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  • msg
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    ^^^ wow.
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  • msg
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    Chris Isaak's Baja Sessions has a few covers on it. It's one of my favorite albums, one that never gets old. Not a bad song on it, super relaxing.
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    Lyle Lovett cover of Townes Van Zandt's
    If I Needed You with Alison Krauss on subtle harmony.
    Step Inside This House is the seventh album by Lyle Lovett, released in 1998. In contrast with his earlier albums, populated mostly by songs penned by Lovett, House is a double-length album of cover songs written by fellow Texans.

    https://youtu.be/_7_B0Svzgwg
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  • mhardy6647
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    stumbled across this last week. Nice cover of the late Ronnie Lane's beautiful song April Fool (which is originally found on his duet album with Pete Townshend, Rough Mix).


    https://youtu.be/lcrcXTQNjJs
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  • SCompRacer
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    CTA, I'm a Man.

    https://youtu.be/UVLUFl6WO6E
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  • Milito
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    Saw the Doobie Brothers and Chicago combine and do "I'm a Man" in a concert once, it was great.
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  • Milito
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    edited August 2021
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    https://youtu.be/0rmOg4_8wD0
    https://youtu.be/7kQ1llzPiB4
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  • mrbigbluelight
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    Good but that is definitely different from the Stryper I knew from the 80's: "Honestly", "Always There For You" and the following tune:

    This song which Stryper covered reminds me of a song that Black Oak Arkansas covered at the opening of their set at the Winterland in SF in the early 70's.
    The lights were out, the only things visible on stage were the white lights from the Marshall (?) amps when....still dark...Jim Dandy, with his deep voice started into "Silent Night",
    A Cappella.
    The only sound you could hear when he finished was the sound of peoples' jaws dropping to the floor.
    IT..WAS...****ING...AWE ...SOME

    Amywho, Stryper's cover of this song is also AOK
    🤗✅👍
    Turn it up, share with the neighbors
    They deserve it or have it coming, either way.
    Volume....to....11 ! 💥⚡

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6MqK7NeqaQI


    Jim Dandy's voice was dandy.
    Michael Sweet's voice was
    sweet.
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  • treitz3
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    I'm usually not one for cover songs but I recently discovered this tune. They have no instruments (which again, usually I do not like....unless it is a superb song/recording) . The band is Club for 5 from their live album "You're the Voice".

    It's track 13 "Brothers in Arms (Live). I included the You-Tube video to it but honestly, the recording on Qobuz is much better and on my main rig? It sounds incredible and I have found myself over the past few weeks, listening to it often. The dude has a deep baritone voice and they sang it tight.

    https://youtu.be/Gerr99h0nS8

    If I had never heard Mark Knopfler/Dire Straight's version? I don't know if I would like that one better or not. The two versions (and I'll very well concede that they may *both* be covers) aforementioned in this post are both completely unique. Club for 5 was definitely thinking outside the box with their cover and for once, I really dig this cover. They made the song their own.

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  • dromunds
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    Tom, that Finnish group Club for Five’s cover of Brothers In Arms is special. Of course, Knopfler’s guitar solo is missing but that vocal work is really sweet. Thanks for posting
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSXSLmYGXpE
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  • machone
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    edited December 2022
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    Yes
    Siberian Khatru

    https://www.google.com/search?q=band+geeks+siberian+khatru&oq=band+geeks+siberian&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i22i30.17564j0j7&client=ms-android-verizon-us-rvc3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#
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  • dromunds
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    Very good Yes cover. I just recently saw Yes (Official) do the entire Close To The Edge album. Virtuoso playing (and singing)
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    Neil Diamond fan here but….
    I really like UB40’s version of Red Red Wine.
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  • machone
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    dromunds wrote: »
    Very good Yes cover. I just recently saw Yes (Official) do the entire Close To The Edge album. Virtuoso playing (and singing)

    Band Geeks is touring with Jon Anderson this spring
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  • dromunds
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    Yes, ( no pun intended) I watched the video of Jon with Band Geeks and I thought it was better than Yes (official) which were pretty good. Nobody is Jon Anderson except Jon Anderson, however. I’ve seen Jon many times, solo acoustic as well as with a number of others, including Jean Luc Ponty in a small high school auditorium. Jon is always excellent.
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  • gmcman
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    edited December 2022
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    Jack Russel hits both of these out of the park.


    https://youtu.be/YvgNU0T7Zhc



    Kickstart My Heart sounds almost like a live Motley Crue show.

    https://youtu.be/5liB1cj4N1c
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    WLDock wrote: »
    xsmi wrote: »
    Luther Vandross - Superstar

    Simply Red- If You Don't Know Me By Now
    Those are two good ones right there. Luther really made Superstar his own. Also, there is no way a UK group was supposed to touch a Philadelphia soul track by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, but Simply Red did a great job on it.

    Funny this post about covers comes up. Just yesterday on FB I saw a video of a young group called Infinity Song cover Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams." I guess ever since the guy that went viral on TikTok riding a skateboard, drinking cranberry juice to 'Dreams,' the cut has been getting popular with the younger crowd. Great job by this young and gifted family. I guess three are siblings and the other members are distant family members.
    https://youtu.be/75WSlTJ6jM4

    Another good cover of "Dreams"

    https://youtu.be/hu1_b6aLtyM
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