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With a focus on the 60's-90's music scene, CMI is a Paradiso for Lovers Cover Songs! Each post focuses on a particular song and provides its original and most popular recordings as well as covers versions. Patrons of CMI vote on the most deserving cover version, which will then live to compete again, battling other cover songs in a future post.
Bands, musicians, troubadours, and their ilk, submit your cover songs for future CMI competitions.
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Really great little ballad by Slim Dunlap. Dunlap became The Replacements guitar player after Bob Stinson was kicked out of the band for ever increasing substance abuse problems. The Replacements supposedly covered the song. In fact the cover by Hamell On Trail came from a Replacements tribute album. But I used every means of research at my disposal to try and locate a cut of The Replacements playing this ballad but came up empty. I imagine they probably covered it at live shows that were never captured.
Slim Dunlap:
THE CLASH of Cover Tunes
LP.ORG vs. Jeff Tweedy vs. Hamell On Trail
LP.ORG:
Jeff Tweedy:
Hamell On Trail:
SPACE
Oh the disharmony! Much like Harlan County there are no neutrals here. It is your solemn responsibility to decide which cover song prevails. In other words … Which Side Are You On!??!
Disclaimer: Votes cast from Florida may or may not be counted.
California is a garden of Eden, A paradise to live in or see. But believe it or not, You won’t find it so hot, If you ain’t got the broccoli
During the spring of 1995, Woody Guthrie’s daughter Nora contacted British urban folk troubadour Billy Bragg about writing music for a selection of completed Guthrie lyrics. This was no minor task – Guthrie left behind over a thousand sets of complete lyrics written between 1939 and 1967 that had no music other than a vague stylistic notation. Bragg chose a number of songs to finish, as did Jeff Tweedy of the alt-country band Wilco (often with bandmate Jay Bennett). Nora impressed a common goal upon them: Rather than recreating Guthrie tunes, they should write as if they were collaborating with Woody, creating new, vital music for the lyrics. Both artists completed more songs than could fit on Mermaid Avenue, which is neatly split between Bragg and Wilco, with Bragg taking lead on eight of the 15 songs. (Stephen Thomas Erlewine – AllMusic)
As stated, Bragg and Tweedy completed more songs than they could fit on Mermaid Avenue, released in June 1998 to very favorable reviews and public acceptance.Thus, a sequel, Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2, was released in May 2000. All You Fascists was included on the Vol. 2 release (the title of the song was shortened on the album).
It’s actually odd that All You Fascists was included in the project. Woody not only put music to the lyrics but also released a recording of it on a radio broadcast in 1944. I suspect Bragg just could not help himself from recording his own version.
The Original
Woody Guthrie with Alan Lomax and Sonny Terry:
Unfortunately a very timely song. Then again, sadly, at what time in history would it not have been?
Bad Movies vs. The Deadly Gentlemen vs. Rude & The Lickshots
Bad Movies:
The Deadly Gentlemen:
Rude & The Lickshots:
SPACE
Oh the disharmony! Much like Harlan County there are no neutrals here. It is your solemn responsibility to decide which cover song prevails. In other words … Which Side Are You On?!!?
Disclaimer: Votes cast from Florida may or may not be counted.
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