Last call of comments on the new final covers...
- Otis covering "A Change is Gonna Come" is so pleasing to my ears. What a great vocal performance, plus musically it has that Stax sound.
- Karen and Richard get the gold
for their cover of "Superstar."
- Frijid Pink gets fuzzy wuzzy and trippy hippie with their super psychedelic acid rock cover of "The House of the Rising Son."
Far out, baby.
- Laura Cantrell's slowed down version of "Love Vigilantes" is excellent. Her version totally changes the song.
- Dolly breaks out the banjo and shines on "Shine." Her bluegrass version breathes a new life into the tune.
- Daryll Hall and John Oates show their soulful side while covering "I'll Be Around."
- The Jerry Garcia Band's live cover of "Dear Prudence" has a great chill vibe to it.
- Lianne La Haves turns Radiohead's "Weird Fishes" into a smooth groove.
- I know some of you aren't reading this, and I know who you are!
- Erasure synths-out to ABBA's "Lay All Your Love of Me." I picture people dancing in colorful shoulder pad shirts with strobe lights going every which-a-way.
- Dave Matthew's live version of "Funny How Time Slips Away" is a great sounding tribute to Willie on his birthday.
- White Lion turns off cruise control and gasses it in their version of "Radar Love."
- Aretha's cover of "Let It Be" is divine.
- "I Sold My Heart To The Junkman" by The Beautiful South With Jacqui Abbott sounds like a great number in a musical. I enjoyed it.
- The way Orkestra Obsolete makes the music sounds in "Blue Monday" is very cool.
- Dream Theater rocks out on their "Big Medley" of songs, which have great transitions in them. My favorite of the songs is the intro "In the Flesh."
- I love Merle's live version of Blaze Foley's "If I Could Only Fly." He and his band The Strangers were a great country outfit, and you didn't have to like country music to recognize how talented they were. While this is a cover, Merle Haggard wrote some great songs himself, and he was one of the most talented artists of his generation.