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Good Woman
Eddie Vedder • Live @ Carré Theater, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Good Woman” by Eddie Vedder // Originally by Cat Power (2012)
The original version of “Good Woman” by Cat Power (and featured on her stunning 2003 album, “You Are Free”) is a crushing, heartbreaking song about coming to terms with a poison relationship despite loving the other person. It’s Chan Marshall at her most powerful and poignant. The song features haunting backing vocals from Eddie Vedder (and drums from Dave Grohl), and now Vedder has gone and performed a stirring version on his own while on tour in Amsterdam last month. Surely this has made it’s way around the net, but I felt like highlighting it here as it’s a stellar version of one of my favorite songs of all time.
love this song, love this version
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California {Delta Spirit cover}
French Films About Trains • Rough Makes & Loose Takes
French Films About Trains recently posted a live recording from their garage (you can hear the summer rain on the roof at the begining… and the police at the end) of this great Delta Spirit track. The lovely tune and the lovely cover art are definitely making things feel more like summer (we’re also in the middle of a heat wave over here in England, so that might be playing a hand in it as well).
If you’re in the MN area, French Films About Trains area also playing a show tonight. I’d check it out if I were you (I hear they are arriving by kayak, but I may be wrong about that).
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The Partisan
Teenage Kicks • The Bard of Montreal
Herohill just put out a big, free Leonard Cohen tribute album, which features a ton of Canadian artists covering the great bard of Montreal. On first listen, this Teenage Kicks version of The Partisan is my favourite… although I wish someone would have done ‘Passing Through’. And I wonder why no one took on ‘Hallelujah’. Although, that’s probably because Jeff Buckley’s perfect cover is too intimidating to try and best.
Did I mention the whole thing was free?
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Passionate Kisses (Lucinda Williams)
Shakey Graves • We All Go Twang
Shakey Graves has yet to put something to tape that I haven’t dug completely. So it is no surprise that his Lucinda Williams cover is the one that stands out to me the most on the great covers compilation ‘We All Go Twang’ (the great, country fried blog When You Awake is responsible for the mix tape). Besides the Shakey Graves cover being brilliant, the whole thing is magic. With great, twangy covers of songs from Led Zeppelin to The Magnetci Fields, even if this mix tape wasn’t free (which it is), it would be a must download. Get it HERE.
And while on the topic of Shakey Graves, I recently saw that Rollo & Grady named ‘Roll The Bones’ as one of their favourite albums of 2011. So I just thought that I would mention that that album would definitely have landed at the top of my list too, I just wasn’t sure when it was released. His Bandcamp page cheekily puts the release at 1987 and I thought I had downloaded it back in 2010. But memory is fleeting thing. All I know is that it is one of my favourite albums of recent years, and Shakey Graves is one of my favourite artists of recent memory. You should check him out, if you haven’t already (since we’re on Tumblr, why not start with his Tumblr).
Shakey Graves: Bandcamp | Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr | Soundcloud
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Not in Nottingham
French Films About Trains • To Walt
A great little slice of nostalgic Disney covers has just been put out by a group of great artists. Having just returned to Nottingham myself, this song has an even more special place in my ears (also, Robin Hood was one of my favourite Disney cartoons). The whole album is full of some really lovely ditties. My only complaint is that nobody covered ‘Everybody Wants To Be A Cat’, which is still the best song ever to use the double meaning of ‘cat’ so cleverly.
Swing by Bandcamp and grab 13 new versions of your childhood favourites. And then check out French Films About Trains further on their Facebook (and dig deeper into all the other artists involved in this album, as they are all worth the digging / googling).
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Dont Think Twice, Its Alright
Johnny Cash • Orange Blossom Special
I probably shouldn’t say this, as my grandpa would be upset with me even thinking it, but Johnny Cash looks like pretty sexy on this Orange Blossom Special cover. So I won’t say it. Instead, I’ll just say that he looks pretty darn cool. If I didn’t know better, I’d believe that this picture was pulled right out of an Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue.
Tons of great Dylan covers on this album by the way, you should check it out.
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In Bloom
Butch Walker & the Black Widows • SPIN Presents Newermind: A Tribute Album
Spin magazine just made a Nevermind cover album available as a free download. You just have to ‘like’ Spin on Facebook and then give them your email address. That seems like a fair deal. Based on the first listen, I think Butch’s ‘In Bloom’ is the best one one there, although Meat Puppets doing ‘Teen Spirit’ is pretty sweet too. And if you ever wondered what James Brown channeling Kurt Cobain might sound like, check out Charles Bradley’s version of ‘Stay Away’.
Go to Spin’s Facebook page to snag a copy for yourself.
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checkers vs. chess (dress up like a hooker, i'll be charlie sheen cover)
Brother November • Va Banque!
I will admit, my original intentions for checking out Brother November’s latest album were strictly selfish. He covered a song of mine. I don’t think anyone has ever done that before and I have to say, it kind of gives you a nice warm feeling all over to know that someone you don’t know decided to learn a song of yours. And once I got over listening to myself as sung by someone else, I dived into the rest of the album… and I liked it. Although, I am a bit of a sucker for the sounds of a bedroom album, always finding charm in even the roughest of corners.
You can download the whole all the tracks for free over on his CLLCT page. And while you’re on the CLLCT, you should have browse around; it’s a good place for sharing and finding free music (and the people who make / like it).
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Good Times
Guitars • Tears On My Pillow: Part II
The second instalment of the sweet 50’s / 60’s flavoured mix tapes from Cactus-Mouth and Unholy Rhythms came out the other day, although I’m just finding the time to sink my teeth into it now. Like the previous one, it is a collection of modern takes on on old classics; based on the first listen, Guitars, SLUTEVER and Lizard Kisses provide the standout tracks, but on the second go around I can tell there are a few other growers in the bunch. The whole thing is well worth the effort of the few clicks it will cost you to get it in your headphones (i.e. it is free).
So… get clicking.
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Me And Bobby McGee
Dolly Parton & Kris Kristofferson • Those Were The Days
What better way to follow up an audio post of someone doing a cover of a Dolly Parton song —a song that most people are probably more familiar with the pre-crack Whitney Houston version than the Dolly original— than by following it up with an audio post of Dolly Parton doing a cover of a Kris Kristofferson song —a song that most people are probably more familiar with the cracking Janis Joplin version than the Kristofferson original.
Plus, my girlfriend obsessively plays this song when she gets ready for work in the morning… this morning being no different than the rest. So it is kinda always stuck in my head.
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