I know some of you have a facebook phobia so you probably missed the band asking for ideas of songs to cover for the tour songs. Throw them out there. What do you think?
Most of these aren't well known but here's what popped in to my head:
Play A Train Song - Todd Snider Cape Henry - Will Kimbrough Spotlight - David Allan Coe Lo Siento Spanishburg, WVA - Scott Miller Live Free or Die - Hayes Carll The Glory of True Love - John Prine Ooh La La - The Faces The Prettiest Thing - David Childers Katherine Belle - American Aquarium (yeah, I know) Runaround - Blues Traveler Panama Red - Old and in the Way Wait A Minute - The Seldom Scene Drinking From A Swimming Pool - Eric Brace & Peter Cooper Deuce and a Quarter - Kevin Gordon 1000 Dollar Car - The Bottle Rockets New Madrid - Uncle Tupelo Rose Colored Glasses - John Conlee Ain't No God In Mexico - Billy Joe Shaver LA Freeway - Guy Clark Up Against The Wall, Redneck Mother - Ray Wylie Hubbard People Who Read People Magazine - Kinky Friedman The City of New Orleans - Steve Goodman Hard Luck Woman - KISS (seriously) Dire Wolf - Grateful Dead (google "Yarn Dire Wolf". You learn something new everyday) Wilder Than Her - Fred Eaglesmith Underneath the Stars - Peter Case
Great suggestions. I think back in the early days of the band Yarn covered Every Rose has it's Thorn.
I came up with some songs as well.
Caravan - Van Morrison Willin - Little Feet The Richest Man - Bill Carter Mercy - Counting Crows Four White Stallions - Counting Crows Pancho and Lefty - Townes Van Zandt Carmelita - Warren Zevon Meet on the ledge - Fairport Convention California Stars - Woody Guthrie/Recorded by Wilco CCKMP (Cocaine cannot kill my pain) - Steve Earle Sister Golden Hair - America You Ain't Going Nowhere - Bob Dylan Blues Run the Game - Jackson C Frank Some Day I Will Treat You Good - Sparklehorse The Ballad Of El Goodo - Big Star Atlantic City - Bruce Springsteen Crossing Muddy Waters - John Hiatt She - Gram Parsons There is A Light That Never Goes out - The Smiths The Jayhawks??? Son Volt - Windfall Dear Chicago - Ryan Adams Doreen - Old 97's Niteclub - Old 97's Lonely Holiday - Old 97's If My Heart Was A Car - Old 97's Harrisburg - Josh Ritter
MY favorite cover they have done for a variety of reasons is Standin' by Townes Van Zandt for the infamous 9/11 in Manchester, CT show. So anything by Townes would be great...
Also, how about a different take on their own . Please bring back the slow version of Can't Slow Down. Think that would be great acoustic-ish Tour Song...
Love the post for She by Parsons above! Any Gram Parsons please!
Thanks great video. Parsons needs to be in the hall of fame. Great video. Years ago I saw the Abrams a Brothers band open for Yarn. They were a young Bluegrass band from Canada. They did a cover of Thirteen by Big Star and a Coldplay cover. Big Star also need to be in the hall. For Yarn it does not have to be a cover of a song that sounds like Yarn. Counting Crows took Borderline by Maddonna and made it sound like Neil Young. Love the slow version of Can't Slow Down. That 9/11 show is one of my all time faves. Ryan Adams announced this week that he loved Taylor Seifts latest album so much he recorded his own version. He put up samples on Twitter and holy cow do they sound amazing. Nothing like the original. He made them his own. I think they are better. Ryan got a lot of people talking. Especially non fans. Yarn could do anything and make it great. BTW speaking of cover songs what ever happened to that Ricky Nelson cover album they worked on years ago?
ETA: here's another song that just popped into my head.
I've always though Yarn should cover Magic Carpet Ride. Lyrics just seem great. Honestly I'm surprised there aren't a lot of bands that cover this song, but it seems hardly anybody does
OK, I previously suggested Magic Carpet Ride, but I have gotten a little obsessed with the idea lately that The Pusher would be a perfect song for Yarn to cover.
It's thematic for them, Blake's voice would sound perfect on it, the instrumentation all works. I can hear them doing it in my head.
I really like Steppenwolf and think they are underplayed, so I'd really love to see a complete mini-set:
Magic Carpet Ride The Pusher Born to be Wild
But for a one-off, they would absolutely slay The Pusher.
And I have to add that while I have an aversion to them playing covers because they have so many incredible tunes of their own, their version of "are you sure hank done it this way" is absolutely @#ck'in amazing.