Friday, 12 Dec 2008
The Grateful Dead were known to bust out a cover song at most of their live shows. Many of them wrapped The Dead’s signature sound around an already popular composition. Today, I thought I would pull some favorites and new discoveries from the Live Music Archive. While there is a plethora of covers, dates, and versions to choose from, we’ll start you out with the ones below. Due to the large number and variety, it’s likely we’ll do several rounds of posts like these.
MP3: Grateful Dead – “You Win Again” (Hank Williams)
MP3: Grateful Dead – “You Ain’t Women Enough” (Loretta Lynn)
MP3: Grateful Dead – ” Hey Bo Diddley” (Bo Diddley)
MP3: Grateful Dead – “Hard To Handle” (Otis Redding)
MP3: Grateful Dead – “La Bamba” (Traditional)
MP3: Grateful Dead – “Ballad Of A Thin Man” (Bob Dylan)
Previously: Grateful Dead :: Covers
December 12th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
For my money, when it comes to Grateful Dead covers it doesn’t get any better than their version of Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried.”
December 16th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Well, there is, of course, Morning Dew. Like Hard To Handle and many others, Dew’s a tune that, while a cover, it’s really just a Dead tune! Mama Tried is another that barely any Deadhead ever, I can guarantee it, thinks of Merle Haggard when they hear it. Is The Promised Land a Chuck Berry tune or a Dead tune? Just yet again another example of the cover really becoming almost one of the Dead’s very own songs. Ya know?