Songs About Places: Coverfolk from The Chelsea Hotel (lots of Leonard Cohen covers + Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Nico and more!)
Oct 10, 2009, 10:52pm
Cover Lay Down
Cover Lay Down
There are many folk songs about geographical place, from old ballads of small Irish towns to American troubadour songs of the dustbowl and prairie to the Bleecker Street songs of the singer-songwriter sixties. In most cases, of course, these songs are more about events or movements inimitably tied to place: for example, though our recent paean to Woodstock did not look past the event itself, Joni Mitchell's song of the same name would lend credence to this view. Fewer, however, are songs about particular buildings. And why this is [...]
- Carissa's Wierd with Sam Beam - Chelsea Hotel no.2 (Leonard Cohen cover)
- Elliott Smith - Chelsea Girls (Nico Cover)
- Emily Lacy - The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song (Jeffrey Lewis cover)
- Fairport Convention - Chelsea Morning (Joni Mitchell cover)
- Josh Ritter - Chelsea Hotel No. 2 (Leonard Cohen cover)
- Keren Ann - Chelsea Hotel (Leonard Cohen cover)
- Lauren Hoffman - Chelsea Hotel (Leonard Cohen cover)
- Lewis & Clarke - chellc.mp3
- Marian Call - Chelsea Morning (joni mitchell cover)
- Michael Walker - Sara (Bob Dylan cover)
- Regina Spektor - Chelsea Hotel (Leonard Cohen cover)
- Rufus Wainwright - Chelsea Hotel No.2 (Leonard Cohen cover)
- Will Taylor And Strings Attached With Molly Venter - Chelsea Morning (Joni Mitchell cover)
Little Boots - Headphones
Everything is made in China — Brittle Crystal
Tenacious D - Live @ Rock am Ring 2012
Maybe I Could Give You Something
