Since I have been talking about covers, here is a cover mystery. One of my favorite songs of all time is The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. Joan Baez made a decent cover, although with some odd word changes ( the Robert E Lee vs. Robert Lee, drove vs. serve for example.) On Ridin the Rails, a TV special, Johnny Cash played part of an awesome cover of the song.
I knew Cash had a studio release of the cover, which I assumed was the Ridin the Rails version. Not so. This appears to be it. It reminds me of late 70s Jimmy Buffett, and I mean that in the worst way possible. What the heck? Who else has made an awesome and a terrible version of the same song?
I see to recall that Barbra Streisand had a version of that song.
ReplyDeleteTrail of Dead also did a version. Pretty decent; aktuelly.
ReplyDeletehttp://everybodycares.blogspot.com/2007/06/saturday-is-for-covers.html
Nice one Brack.
ReplyDeleteSince we are dancing on indie street, here we have the Decemeberists doing the same.
http://www.letssexyfighting.com/media/olddixiecover.mp3
And speaking of covers and the Decemberists, here they are covering one of my REM faves Cuyahoga.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-D76Fyc-wdU