What songs would you like to cover? ...a wish list

[Greeny]

John Lee Hooker : One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

Have you heard the George Thorogood cover of this? It's f*cking awesome. One of my faves.

[Dmann]

 Ya actually that was the version I was referring to, for some reason I put John Lee Hooker instead.... probably cause i was just watching a bunch of vids of him back in the 60's on youtube hehe.

[Greeny]

Here it is - with a guitar tone you can really swoon over.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISmgOrhELXs

[madrab]

George T. is one mean guitarist.

I just tried Pretty woman by Albert King. It's soo hard to play that Albert King stuff, either you copy his solos or at least his style, which is — for me — very hard, or you try to break free. But it's like the song wants that "written in stone" licks of Albert King.

I finally feel comfortable covering Freddie King's Hideaway. I guess I am old enough accept the way I do it.

This list has more to do with guitarists than with songs (and it could be much longer but I must go and buy som dinner to the family)
Anything by neil young — old or new, I wish I could get that bigger than life electric sound of his.
Jimmie Vaughan - Extra Jimmies, you name it I consider him as one of the absolute best
David Lindley - Talkin to the whinos, I Just Can't Work No Longer...
Buddy Guy — just one tone would do
Jeff Beck — his Pork pie hat as an example

And I like covers that make something new of the song. I have had this idea of blues versions of Devo...

(better go now...)

[Greeny]

And I like covers that make something new of the song.

I like covers like that too... where the new version isn't a 'safe' copy of the original.

I've been toying with the idea of a spiky guitar version of Kraftwerk's 'The Model'. It's one of those things that'll work really well, or be a total load of b*llocks! 

[alitivity]

I have always wanted to do a tuned down/ slowed down Soundgardenish version of Paul Simon's - Call Me Al

[Greeny]

I have always wanted to do a tuned down/ slowed down Soundgardenish version of Paul Simon's - Call Me Al

Sound great... do it! 

[Greeny]

'Switchboard Susan' by Nick Lowe

'O Lucky Man' Alan Price

[Oldrottenhead]

anything by john shuttleworth


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8eh72REd_s

[Farmjazz]

I like covers like that too... where the new version isn't a 'safe' copy of the original.

Me, too. That's a main theme in jazz; take a standard tune and 'tweak it' your own way. Oh, and it better be good!

Along the lines of Hayseed Dixie, one of the bands that cover rock music in a bluegrass style, I want to cover "Say it Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud" by James Brown with my hillbillie stringband! Perhaps just an instrumental version to make people cock their head and think ... I know that tune, I just can't put my finger on it.

We do the same thing with Tom Petty's "Breakdown" - its a blast to look at people's faces when they hear that out of context. They know it, but they don't.