Paul says: Here’s another “Covered “ Neil Young. Since I’m on vacation, I’ll keep this short. Once again, Fabio from Rio wrote some notes, so here they are:
By the mid-2000s, Neil Young had fully achieved something rare in popular music: he was simultaneously a living legend and an active creative force. His catalog had by then become a kind of common language shared across genres. Indie rock bands, folk revivalists, alternative country singers, and even pop performers were freely exploring different corners of his songwriting. Meanwhile, Young himself continued releasing ambitious work, from the politically charged "Living with War" to the reflective "Prairie Wind."
The covers gathered in this volume illustrate how widely his influence had spread. Younger artists approached the songs with fresh sensibilities, sometimes transforming well-known classics into intimate acoustic performances, while others revived deeper cuts that had long been favorites among the devoted "Rusties." In several cases, the reinterpretations reveal how remarkably adaptable Young's compositions are: sometimes, the same song can thrive equally well as a folk lament, a rock anthem, or a stripped-down indie confession.
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Note that Fabio wrote individual paragraphs about all the songs in this volume. To see that, please look at the Word file added to the download zip file. Thanks again to Fabio for his help putting these albums together.
This album is an hour and one minute long.
01 Shots (Constantines) 02 The Needle and the Damage Done (Pretenders) 03 Deep Forbidden Lake (Bentonio) 04 For the Turnstiles (Be Good Tanyas) 05 Little Wing (Elizabeth Mitchell) 06 Rockin’ in the Free World (Ann Vriend) 07 Burned (Veruca Salt) 08 Cinnamon Girl (Melissa McClelland) 09 Hey Hey, My My [Into the Black] (Hard Lessons) 10 I Am a Child (Britta Phillips) 11 Ordinary People (Steve Dahl) 12 Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown (Trews) 13 Natural Beauty (Tara MacLean) 14 Bad Fog of Loneliness (Justin Nozuka) 15 A Man Needs a Maid (Dala)
Many of Hopkins’s sardonic and over-the-top songs would make for great music videos directed by Quentin Tarantino. In “Bring Me My Shotgun,” Lightnin’ discovers his significant other has been “fooling around with too many men.” He confronts her with his weapon, then shows he’s a softie by letting her live, citing: “I said the only reason I don’t shoot you, little woman, my double-barrel shotgun, it just won’t fire.”
But for all his (hopefully) fictional acts of violence, Lightnin’ was said to be a friendly sort and quick with the quip (as well as more than a few nips): “If you’re gonna play the blues, you shouldn’t even be able to stand up.”
When asked to explain the origin of the blues, Lightnin’ wisecracked, “They’re somewhere between the greens and yellows.” And when a frustrated bandmate wanted to know what key they were playing in, Hopkins calmly answered, “In the key of Lightnin’ Hopkins.”
When Hopkins was a lad of eight living in Leona, Texas, his first guitar didn’t have any keys because it was a cardboard cigar box. He remembered: “I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, take me a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I got me some [chicken screen] wire. I made me a bridge back there and raised it up high enough that it would make a sound inside that little box, and got me a tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on.”
Deep and soulful final track on Tony Joe’s second LP.
I hear there’s a pipeline hard hands way down in Texas So I guess I’ll go and brush a wheel or two
I wasn’t gonna bother with that southern soul stew vibe we associate with him till I heard this one in full and Tony Joe we all know from Polk Salad Annie fame but here a more reflective soul ballad with a deep and moving voiced country gent vibe worthy of a Sunday
On July 4, 1983, The Beach Boys performed a massive, free concert on the beach behind Caesar's Boardwalk Regency in Atlantic City, NJ, drawing an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 people.
This was also one of the last Beach Boys shows to feature Dennis Wilson.
Sound Quality: 9+
Source: FM Broadcast
Track List:
01 California Girls
02 I Can Hear Music
03 Sloop John B
04 Darlin'
05 Dance Dance Dance
06 Wouldn't It Be Nice?
07 You're So Good To Me
08 Imagine
09 God Only Knows
10 What You Do To Me
11 409 Intro
12 409
13 I Get Around
14 Runaway
15 Surfer Girl
16 Come Go With Me
17 Rockin' All Over The World
18 Help Me Rhonda
19 Rock and Roll Music
20 Surfin' Safari>Surf City>Surfin' U.S.A.
21 Good Vibrations
22 Barbara Ann
23 Fun Fun Fun
Odd I thought to find a FM Radio quality boot and this is worth it for Beach Boys fans (who isn’t?)
Speaking of missing people here is Terry Hall with a favourite song of his and it always stirred me this song . . . . .I found it anger making and somehow justified and was against the judgment by others! No?
