Mrs Ellie Goulding aka Lissie just released a new EP full of better covers than the original... Just kidding... "Covered Up With Flowers" is out now and she covered some: Kid Cudi 's "Pursuit of Happiness", Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" and even Lady Skankatha 's "Bad Romance" . ALSO: Joe South 's "Games People Play" and Nick Cave 's "The Ship Song". Unfortunately, the Lionel Ritchie cover for [...]
Listen to Lissie's new covers of Joe South's 'Games People Play' and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 'The Ship Song.'
Jeannie C. Riley I once read an article that called singer Jeannie C. Riley a "corn-pone Nancy Sinatra." Funny, but that's not far off the mark. Riley, a Texas gal, hit it big in 1968 with the anthem-of-sorts "Harper Valley P.T.A." That made her the first woman to top the Billboard Top 100 charts and the country charts at the same time. She followed up that smash with a number of other successful tunes, like "The Girl Most Likely" and "The Back Side of Dallas." Often seen on TV wearing a miniskirt, [...]
Joe South - Cosmos This is from Joe's 1975 Island LP Midnight Rainbows , which he recorded after a three year sabbatical from the music business, following the death of his brother. From the liner notes: "I flipped out. I just went completely into the ether in the wake of my brother's death. I just had to get away, so I went out to the Islands, caught Polynesian paralysis and just lived in the jungles of Maui for a couple of years." "We worked hard on this album. [...]
Michael's comment the other day about Down In The Boondocks got me thinking about the guy who made it famous, Billy Joe Royal . Royal, who was born in Marietta, GA in 1942, was a local sensation at a very young age, known throughout Georgia well before Joe South convinced him to record Down In The Boondocks, his first and best-known hit. After Boondocks went to #9 in 1965, he released I Knew You When (which peaked at #14) [...]
I've always loved walking. The best part, one really gets a feel for their surroundings, rather than the carousel effect of watching the world through the window of a fast moving car, bus or train. I enjoy walking so much that I often try (unsuccessfully) to convert my fellow Southern Californians to leave the car behind and hoof it - this is a place where peeps will jump into their auto to drive two blocks to a fast food joint. Now, there's places humans shouldn't walk and I found that out during a Summer in the Nevada desert. I walked [...]
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Cover Me
30 Days Out
Art Decade
Fusion 45
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Keep the Coffee Coming
Antony and the Johnsons - "Rise"
Santigold – The Keepers (Duke Dumont Remix)
