I always miss out on audio and video posts cuz I can't fire them up at work. I'll have to remember to go back to this one tonight. Jude's the name we chose for my 4 yr old.
[1] Ha! Like the Aretha cut, it does what a great cover version should do - put a different spin and a personal stamp on someone else's song. This doesn't make you forget The Beatles, it just makes you clear some extra room in your record collection for the Wicked Mr. Pickett!
Fantastic track. In the Keith Richards biography there's a note about Duane from Jim Dickinson, who played on the recording of Wild Horses, which they cut in Muscle Shoals Studio. He mentions watching Mick write the lyrics for Brown Sugar as fast as his hand could move on a yellow legal pad. As soon as he was done, they cut it. And he says that Mick really sings "Skydog slaver" even though the lyrics are printed as "scarred old slaver." Apparently, "Skydog was what everyone called Duane 'cause he was stoned all the time. Mick heard it and thought it was cool, so he sang that in the recording.
[4] Never heard that. Good story. [3] Haven't heard this in years actually. MUCH better than I remembered. Pickett's "Jude" > Aretha's "The Weight". IMO.
MUCH better than the original, thelarmis?
I always miss out on audio and video posts cuz I can't fire them up at work. I'll have to remember to go back to this one tonight. Jude's the name we chose for my 4 yr old.
[1] Ha! Like the Aretha cut, it does what a great cover version should do - put a different spin and a personal stamp on someone else's song. This doesn't make you forget The Beatles, it just makes you clear some extra room in your record collection for the Wicked Mr. Pickett!
The story goes that Pickett wanted no part of Hey Jude, as The Beatles record had just come out a few months earlier. Allman goaded him into it.
Awesome track!
Fantastic track. In the Keith Richards biography there's a note about Duane from Jim Dickinson, who played on the recording of Wild Horses, which they cut in Muscle Shoals Studio. He mentions watching Mick write the lyrics for Brown Sugar as fast as his hand could move on a yellow legal pad. As soon as he was done, they cut it. And he says that Mick really sings "Skydog slaver" even though the lyrics are printed as "scarred old slaver." Apparently, "Skydog was what everyone called Duane 'cause he was stoned all the time. Mick heard it and thought it was cool, so he sang that in the recording.
[4] Never heard that. Good story.
[3] Haven't heard this in years actually. MUCH better than I remembered. Pickett's "Jude" > Aretha's "The Weight". IMO.