I have a huge collection of weirdly named mp3 files that I’ve collected from computer to computer, transferring from one library to another, over and over until I have no idea what they are or where they came from. I still have mix tape cassettes that Hubby and I made one another in college, despite not having a cassette player. I imagine the mystery mp3s are like the digital version of the dusty box of mix tapes I still keep – I have those songs for a reason, but hell if I know what they are by looking at the name.
So while cleaning I put the whole bundle on “random” and this one came up early: Bruce Hornsby and Bela Fleck covering “Tangled Up in Blue” by Bob Dylan. I love this cover. Love.
Photographer Mark Head did a sort of digital mix-tape of his favorite photographs from 2014 set to this song, if you’d like to hear it:
It’s a long cover – nearly 10 minutes – and for awhile the piano and banjo are doing cool bluesy things, then it gets really ethereal, and then it gets waaaay out there. I love it. I get chills every time I hear it.
What about you? What are some of your favorite covers to listen to? I hope your weekend is full of wonderful sounds and moments.
I saw Bruce Hornsby last year at a local small venue. Just him and his piano. Didn’t play this one, but did “Valley Road” Grateful Dead style. He’s still as great as ever.
This might be too Canadian for others to appreciate, but I love the Barenaked Ladies cover of Bruce Cockburn’s Lovers in a Dangerous Time. I have lived in the U.S. For over 20 years now, but this early ’90s nostalgia brings me right back home to Canada – particularly the music video, with the scenes of street hockey and the streets that look like my old neighbourhood. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k_oOc3Zj0KU
I’m not big on concerts (loud! crowded! loud and crowded!) but I’d go see him perform in an instant. That sounds amazing.
https://goo.gl/KKrgFu
I like this.
@SB Sarah: It was fabulous. Everything from “The Way it Is” to jazz to Broadway to bluegrass. The man has no musical boundaries.
We have an old movie palace type theater with a stage and balcony that was converted to a music venue. Only seats a few hundred people, but they have some great shows. Gordon Lightfoot’s scheduled for early next year and I’ve asked Santa for tickets.
Very nice cover! I know all the words to this Dylan tune, but sadly am pretty much completely tone deaf. As for covers, I used to be very into them, having made numerous cassette mixes of them. I find the best ones are often songs no one knows are covers (Aretha Franklin covered “Respect,” most of the songs the Beatles did early on — check out BACKBEAT for nice covers of, um, their covers) or that take songs in a new direction (Tori Amos’ “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” the Cure’s “Hello, I Love You,” and Tracy Chapman’s jazzy, up-tempo cover of “House of the Rising Sun.” And Dwight from THE OFFICE wasn’t wholly wrong when he said everything sounds better acoustic.
And for another Dylan cover, here’s Miley Cyrus doing a very good rendition of “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome when You Go” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2wvaWTTmz8
Tom Waits’ version of Sea of Love sounds like Satan’s love song.
https://youtu.be/DyBCXrVMa48
Jeff Buckley’s Mama You’ve Been on My Mind is awesome.
https://youtu.be/occPOuzLZuU
Dala does Ohio and Find the Cost of Freedom together. So good. Sorry, can’t find a great video of it. It’s on Cinnamon Girl…
http://www.amazon.com/Cinnamon-Girl-Women-Artists-Cover/dp/B000Y2WAYI
Anything Eva Cassidy covered. Anything.
My favorites are Fields of Gold and Time After Time.
https://youtu.be/KWvPOJOYqGA
https://youtu.be/3DWg7zNOyK8
Oh, oh! And People Get Ready!
https://youtu.be/bzLd2MDAHK8
Tori Amos’ I Don’t Like Mondays
https://youtu.be/XirdPLIo7QU
Taken by Trees doing Sweet Child O’ Mine is weird and wonderful.
https://youtu.be/fNtLIvCki1I
And… And…
Yeah, I could go on all night. Covers are my jam.
The stunningly beautiful cover of Radiohead’s “Creep” by the Belgian girls chorus Scala used in the brilliant trailer for The Social Network gives me chills every time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RB3edZyeYw
One of the best movie trailers ever made, in large part because of the song.