Okay.....So I didn't know what else to call this thread. The idea came to me while reading another thread and I got to thinking about it.

Some songs, no matter the genre, might almost be described as the property of one artist/performer. Not because they wrote it, although they might have, but because they made the definitive (if there is such a thing) recording. Then along comes some other artist who might just cover it OR, and this is what I am talking about, they might do it in a way that is so different that you are taken aback and hear what might have been one of your favorites as if its a totally new song.

Know what I mean? If not, here are two examples.......The first is Paul Simon's "American Tune" with Paul only playing guitar and the song being done by Willie Nelson. When I saw this on TV my reaction was the same as the studio audience who gave a standing ovation.

The other as an example is the George Jones C-W hit, "She Thinks I Still Care" done by a good friend of his from a far different world, Harry Connick, Jr.

Willie and "American Tune"

Harry doing "She Thinks I Still Care"

Get the idea? Got anything?


Spaw