http://www.muzzleofbees.com/2008/12/12/grateful-dead-covers-ii/ Half of it's you, Half is me Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:22:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.muzzleofbees.com/2008/12/12/grateful-dead-covers-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-127066 Zoooma Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:51:16 +0000 http://www.muzzleofbees.com/?p=4386#comment-127066 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? 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?

]]> http://www.muzzleofbees.com/2008/12/12/grateful-dead-covers-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-126271 ChrisD Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:57:10 +0000 http://www.muzzleofbees.com/?p=4386#comment-126271 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." 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.”

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