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Best Covers of 2009
Posted: Thursday, November 26, 2009 - 01:55
OK, so we are driving from Ohio to Illinois to celebrate the best holiday of the year with family. My wife pops in a new CD. First I groan. Then I listen. The first two songs - Wild Horses and I Dreamed a Dream) blow me away and are instantly my favorite covers of the year. The CD is Susan Boyle's debut recording after coming in second on Britain's Got Talent.
The rest of the CD doesn't carry the weight of the opening tunes. After you're done laughing at me, download them from Itunes. It will be a great $2 investment.
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The Rolling Stones Wild Horses? 25
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"I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in" - Tom Waits
Right now, I'm absolutely in love with Jim James' George Harrison cover album called Tribute To. He covers "Long, Long, Long", "Behind That Locked Door", "Love You To", "My Sweet Lord", "Sir Frankie Crisp", and "All Things Must Pass". You can listen at www.yimyames.com.
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Team Avett #36
lildeadhead: that pen she uses to keep her setlists? it's a human-finger bone. dipped in the blood of the ones who yell out during "murder in the city". poetic, no?
Ray LaMontagne's "Crazy" is right up there for me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mEfDSP4g_U
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Give the love you find until it's gone
Have you heard The Abrams Brothers cover of Coldplay's "Viva la Vida?" I think of them as the Canadian bluegrass Jonas Bros, but the song is cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbydSxfYaLg&feature=player_embedded
Artist.....Emory Joseph
Album.....Fennario
an entire album of Garcia/Hunter covers.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth--Walt Whitman
Obadiah Parker's "Hey Ya" cover has to be my favorite Its not from 2009 but it still deserves a mention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-8nkkOA_AM
I've not heard many new covers from this year. But Now You See Them did a great rendition of Shame last weekend, and here is one of the best covers ever, although it is several years old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSkP3uym5k
My mom was talking about how much she liked Susan Boyle's cover of Wild Horses.
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@enjoicashwell....I have that on my iPod. I love that version. Check out The Gourds version on Snoop Doggs Gin and Juice. Quite refreshing indeed.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth--Walt Whitman
David Rawlings & Gillian Welch have done this song live for years, and I think sang and played on the original? Finally...shows up on his new release!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTpTLmsTWD0
didn't he co-write that with Ryan Adams?
Yep, WillComply. Gillian did the backing vocals.
Y'all have to get the Dave Rawlings Machine record. Quite a few great covers on it.
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Team Avett #36
lildeadhead: that pen she uses to keep her setlists? it's a human-finger bone. dipped in the blood of the ones who yell out during "murder in the city". poetic, no?
ldh,
going to see him tomorrow night in athens with members of OCMS. super-stoked!
There is a great Willie Nelson covers album by Phosphorescent if you are into Wille Nelson that is....
www.myspace.com/phosphorescent
The Flaming Lips - Holiday (yes, the Madonna tune) So good! Hearing Jason Isbell do a blistering cover of Big Star's When My Baby's Beside Me live a few weeks back was also a real treat.
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"Rock & Roll means well, it just can't help telling young boys lies." Mike Cooley