It's not all about songwriting. An important part of being an artist is sometimes knowing the right song to cover. This is for the covers that you dig, that you're glad the artist took the time and energy to do a song they didn't write. Or, to just compare cover versions to the original.
Was surprised to hear her cover this song from 1967 by Donovan. I think she captured the spirit of it in a modern vein. His original, from the album A Gift From A Flower To A Garden, is here:
Link _________________ May we all get to heaven
'Fore the devil knows we're dead...
Sorry, haven't got time to add YouTube videos, but I think the classic one for me is Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
Or The Beatles doing Twist And Shout or Money.
A fun one, from the UK, is Dr & The Medics, with Spirit In The Sky.
And one that is good, is Smashing Pumpkins cover of The Cure's A Night Like This.
With James Iha on vocals. I really dig that one.
Here's four that jump out at me this morning, only the first of which is widely known:
I catch some heat for this, but continue to stand by it: I think Disturbed brought necessary tension-driven energy into The Sound of Silence and a song that never reached me in the past, suddenly did in a very big way.
Even more surprising to me, as someone who tends to dismiss country out of hand, was how I took to Dolly Parton's cover of Collective Soul's shine. Of course Dolly is a highly accomplished songwriter in her own right, but when she decides to cover another's, she seems to choose well.
Today's jazz vocal post included a recent discover of a pop classic that really had only one master introduced me to another. Bacharach was a great songwriter and Dionne Warwick owned some of his songs, especially Walk On by. But last night I also fell in love with Jazz Singer Sue Raney's cover. She stays true to form but still makes it her own, fitting to her voice and style. It won't displace Dionne's version, but it is a most worthy addition to the canon.
Justni Hayward is another brilliant writer of his own material, but one who did a few covers along the way. I think his take on Hall and Oates's "I'm Sorry" is a massive upgrade.
Here's four that jump out at me this morning, only the first of which is widely known:
I catch some heat for this, but continue to stand by it: I think Disturbed brought necessary tension-driven energy into The Sound of Silence and a song that never reached me in the past, suddenly did in a very big way.
Even more surprising to me, as someone who tends to dismiss country out of hand, was how I took to Dolly Parton's cover of Collective Soul's shine. Of course Dolly is a highly accomplished songwriter in her own right, but when she decides to cover another's, she seems to choose well.
Today's jazz vocal post included a recent discover of a pop classic that really had only one master introduced me to another. Bacharach was a great songwriter and Dionne Warwick owned some of his songs, especially Walk On by. But last night I also fell in love with Jazz Singer Sue Raney's cover. She stays true to form but still makes it her own, fitting to her voice and style. It won't displace Dionne's version, but it is a most worthy addition to the canon.
Justni Hayward is another brilliant writer of his own material, but one who did a few covers along the way. I think his take on Hall and Oates's "I'm Sorry" is a massive upgrade.
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