Reinvented songs.

[Cliff Rogers]

Black Dog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6L4GixccLU

[Cliff Rogers]

Black Dog, reinvented.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgzs6pT26KI

[Cliff Rogers]

Layla.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th3ycKQV_4k

[Cliff Rogers]

Layla, reinvented.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l_PkVl2_A0

[Cliff Rogers]

While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3RYvO2X0Oo

[Cliff Rogers]

While My Guitar Gently Weeps, reinvented.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSkP3uym5k

[Cliff Rogers]

Anybody got any more good examples?

[Cliff Rogers]

Metallica - Enter Sandman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-E-LDc384

[Cliff Rogers]

Enter Sandman, reinvented.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba8WnzI6SYE

[ozhunter]

Cliff, you have way too much time on your hands.

I don't know whether I'm gonna burst your bubble, or spoil the punch line but.........ah I won't. We'll see if there are others that might know, we'll see who chimes in.

[Cliff Rogers]

Everybody loves a know all. :D

[Grumpy John]

Sweet Virginia

The Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia (Live) - OFFICIAL - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIfQipkkOqs)

Jeff Lang - Sweet Virginia - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwLmbQn3RL4)

[Grumpy John]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft5HvrkHMAc


In case you haven't noticed, I like Jeff Lang. The video quality of this clip leaves a bit to be desired, but the music is first class :2tsup:.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyiWBZ_q2nw

[Grumpy John]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxKTzwaEa2o


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wirxd8q39-A

[Ball Peen]

Jimmy Rogers wrote it, The Fendermen made it a hit and Bill Monroe does it best.

Bill Monroe-Mule Skinner Blues.wmv - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzHgXpR654g&feature=fvwrel)

[Cliff Rogers]

Lots of people have had a go at that one.

I remember when Col Joy & the Joy Boys were touring in the '60s they had a character with them called Red Pepper & he did a version too.

Here are a couple more.

[Cliff Rogers]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3qcU3OGuHw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwc1FkkWulc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qYWbxyhp6U

[Ball Peen]

FENDERMEN - Muleskinner Blues - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PleN0AmuT9M) Fendermen ,still fun

'Mule Skinner Blues' JIMMIE RODGERS (1930) Blues Guitar Legend - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjO_OK03UNY) Jimmy Rogers

[Ball Peen]

Cross post Cliff, I didn't know we were on page 2 ( a bit of a problem for me these days ), great song, covered by many.

[Grumpy John]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m0bI82Rz_k


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJkJmaT3Gog

[Grumpy John]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plvBR02wDs



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX8piT5lOsM

[Grumpy John]

The ultimate reinvented song


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q7Vr3yQYWQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NMzuQFHJVU

[Ball Peen]

Ida Red, covered by many for a long time.

Woody Guthrie with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee
Ida Red - Woody Guthrie - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0nWWEOCQdM)

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys...... one of their signature songs
Ida Red - Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys Telescription 1951 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFef08YZ6qk)
Hot Club of Cowtown.....just plain hot!
Hot Club of Cowtown - Ida Red. - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utRRkXDH4Ro)

[Ball Peen]

Another warhorse.



Whats A Matter With The Mill - Memphis Minnie - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn1ITNU9tRU)


HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN " WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE MILL" COUNTRY - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VteQpl9HD28)

[Cliff Rogers]

Foot tapping but more like a good cover than a reinvented song.

[Grumpy John]

I quite like Dolly's take on Shine, and Jack White singing Joline as a man without changing the lyrics, that's brave.

[Grumpy John]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bomv-6CJSfM



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZIeuHS3QGg

[Ball Peen]

Jimmy Cliff Johnny Too Bad YouTube - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVO_KrzFYSw)


Taj Mahal Johnny Too Bad - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEdcoaCukH4)

Ditto Jack Stripe Grumpy.

[_fly_]

Not really re-invented. all done around the same time.


Beatles- Eleanor Rigby - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Itt02QOO0)
And
The Zoot : 'Eleanor Rigby' - music video - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_3IUASoqfM)

I know I like em both

Then

The Beatles- Dear Prudence - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-2lMstw6qs)
And
Doug Parkinson In Focus : 'Dear Prudence' - music video - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IBKOvyIll8)

Again I'll take the Aussie one.

[Ball Peen]

We're talking about reinvention, Beck's new album will have no audio, only sheet music. So anyone learning these songs won't have an original benchmarkas a starting point. They will most likely be all over the shop. Written notation is not the music, it's only a lifeless map. The interpretion is the music. I want to follow this as the audios start to come back. I'm keen to hear the different versions, it's like a science project.

Beck's new 'album' to be released as unrecorded sheet music | News | NME.COM (http://www.nme.com/news/beck--2/65401)

Willie Dixon's Wang Dang Doddle

Howlin' Wolf - Wang Dang Doodle - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEjUfu9-W-w)
Pointer Sisters - Wang Dong Doodle 1974 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUuTHdRlMC4)

[Grumpy John]

The original

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSnHTRZ6PSg


Chris Wilson and Diesel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SePNXkx2wWA

[Grumpy John]

A classic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJzcF0v1eOE


A disaster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8LOis_gIfc

[_fly_]

What about these ones Black Betty
1933 'Black Betty' LEADBELLY, Blues Legend - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYrK464nIeY)
1977 Ram Jam "Black Betty" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLnDuzgkjo)
2009 Black Betty Spiderbait - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-GEuJOyLOg)

Not much difference on these 2
Cat Stevens - Father and Son Original - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q29YR5-t3gg)
Ronan Keating, Yusuf - Father And Son - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVbbYYUMI-c)
In fact yusuf is walking in the background

[_fly_]

And while I'm on leadbelly
Cotton Fields - Leadbelly - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46h56pidCiE)
And
Credence Clearwater Revival - Cottonfields - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JjxpGpKNR4)

In fact almost ALL of Creedence's cosmo's factory is re-invented Leadbelly

Here's he's song list
List of songs recorded by Lead Belly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_recorded_by_Lead_Belly)

House of the rising sun
CC Rider (as easy rider)
The Gallows Pole
And on and on..

[springwater]

Fancy and stripped down comparison:
Lou Reed - Sweet Jane from Rock n Roll Animal - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdWPeHFAMk)
lou reed & antony - sweet jane 11.22.02 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWr0rsWE0y4)

[springwater]

:U
Keith Richards - Love Hurts (feat. Norah Jones) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo0kx_Rh24M&feature=related)
Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris - Love Hurts (Studio Recording) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKJpI79OmW4)

[Old-Biker-UK]

I suppose Ladysmith Black Mambaza singing 'Old MacDonald Had a Farm' doesn't really count..........
Sorry - no video....can't upload .mp3

[Old-Biker-UK]

Back to Leadbelly
Rock Island Line -- Lead Belly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCiJ4QQG9WQ)

and Lonnie Donnegan (among a few others)
The Rock Island Line. Donegan - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_aIQ1_sAVg) (among others)

[Ball Peen]

Lonnie Donnigan is my favorite wildman!


Johnny Cash-Rock Island Line - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX1BPItDcDo)

[Ball Peen]

The Barnesy treatment.



Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers To Cross - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGeCeK85sUg)

Crowded House & Jimmy Barnes - Many Rivers To Cross - 17th Sept. 1988 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRuhH0aCBEY)

[Grumpy John]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd5UkWHnQhA


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSBDlsTyT60


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA-F-1Wojvk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhAykV3zh-w

[Ball Peen]

The band - The Weight (Take a load off Annie/Fanny) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmRDM7GyJXE)



Mavis Staples-The Weight. London Jazz Cafe, Nov 17th 2010. - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LPhXZjzMM8)

[Ball Peen]

I like any version of W.M. but Ali Mills is a favourite.

Slim Dusty - Waltzing Matilda - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwvazMc5EfE)

Waltzing Matilda Territory style - Ali Mills - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgLtzD6JxcA)

[Grumpy John]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9rv7m9UKSc&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haqjOsr_RBc

[Grumpy John]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrbRbnl1hwI&feature=fvwrel


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1kQzlP8RiA

[Grumpy John]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-3tBhWaew


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9TKgdzMUzs

[Ball Peen]

Johnny Cash-Get Rhythm - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGMpc5bCpFY)

GET RHYTHM ~ RY COODER ~ FOR LAMAR - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkAGW12suec)

[Ball Peen]

Bill Monroe and The Bluegrass Boys - I'm Working On A Building - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBDZ3G4RCHc)

Workin' on a building - John Fogerty - Blue ridge rangers - - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5gHZZz4fCw)

[Ball Peen]

78s - Blue Yodel No 4(California Blues) -Jimmie Rodgers - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivAO2Lp7oz4)


Poor sound on live versions.

wayne hancock california blues - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1_zWgsq3qc)

[Grumpy John]

I was watching a show on the Studio channel the other night about different artists doing their interpretations of Beatles songs from the Abbey Road album. I thought this was the stand out effort, love the girls voice, such power.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYlUyi1hmqI


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8LZGQ4MkvQ

[corbs]

Check out anything by a band called Me First and the Gimme Gimme's. They only do covers but all would come under the heading of re-invented songs. As for my contribution, I think you could call Adam Hills interpretation a re-invention :)

(I have no idea how to embed the video's so I'm trying two ways and will edit this post if one doesn't work :-)

Advance Australia Fair to Working Class Man - YouTube

(http://youtu.be/ocfiPS1CZ-s)

[danny.s]

I love Me First and the Gimme Gimmes!


Some great punk covers of some great classics. Rocket Man and Somewhere over the Rainbow would be my favourites.

Eltons's version... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubeMeOJFjFg&sns=em

Gimme's version.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqprhVmv3BI&sns=em


Danny

[Master Splinter]

I think the original of this is so well known I won't post a link to it. But I'm rather taken with the WWII Germanic stylings of Laibach's take on the entire album.

Laibach - Get Back - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9w6SEtkeug)

[Grumpy John]

Not so much an interpretation as a rendition. Stevie Marriott would be proud.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz1V3y953Xk

The original.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcKZoFRpZCI&playnext=1&list=AL94UKMTqg-9ARutoDuWeItv82Apxe5o7D

[steamingbill]

Whoops - just noticed its already been posted above - have a look a couple of posts back. Worth a look.

[Kiwi75]

Out of the blue, a Subfocus song covered by Ben Howard.
Ben Howard Out The Blue: BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95B5LOATAwE&list=PL3omykCTNz_Y-tKpKwQlPcKZ_zJf7_o5B)

[Kiwi75]

Figure8 by Ellie Goulding covered by Ben Howard.
Ben Howard covers 'Figure8' in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&list=PL3omykCTNz_Y-tKpKwQlPcKZ_zJf7_o5B&v=TpGS9dOlx74&feature=endscreen)