Your Favorite Cover Versions

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: Mr Red
Date: 19 Sep 18 - 05:22 AM

French Traditional Dancing - anything by Parasol. Not the Bostonian one - but they do cover versions!



I'll get my umbrella...........

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: gillymor
Date: 19 Sep 18 - 06:45 AM

Judy Collins covering Ian Tyson's "Someday Soon". Still one of the best recordings I've ever heard.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: gillymor
Date: 19 Sep 18 - 07:01 AM

and Leo Kottke covering Merle Haggard's "Lonesome Fugitive".

Loretta Lynn "Walking After Midnight".

John Miller covering Bob Wills/Tommy Duncan's "Time Changes Everything" .

Emmylou Harris " One of these Days" and "Pancho and Lefty".

New Riders covering the Stones "Dead Flowers"

Rosie Flores ultra-sexy reading of Dylan's "Tonight I'll be Staying Here With You"

I could go on.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: gillymor
Date: 19 Sep 18 - 07:11 AM

Flying Burritto Brothers covering Haggard's "Sing Me Back Home".

Grateful Dead covering John Phillip's "Me and My Uncle" and Haggard's "Mama Tried".

Plus L. Bernstein did a good job on Beethoven's nine symphonies.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Sep 18 - 08:10 AM

Richard Thompson's Oops I Did It Again

:D

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: gillymor
Date: 19 Sep 18 - 08:49 AM

The RT version doesn't work for me, not enough twerking and his garb is not revealing enough.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Sep 18 - 08:57 AM

Needs to take his hat off?

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: gillymor
Date: 19 Sep 18 - 09:05 AM

That's not the kind of skin the fans want to see.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: GUEST,Pete from seven stars link
Date: 19 Sep 18 - 01:18 PM

Frigid pink - house of the rising sun.            The bonnier rait cover was a nice blues, arrangement , tunesmith

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: GUEST,lefthanded guitar
Date: 20 Sep 18 - 11:55 PM

This is a great topic. I find I' m often playing those alternative cover versions
of familiar songs- and these reinterpretations bring new meaning
to the originals.

I could probably name dozens, but I' ll mention just a half dozen
favorite covers for now:

Whiskey in the Jar- Jerry Garcia and David Grisham

Killing the Blues - Robert Plant and Alison Kraus

Pilgrim - Emmy Lou Harris

Sugaree - Danny Kalb

Corrina, Corinna - Bob Dylan


And I wish I could remember the name of the person who recommended this song
on another thread some while ago - I 'd like to thank them for adding this
wonderful song to my playlist-

(Dylan's) Dark Eyes by Judy Collins

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: David Carter (UK)
Date: 21 Sep 18 - 02:42 AM

This is not a commercial cover, its on youtube though, but check out Steve Gadd's (no, not that one, a really good New Zealand guitarist) cover of Katherine Parker's Down Longford Way (a piano piece better known for Grainger's orchestral arrangement).

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: GUEST,LynnH
Date: 21 Sep 18 - 03:30 AM

June Tabor & Oyster Band: Love will tear us apart again

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: GUEST,Guest Tim
Date: 22 Sep 18 - 04:23 AM

Joe Cocker, little help from my friends
blood sweat and tears, Fire and Rain, absolutely brilliant

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: Elmore
Date: 22 Sep 18 - 09:57 AM

Mart Fahl, Clouds.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: JMB
Date: 24 Sep 18 - 07:29 PM

Johnny Cash covering Rowboat by Beck among other songs he did on American II: Unchained.

I heard Travis Tritt do his rendition of I Walk The Line on the tribute show the week Johnny passed, as well as John Mellancamp doing Hey, Porter! Very much different from the original. Wouldn't say they surpassed Johnny.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: Elmore
Date: 24 Sep 18 - 08:18 PM

Correction. Mary Fahl Clouds {Joni Mitchell}.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Sep 18 - 08:52 PM

One of my longtime faves is an old (1920s) number: "Ain't No Sweet Man Worth the Salt of My Tears."" It's sung from a woman's point of view but in the link it is sung by a man, who I understand is a young Bing Crosby singing with Bix Beiderbecke. He does a brilliant and well-timed version with I presume, early scat singing. And it's a good song. I can listen to it time after time there's so much in there.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 25 Sep 18 - 03:47 PM

If that's Bing Crosby singing "There Ain't No Sweet Man Worth The Salt Of My Tears", who the hell sang "White Christmas" because it sure doesn't sound anything like the guy from 1929.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: Elmore
Date: 28 Sep 18 - 03:22 PM

The Drifters?

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: Rob Naylor
Date: 01 Oct 18 - 09:58 AM

Bonzo dog Doo Dah Band's version of Doc Pomus and Mort Schuman's "Suspicion" :

Suspicion

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: MickyMan
Date: 01 Oct 18 - 07:35 PM

Hendrix brought Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower" to a much higher place!

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: John C. Bunnell
Date: 02 Oct 18 - 02:20 AM

I'm now officially fascinated; I just did a bit of Googling prior to mentioning one of my own, and what should I find but a nice bit of expert validation, in the form of a commentary with YouTube links, supported a conclusion I've held all along.

Namely, that John Denver's cover of the Steve Gillette/Scott Campbell "Darcy Farrow" is the best of all the versions, not excepting various of Gillette's own. [As it turns out, the Denver performance linked on the above-noted page is blocked; here is a replacement link.]

Now, having said that, I should add that there are a good half dozen recordings on the linked page that are brand new to me, and some of those are very nice indeed. But I think I'm always going to like John Denver's the best....

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: Rob Naylor
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 08:22 AM

Flats and Sharps' version of "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?":

Flats and Sharps - Will You Still Love Me

Or Cardboard Fox's version of "Don't Think Twice It's Alright":
Carboard fox - Don't Think Twice"

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Cover Versions
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 10:44 AM

Bernie Leadon's "Run C&W" did some fansatic bluegrass covers of Soul/R&B material.
Here's their take on "Walkin' the Dog".

The Eagle meets R&B