Let's Go Country?

[Clash Cadillac]

The other day I heard a blue-grass, twangy cover version of If I Should Fall From Grace With God (no, not the one on the Straight To Hell soundtrack). It adapted to the format remarkably well.

A band called The Sweet Colleens http://www.sweetcolleens.com do a respectable cover of If I Should Fall... they're based in Minneapolis - anyone seen them live?

Thanks for posting this Cdn Steve. Next time I get to the Cities I will check them out. The Cedar is a great little venue which I have been to twice, to see Ralph Stanley and David Bromberg.

[Jon]

The other day I heard a blue-grass, twangy cover version of If I Should Fall From Grace With God (no, not the one on the Straight To Hell soundtrack). It adapted to the format remarkably well.

A band called The Sweet Colleens http://www.sweetcolleens.com do a respectable cover of If I Should Fall... they're based in Minneapolis - anyone seen them live?

The Gourds also do a version of this tune - they have 'archived gig footage' over at Archive.org, and well worth the clicking.

[phro37]

The other day I heard a blue-grass, twangy cover version of If I Should Fall From Grace With God (no, not the one on the Straight To Hell soundtrack). It adapted to the format remarkably well.

A band called The Sweet Colleens http://www.sweetcolleens.com do a respectable cover of If I Should Fall... they're based in Minneapolis - anyone seen them live?

i like the addition of the harmony vocal and the fiddle solo. it's a little too "twangy" for my tastes but it was done really well.

[philipchevron]

I must say I like both those covers and, indeed, most covers I've heard of "If I Should Fall From Grace With God". I'm always fascinated by what artists choose to discard or add when covering a song of ours. Though there have been interesting, even good covers of "Thousands Are Sailing", I can't say I've ever heard one that was able to come to terms with the harmonics of the chorus as I wrote it, they all duck it one way or another and sing what they believe it was supposed to be, in their opinion. It makes me think I must hear shit differently to other people.

[DzM]

I've generally enjoyed the covers I hear of If I Should Fall, but am generally left somewhat cold by the covers of songs like Fairytale or Thousands of Sailors. For some reason, to my non-musician ears, If I Should lends itself to picking up the "flavor" of the covering band better than, say, Fairytale does. Usually covers of Fairytale, whether done as syrupy sweet pop or thrash-punk, seem too hard to be trying to emulate "but make better!" what you guys have already done, or are trying so hard to be totally different "but, you know, still kinda the same" that I just end up annoyed by them. For what it's worth - of the Fairytale covers I've heard I find myself enjoying the No User For A Name and the Tilt! covers just 'cause they are so far afield from from the original.

Ramble ramble.

I sometimes wish I had more of a musical background. Then I could better understand what it is you're describing when you talk about the harmonics of Thousands' chorus.

[Clash Cadillac]

I sometimes wish I had more of a musical background. Then I could better understand what it is you're describing when you talk about the harmonics of Thousands' chorus.

Boy can I relate to that. Seattle and I started violin lessons about 4 weeks ago. It is a great way to spend time with her and I am hoping to acquire a better technical understanding of music. The damn thing of it is as with anything else, one must dedicate the time which I have not. Mental note: quit spending so much time on this site and start practicing...

[DzM]

Mental note: quit spending so much time on this site and start practicing...

Heretic!

[phro37]

For what it's worth - of the Fairytale covers I've heard I find myself enjoying the No User For A Name and the Tilt! covers just 'cause they are so far afield from from the original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3vuRmxf ... re=related

it sounds like the kind of cover dkm might do. it's not bad mind you - just different. but i think all you can do (when the greatest version of a song has already been done) is do it differently.

[christine antonia]

if you go country ... i'm leaving! lol.

ps. be good, be well.
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[Guest]

Has anyone heard Whiskey & Co.'s cover of tuesday morning...I think it's respectable!

[soulfinger]

Has anyone heard Whiskey & Co.'s cover of tuesday morning...I think it's respectable!

No Pogues song is ever respectable dammit! I always have mixed feelings about covers of songs I love. I didn't like this one at all to begin with but thought it picked up after the guitar solo. I thought on the second listen that it was perhaps because it became a bit more faithful to the original. They should have a crack at Drunken Boat. I liked High Tonight. It's the kind of thing Alberto y lost trios Paranoias used to do. Stopped listening at Tail Lights!

[Low D]

Steve Earle does a slow, mellow country/blues cover of "Fall From Grace..." in his solo shows in recent years. Stands as one of the only covers I really like (tho' the Onion Creek Crawdaddies' one is great too).

[irish hillbilly]

I kind of like the bluegrass version. In my mind, there's a lot of similarities in irish and bluegrass music. I'm not drawing comparisons, just similarities. Philip, it's been to our benefit that you hear shit differently. Thanks.

[Jimmy Jazz]

Speaking of Country Music and the Pogues. I have Sirius Satellite radio. One thing you can do with sirius is program up to 30 favorites (any combination of artists and songs) and if a song or artist come on that you saved it will find that for you when it is played on any of the channles. Of course I have the Pogues programmed in and it is rare they are played (other than Celtic crush on Saturday mornings). But the other day one of the country stations played the Pogues. The song was Bottle of Smoke which I never fealt was a country tune. I was glad too hear it but found it a little odd it popped up on the country channel.