Category Archives: song of the day
Song of the Day #2,919: ‘Space Oddity’ – Chris Hadfield
My family returned from our Hawaiian trip only yesterday, so I’m in no condition to jump back into daily blogging just yet. Instead I will treat you to a week of truly creative David Bowie covers.
After I dove into Bowie’s catalog a couple of months back, I intended to offer up a selection of Bowie covers performed as tributes following his death. But I decided instead to feature songs recorded while he was still alive. I like the fact that he got to enjoy these tracks as well.
Song of the Day #2,918: ‘Sitting On Top of the World’ – Bob Dylan
The Random iTunes Fairy has served up Bob Dylan songs two weeks in a row, this one from Dylan’s 1992 album of folk covers, Good As I Been To You. The timing is good, as I’ll soon be blogging about Dylan’s latest covers album, this year’s Fallen Angels.
Though it didn’t seem like it at the time, Good As I Been To You was the beginning of a late-career comeback for Dylan. He followed it in ’93 with World Gone Wrong, a similar collection of traditional covers, and both records received acclaim. His next studio album, released four years later, was the classic Time Out of Mind.
Song of the Day #2,917: ‘Tell the Truth’ – Derek & The Dominos
I own Derek & The Dominos’ debut (and only studio) album, Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs, solely because I wanted a copy of ‘Layla.’ This must have been pre-iTunes, or maybe I found it in a bargain bin. With the exception of ‘Bell Bottom Blues,’ the other 13 tracks are a mystery to me.
So when ‘Tell the Truth’ popped up as today’s Random SOTD selection, it gave me a chance to read up on the album, which Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle, Jim Gordon, Dave Mason and Duane Allman recorded in a drug-fueled haze in Miami Beach in 1970.
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