{"id":2272,"date":"2009-08-10T00:38:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T04:38:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-10T22:01:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T22:01:23","slug":"prolific-artists-of-original-material-wh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/prolific-artists-of-original-material-wh\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Artists of Original Material Whom You Nevertheless Count a Cover Song Among Said Artist&#8217;s Top 5 Recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bzl3zw1a-NE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>How&#8217;s that subject line for a mouthful? <strong>Neil Young<\/strong>&#8216;s cover of &#8220;Oh Lonesome Me,&#8221; written by country artist <strong>Don Gibson<\/strong>, came on my iPod today, and I realized that among all the Neil Young-composed songs I love, his cover of &#8220;Oh Lonesome Me&#8221; is among my <strong>Top 5 Neil Young Recordings<\/strong>. Excluding artists I really don&#8217;t care for who happen to have a cover song that I do like (eg, <strong>REM<\/strong> and their cover of &#8220;Superman&#8221;) and producer-driven artists, like my favorite <strong>Motown<\/strong> and <strong>Stax<\/strong> musicians, who may have done some writing themselves but just as likely sang songs crafted by other writers, I didn&#8217;t immediately come up with another artist I like who fit this criterion <em>for me<\/em>. <strong>Elvis Costello<\/strong>, <strong>The Beatles<\/strong>, and <strong>The Rolling Stones<\/strong>, for instance, have recorded their share of choice covers, but none of them makes my Top 5 for that artist. I&#8217;m sure I would have credited a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2007\/12\/15\/zeppelin_thievery_supplemental\">Led Zeppelin<\/a><\/strong> cover, but they preferred to steal songs by other artists rather than cover them.<\/p>\n<p>How about you, is there a prolific artists of original material for whom a cover song ranks among your Top 5 recordings by said artist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How&#8217;s that subject line for a mouthful? Neil Young&#8216;s cover of &#8220;Oh Lonesome Me,&#8221; written by country artist Don Gibson, came on my iPod today, and I realized that among all the Neil Young-composed songs I love, his cover of &#8220;Oh Lonesome Me&#8221; is among my Top 5 Neil Young Recordings. Excluding artists I really <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/prolific-artists-of-original-material-wh\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272"}],"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=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}