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Friday tunes - eccentric covers on 11:56 - Nov 6 by BrianMcCarthy
Great idea for a thread!
On a mobile so links are too slow to find and paste but Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan's beautiful slaughter of 'Girl From The North Country', itself a rip-off of 'Scarborough Fair', always amazes and amuses in equal measure.
The cover itself is not eccentric. But the execution definitely is! They've clearly not worked out an arrangement, Dylan just croaks along, melodies are a vague abstract notion, they're in different keys at times, sometimes even singing different words. In fact, claiming that they sang the song together is true only in that they were probably in the same room. It's only held together by Cash's flawless phrasing and diction. It's a riot!
And yet, it's somehow magical. Depending on my mood it can have me in raptures or in peals of laughter.
P. P. Arnold is a great singer, but she made a mess of a number of covers. One reviewer described this fairly diplomatically:
'PP Arnold is strongest on the songs more closely identified with her. On the Kafunta album, there are a number of cover versions of songs that, with hindsight, she should not have included. They are so closely linked with the original versions that they are difficult for anyone to cover as well as the best-known version. God Only Knows is the best example of this.' http://www.makingtime.co.uk/cdrev1198.html
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Friday tunes - eccentric covers on 13:58 - Nov 6 with 2216 views
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