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Bobby Lee
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Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2002 1:23 pm |
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Someone posted a link about Run C&W, and it reminded me of something I heard the other day. Pink Floyd's "The Wall" performed by a country band called Luther Wright and the Wrongs. It's amazing how well some songs lend themselves to countrification!
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2002 6:04 pm
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| b0b, have you heard Dolly Parton's "Stairway to Heaven"? |
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Janice Brooks
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Pleasant Gap Pa
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Posted 9 Jul 2002 6:44 pm
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Chas I got the Dolly album today. This album has more original material then her last one.
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Janice "Busgal" Brooks
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Mark Ardito
From:
Chicago, IL, USA
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Posted 11 Jul 2002 11:46 am
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There is a band called "Hayseed Dixie" they did an album on AC/DC covers. It is some smokin' bluegrass playing. There name is pretty funny...get it...Hayseed Dixie - AC/DC
Mark
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 21 Jul 2002 4:09 pm
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| A semi-bluegrass band called the Austin Lounge Lizards did Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" a few years ago, it was GREAT! |
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Janice Brooks
From:
Pleasant Gap Pa
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Posted 21 Jul 2002 5:13 pm
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Gotta love those Lizards including their satires on Newt Gingrich, Richerd Petty, George Jones, Leonard Cohan and Hank Williams car.
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Janice "Busgal" Brooks
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John Kavanagh
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Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada * R.I.P.
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Posted 24 Jul 2002 6:19 am
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I was in a bluegrass band that always closed the show with a version of "Jumpin' Jack Flash", really really fast with high harmonies and banjo solos. It got a good reaction.
Now I can't get it out of my head: "Wit's awwwwwlll rahhhht neeeyowwwwww...." |
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Bill Cunningham
From:
Atlanta, Ga. USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2002 6:37 am
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When I saw this thread it reminded me, a few weeks ago while watching a TV commercial, I came up with the idea that "Del McCory Sings Foreigner" would be a great project. Seriously, can't you just hear Feels Like The First Time in a medium tempo bluegrass feel and I Wanna Know Where Love Is as a high lonesome ballad?
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"Gimme a steel guitar, 2 or 3 fiddles and a Texas rhythm section that can swing"..W. Nelson
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Glenn Suchan
From:
Austin, Texas
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Posted 24 Jul 2002 6:43 am
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How 'bout:
Ralph Stanley sings the greatest hits of ZZ Top (The sharp dress man brings it to the mountains) 
Keep on pickin'!
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Alvin Blaine
From:
Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 25 Jul 2002 3:58 am
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| There is a band called "Hayseed Dixie" they did an album on AC/DC covers. It is some smokin' bluegrass playing. There name is pretty funny...get it...Hayseed Dixie - AC/DC |
They have a new CD out called " A Hillbilly Tribute To Mountain Love" Some of the songs are-
My Best Friend's Girl(The Cars)
Centerfold(J.Geils Band)
Walk This Way(Aerosmith)
Feel like making Love(Bad Company)
Cat Scratch Fever(Ted Nugent)
and more of your Bluegrass/hard rock favorites.
One of the bands I play banjo with we do a few songs by the Police - Every Breath You Take, Don't Stand So Close,Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, and Message In A Bottle. We Called it our "Cops on Grass" set.
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John Kavanagh
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Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada * R.I.P.
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Posted 26 Jul 2002 6:34 pm
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We did "Every Breath You Take", too.
"Oh, cain't - yew - seeeeeeeeeee......?"
Cops on grass, indeed. heh heh.
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Mike Brinkmeyer
From:
Houston, Texas
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Posted 27 Jul 2002 4:41 am
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| Back in the mid-1980's, Asleep at the Wheel had a swing version of Huey Lewis's "I Want a New Drug." I think both were out around the same time and if I remember correctly, Huey Lewis produced The Wheel version. |
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Bobby Lee
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Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 27 Jul 2002 4:50 pm
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The bridge in "Every Breath You Take" has the same chords as the bridge in "Your Cheatin' Heart". We all knew Sting was a country boy at heart.  |
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Jason Odd
From:
Stawell, Victoria, Australia
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Posted 28 Jul 2002 6:52 am
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| Last week I heard a rootsy country version of the Stooges proto-punk classic "I Wanna Be Your Dog." Sadly I missed the name of the act, it was pretty good. |
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