Sleeping High Above The Beautiful Things

I love when musicians I really like cover songs that I really love. Or at least they cover them in my brain. I have this daydream where I am working with all the great bands I love and they come to me to record songs that I love(d) and then all I do is produce these songs and put them out as records and then all the money goes to multiple charities of my choosing.

I have started to compile a bit a long tally of these bands and the songs that they are dying to have me produce.

1. Nickel Creek- "Big Iron" (originally written & recorded by Marty Robbins.)

2. Norah Jones- "Honest Eyes" (originally written & recorded by Jud Newcomb)

3. Wilco- "Forever"- (originally written & recorded by The Beach Boys)

4. Tom Waits- An Entire Album Dedicated to Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five Peppers Band (doing all New Orleans Jazz)

5. Tom Waits- "Long Way Home" (originally was written by Tom Waits, but was recorded by Norah Jones)

6. The Magic Numbers- "California Dreamin' " (originally written and recorded by The Mama's & The Papa's)

7. Ben Kweller- "Barbara Ann"- (originally written & recorded by The Beach Boys)

8. Kelly Joe Phelps- "Jesus Gonna Be Here" & "Down in the Hole" (both songs originally written & recorded by Tom Waits)

9. Rufus Wainwright- this song that Kermit the Frog sang at his wedding to Miss Piggy in one of my all time favorite movies "Muppets Take Manhattan".

10. Beck- "Sing me Back Home"- (orginally written and recorded by Merle Haggard)

11. The Assylum Street Spankers- "Missippli Delta Blues" (originally written & recorded by Jimmie Rogers., also recorded by Merle Haggard.)

That is all that I can think of at the moment. Stay tuned in for more.

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love**bjo

posted by Brad Otts @ 9:59 AM