Recent Cover Songs

Hey everybody,

since probably most of us are musicians, I thought it would be nice if we had a place to share the songs we've recently been covering. No matter what genre, no matter how professional. Post your stuff!

I start off with a timeless bedroom performance of John Hartfords "In Tall Buildings". I tried an ukulele version, sung like it's a melodramatic lullaby sung to my fictional child.

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that's a classic song you picked, like your vocal

I don't usually do covers anymore, but if someone names me a tune I will learn it from memory on camera and fudge my way through LOL

but seriously, what's the idea here, is it anything goes? like I could take an old torch song and make it an acoustic ballad live on camera or maybe turn a jangly acoustic number into a synthpop production? Its not really fun to me to cover songs the same way as the classic versions were recorded. But if that's what you have in mind I'll do something folksy I guess...

maybe of the melodramatic lullabies I sing to my ACTUAL child

I'm assuming anything goes since you did yours on a uke....

I've always wanted to do covers of songs from The Airborne Toxic Event, but I always find myself struggling. I should probably practise more.

I'll probably aim for The Graveyard Near the House. The strumming pattern conflicts with my singing, so i'll need to improve that. It's also a song I really love.

when I get done the original tune I'm laboring on I'll whip up a cover I guess... but somehow I don't think I'm going to do Airborne Toxic Event

somehow I am hearing a country and western tune... just to piss off the headbangerz

Yeehaa, I'm down with that!

Poncho and Lefty? Crazy? Wichita Lineman? so many classics

Maybe something which was originally sung by a woman. So you could add that kind of different feel you wanted. Wildwood Flower? Diamonds and Rust (more folk than country)?

yeah, no, definitely neither of those... you really go in for that primitive hillbilly stuff, don't you? I actually remember the basic chords to Crazy and even though its a Willie tune its was made famous by Patsy.... and its got proper songwriting... I am not a good enough signer to put over some of this folksy, bluegrassy kinda mine-worker stuff you seem to get all excited about... and its been done to death since our civil war, the people who originated it might have 1 instrument for every 5 to 10 people in town, but they all ahd voices and sang in church every weekend and at the revivals so its really vocal music, fun to listen to but not to perform as a player... I kinda feel the same way about delta blues and Chicago electric blues....e ven jump blues.... good too know about, fun sometimes, but these are horses that are flogged to death for 100 years or more... its nice when someone like an Alison Krause shakes up one of thes tired old genres with something that nods to the past but still looks forward in some ways

the country music I like to play just isn't so white bread either, its a bias, but I'm not ashamed of it.... other than the man in black the stuff that turns me on Isn't so churchy/folky but is rather a little more African American.... you know, for country music.... or its a little more western and a little less appalachian

Do you know Rhiannon Giddens? You might like her. Where I grew up no one of my friends listened to this kind of music and it's not played anywhere, so it was a lot harder to get tired of some of the stuff. I'm not that focussed on Carter Family-like songs as you might think (okay, I nearly like every Cash song – but they all sound similar) . I got in touch with that kind of music through Ryan Adams' early work. I stick to newer stuff normally. I admire the Milk Carton Kids.

Anyways. Don't let as fill this thread on our own. I'm exited for your cover and the other stuff that will be posted in here.

I have a grunge cover of a Bananarama song done by two guys and a drum machine, but it isn't recent... and the title is Recent Cover Songs.

Oh well.

I'll do this song when I get the time.

oh man, that's some 80s cheese! brilliant!!!!!!!!!

okay okay, I am totally going to start a cover today with my music time and not work on finishing any stuff I left off producing or starting to record another original... I am going to find the right key for me, lock down a basic tempo and cut a guitar track to a cover....

Still waiting.

Lololollipop

uh, sorry, erm, um... I, uh, well, I got sidetracked, never even started a cover... I actually had thrown The Cure's "lovesong" into 6/8 time and really folked it up, but after getting the whole idea worked out I ran out of free time to get a take.... then I got inspired to start another original and its consumed all my free time since.... I guess I should return to that and actually put a mic up and do it this week... its funny, I had an acoustic miced yesterday, but I didn't even think of it

I find it hard to stay focused on covers recording-wise.... I don't think I've ever been in a band that consistently had a cover in its set unless it was a sideman gig and I don't count all of those, the whole set;s like a cover set from the hired guitarist's POV... under your bed would periodically toss a cover in our live set but none of them were ever recorded and we generally would just pick something right before a gig... we used to warm up with other people's tunes at rehearsal, so on the road we could just draw on that vast pool of warm up tunes we all knew, we might quick hash it out at soundcheck and make sure Elissa could get through it well w/o cheatsheeting the lyrics.... but 9 times out of 10 we played an original set

anyway, yeah, I'll do this cover this week... after much deliberation I think I am tied to folking up a goth song and I think its the Cure....