Back in the days when jambands were called H.O.R.D.E. bands, Boulder’s The Samples made a name for themselves by writing a ton of catchy songs and inserting a slew of tasty solos into the rock/reggae stew they cooked up. Sadly, they are one of the most recent entries to the Jamband Graveyard after calling it quits in April. Let’s continue Pullin’ ‘Tubes - Jamband Graveyard week with a video from the band’s heyday in the mid ’90s.
Back in 1993, the Dave Matthews Band frequently opened for The Samples and the DMB even covered Nature occasionally. During many of those shows, members of the DMB often sat-in with The Samples and vice versa. Here’s one of the best collaborations to come from that tour - Dave Matthews guesting with The Samples on Did You Ever Look So Nice?
Well it’s official, Mr. Blotto is the first member of the Cover Wars Hall of Fame. They have won back-to-back weeks including both last week’s Houses of The Holy edition and the week before with Pinball Wizard.
Sure, maybe it’s the same guy that keeps voting over and over again with different IP addresses, but I don’t care! Umphrey’s McGee is likely headed to the CW HOF, as well, as they were the only other entry to give Mr. Blotto a run for their money last week. While it’s clear that voting is just a popularity contest, it’s my opinion that these two artists did have the best covers last week. Many of our readers pointed out that I omitted Gov’t Mule from the running, as they have covered the entire album. Surely, we’ll make it up to Mule fans with a review of the official release when it comes out.
As always, I want you listening to the whole track and not just 30 seconds of it, so you need to register/login to Imeem first.
On to this week, and the second edition of Cover [Album] Wars, we’ve got Neil Young’s second solo disc Everybody Knows this is Nowhere. This is Neil’s first solo album and his first with Crazy Horse as his backing band. Fun fact about Neil’s songwriting lifted from the Decade liner notes, I’ll transcribe this chicken scratch the best I can:
READ ON to check out the specs on this week’s contestants…
