I’m going to go ahead and declare a tie from our edition two weeks ago with The Bridge and Mr. Blotto refusing to quit as the votes go higher and higher - so we’ll call them both winners from when we looked at covers of Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys. Last week’s however has a clear winner, no big surprise here as Jerry Garcia & David Grisman received the majority of votes when we examined covers of Sitting In Limbo.

This week, we look at the title track off of a Buddy Miles album from 1970: Them Changes. While not as well known as the version on Band Of Gypsies, the studio cut features a funky groove with a horn section whereas the live Hendrix cut is more of your straight power-trio rocker. What’s great about this week’s Cover Wars is that we’ve got some bands with horns that play the lines from the studio recording and some guitar bands that are a little closer to the version most people know. Lots of good guitar work this week.

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After an exciting summer spent touring with Mike Gordon, prepping their latest album and performing at some of the nation’s biggest festivals, funk-jammers The Bridge returned to the road last weekend for yet another extensive tour. The Baltimore-based quintet bring their eclectic sound to Sullivan Hall in New York City on Thursday night and we’ve got your extras.

As part of our famous Everybody Wins When We Plug Something And In Return They Offer Us Free Shit To Give Away we’re offering up two free tickets to Thursday’s show. To win, all you have to do is leave a comment below naming your favorite song with the word Train in the title. Why train? Well, Hyena Records have shared an MP3 with our readers of Let Me Off This Train from The Bridge’s new album, Blind Man’s Hill, which drops on October 21. So leave your favorite Train song below and we’ll announce a winner (picked at random) tomorrow around Noon. Good luck!

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We’re happy that the winners of Cover Wars are continuing to diversify. For a while, a few usual suspects were consistently walking away victorious from this weekly feature. But we saw Martin Sexton earn the most votes two weeks ago when we looked at covers of Wind Cries Mary, and the winner of last week’s Doobie Brothers Edition is none other than Dolly Parton!

Traffic - Santa Monica, CA (1972):

This week we are taking a look at the title track of Traffic’s 1971 album Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys. The song structure and shear length of the tune makes it quite conducive for an interesting Cover Wars.

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Normally, Phish has no problem winning an edition of Cover Wars regardless of their performance of the song in question. But the hardcore fans of Bonerama (can I call you people Boneheads?) made their virtual voices heard and their band has walked away victorious from last week’s Frankenstein Cover Wars.

This week’s selection was inspired by flipping through my RSS feed of shows added to bt.etree.org on Monday. I saw two sources of the Gov’t Mule’s show from 8-8-2008 get posted and I thought - hey, Spanish Moon could be a great Cover Wars to throw together. Written by Lowell George, Spanish Moon was first released on Little Feat’s fourth studio album Feats Don’t Fail Me Now. It would appear again four years later on the band’s first live recording Waiting For Columbus. Both recordings feature the Tower Of Power Horn Section.

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