Favorite Cover Album

Simple Dreams/Linda Ronstadt

I need new glasses, or I'm becoming Emily Litella. I was starting to post the COVER of the Dead album Aoxomoxoa. Now that I've escaped this embarrassment--"never mind."

@wharfy , now I don't feel so bad.  

Bryan Ferry These Foolish Things terrific album of cover songs by Dylan, the Stones, the Beatles, The Beach Boys and many others, my all time fav covers album. 

I was standing at the stove this morning drinking a Bloody Mary and making breakfast while thinking about David Lynch (I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube videos regarding him since his death), when out of the blue The Band’s covers album Moondog Matinee popped into my head. It was released in the Fall of 1973, and is unlike any other covers album I’ve heard.

The album contains the type of material they were performing as Levon and The Hawks from 1960 till 1965 (when they became Dylan’s road band, dropping the Levon from their name), playing for drinking audiences in bars, dance halls (a phenomenon you younger fellas are undoubtedly unaware of), etc. The songs range from material by Chuck Berry ("Promised Land"), Junior Parker and Elvis ("Mystery Train"), Allen Toussaint ("Holy Cow"), Fats Domino ("I’m Ready"), Leiber & Stoller ("Saved"), and Sam Cooke ("A Change Is Gonna Come"). One unusual choice is "The Third Man Theme", from the great 1949 Noir film.

All the songs are played and sung as could/can no other band.

I was standing at the stove this morning drinking a Bloody Mary and making breakfast

+1 on a great way to get the day started!