Colin Meloy released his third (or sort of fourth) Colin Meloy Sings... record this past April focusing on five jams by the late Sam Cooke. Since I've been listening to a lot of Sam Cooke lately, I decided to put the Colin Meloy versions into rotation.
"Bright It On Home to Me" by Colin Meloy
"Bright It On Home to Me" by Sam Cooke
"That's Where it's At" by Colin Meloy
"That's Where it's At" by Sam Cooke
"Bright It On Home to Me" by Sam Cooke
"That's Where it's At" by Colin Meloy
"That's Where it's At" by Sam Cooke
It's possible that this owes more to Sam Cooke's merits than to Colin Meloy's faults, but I had a lot of trouble getting into Meloy's versions of the songs. It's not that they weren't well executed, they absolutely were. It's just that I would rather listen to the original version of every song on this EP, if given the chance. In my mind, good covers expand upon or deconstruct the original in some interesting way. Meloy did it excellently with the first EP in the series, Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey. His versions of "I Know Very Well How I Got My Name" and "Everyday is Like Sunday" are stripped down to a completely bare and vulnerable sound and it suits both songs beautifully.
2 comments:
check out this clip from colin-
http://www.musicnewsnet.com/2008/11/colin-meloy-the-decemberists-explains-their-new-single.html
Colin Meloy definitely my favorite!
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