Cover Wars: Sultans Of Swing Edition

The Balance: This rendition was the last one to make the cut this week. I had the other four versions already in place – but I realized that there wasn’t a single “straight” cover yet. So I poked around on The Archive for some bands I hadn’t heard of and found this solid performance. If you like it, you might be out of luck, as The Balance have not logged in to their MySpace page since March of this year. Source: 9-7-2007

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David Gans: David Gans, host of The Grateful Dead Hour, delivers a nice extended acoustic rendition here with a little help from members of Railroad Earth. Source: 8-16-2005

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Keller Williams: Everything you’d expect from Keller here: Exaggerated vocal delivery, some mouth trumpet, scatting of the guitar solo, etc. Source: 3-2-2005

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Short video of Keller:

Trey Anastasio: Trey added this cover to his solo band’s repertoire in the Summer of 2002, the third tour for the ever-evolving Trey Band with horns. It was the sixth show into the tour, in the encore slot, when the crowd in San Diego was treated to the debut. Everything about this song made perfect sense for that band to play. Quick shoutout to trombonist Andy Moroz, who did the dirty work of actually transcribing the guitar stabs into horn arrangements. Source: 6-7-2002

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Video From 10/29/02 Palace Theatre, Louisville, KY:

Checking in on Last Week’s I’m Only Sleeping Cover Wars, it’s the performance by Yonder Mountain String Band that our readers liked the best.

Some video of the original artist before we go:

Taken from the “Night In London” VHS:

July 10th, 1985 Wembley:

June 30th, 1990 Knopfler with Eric Clapton:

Live Aid (1985):

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