A DATE WITH THE EVERLY BROTHERS
One the projects I recently backed on Kickstarter is The Chapin Sisters’ tribute to the Everly Brothers project.
Covers, which I like, of music I like, i.e the Every Brothers.
Double Win! Going for the hat trick for supporting independent artists.
Crazy for Covers
I’ve been a Kate Bush fan for a long time. How long? I’ve got a good chunk of her work on vinyl.
So a cover album of Kate Bush tunes would definitely catch my ear. It’s called I WANNA BE KATE: The Songs of Kate Bush
No big name artists, just musicians tipping their own style of hat to Kate Bush, who, like Sinatra, definitely did it her way.
One of my favorites is The J Davis Trio rendition of “There Goes a Tenner.”
Kate Bush has done just a couple of covers, but my favorites is her version of Rocket Man on this tribute album: Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin
Crazy for Covers
As I have mentioned, I like a good cover song, and if you do too, check out the Crazy for Covers channel on Rhapsody.
Last time I wrote about covers, I mentioned two covers of the Clash tune, Train in Vain.
Here is another one, by Susan & the Surftones, the surf music style cover album of Clash tunes, Charlie does Surf.
Cover Songs: Train in Vain
My music taste runs pretty wide. That’s probably a reason why I enjoy a good cover tune as much as do.
Today, let’s take a look at the song, Train in Vain, made famous by the Clash.
There are a couple of good covers of this song.
Those are the ones by Annie Lennox & Dwight Yoakam.
Both are from dedicated cover song albums, Medusa and Under The Covers respectively.
In both cases, the artists are covering songs that influenced them and are not trying to replicate the sound of the original.
They are putting their own unique style on the song, and it is a better song for it.