Unexpected covers

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

[Jimmy W]

^ and he has gotten even better on that SG.

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

[Landrith]

Charles Bradley performs soulful cover of Black Sabbath's 'Changes'

[Durnik]

perhaps not unexpected, but I found it pleasant..



"youtube.com/watch?v=tEBCNTqJSuc"

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

See how many you can name

[Tom Montgomery]

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The Folksmen - Start Me Up

[Jimmy W]

This has been out several years now, but certainly was unexpected when I first heard it.

Ruthie Foster - War Pigs

[John Meachen]

I stumbled on this and it was nice to hear the fruity sound of a Hammond organ combined with the old monophonic synthesisers.Steve Hillage was a handy guitarist who deserved a bit more fame than he achieved.

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

Drum cover

[AndyG]

I stumbled on this and it was nice to hear the fruity sound of a Hammond organ combined with the old monophonic synthesisers.Steve Hillage was a handy guitarist who deserved a bit more fame than he achieved.

I saw him (and, that night, later also backing the new Gong) in a gig just pre-Covid. The audience? Bit like me, mostly grey or bald. But a fabulous experience. A bucket-list experience and almost the most wonderful for that. An amazing guitarist.

Wish I'd seen Daevid Allen.

Andy

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

I saw him with the late seventies Gong - in Edinburgh.....

Now from 1986.....

[Jimmy W]

So who knew that the Carter sisters and Mother Maybelle ever covered a Chuck Berry song?

June Carter & The Carter Family performing "Thirty Days" (1956)

[Osborne Russell]

Gonna send out a world wide hoodoo
that'll be the very thing that'll suit you

Only when we eradicate every trace of white supremacy from the culture, or at least from our institutions, wiil we be truly free.

[Paul Pless]

[Paul Pless]

[Osborne Russell]

Totally expected, but nevertheless brand new . . . bluegrass.

[Paul Pless]

Totally expected

and this?

[Osborne Russell]

Roots

[Jimmy W]

Due to the popularity of Lead Belly's versions, he is often erroneously cited as the song's author, such as by Kurt Cobain, who introduced Nirvana's 1993 MTV Unplugged rendition as being by his "favorite performer," then telling an anecdote about attempting to purchase Lead Belly's guitar. According to the American folklorist Alan Lomax, Lead Belly learned the song from an interpretation of the 1917 version compiled by Cecil Sharp, and by the 1925 phonograph recording.

[Jimmy W]

Bill Monroe And The Bluegrass Boys Sing "In The Pines"

[Garret]

Gonna send out a world wide hoodoo
that'll be the very thing that'll suit you

Only when we eradicate every trace of white supremacy from the culture, or at least from our institutions, wiil we be truly free.

Now that's a truly unexpected cover! Loved it.

[Tom Montgomery]

FYI, Led Zepplin was succesfully sued for taking writing credits for a number of songs on their first LP that were actually written by others. "Dazed and Confused" was one of them.

[Tom Montgomery]

[Landrith]

Willie Nelson singing Jimmy Cliff's "Harder They Come". An unusual cover, no one can have the energy and unoppressable joy of Jimmy Cliff, but Willie Nelson can communicate the Live In Freedom spirit behind it

[Todd Bradshaw]

A couple I did a while back, just for fun.

https://studio.youtube.com/video/5E6NRFSOQkE/edit

https://www.broadjam.com/songs/toddbradshaw/loch-lomond

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

[McMike]

[Jimmy W]

Still my favorite version of that song.

London Grammar Wicked Game

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

This, I did not expect....

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

And - from the "Keep Portland Weird" group

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

[John Meachen]

The BBC are devoting quite a bit of air time tonight to Carole King and her epic body of work.I wasn't expecting this and I enjoyed it a lot.