I’ve posted on here before about Mike Massé and how I loved his many YouTube videos of him doing cover versions (notably Toto’s Africa) from a pub in Salt Lake City. Partly through me wanting to learn how to play some of those songs I’ve stumbled across a whole world of cover versions on YT and much of it is very well done and hugely enjoyable. Reina del Cid a prime example.
Liking cover artists
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Another opportunity to post a clip of my favourite cover band, Stanley Dee.
(Josie)
I’ve seen the real Dan live twice and that version of Josie is better
Saw Nearly Dan years ago. They were excellent.
Stanley Dee are on holiday until October, but it seems their singer is rather partial to this Becker/Fagen song, recorded here by Luciana Souza.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_RXSv1EncM
(Were You Blind That Day?)
I don’t think Steely Dan have recorded it themselves, so it’s probably not really a cover version.
The Mona Lisa twins do excellent faithful covers of Beatles songs.
That’s fab, to coin a phrase…they do a pretty damfine cover of Friday on My Mind too…
Nice. Prefer this though…
Most times I listen to a folk musician playing / singing, I am listening to a covers artist. The idea of the singer songwriter playing their own stuff is very modern.
I love the idea of just switching on the youtube to find a veritable cornucopia of treasures, but there are way more frogs than Princes. One of my hobbies is finding covers to ‘make’ entire albums of revisioning, over on a blog dedicated to covers. It is sometimes bloody difficult to find anything suitable. Many/most classic albums have at least one song, resolutely uncovered, meaning a trawl through umpteen bedroom yelpers and zillions of dodgy bar bands/ukelele ensembles. Rare to find a pearl.
There’s many a “classic” album that has a track (or two) that neither they nor their fans like.
The tracks that the artists never play live.
Not surprising in such cases that cover versions are hard to find.
Yeah, that Mother’s Lament cover is STILL missing from my Disraeli Gears re-creation.
Heard it twice at Shrewsbury Folk Festival last weekend!
WTF?!
Details please…
Thanks for posting that exquisite Harvest Moon – that’s quite made my day.
👍
A quick YT search for Ron Sexsmith will show hundreds fn solo covers filmed on his laptop from (presumably) various hotel rooms. The quality (of both material and performance) can be variable, but never less than interesting.
Thanks Dougie and Reina del Cid. You just made my evening!
Such a wonderfully gifted band. And the dogs, children and beachlife in the background just add to the charm of the clip.
I hear a stupendous live version of Alfie at the weekend at Vitavbergspark.
Trying to find it, I stumbled across this. What a song!
On a related theme, this is a really nice version of Sweet Baby James. Performed by ‘The Other Favorites’ (Carson McKee and Josh Turner) who appear in the Harvest Moon clip I posted originally. Loads of good stuff from them and Reina del Cid – they often collaborate on each other’s stuff.
The Fab Faux. I’m sure I first heard these guys via this site some years ago:
Slightly off topic but cover bands/tribute artists was one of the topics on the missing vowels round on Only Connect last night:
BJ RNG N
THCN TRF TST NS
DF NTLYM GHTB
FL TW DBC
As I may have mentioned before, I saw Bjorn Again more than any other act (apart from, probably, Boo Hewerdine in various forms). 52 times in my first year. They were/are better than Abba ever were live.
I’ve seen Bjorn Again once, years ago, and I agree that they were great. I’ve never seen ABBA so can’t strictly make the comparison but just the fact that that there was just the four of them with a bass player and drummer impressed me. Any footage of Abba playing live seems to involve about 20 backing musicians/singers.
I once bumped into them at GLR. I was impressed that they bothered to get into all that kit for radio.
I saw them a few times, once encountering the two guys ouside the venue after the show, still in stage costume but talking in their normal Aussie twang. Sounded very odd.
While fiddling about on YouTube last night, I found this Brazilian band called Milk ‘n’ Blues doing a version of Miss You, mixed in with Happiest Days of Our Lives and Another Brick in the Wall:
There are other videos of MnB doing various cover versions.
Coming back to some of the folk in the OP, this is an original song which I unexpectedly love 🙂
Shit, these kids are brilliant!
Good voices and the harmonies are right.
That’s a real crowd-pleaser of a song. The ’60s-’70s-’80s cover band that my oldest friend plays bass in have this in their set. It always goes down well.