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This song (Because the Night) has been covered by a few different artists but my personal favorite is by Garbage and the Screaming Females. Just skip the first 30 seconds or so....

 
St. Vincent's Latinaires - Roasted or Fried 1972
Willie Bobo & The Bo Gents - Broasted or Fried 1971

There's something about this recording that sets it apart from the original. I can't really explain, just the groove feels deeper in the cover version, maybe an accidental result of the studio recording process, and it's nowhere near as sophisticated as the more jazzy original, but there's a kind of echo between the beats and the horn arrangement which alternate between sounding close up and far away from each other.


 
This series called Imaginational Anthem is up to volume 13. To quote from the label, their intention is to "bring together pioneering acoustic guitar heroes of the 60's and 70's alongside a new generation of amazing players".

They were usually instrumental albums, though I haven't listened to them past Volume 3, except Volume 12, which was a tribute to Michael Chapman by guitarists from Yorkshire UK, and this latest volume is a tribute by North American musicians to the Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn - so it's as much song/lyrics interpretation as guitar variations. I've never listened closely to Cockburn's music but was vaguely aware of him via one or two songs when he had some commercial FM radio airplay sometime in the 1980's - back when most music stations were still on AM radio.

This song called "Fall" is covered by the Powers/Rolin Duo, and not really indicative of their albums which are longer tunes of guitar/dulcimer psychedelic folk melodies. I hadn't heard Matthew Rolin sing before, and his voice is fine, maybe better than most of the contributors on this compilation. I also hadn't heard the original by Bruce Cockburn (I have now), I just had a feeling while hearing one of the verses that it sounded like something familiar, maybe a feeling of something ancient or lost.

Will be checking out more of Cockburn's early 1970s stuff.

 
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Been hitting the Stones lately on my regular revisit, especially the Brian Jones era. Some great old, Brit blues... :thumbsu:
here's a couple of covers that I've been enjoying...
Keith doing what Keith does best....


78 Some Girls tour, stripped down and punky, best version of Just My Imagination
 


I saw this last night and have gone down a rabbit hole with this band from the Netherlands.

Not sure to like them or be disgusted by them they do have some catchy tunes
 
There are/were a lot of tribute album compilations of other band songs. Maybe it peaked in the 90's.

This is from a bunch of groups on New Zealand's Flying Nun label circa 1995 on an album called "ABBASALUTELY".
As this is not my favourite period for bands on this label my bias is towards the older bands on this compilation. 3D's version of "Mamma Mia" is my favourite track, but not really surprising or adventurous in choice or treatment and the Headless Chickens version of "Super Trouper" the least ABBA-like.

Kind of like this Tall Dwarfs version of "On and On and On" as it can be either sincere or cynical with the original lyrics venturing just a tiny bit into socio-political commentary at the beginning.

 
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Sing it Live with Stefan Hauk (on guitar at the back, met him earlier tonight, a really big bloke), Bog Seeger's, "Night Moves".
 
A thoughtful youtuber has put together a playlist of their favourite tunes by 90's NZ garage surf rock band King Loser fronted by "fuzz guitar maestro" Chris Heazlewood.

This is their version of Dick Dale & The Deltones' "Misrilou"

 
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:handpointup: Linked to the above group is Celia Mancini (real name Celia Patel) recording under the name Celia Black & The After Dinner Mints, crooning a version of Bobby Hebb's "Sunny".

 
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Watched the Trump movie The Apprentice today.
One song on there I always thought was a Rollins original,but it's from the 70s a band called Suicide.
Here's Henry ripping it.


Rollins Band also does a slower,heavier version on The Crow soundtrack.
 

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I love this cover even more now than ever before, because AI and digital over-production can learn nothing from it, yet it still stands so tall for over 50 years.
Should we, as Jimmy Page said, just send the machines now out to play in concert in the future?

 
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