Pop Top Covers:
Elseblog @ Breakthrough Radio
We’re guestblogging the week away over at Breakthrough Radio. Here’s today’s entry.
It’s that time of year for lists – both those hand-written wishlists which serve as a guide for family present-buying, and those which consider the year past, and tally the score of receivership and long-lasting joy. For the former, my youngest daughter would like Santa to know that she would like a dolly; if you see him, please pass the word along. In the case of the latter, rather than let my own personal and highly-subjective preferences get lost in the huge and growing compendium that is the blogger’s top whatever lists of 2008, I’m keeping it low-key and local, letting my readers speak for me.
Using download stats and blogcomments as a raw measure of popularity, here’s a few readers’ favorite covers posted on Cover Lay Down in the past few months; in the interest of keeping the list short and pithy, I’ve stuck to an all male-voiced set, because those are the ones I can best hear myself sing along to. You’ll hear a few more of my favorite indie releases from the year past sometime on Breakthrough Radio today.
Grant Lee Phillips: So. Central Rain (orig. REM)
Jeffrey Foucault: Lodi (orig. Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Todd Snyder w/ Patty Griffin: Fortunate Son (orig. Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Denison Witmer: I Can’t Make You Love Me (orig. Bonnie Raitt)
Don’t forget to head on over to Cover Lay Down for more coverfolk every Wednesday and Sunday!
Category: Elseblog
December 11th, 2008 at 11:30 am
I love that cover of “Lodi.” Foucault is good, and this version makes more sense with the lyrics than the original did.