Tim O’Brien Covers: Randy Newman, John Hartford, Jimmie Rodgers, Dylan, Hendrix & more! …plus bonus covers of the Tim O’Brien songbook!
I've been thinking bluegrass all week, thanks to a pair of tickets to this weekend's Joe Val Festival - an annual mid-winter marathon excursion which we've written about profusely in past years. It's a form that often doesn't get included in the folk blogger pantheon, save for the tradfolk and oldtimey set, and a tiny handful of Bluegrass specialists, but here at Cover Lay Down we like to define our terms broadly. In an older sense, of course, our inclusion of the 'grass is easy to defend: bluegrass is most definitely [...]
- Casey Driessen - Footsteps So Near (Hot Rize cover)
- Dixie Chicks - More Love (Tim O'Brien cover)
- Heidi Talbot - Music Tree (Tim O'Brien cover)
- Hot Rize - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed & Burning
- Hot Rize - Working On A Building
- Jerry Douglas - Hey Joe (Jimi Hendrix cover)
- Kathy Mattea and Tim O'Brien - Gentle On My Mind (John Hartford cover)
- Mutual Admiration Society - Brother Wind (Tim O'Brien cover)
- Newgrange - Handsome Molly
- Nickel Creek - When You Come Back Down (Tim O'Brien cover)
- The Chieftains & Tim O'Brien - Shady Grove
- The Duhks - Moses Don't Get Lost (Trad/Tim O'Brien cover)
- Tim & Mollie O'Brien - He Lifts Me
- Tim O'Brien - California Blues (Jimmie Rodgers cover)
- Tim O'Brien - Demon Lover
- Tim O'Brien - Handsome Molly
- Tim O'Brien - House Of The Rising Sun
- Tim O'Brien - How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live (Blind Alfred Reed cover)
- Tim O'Brien - Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Dylan cover)
- Tim O'Brien - Man Gave Names To All The Animals (Bob Dylan cover)
- Tim O'Brien - Norwegian Wood (Beatles cover)
- Tim O'Brien And Darrell Scott - I Don't Believe You (Bob Dylan cover)
- Tony Furtado with Tim O'brien - Man Of Constant Sorrow



















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