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This may hurt my indie street cred, but I have a confession to make. I was once, and deep down still am, a big Dave Matthews fan. I’ve lost track of the number of his concerts I’ve been to, have every disc he’s ever released, and spent countless hours listening to live bootlegs. There, I got it off my chest. I feel better now.
Now that you know my dirty little secret, imagine my excitement when I found that Willie Nelson had covered one of my favorite Dave songs. Apparently Willie has a new CD coming out, and he does several covers on it, including this cover of “Gravedigger”, one of the few good songs from Dave’s solo album, Some Devil. Is this Willie’s attempt to make the equivalent of Johnny Cash’s American Recordings series? Well this cover can’t match Johnny’s take on “Hurt”, but it ain’t half bad. Check out the video, where Willie plays the tour guide to a cemetery:
3 comments
January 27, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Linda
I like that cover a lot, too. Willie plays the limo driver, taxi driver, the corpse, the grieving person, the grave digger. He said the spent the night in the graveyard, and they started filming at 6:00 a.m. in the morning, and it rained all day.
April 6, 2008 at 7:57 am
Reece
Saying that you have “indy street cred,” is in itself, innately oxymoronic. if you need a hand, I can help you off your pedestal of self-righteousness and dillusion ps, when hillary finally bows out, don’t fret you’ll always have your next shitty indy band show to go to.
April 6, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Sean
Hey Reece, welcome to the site! Always good to hear from my readers. Especially the ones that are such great spellers! And it’s great to have my political views questioned, since I’ve never actually stated them on the site (and don’t intend to). Thanks for visiting!