fan tribute album

goliath111 · #1 08-11-2011, 08:19 AM

so let's just say stevie's people called on us to do a tribute album ... what would you sing?

mikephxaz · #2 08-11-2011, 09:06 AM

i think the more interesting question is "what singers would you chose to sing a Stevie song on a tribute album and what song would they sing...." for instance I would love to see Alison Krause sing Landslide...or Adele singing "Has Anyone Every Written Anything For You"

Dodfather · #3 08-11-2011, 09:09 AM

Alison Krauss should do Beautiful Child with a mournful fiddle solo in the middle. That would be stunning.

goliath111 · #4 08-11-2011, 09:21 AM

allison kraus just played the musikfest here in Bethlehem...she got really good reviews from the local paper

tabruns · #5 08-11-2011, 10:57 AM

If I could sing I would probably opt to do "Thrown Down" or "Moonlight".

As for other artists doing a Stevie tribute:

Annie Lennox - Everybody Loves You
Heart - Edge of Seventeen
Lady Gaga & Elton John - Leather & Lace
Sheryl Crow - Landslide
Madonna - an electronic version of Planets of the Universe
Adele - Beauty & The Beast
Beyonce - Dreams
Allison Krauss - Crystal
Chrissie Hynde - Stop Dragging My Heart Around
Tina Turner - Gold Dust Woman

Peestie · #6 08-11-2011, 10:59 AM

Why don't we actually do a tribute album? There must be people here who are musicians. I know I'd be up for doing a recording of a Stevie song. Anyone else game?

Dodfather · #7 08-11-2011, 12:33 PM

I wish I could sing. I can carry a tune and am not thoroughly dreadful but by no means possibly good enough to sing with a band or record. I'd love to do Gypsy, Stand Back, My Heart, That's Alright or In Your Dreams though.

If I can be involved in the Ledgie Stevie tribute album in any way - count me in!

Dodfather · #8 08-11-2011, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by tabruns

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Annie Lennox - Everybody Loves You
Chrissie Hynde - Stop Dragging My Heart Around
Tina Turner - Gold Dust Woman

These are all brilliant ideas! I can almost hear them...

tabruns · #9 08-11-2011, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Dodfather

These are all brilliant ideas! I can almost hear them...

Thanks.

That's particularly true for me in regards to Annie Lennox and "Everybody Loves You"....if there's ever another Eurhythmics record, I think they should include a remake of the song on it.

UndoingTheLaces · #10 08-11-2011, 02:22 PM

We did one some years ago. I did Castaway but it was horrid. The music came out nice but my computer was dying so my vocals came out sounding like I was singing through a fan, and I had accidentally recorded the music way out of my range. So in short, it really sucked. So if we were going to do another one I would probably take another stab at it, simply because I've always wanted to.

As far as covers go, I would love to hear Bjork do Nightbird (doing her own background vocals in the chorus). Cocteau Twins doing Sara would be incredible. Yo La Tengo could do Enchanted really well. And for the wild card have Bette Midler do Garbo, but in the style of the demo with that incredible lilting guitar behind her.

Macfanforever · #11 08-11-2011, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Peestie

Why don't we actually do a tribute album? There must be people here who are musicians. I know I'd be up for doing a recording of a Stevie song. Anyone else game?

I cant sing .but I could engineer it.

Macfanforever · #12 08-11-2011, 02:50 PM

I liked the Eagles tribute years ago.IAlso I thought there were talks on having a Fleetwood Mac tribute of Rumours with country singers.

I would love to hear a country tribute of Stevie's tunes.

goliath111 · #13 08-11-2011, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Macfanforever

I cant sing .but I could engineer it.

haha i think stevie would love it...even if we sound awful

Hartbreakkid · #14 08-11-2011, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by mikephxaz

i think the more interesting question is "what singers would you chose to sing a Stevie song on a tribute album and what song would they sing...." for instance I would love to see Alison Krause sing Landslide...or Adele singing "Has Anyone Every Written Anything For You"

I wish the Whitney version of HAEWAFY would leak on the internet. She's the one singing this on our tribute album!

Peestie · #15 08-12-2011, 03:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Macfanforever

I cant sing .but I could engineer it.

That'd be good to have one person doing all the mixing etc. to be slightly more consistent in sound. I'd have offered myself but I just won't have the time to do more than one or two. If we can get enough people I think we really should. Not sure what song I'd do yet...