Covers

[LeakyValve]

Haven't posted some Angie for quite a while.

First clip music starts about 50 seconds in.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Black Magic Woman – The original.



Black Magic Woman – The Cover



Black Magic Woman – The Cover of the Cover.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Song: Tobacco Road

Originally written and recorded by John D. Loudermilk. Released in 1960



The original sunk without making an impact but other artists had success with it.

Lou Rawls from 1963:




Nashville Teens in 1964:




Jefferson Airplane from 1966:




Edgar Winter from 1970




Supposedly the last time Jimi Hendrix played on stage too. Pretty rough recording

 

[Fossie 32]

Song: Tobacco Road

Originally written and recorded by John D. Loudermilk. Released in 1960



The original sunk without making an impact but other artists had success with it.

Lou Rawls from 1963:




Nashville Teens in 1964:




Jefferson Airplane from 1966:




Edgar Winter from 1970




Supposedly the last time Jimi Hendrix played on stage too. Pretty rough recording

Interesting! I like the Nashville Teens version best but like how Lou Rawls sings it - can hear the lyrics better.

So many covers!
Frijid Pink

Rare Earth

Eric Burdon - later did 13 -14 minute versions

 

[CrowsB4hoes]

 

[LeakyValve]

That was quite impressive by Patti. Takes a fair bit of raw energy to sing something like that that well.
And I had no idea Bill Nighy knew how to handle a guitar.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

You keep Me Hanging On.
Original

Cover - This is the one I spent hours listening to with my brother in our bedroom.

Cover

Cover

Cover

 

[Fossie 32]

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Rolling Stones - Child of the Moon, B Side to the Jumpin' Jack Flash single




Yung Wu version from 1987 (Yung Wu was a side project for members of The Feelies)

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

12 in one.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Henry Thomas. The lyrics were changed but the music remains.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Song: Season of the Witch

Original version by Donovan recorded in 1966




Lots of solid covers done over the years.

Julie Driscoll from 1968:



Great version also from 1968 by Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper and Stephen Stills




Donovan apparently loved this 1969 take by Lou Rawls




More recently: Lana Del Rey from 2019

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Song: Season of the Witch

Original version by Donovan recorded in 1966




Lots of solid covers done over the years.

Julie Driscoll from 1968:



Great version also from 1968 by Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper and Stephen Stills




Donovan apparently loved this 1969 take by Lou Rawls




More recently: Lana Del Rey from 2019

The Julie Driscoll album with Season of the Witch, was the very first LP I ever bought. Still one of my favourites.

 

[zill]

Here is one of Bon Scott's early bands, Fraternity.



Original by Blackfeather

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Just in case you don't know, this is Molly Tuttle. "She's A Rainbow."

 

[The Dice Man]

Just in case you don't know, this is Molly Tuttle. "She's A Rainbow."

Excellent right hand.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Excellent right hand.

I posted a shorter version of this earlier. In this version she explains her playing technique. You can really see her right hand in this clip.
White Freight Liner Blues by Willie Van Zandt.
What a talent, wonderful voice (listen to them big trucks whine) and boy can she play a guitar. International Bluegrass Music Association’s Guitar Player of the Year.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Cover of a Syd Barrett song from his Madcap Laughs album

 

[endure]

Can't go past Time After Time by Miles Davis in terms of a sincere and subtle execution.

 

[Fossie 32]

Henry Thomas. The lyrics were changed but the music remains.

Jimmy Page, hold my beer!

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

A few Bob Dylan covers

Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Going Going Gone which was on Dylan's Planet Waves album




The Dream Syndicate - Blind Willie McTell, an unreleased (at the time of this cover) Dylan song




Yo La Tengo - I Threw It All Away which was on Nashville Skyline

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

New Order covered reggae artist Keith Hudson's Turn The Heater On, for The Peel Sessions. Apparently it was one of Ian Curtis' favourite songs and this was a tribute of sorts

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

I really like this George Michael cover. Nice harmonica.

 

[stax on the mull]

Minor trivia. This album also has the original version of "Free The People" that was a minor hit for Sherbet in Australia. Never was a Sherbet fan so it put me off listening to it a second time until about 15 years after I brought the CD re-issue on Water Records, but its actually an above average country rock singer-songwriter album with some great vocals and musicianship on a couple of tracks including this cover of "AATW". "Detroit to Buffalo" is another one I really like - which has also been covered.


Something that's been out about a year that I got last week on cassette - An album of mellow spacey Sun Ra Covers by the Bitchin' Bajas