It’s Free Basin’ Friday! You know the drill. We’re all set to give you the chance to win some killer jams before you head off into your Weekend Wonderland. Man, have we got a prize for you! This week we’ll be giving away the first six releases of our 10 Year Anniversary 7″ Series!
So far in the series:
- Iggy Pop & Zig Zags covering Betty Davis’ “If I’m In Luck I Might Get Picked Up”
- Sweet Tea (members of Black Angels & Heartless Bastards) covering Wendy Rene’s “After Laughter Comes Tears”
- Charles Bradley & Menahan St Band covering Rodriguez’s “I’ll Slip Away”
- Ariel Pink & Dam-Funk covering Donnie & Joe Emerson’s “Baby”
- Mark Lanegan covering Karen Dalton’s “Same Old Man”
- Gold Leaves covering Lee Hazlewood’s “Won’t You Tell Your Dreams”
For your chance to win, dream up your ideal cover song (any band covering any song) and leave it in a comment below with your name and email address (kept private) in the proper fields! Winner will be chosen and announced next Friday! Good luck and have a killer weekend!
Tags: Ariel Pink, Charles Bradley, Dam-Funk, Iggy Pop, Karen Dalton, Mark Lanegan, RODRIGUEZ, Sweet Tea
Marcos Valle covering The Byrds’ well anything… but Artificial Energy or Get to You.
Sharon jones doing”funkytown”….. Oh yeah!
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins doing his thing with Lee Hazlewood’s ‘Dark In my Heart’
Bettye Lavette with the Dap Tones covering The Screaming Trees’ “Dollar Bill”
Jack White covering Willie Nelson’s “Hands On the Wheel”
Brian Wilson covering Plush ‘ Found A Little Baby’
Roky Erickson covering Mudhoney’s “Touch Me I’m Sick”
Enon covering Harry Nilsson’s “Jump Into the Fire.”
Willie Nelson (mid 70′s era) covering Tim Buckley’s “Song To The Siren”.
Royal Trux (ca. Veterans of Disorder) covering Art Ensemble of Chicago/Fontella Bass’ “Theme De Yoyo”
Nick Cave covering ‘it’s only a paper moon’
Whooty WHoo!
Wait, I want Om to cover Six Pence None The Richer’s Kiss me. DANKE!
Neil Diamond covering The Misfits-Last Carress.
The Roots covering Jorge Ben Jor’s ‘Take it Easy my Brother Charlie’ b/w Jorge Ben Jor covering The Roots ‘You Got Me’
Brendan Benson covering Robert Plant’s “Big Log “
Os Mutantes covering Call Me Maybe
rodriguez covering this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7yoO1w-FyM
Flaming lips covering cortez the killer by neil young
Gary Clarke, Jr. covering ‘Hot, Blue and Righteous’ by ZZ Top..
The Coup do Sly & the Family Stone’s I Want To Take You Higher
Charles Bradley covering Nick Cave
Natural Child and First Aid Kit doing ”something to brag about” by george jones and Tammy wynette
Donnie and Joe covering Roxy Music – More than this.
A Side: Spiritualized covering 13th Floor Elevators: “You’re Gonna Miss Me”
B Side: Roky Erikson covering Spiritualized “Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in Space”
Great Contest!
Hiss Golden Messenger doing Bowie’s Young Americans
WEEN covering Sealed with a Kiss
Bonnie Prince Billy singing Merle Haggard’s “My Own Kind of Hat”!!!
Tom Waits growling Jeffrey Osborne’s “On the Wings of Love.”
Mark Lanegan – I’ll take care of you covering Brook benton
Tindersticks covering Stereolab’s “You Little Shits”
mountain mocha kilimanjaro covering iron maiden’s run to the hills.
The Misfits Covering Tony Joe White’s Polk Salad Annie
I LOVE the idea of Rodriguez covering John Martyn’s “Solid Air”. Don’t you?
Brian Eno covering Mercury Rev’s “opus 40″.
Matthew E. White covering Jim Ford’s “Love On My Brain”
Lee Hazlewood truthin’ Curtis Mayfield’s “If There’s A Hell Below”…complete with a trademark spoken intro, of course.
Notorious BIG – I Did It My Way
Bon Iver covering the Beatles “Something”
Wu-Tang Clan covering Nine Inch Nails “Closer”
Wilco covering The Kinks ‘Little Bit of Emotion’. Replace horns with Mikael’s keyboards and let Nel’s make the guitar solo his own in a way only Nels can. Tweedy on acoustic and vocals of course.
Leon Russell covering The Replacement’s “Here Comes A Regular”.
João Gilberto covering The Beatles “Julia”.
Slick Rick covering Oscar Brown Jr’s “The Snake”.
White Stripes covering 2112 by Rush
Johnny Cash & Tennessee 3 doing Feederz “Jesus Entering From the Rear” :)
Alabama Shakes covering Oh Sweet Nuthin’ by the Velvet Underground