{"id":22298,"date":"2015-02-03T09:54:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T14:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22298"},"modified":"2015-02-03T09:54:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T14:54:10","slug":"don-covay-has-left-the-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/don-covay-has-left-the-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Covay Has Left the Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CIR1xekPv5o\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll need to get some time and write out my thoughts in some detail after hearing the news that <a title=\"Don Covay Dead at 76\" href=\"http:\/\/www.soultracks.com\/story-don-covay-dies\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Don Covay<\/strong> has died<\/a>. I&#8217;ve loved Covay since discovering the man behind so many songs I first knew by other artists, thanks to a collection put out by the record label owned by a friend&#8217;s brother. My friend <strong>E. Pluribus Gergely<\/strong>\u00a0and I, with whom I argued over who was better, Covay or Joe Tex (he was on Team Tex), went to a soul revue in Atlantic City about 10 to 15 years ago. <strong>Lloyd Price<\/strong> took a moment, at one point, to note his friend Don Covay in the audience. He made Don stand up and take a bow. A big guy in a white suit did as instructed. He was about 5 seats down from us. We so wanted to leap over the people beside us and hang with Covay!<\/p>\n<p>Covay\u00a0was probably the most rocking of R&amp;B guys (see &#8220;Sookie Sookie&#8221; among songs rockers covered with ease and success) &#8211; not in an over-the-top &#8220;white&#8221; way but in terms of playing guitar-based rhythms that perfectly bridged the slight gap in the &#8217;60s of &#8220;white&#8221; and &#8220;black&#8221; music. <strong>Graham Parker &amp; the Rumour<\/strong>&#8216;s live cover of &#8220;Chain of Fools&#8221; comes to mind. His knack for out-Stonesing <strong>the Stones<\/strong> continued into the early &#8217;70s, with the amazing song &#8220;Hot Blood.&#8221; I can&#8217;t find it on YouTube just now, but it could easily pass for the best song on Black and Blue. So much great stuff that overcame a degree of hokiness, such as &#8220;I Was Checking Out (While She Was Checking In)&#8221;. I wish I could crank up &#8220;We Can&#8217;t Make It No More&#8221; right now. Hey, maybe I just took the time I needed to write down my thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll need to get some time and write out my thoughts in some detail after hearing the news that Don Covay has died. I&#8217;ve loved Covay since discovering the man behind so many songs I first knew by other artists, thanks to a collection put out by the record label owned by a friend&#8217;s brother. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/don-covay-has-left-the-building\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}