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Old 07-31-2008, 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by chiliD View Post
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I usually like most covers (and allow a whole acreage of leeway for the others)...even the Patron Saints Of Pop album has some, well, let's say "interesting" takes on some songs, but I wouldn't fling the dung on 'em.

Elton's "Don't Stop" isn't as good as I would have expected, but I wouldn't consider it "awful", either. Ditto with Cyndi Lauper's "You Make Loving Fun".

KC & The Sunshine Band's version of "Don't Stop" is pretty good (and really don't care for them as a band)

The only "bad" version of "Oh Well" I've heard is by Kenny Wayne Shepard...somebody should've taken a sledgehammer to his fingers for that one.

The Melvins do a really cool cover of "Green Manalishi".

Leo Kottke does an awesome cover of "World Turning".

Dennis Brown (RIP) reggae'd out a laid back version of "Black Magic Woman".

Moody Blues guitarist Justin Hayward does a very Moody Blues-ish version of "Man Of The World".

The Pointer Sisters (!?!?!?) did a killer version of "Hypnotized".

Annie McLoone (ex-Walter Egan band'er) did a great cover of Christine's "Spare Me A Little Of Your Love"

And, without a doubt, Santana's version of "Black Magic Woman" is the most LUCRATIVE cover of a Fleetwood Mac song ever.




Ummmm...no. There've been a bunch of "Songbird" covers:

Willie Nelson's being one of the more recent.

Rita Coolidge also covered it on her Love Me Again album from 1978...so hers is one of the first covers of the song.

In between those two have been numerous others. I would consider Eva's to be the best of 'em all...even give it a slight edge over Christine's own, as well.
Annie also did some production on my album too. If you visit my website, the production on the song that plays was partly hers.
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