Personally, I think his takes on Prince's 'Kiss' and Abba's 'Money' are even better. On a similar note, John Martyn does a great cover of Portishead's 'Glory Box' on his Church with One Bell album. |
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11 Oct 05 - 07:23 AM (#1580837) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: GUEST,Roving Gipsy flowers & frolics cover of tom robinson's 'Martin' is cute, from 'reformed Characters" HEBECD002, and Bob Davenport's always coming out with stuff 'live' like 'Poison Ivy' for instance, his recent CD 'The Common Stone' features Brecht & Weill's 'Alabama Song' which most people know from The Doors. |
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11 Oct 05 - 10:49 AM (#1580981) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Mr Fox White Rabbit Wheels on Fire All Along the Watchtower - June Tabor and Oysterband Wildwood - Eliza Carthy (Her version is actually 'poppier' than Paul Weller's original). And, of course, who could forget Bluehorses' version of Led Zep's 'Rock and Roll'? |
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11 Oct 05 - 11:08 AM (#1580996) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker i know someone who does the Clash's White Riot on ukelele.. and i'm sure he would'nt be the 1st to do that.. because punkrock song structures were so obviously influenced by George Formby |
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11 Oct 05 - 12:08 PM (#1581044) Subject: RE: great folk artists cover pop/rock tunes From: Kevin Sheils The Dillards did the Beatles "Yesterday" (not sure which album) and "I've just seen a face" (on Wheatstraw Suite) many years back. They probably did a good few others as well. |