Favourite Covers + Roland Kirk
What's your favourite cover tune? There are quite a few I like a lot, like Boozoo Chavis playing The Twist, and Chris Ardoin playing Papa's got a brand new bag. There is Johnny Winter playing Highway 61 revisited; Johnny Cash singing Nick Lowe's The Beast in Me; Lucinda Williams singing Cold Cold Heart. Johnny Cash singing Gentle on my Mind; Handsome Ned singing Merle Haggard's Silver Wings.
Here's one I found surfing around on You Tube tonight. It's Roland Kirk in Hamburg, playing (and singing) My Girl. I wouldn't know anything at all about Roland Kirk except that I play Go with a fellow who plays Kirk's material quite a bit while we sit down with the Go stones. Mr. Kirk was a fantastic player, and I think you'll really enjoy this video (no accordions, promise).
8 comments:
Johnny Cash singing Nick Cave's "Mercy Seat" and Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme singing "Black Hole Sun" (unbelievably great).
Grand Funk doing The Locomotion. ;)
I recently heard the weirdest thing ever: a gritty and acoustic Johnny Cash covering Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus." Simultaneously creepy and satisfying. It changed the way I'll listen to that song forever. I wouldn't say that's my favorite cover, though. There are some great ones.
He is fantastic.
Looks like Mr. Cash is the big winner so far.....
Probably because he's one of the greatest stylists.
Roland Kirk was great!! Unfortune-ate lee he became more famous while working with Jetro Tull believe it or not!! I can tolerate Tull-but I feel that Roland Kirk was and is great on his own. So many people don't know or worse yet don't care about Roland Kirk's legacy it's mind numbing!! When I was younger I hated all covers because they weren't exact sounding to the recorded versions. Now that I'm older and have been worn down beautifully by music--more often than not the cover can superceed the first!!
STAGG
But what's your favourite cover, Stagg?
Post a Comment