Listening to the discussion with @somevelvetblog.bsky.social @jmcgnn.bsky.social and Joey Sweeney about covers and it hit me. No songs from Shelby Lynne's Just A Little Lovin' album of Dusty Springfield songs. And she toured that album at XPN fest.
The only cover that matters -The Clash, I Fought The Law
Now 5/10 for my votes and pretty confident that at least two more are to come on #XPNCountdown
The original is from '53.
It's unclear to me that anything Shatner does counts as "song."
Greatest Hits was the first album I owned. It was entirely premature. There was more/better yet to come.
So that's 12 covers for Linda Ronstadt, the most of any artist in the #XPNCountdown and we still haven't gotten to my vote. Back in the USA is still to com.
Her covers are a master class in pop music. I learned about a lot of artists from her.
One of the Back to Backs for the Talking Heads was also a back to back for the song. Shaw Colvin and Iron and Wine covered This Must Be The Place at numbers 386 and 387.
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There were previous back to backs for original artists Talking Heads and Grateful Dead have have two back to backs as original artist, as did Boffalongo once. #XPNCountdown
If I'm not mistaken those two from Linda Ronstadt were the first back to back covers from the same artist. #XPNCountdown
Townes doing Dead Flowers. That's 3/10 for me now in #XPNCountdown
Very nice.
Not too many. She was a singer not a songwriter.
secondhandsongs.com/artist/1626/...
That's a great idea.
It's just that will all this Bob, it needs some "Bob"
Please tell me that Weird Al's "Bob" counts as a (very loose) cover of "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and that people thought to vote for it. It needs to be in the #XPNCountdown.
Nice. Lucy Dacus didn't really register in my head when I was voting. But that's number two and I'm glad enough other people did think of her.
Part of #XPNCountdown is the "oh, wish I'd thought of that" effect
Good catch. Didn't think Different Drum was a cover, but there was a release by The Greenbriar Boys in 66. Stone Poneys wasn't till 67.
There are so few Linda Ronstadt tracks that are not obvious covers, though they are almost always better than the originals.
It's kind of a fine point but "covers", at least for the #XPNCountdown and, I think, generally are recording a song that someone else released a recording of. Contrast recording a song someone else wrote. Audrey sang it in the recording, Henry wrote it. But she wasn't covering him.
Who wrote Wagon Wheel, is complicated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_W...
If nobody can say who wrote it, it's a folk song :)
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697 Bette Midler Hello In There John Prine
606 Kurt Vile How Lucky (with John Prine) his is a re-recording of a John Prine song
592 Viagra Boys In Spite Of Ourselves (ft. Amy Taylor) John Prine & Iris Dement
548 Nanci Griffith Speed Of The Sound Of Lonliness John Prine
How do you score this? 3.5?
That is the catch. Do you vote for best, most favorite, or most likely to make the playlist by my one added vote? #XPNCountdown
Do check out Blaze Foley. Great Singer-Songwriter who died tragically and too young. The movie "Blaze is a good intro. He's the subject of Lucinda Williams' Drunken Angel /cc @ennasirk.bsky.social #XPNCountdown
John Prine covering Clay Pigeons makes me rethink my votes, and all sorts of life choices. There have been a few "how could I have not voted for ..." events but this wins. Voting is hard. #XPNCountdown
Dar Williams Comfortably Numb. I wasn't sure if i'd be the only vote for this. I guess not. Currently 2/10 for #XPNCountdown
Nice. One of the challenges of doing stuff with data for #XPNCountdown is having to react under the gun, which it counted. Even the older multi-week A-Zs were challenging.
Nice! I missed Dave Bromberg at 6, went to site and what's streaming but a replay Dave Bromberg doing Mr Bojangles. His commentary alone is worth the price of admission. #XPNCountdown.
Haters can hate, but I'm quite pleased that Emmylou's Poncho and Lefty came in higher than the one by Willie and Merle on #XPNCountdown
Just hacked this real quick. Pairs that happened twice:
Angelique Kidjo,Talking Heads
Devon Gilfillian,Marvin Gaye
Nina Simone,Bob Dylan
Phish,Talking Heads
The Cardigans,Black Sabbath
Willie Nelson,Hoagy Carmichael
Me neither. But I'm coming to grips with finding out the 70s aren't ten, fifteen years ago any more.
I don't know. Willie did a LOT of covers in his long career. We'd need a longer #XPNCountdown
secondhandsongs.com/artist/148/c...
