Great Things of 2024: Cover Songs

[jesse_the_k]

Listening to a new performer handling a well-known tune is my favorite introduction to their style and philosophy. Of course there’s a website for that: Second Hand Songs. Here’s their data on the lovely tune "Blues Run the Game," which you may have learned from Simon & Garfunkel if you’re a boomer.

https://secondhandsongs.com/work/4015

• Martin Simpson’s guitar playing always makes me sigh happily, so here’s his take on "Blues Run the Game."

• my running Spotify "Cosmic Covers" playlist, a little over 9 hours today features The Singer and the Songwriter's take on Blues Run the Game as well as 134 others, folk, folk-adjacent, with some jazz.

Comments

[sovay]

Here’s their data on the lovely tune "Blues Run the Game," which you may have learned from Simon & Garfunkel if you’re a boomer.

I think we must have had Jackson C. Frank in the house when i was growing up because I always think of it in his voice, but I definitely got "Anji" from Bert Jansch and had to backtrack to Davy Graham.

[jesse_the_k]

Exploring the remnants of Frank's recordings (one official album, four compilations) and I'm strongly reminded of Phil Ochs: strong voice, novel tunes, great poetry, self-destruction on full.

[barbaratp]

Eu amo música, nas últimas semanas ouvi novamente algumas antigas que conheci por meados de 2011/2012, conheci novas canções e artistas internacionais que nunca ouvi e adoro ter a chance de encontrar sempre mais coisas novas para degustar

Yes!

[jesse_the_k]

Like Flamy Grant "What Did You Drag Me Into?", which plays around with gender and drag and trying to communicate with your parents and find peace in a rigid religious community.

Video tells the story with dance https://youtu.be/N_DoNF6YGew

Lyrics here https://flamygrant.bandcamp.com/track/what-did-you-drag-me-into

Re: Yes!

[barbaratp]

Obrigada. Vou ouvir e depois digo o que achei

[lunabee34]

I love cover songs, especially when the cover adds something to the original instead of being an exact repeat.

[clevermanka]

Yes, this! I call ~faithful~ covers "karaoke covers." Like... if you're gonna go through the effort of recording and releasing it, do something new with it.

(and if anyone's interested in swapping Spotify playlists of covers, here's mine: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4SadeVrmFumzdRZ62Qi4TP?si=2545809e8b674a8b)

[lunabee34]

Total agreement (and great name for it).

[jesse_the_k]

That's the perfect name for them -- and thanks so much for your playlist.