The Terrorists Won: The tide of spam comments has been steadily rising. Since Cover Freak is my hobby I’m not inclined to spend a whole lot of time and effort on combating spam. That would make it too much like a job. So I’ve turned off the comments on posts. I’m sorry to have to do that and perhaps at some future time I’ll turn them back on if I can find effective counter measures. I enjoy having conversations with my readers and to that end the contact form is still available.

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My birthday was last Wednesday. It was low-key and relaxing like any birthday should be. And in a continuation of my celebration of my birth I’m going to post whatever I feel like. So there.

David Bromberg “Save The Last Dance For Me” (The Drifters)
David Bromberg is an amazing musician. He can play pretty much any stringed instrument and play it in any musical style. He used to live in Chicago and I spent many happy hours listening to him play with a backing band made up of session players who made their living recording advertising jingles. It was great to see them cut loose. Here Mr. Bromberg plays a slide guitar duet with David Lindley.

Gunnar Madsen “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)” (Talking Heads)
Gunnar Madsen was a founding member of the fantastically weird a capella band The Bobs. This is from his first solo album and the vocals are just amazing.

Jaymz Bee & The Royal Jelly Orchestra “Safety Dance” (Men Without Hats)
Oh, how I hated this song when it came out. It just distilled for me everything that was wrong with MTV and the music industry in general. But I love this Swinging Sixties version. Shagadelic, baby!

Joey Ramone “Wonderful World” (Louis Armstrong)
The fact that this cover was released shortly after Joey Ramone’s death makes it rather poignant but the song rocks ferociously in its own right.

Red Star Belgrade “Highway To Hell” (AC/DC)
I never thought AC/DC’s songs would work as country music. How wrong I was.