Cover Wars: Angel From Montgomery Edition
Written by
DaveO on
03.11.2008 |
Bonnie Raitt, Cover Wars, Dave Matthews, Hot Buttered Rum, Keller Williams, Max Creek, Strangefolk, Susan Tedeschi, Tea Leaf Green
The votes are in and we can say the mandate from last week’s Cover Wars belongs to…….Grateful Dead.
This week’s edition features a song so fantastic that dudes in many bands have no problem whatsoever citing the opening lyrics, “I am an old woman named after my mother”. Three-chord songs really are a thing of beauty. Wikipedia tells me that, Songwriter Harlan Howard once said “All you need to write a country song is three chords and the Truth.”
That’s all that original performerJohn Prine has here, and it is most certainly was an instant classic. Let’s take a look at a few renditions after the jump.
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