Cover Freak (coverfreak.com), a blog that I subscribe to, just celebrated their one-year anniversary. If you haven’t checked out some of the great cover music blogs out there, you really should. In addition to Cover Freak, here are the ones I subscribe to:
Copy, Right? (copycommaright.blogspot.com)
Fong Songs (fongsongs.blogspot.com)
Covering the Mouse – all Disney Cover Songs (coveringthemouse.com)
Cover Lay Down – focusing on folk covers (coverlaydown.blogspot.com)
17 Seconds – lots of great music, and usually a weekly cover cache (www17seconds.blogspot.com)
My Old Kentucky Blog – they occasionally post all the covers they can find of a certain song (myoldkyhome.blogspot.com)
Enjoy!
Thanks for recognizing this newbie in a haystack — this week marks my one MONTH anniversary as a coverblogger, but I’d not have found the niche if it weren’t for the work of folks like yourself!
I’d never heard that Beat Farmers Culture Club cover before. That’s freaking awesome!!!
Thanks for the links Brian.
Started with Cover Lay Down. Well written and and great selection of covers. I am a big fan of fast folk, alt country and americana. Artists included are a mix of old favourites, some new ones, and some I had not listened to in a while. Getting a hopeful shopping list together for next months emusic…..
Popped over to Covering the Mouse via a link in Cover Lay Down. Not expecting much and very pleasantly surprised. Highlights (for me) included Louis Armstrong’s 1969 cover of Bare Necessities and Tom Waits’s extreme twist on Heigh Ho from Snow White. Waits rendition is not exactly a cover, more inspired by and then twisted down his street realities of the time (1989)……
Looking forward to exploring the other blogs as time permits.