Small Hijack, sorry!
Hey, Lucas, if you like Susan Tedeschi, please investigate Sue Foley if you don’t already know her. Austin Blues Circuit denizen as far as I know. Fantastic stuff. Slightly higher voice but all the other good stuff you love.
A couple of hours is a small amount of travel to reach a much larger audience. Cork is tiny. Not that she doesn’t busk in Cork, mind you. Your own cite says " she also performs in the streets of Cork, Dublin, Galway, and Limerick."
$1.6 million is not, IMO, “quit working” money. Not that I trust those “net worth” websites to be accurate, anyway.
Nobody (responsible) is doing world tours right now, and hasn’t been for the past year. And your own cite says her Dad limits her appearances since sh’s still studying.
Two great punk covers I heard again in the last days and are worthy for this thread:
The Saints - River Deep, Mountain High
The Replacements - 20th Century Boy
Thanks! Sick to death of Eruption but still fun to see a youngster pulling it off!
Whoops! Sorry Lucas. I love your thread!
Status Quo covering Berry’s Roll Over Beethoven.
And Little Richard’s Good Golly Miss Molly.
Hey thanks for the recommendation, Catfish! I’m always appreciative being turned on to good artists. Yep, she’s pretty amazing. Funny, I’m from Texas and grew up on Austin music but I guess that was before her time.
You are NOT chopped liver! Many great contributions, thanks.
The Danielle Nicole Band performing, “Purple Rain.”
This news story tells more about Allie Sherlock. She signed a five-year three-album deal three years ago. I asked about why she isn’t doing a world tour, but before a singer does that they usually sign a record contract. She does do tours, all over Europe but not all over the world, since she has gone to France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK. So her father hasn’t limited her appearances very much:
Apropos of nothing, I have been to Grafton Street, which is where she seems to do most of her singing in Dublin. I have been in Ireland three times, in 1995, 2014, and 2019. In 2014 I stayed near Grafton Street. When I walked down it, I realized that it was the street where the busking went on in the 2007 movie Once.
This is terrific.
one hard as hell cover to find these days is mike ness and or social distortion doing a cover of this diamond ring … and he brings a weariness to it that other versions lack…
I found it years ago on napster and havent seen it since i lost my pc during my last move …
Anyone interested is celebrating the best of Canadian rock should check out Toque!
Made up of Todd Kerns, Brent Fitz, Cory Churko who all work for very successful artists but keep this going as a side project.
Todd nails this vocal
It appears from this video that Sherlock got reasonably large audiences for her singing in Dublin before the lockdown:
And I guess she has had an album released:
I’m listening to the Stiff Little Finger’s live album “Hanx!” and was reminded what a great cover is “Johnny Was” . The best Bob Marley cover I know. The marching band drums just add an irresistible beat to it:
Here’s the version form Hanx:
I keep forgetting that ‘Johnny Was’ is a cover. The Stiff Little Fingers version is a favorite of mine.
Black Pumas just covered ‘Strangers’ by the Kinks. Love this too.
There’s also a great cover of “Strangers” by Golden Smog, the alternative/alt-country supergroup consisting of members of Wilco, the Jayhawks, Soul Asylum and others. “Strangers” probably is my favorite deep cut by the Kinks, because it’s so personal for the Davies brothers.
I thought of another Golden Smog cover, the Faces’ “Glad And Sorry”, a beautiful Ronnie Lane song. Golden Smog always had a knack for picking great songs for covers.
Orange Blossom Special
Here’s the story:
I heard this song a lot in college back in the late '80s; we played it at the college radio station and for a while I had it on a mix tape I made of stuff we played. I even caught the band live at The Grand Finale IIRC. But the tape broke or was eaten by the car stereo or whatever and even tho I could remember the name the song (due to its use in the song, natch) I couldn’t for the life of me remember the name of the band that did it.
Years later thru the advent of social media I manage to hook up with some old friends from college, including the guy who introduced me to that song. I ask about it, he remembers, tells me the band; I write it down on my list of Music I Must Have and forget about it.
That was prolly 12 or 15 years ago now. See, I know the song. I can hear it in my head any time I want, so I wasn’t in a rush to acquire the album.
Then this thread popped up and thought “oh! that’s a great obscure cover that i’d love to share with people!”
I looked YouTube so I could post a link, but all I could find was a version on a converted VHS recording of a concert at a bar in Austin. I checked online generally and nope; that’s about it for this song.
So I got to work: I found a copy of the album on CD and had it shipped across the country to me; then I made a video.
Here is an awesome cover of Paul Simon’s Cecilia by Austin, Texas’ Glass Eye, from 1988:
