{"id":19426,"date":"2013-07-03T11:01:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T15:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=19426"},"modified":"2013-07-03T11:02:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T15:02:53","slug":"thrifty-music-covers-that-never-were-but-should-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thrifty-music-covers-that-never-were-but-should-have-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrifty Music: Covers That Never Were, but Should Have Been"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Eugene<\/a>

Eugene Church and the Fellows<\/p><\/div>\n

Greetings once again, fellow seekers of the rare, the rockin\u2019, and the rubbish-y! I come before you bearing two more dusty discs for your amusement, scrounged from the flea markets, thrift stores and garage sales in and around our nation\u2019s capitol.<\/p>\n

Over the years I\u2019ve been buying my music this way, I\u2019ve come across a number of tunes that were originally introduced to me through \u201ccover versions\u201d by artists I grew up with. Old, scratchy blues 45s and 78s show me what the Fabulous Thunderbirds were listening to back in the 70s, and there are any number of uptempo party\/soul records that clearly had a treasured spot in the record collections of members of the J. Geils Band.<\/p>\n

Every now and then, I run into singles that sound like they should have been<\/em> covered by this or that band from my youth. I\u2019m presenting two of them to you today.<\/p>\n

The first is entitled \u201cGood News,\u201d by Eugene Church, and I think it coulda, shoulda, oughtta have been one of those foot-stomping party tunes cranked out by the J. Geils Band during their mid-70s heyday. I can hear Magic Dick and J. doubling down on the faux morse code intro, and Stephen Jo Bladd joining in on the \u201choo… hoo\u201ds during the verses. Of course, the thing would have been sped up and rockified like all their covers, but that\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n

01 Good News<\/a><\/p>\n

Next up: a song called \u201cWe Need Love,\u201d which I would have loved to hear by NRBQ, and sung by Big Al Anderson \u2014 who, quite frankly, already sounds like he stole a trick or two from the vocal playbook of Ray Scott, the artist you\u2019ll hear here. I just love the enthusiasm Scott shows for the lyric, which he manages to transform into quite a lusty affair.<\/p>\n

01 We Need Love<\/a><\/p>\n

I hope you enjoy, and, as always, I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n

HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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