Cobb: Cover It Up

December 08, 2003

Cover It Up

I met Glen Engel-Cox in a parallel universe and I am pleased to find him blogging about music in the blogoverse. While he's doing his thing on covers, he has neglected the most hilarious and outre of all cover artists, Weird Al Yankovic.

Weird Al has done for covers what few artists are willing to try which is make new lyrics more memorable than original ones. Who can forget 'The Saga Begins', his cover of 'American Pie'.

A long, long time ago
In a galaxy far away
Naboo was under an attack
And I thought me and Qui-Gon Jinn
Could talk the federation in
To maybe cutting them a little slack

Classic.

Other favorite covers? That's difficult because I've long been a fan of Jazz Standards which is the incest-o-rama of musical performance and what is Classical but that taken to the extreme? Still, I can say that SRV's cover of Hendrix' 'Little Wing' is by far the standout in all the world of pop music. I heard an incredible acoustic rendition of 'Come Together' the other day on NPR. I think I'll never find the artist. Pshaw. Randy Crawford takes George Benson's 'Give Me The Night' to a whole new realm. Najee's tribute to Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' is an unqualified triumph.

I'll say however that the best cover artist of all time was Wes Montgomery whose 'Day in the Life' album remains great.

Posted by mbowen at December 8, 2003 11:25 PM

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