Subject: really different covers

Date: Sun Oct 23 11:41:52 2022
User: TNmountainman
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Yeah, he sorta got better. LOL. He's been touring a lot with world-class dobroist Rob Ickes the last few years. Including this performance. Coincidentally...........this is the very first song "my boy" Billy played when I first experienced him. Billy's vocal chops are far superior. And technically, this is not a "really different cover", I just think it's a train-of-thought thing. Not to mention, this is quite smokin'.

Link: A grown-up Trey Hensley showing off

Date: Sun Oct 23 12:00:31 2022
User: TNmountainman
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Actually............"upon further review"............if one backs up cellmate's original linking from Oct. 8 a couple of minutes, he mentions Trey a couple of times in the intro to beginning to play that guitar.

Date: Sun Oct 23 23:58:29 2022
User: cellmate
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the B Bender didn't really catch on love those bluegrass acoustic flatpickers

Date: Wed Nov 9 02:42:17 2022
User: HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
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I'll let you decide how different the link is from the original. The original in Greek: https://youtu.be/51yEOnDc3tE

Link: Duman cover in Turkish

Date: Tue Nov 15 14:11:05 2022
User: BuzzClik
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This is new stuff from Bruce. His new album is a mix of soul and gospel covers. This one isn't necessarily all that different from a production standpoint, but it is certainly a departure for The Boss. The original from Frank Wilson: https://youtu.be/xwvpeYiQwss

Link: Bruce Springsteen, "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)

Date: Tue Dec 20 05:06:30 2022
User: TNmountainman
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I hesitate to post this, because the video and audio quality are not top-shelf, but it sure fits the thread title - and it's weird and (way) interesting. "My boy" Billy (as Billy the Kid) chose to spend Halloween in Asheville again (I didn't attend), but some great/incredible stories out of his shows (he did 3 consecutive nights - again, with a different stage set each night). Like much craziness, not surprisingly. Much hope among the attendees that they'll put out a concert video or album or something. Supposedly no way to appreciate what it was like live. Which of course if often true, but apparently this was way past the standard on that. I'll let listeners follow their little noses to see more, if interested, such as "Battle for Evermore", "Ramble On" (not bad at all), and others. After all, Halloween is about taking on alternate identities, right? Some seem to think it was an almost transcendent experience - all the phases and transitions he and band(s) went through, and Billy was just apparently overwhelmed at the end of it all. Some say the best, or among the best, shows they've ever seen: https://www.reddit.com/r/BillyStrings/comments/zepr6j/were_the_asheville_halloween_shows_the_best_ever/

Link: "Billy the Kid" goes all metal 'n' stuff

Date: Mon Jan 9 14:50:13 2023
User: BuzzClik
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This one is not all that different from the original, but the differences are interesting. The original "Cookin' at the Continental" was written by h Horace Silver originally recorded in 1959: https://youtu.be/aoLP_US4Bxc A fantastic cover/tribute was arranged by Mike Abene for the GRP All-Star Big Band in 1994: https://youtu.be/xUIU4-dhaA0 In mid-2022, as part of his first studio recording in a decade, Lyle Lovett and his Large Band covered this jazz classic and the cut leads off the new album, "12th of June." The arrangement surprised me with its adherence to the original with some really fun additions solos by slide guitar and fiddle.

Link: Lyle Lovett, "Cookin' at the Continental"

Date: Fri Jul 28 05:12:25 2023
User: TNmountainman
Message:

Dolly does Queen - and the Olympics - at the same time:

Dolly Parton - We Are The Champions/We Will Rock You (Official Music Video) - YouTube

Date: Thu Sep 7 09:35:20 2023
User: HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
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Måneskin - Beggin'

The original: The Four Seasons

Date: Thu Sep 7 15:44:06 2023
User: TNmountainman
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It's debatable, I guess, how "really different" this is, but after several second and third thoughts, here it is.  In any event, it's a nice groove, and an unexpected cover:

MY SWEET LORD by Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley - YouTube

Date: Thu Nov 23 22:52:12 2023
User: TNmountainman
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I already mentioned Dolly covering Queen (3 posts back), so this is more about Dolly showing off her 77-yr. old figure - I guess.  Thought about putting this in a sports thread, but that definitely wouldn't fit properly.  You go girl:

https://sports.yahoo.com/dolly-parton-wears-dallas-cowboys-234740617.html

Date: Thu Jan 4 13:34:49 2024
User: HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
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Miss You, The Happiest Days of Our Lives, Another Brick in The Wall

Brazilians from Curitiba

Date: Thu Jan 4 14:05:02 2024
User: BrewCrewOldSkool
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Speaking of Dolly reminds me of her sister, who did a few interesting things in her career as well.

Date: Fri Jan 5 00:13:59 2024
User: lightfield
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Gotta look up Dolly's sister. what's her name?

Date: Fri Jan 5 09:27:39 2024
User: outskirts
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Crystal Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue Gayle.

Date: Fri Jan 5 12:04:54 2024
User: BuzzClik
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Errr.... what?

Date: Fri Jan 5 12:23:08 2024
User: TNmountainman
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The harpist in the video Hop linked above, Indiara Sfair, is considered world-class. She also does some duets/duo stuff with the guitar guy, Tiago Juk. Her style seems slightly 'theatric'(?) to me, but that's just my own personal taste (which is more blues-oriented). Lots of her on the 'net, for those who want to hear more of her prominently featured, but I'll leave it for each to follow their nose for those examples.

Indiara Sfair Pushes the Creative Possibilities of the Harmonica (mymodernmet.com)

Date: Sat Jan 6 10:31:18 2024
User: outskirts
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Aretha covers Question Mark

or

Queen of Soul covers Rudy Martinez

https://youtu.be/Mn3L7QRYuf4?si=Mz2Os82TQg6xNQbg 

Date: Tue Feb 6 04:14:28 2024
User: HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
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Can it get any better than this one when you only have one guitar at your disposal?

Date: Tue Feb 6 09:50:11 2024
User: outskirts
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Hop, you have good taste in music 🎵😄

Date: Tue Feb 6 11:05:00 2024
User: MikeC
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 Long live Rock !  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jm0aMwf6O8

Date: Thu Feb 8 16:38:27 2024
User: GoAdoptADog!
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Here’s an odd cover but anyone ever see the clip of Jessica Lange covering Bowie’s Life on Mars?  ..I love it.    It was for a show, American Horror Story. Only watched a few seasons AHS and didn’t like that one, but adored her cover. Apparently she didn’t need direction, I read somewhere she just showed up that day and did her thing. Folks liked it so much the show creator made it available on iTunes.

Here’s a link to vid: https://youtu.be/2zX0lxiM8Xo?feature=shared

I also LOVE the Fiona apple cover of the Beatles’ Across The Universe she did for the movie Pleasantville.    My fave director, P.T. Anderson, directed the music vid:  

 https://youtu.be/CmlnO1EwCT4?si=d_OM2sNGvrtikZ6J

 I’d *normally* not accept a cover of either of these already great songs, but I love them both.

Date: Thu Feb 8 17:01:29 2024
User: GoAdoptADog!
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Just rewatched the F. Apple cover, man it’s so good. She’s such a badass, imo. And PTAs vid is a beautiful way to encompass that song. Akin to a prayer you can watch. And a nice lift for those days when the world seems a bit divisive.

Date: Thu Feb 8 17:10:00 2024
User: BuzzClik
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The Fiona Apple cover certainly made a splash. My son received a bit on an eyebrow raise when he proclaimed to me that it was much better than the Beatles' original. 

The Jessica Lange cover was, as you said, odd. It might have sprung from someone telling Lange: "I want you to sing that song as if you are Madeline Kahn channeling Marlene Dietrich."

Back to Pleasantville: I never watched it, and I was surprised to see Jenny Lewis as part of the cast. I have only known Lewis from her singing career with Rilo Kiley and as a solo artist. 

Date: Thu Feb 8 17:37:25 2024
User: GoAdoptADog!
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Why are you surprised to see Jenny, Buzz? She’s also a badass! She prob liked the movie’s themes. You should watch. We have similar tastes I think and it’s a beautiful film. For the time especially, I thought it was great. Is still great, imo. Not too heavy but not as cheesy as it looks. 

Has a beautiful message, basically to shatter small mind sets and learn to embrace that which lie outside the norm, which has been done many times yes, but I never tire of it bc it’s a good one. 

I’ll prob rewatch today. And listen to Fiona & Jenny, ha. Thnx for reminder on Rilo Kiley. Haven’t listened to either in a while but both played major parts in soundtrack of my teens /early 20s.

Ps, to your son’s credit, I’ve known musicians who felt cringey to say they like her cover as much as og. It does feel like heresy to ever declare a Beatles cover as better than theirs, esp a deep one like this.. It’d be diff if it were poppy-maxwells silver hammer or similar. But Apple held her own w this, folks have to give it to her. + I don’t think she was so bold to try for better or even as good, but as a nod to a song she loves. Glad she wasn’t intimidated to try. But what can you expect, it’s why she’s a badass.

PSS- had a roommate whose sis looked near identical to Fiona. Also know a pretty decent Lewis doppelgänger. Life must have conjured them based on playlists, ha.