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      CommentAuthortous
    • CommentTimeSep 29th 2009
     
    With a catalog as strong as Yarn's, I really *don't* want to hear a cover song during a set. That's how good they are. Usually cover songs are a great encore and give both the band and the crowd some unanticipated fun.

    The River St. Jazz Cafe show has a great cover of Slip Slidin' Away. I know they've covered the Dead and Whiskeytown.

    Now I see this on youtube:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbjY_Uhee3Y

    What would be another song for them to cover?
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      CommentAuthortous
    • CommentTimeSep 30th 2009
     
    I see a Springsteen covers compilation with our boys included:

    01 Bruuuce ( Growin' up) - The Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie -Jan 4 1991 - The Bottom Line -New York City USA
    02 Racing in the street - Townes Van Zandt - Anderson Fair Houston TX USA April 22 1981
    03 State trooper - Steve Earle - O T Prices Music Hall - Soquel Ca USA - July 24 1986
    04 Factory - Graziano Romani - Sala Blu Casalgrande Italy - Nov 13th 2004
    05 Atlantic City - Tandy - In the Woods - Lage Vuursche The Furs Neherlands - 21 Nov 2006
    06 Tougher than the rest - Cristina Donà - Castelnuovo Rangone Italy- 23 Sept 2001
    07 Fire - Robert Gordon - 13 Jan 2007 - Cadillac Lounge Toronto ON Canada
    08 Badlands - Cristina Donà - Castelnuovo Rangone Italy- 23 Sept 2001
    09 Hearts of stone - Southside Johnny and the Jukes - Estragon Bologna ITALY Oct 29 2006
    10 Hungry heart - Darlene Love - Boarding House San Francisco CA USA - July 20 1982
    11 Glory Days - John Forth band - 30 June 2007 - Upper Dublin High School Dresher PA USA
    12 Spirit in the night - Yarn-12 Oct 2007-Kenny's Castaways-New York-NY USA
    13 Rosalita - The Whybirds - 15 Oct 2007 - The Fly London UK

    Found at http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=261881

    I'd like to see them try Willie Nelson's (made famous by Patsy) "Walkin' the Floor Over You". Teddy Thompson did a killer version on his country covers disc last year but I would bet Blake & Trevor would do a great job with those vocals.
    • CommentAuthorThe Lorax
    • CommentTimeOct 4th 2009 edited
     
    speaking of covers ....
    i would love to hear Yarn cover Jerry Jeff Walker's "LA Freeway"
    theres something about the song, Blakes voice and the bands country sound that i think would be fun.......
    • CommentAuthorearlbny
    • CommentTimeOct 6th 2009 edited
     
    Here is a classic Springsteen song that got covered by the Low Stars and done CSNY style. I think this version is as good if not better then the orig. I bet Yarn could do a killer version in the same CSNY style. I am posting 2 diff videos of the same song just because. They are perfect.




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    Here is one of my all time favorite songs by the Counting Crows. This live version is so good. It's killer.


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    Here 2 songs about cowboys.



    • CommentAuthorDawg Song
    • CommentTimeOct 7th 2009 edited
     
    I like a cover song or 2 at max tossed in a show. What and who the band have covered thus far have all been tasty.
    IMO, any covers this band should do should be of who many consider the Granfather of the Roots:
    early 70's DEAD
    Levon/The Band
    Neil Young
    Daddy Gram Parsons
    Cash
    JJ Cale
    Buddy and Porter and those guys
    and by gawd...ELVIS
    etc

    this would be a fun one for the boys to toss out there:

    • CommentAuthorearlbny
    • CommentTimeOct 7th 2009
     
    I love every sinlge band or artist you mentioned Dawg. Yarn has yet to play a bad cover song. Just yesterday I heard them do Love Hurts over at the archive.org
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    At Bank Street Andrew teased a little St Stephen riff.......hmmmmm, hadn't thought of that one but it would be a sweet deal for Yarn~
    • CommentAuthorearlbny
    • CommentTimeOct 8th 2009
     
    Mmmm....St Stephen
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    The Velvet Undergrounds "Oh Sweet Nuthin'"-heard it first on the Archive and was blown away. My Brother requested it last year at a show we caught in Winston-Salem & the boys did not disappoint!
    • CommentAuthorheadzilla
    • CommentTimeOct 30th 2009
     
    Their cover of I Know You Rider is excellent
    Their cover of Dead Flowers is better than the Stones (Mick should go to a Yarn show !)
    Would like to hear them do Ripple (David Grisman should go to a Yarn show !)
    (Larry Campbell and Chris Hillman should also go to Yarn show to hear Andrew H.)

    also maybe these

    Ryan Adams - The Hardest Part, and Chin Up, Cheer up and Let it Ride
    Robert Earl Keen - Shades of Gray
    CCR - Bad Moon Rising, Lodi, I Heard It Thru The Grapevine (long jam)

    all the tunes mentioned by everyone else are great as well.

    Some of those tour song episodes would
    be great as part of a show with whole band
    maybe some Ricky Nelson or that Blaze Foley song- Clay Pigeons.
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    Wow, Hardest Part would indeed be awesome. I'd love to hear Blake sing the mystified by truuuue love line. That and Jacksonville Skyline are my very favorite RA songs~ Have you heard their Oh My Sweet Carolina headzilla? They do a fine job with that one.
    • CommentAuthorheadzilla
    • CommentTimeOct 30th 2009
     
    Reckless, No I haven't heard it. I'll have to check it out. Thanks.

    It's strange, they could do a whole show of covers and they wouldn't seem like covers. Covers are often like sequels, no where near as good as the first but in their (YARN) case, they actually are better than the original IMHO. I wouldn't want a show of just covers, though cause their own stuff is so excellent, folks will be covering their work before long.
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    Another great song that may not technically be a cover?? Since Blake wrote it, but I love "Women, Drugs, & Wine" from Blake's old band(Blake & the Family Dog). I somehow talked Blake into playing it in Raleigh one night, although reluctant, he was nice enough to do so. Its a fantastic song & if you folks have not heard it, it's worth tracking down(IMO).
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    I wouldn't call anything that Blake pens a cover but I've never heard that one. Would love a copy~
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    RC-The 6/30/2007 Savannahs, Albany NY show on the archive (set 2 song 10). A great show, but Andrew is not there :(. This was one of the shows where I first heard future tunes from Empty Pockets. Staying with the covers theme, there's a handful of great covers in this show.........and I do agree that if Blake penned it, it's not a cover, but Women, Drugs & Wine is my personal "white unicorn" of a Yarn set, so I tend to look for any excuse to bring it up =)
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    Pale Blue Eyes
    Goin' Up The Country
    Helpless
    One Of These Days
    Oh My Sweet Carolina
    Dark Hollow
    Knockin' On Heaven's Door
    Standin'
    Lovelight
    Friend Of The Devil

    ....all covers I've seen them do. Prolly missing a couple.
    • CommentAuthorBrouche
    • CommentTimeOct 20th 2010
     
    I've been thinking about this lately and I'm glad I searched for the topic.

    I heard Phish do a cover of Purple Rain and it wasn't that good. I think Yarn could blow this song out.
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      CommentAuthorhoppedup
    • CommentTimeNov 21st 2010
     
    Was just looking to put on something topical this morning (music, not anti-itch cream) and I thought Yarn (or maybe Blake solo) could probably nail 'Sunday Morning' by Velvet Underground or 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' by Kris Kristofferson. Neither song fits my mood this morning, just thinking.
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      CommentAuthortous
    • CommentTimeNov 21st 2010
     
    They did the Kris song as part of their Tour Songs feature.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StlGcGOG6-8
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    Pale Blue Eyes
    Goin' Up The Country
    Helpless
    One Of These Days
    Oh My Sweet Carolina
    Dark Hollow
    Knockin' On Heaven's Door
    Standin'
    Lovelight
    Friend Of The Devil
    Midnight Rider
    Keep On Rockin' In The Free World
    Take a Walk On The Wild Side
    Slip Slidin' Away
    Nowhere Man
    I Know You Rider

    ...can't really do tour songs till they go live, no? ;)
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      CommentAuthortous
    • CommentTimeNov 22nd 2010 edited
     
    Correct. So, 'Maneater' should not count either!:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKeeDe1d-1w&feature=youtube_gdata

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