Stu Reid Under The Covers is back after a bit of a break, and damn do we have some great covers today.
The first has been making its way everywhere across the interwebs. It's a very Grizzly-Bear-esque cover of Judee Sill, courtesy of Daniel Rossen (of said Grizzly Band). The song is "Waterfall", and the take is clean, clear, and beautiful. Rossen has a history of great covers (including a pretty famous cover of JoJo) and this one is no different. Eat your heart out, this track will find itself on mixtapes across the indie globe for years to come.
Daniel Rossen - Waterfall (YSI) (filesavr)
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings give us our next cover, a soulful take on Woody Guthrie's classic "This Land Is Your Land". She completely re-imagines the original melody into a brass and band lounge romp, and it's completely awesome. Sharon Jones just has this voice that evokes Aretha and some of the all-time greats. Glad she's in my life, and that this world was made for she and me.
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - This Land Is Your Land (YSI) (filesavr)
The final cover of the day is of one of the most canonical rock songs of all time, Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". Not much can be said about this tune that hasn't already been said. It's a symphonic masterpiece that should be in everyone's music library. This cover - although it can't hold a candle to the original - is pretty great. It takes people with the stature of the Flaming Lips to pull it off, but pull it off they do.
Flaming Lips - Bohemian Rhapsody (YSI) (filesavr)
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