We've Got to Carry Each Other--Covers, Covers Everywhere

Regular readers (hi, both of you!) might remember the flurry of cover version CDs that the cool gang at If I Ran the Zoo and I got to do a while back. I wrote about mine, in a usually wordy way, and then Tom at IIRTZ listed everyone's play lists at his blog, too. So that's a lot of folks doing very interesting versions of other folk's music pointed to by a bunch of keen-eared obsessives.

But now everywhere I look there's a cover I forgot. Life's like that, an endless wittiness in endless staircases that endlessly descend.

So that means, I've got a third cover CD. Guys at IIRTZ, let me know if you want a copy. And I have to admit I didn't even make it fit--2 songs have to get burned onto a 2nd CD. And that's partially because of finding covers while doing this mix, Why have people been hiding Chica and the Folder from me?

Cov3rama

Rachid Taha "Rock el Casbah" Tekitoi (orig. The Clash)
Red Elvises "Telephone Call from Istanbul" Your Favorite Band "Live" at the Great American Music Hall ( orig. Tom Waits)
David Lindley "Mercury Blues" El Rayo-X (orig. K.C. Douglas)
Sister Carol "Wild Thing" Reggae on the River #2 (since iTunes can't bother to have the wonderful soundtrack to Something Wild) (orig. The Troggs)
Pixies "Winterlong" Dig for Fire ep (orig. Neil Young)
Yo La Tengo "Somebody's Baby" Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo (orig. Jackson Browne)
Lambchop "Beyond Belief" Loose: New Sounds of theOld West Vol. 2 (orig. Elvis Costello)
Placebo "Running Up that Hill" Meds (orig. Kate Bush)
Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin "Levi Stubbs' Tears" The Big Idea (orig. Billy Bragg)
Reptile Palace Orchestra "Sombre Reptiles" Iguana Iguana (orig. Brian Eno)
Dump "Everlasting Love" A Plea for Tenderness (orig. Robert Knight)
Chica and the Folder "I'll Come Running" 42 Madchen (orig. Brian Eno)
Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoff "Sunday Morning" Under the Covers, Vol. 1 (orig. Velvet Underground)
Johnny Cash "I See a Darkness" American III: Solitary Man (orig. Bonnie "Prince" Billy)
Young @ Heart "One" Mostly Live (orig. U2)
David Byrne "Rockin' in the Free World" Hanging Upside Down ep (orig. Neil Young)
Calexico "Alone Again Or" Convict Pool (orig. Love)
Yung Wu "Big Day" Shore Leave (orig. Phil Manzanera/801)
Toots and the Maytalls "(Take Me Home) Country Roads" Funky Kingston (orig. John Denver)
Doc Watson and Dave Grisman "Summertime" Doc and Dawg (orig. you decide--it's Gershwin, of course)
Luna "Indian Summer" Slide ep (orig. Beat Happening)

And yes, it has been an Indian summer in Santa Barbara. In January. While most of the country is freezing.

Now, the rest of you DO NOT want to live here.