You may remember Peter, Bjorn, and John’s “Young Folks” as the mental super glue I posted in an old Sunday Music Spotlight. Well here’s a bluegrass cover by Dawn Landes. As much as I like the original, this might just be better…
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It’s like Marvin Gaye and Jack Johnson had a rather large love child… All kidding aside, it’s actually quite good. Just a little strange.
Sunday Music Spotlight alums Spoon made an appearance on this week’s Saturday Night Live, playing two songs. Quite possibly the most exciting thing on SNL in years. It would have been better if they’d gotten that cute little robot to come out and dance with them. Check them out:
Spoon – “Underdog”
Spoon – “You’ve Got Yr Cherry Bomb”
Remember Reading Rainbow? It was the show where LeVar Burton tried to convince you to read, WHILE YOU WERE WATCHING TV. Yeah, not a great concept. But this clip is great. It’s rap pioneers Run DMC on the show, rapping for reading:
Via BoingBoing
This, um, odd looking feller manages to put together a perfectly decent cover of Charles Mingus’ “Better Git it in Your Soul” (the opening track to one of jazz’s greatest albums, Mingus Ah Um).
Last week at the legendary Ryman Auditorium the fans who showed up to see Bob Dylan got a special treat. Not only did they get a surprise opening set from Elvis Costello, but none other than Jack White showed up to sing with Bob. To top it all off it wasn’t just any song they performed, but “One More Cup of Coffee”, a song Dylan had never performed live. Gee, that would have sucked to see. Behold the power of YouTube…
This kid plays us a cover of The Beatles’ “Blackbird” (from The White Album) on a banjo. And surprisingly it works somehow…
So the story goes like this:
Bruce Springsteen is playing a show in Copenhagen. Before the show he’s walking around and sees a guy on the street playing one of his songs. So he plays “The River” with the guy. Crazy.
Oh KT, how you keep surprising me. Here is a positively kick ass looped cover of The Jackson Five’s “I Want You Back”:
A few fun facts about Ms. Tunstall:
- She’s Scottish
- She’s 1/4 Chinese (She’s adopted and her birth mother is half-Chinese)
- She uses an AKAI E2 HeadRush loop pedal
Twisted, but funny…
