Jay Farrar Covers Project

windshield · Post by **windshield** » Wed May 18, 2011 7:12 am

Hi Derekf, kudos on your great project! Downloading as I get home

derekf · Post by **derekf** » Wed May 18, 2011 6:39 am

Thanks for all the kind words. This is an on-going project, I suspect there will be a part two at some point. I'm sure some of you have songs not on the list, I have a few others as well but the quality is so poor I left them off. That said, if anyone has something they'd like to add feel free to send them to me.

Windshield, I loved your Planet Caravan, good job.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UQ0YY5TH

As always, let me know if there are any problems with the download and I'll do what I can to fix it. This is a large file, 608 mb. Sorry, not available on vinyl.

HEAVEN MUST BE LEARNED · Wed May 18, 2011 6:05 am

Yes Yes Yes! Awesome. Go for it.

ct · Post by ct » Wed May 18, 2011 5:01 am

Dam what a list, I love the fact that Jay does a cover song.
The man has turned me on to some great artist.

On a side note, the first time I saw Steve Earle, I think it was the Trans Blues tour. He covered Nirvana Territorial Pissings.

windshield · Post by **windshield** » Wed May 18, 2011 3:13 am

Uh, and your own very forum lurking windshield did a Sabbath cover too

zach · Post by **zach** » Tue May 17, 2011 9:32 pm

I really like Jay's covers. He's great at covers. Great project.

Speaking of Sabbath, on the Giant Sand covers album "Cover Magazine" Howe plays "Iron Man."

http://owomrecords.com/archives/48

3. “Iron Man” (Iommi, Butler, Ward, Osbourne)

-One of the greatest songs ever written and oddly over looked for reinterpretation. I heard the ëLibre de Graseí boys playing their set one night and had an immense desire to utilize the piano with them. Bringing them in to attempt Ozzy became a kind of obsession. After the obtuse session, I realized the recording of my bathtub drain might fit nicely over the top. Ooh, hear how it mixes delightful with the congas?

hardwood floor · Post by **hardwood floor** » Tue May 17, 2011 7:12 pm

what a great project

props to you for putting this together

any good jay versions of cotton fields available?

Tupelo Son · Post by **Tupelo Son** » Tue May 17, 2011 6:30 pm

That's some serious digging, Mister D!

Left A Slide · Post by **Left A Slide** » Tue May 17, 2011 6:12 pm

Holy Crap!
Nice job.

manshank · Post by **manshank** » Tue May 17, 2011 6:08 pm

jezzem crow..........quite a project............well done

unchartedthickets · Post by **unchartedthickets** » Tue May 17, 2011 5:57 pm

fucking Flowers genius!

Coffee Creek · Post by **Coffee Creek** » Tue May 17, 2011 2:20 pm

Are you kidding?! Of course there's interest!

Please and thank you.

CC

derekf · Post by **derekf** » Tue May 17, 2011 2:11 pm

I know some folks around here are not always happy with Jay and company closing shows with covers, given his "rich back catalog" (I can't recall who said that) but I view it differently. I love it when I go to a show, any show, and the band pays homage to a band that came before or influenced them in some way. In that spirit, I've been working on this for a while.

Ain't No More Cane
Apartment # 9
Are You Ready For The Country
Are You Sure Hank Done it This Way
Armagideon Time
Atomic Power
Baby Blue
Baby, Please Don't Go
Back To The Country
Blue Eyes
Born To Be Wild
Cairo Blues
Can't Find My Way Back To Texas
Candyman
Carmelita
Carmelita-Sound Check
Child Of The Moon
Cinnamon Girl
Cocaine Blues
Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown
Communication Breakdown
Cortez the Killer
Dead Flowers
Devil In Disguise
Do-Re-Mi
Down by the River
Drug Store Truck Driving Man
Effigy
Fannin Street
Fortunate Son
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Give Back The Key To My Heart
Goin' Down South
Going, Going, Gone
Good Times
Good Year For The Roses
A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall
Hello Goodbye
Hello There
Hickory Wind
Holocaust
Home of the Blues
I'm A Little Uneasy
I'm Not Like Everybody Else
I'm Not That Kat Anymore
I'm not that Kat Anymore Sound Check
I've Got to Know
I Drink Stag
I Found That Essence Rare
I Got A Right
I Still Miss Someone
I Wanna Destroy You
I Wanna Destroy You
Is Anybody Going to San Antone
John Hardy
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Last Time Around
Left In The Dark
Like a Hurricane
Little Guitars
Lonesomem, On'ry and Mean
Lookin' At The World Through A Windshield
Love's Gonna Live Here Again
Love's Gonna Live Here Again
Love You To
Lucifer Sam
Made In Japan
Maggie's Farm
Mendocino
Mercedes Benz
Moonshiner
Mr. Soul
Mystifies Me
No Depression
No Matter What
Open All Night
Orange Blossom Special
Otherside
Please Don't Bury Me
Powderfinger
Rex's Blues
Roll Another Number
Shake Some Action
She's More to be Pitied
Sin City
Sing Me Back Home
Sing Me Back Home
Sometimes
Song To Woody
Suzy Q
Texas Me
Thanks A Lot
Tomorrow Never Knows
Truck Drivin' Man
Tulsa County
The Waiting Is The Hardest Part- Sound Check
Wallflower
Wasn't Born To Follow
Weary Blues From Waiting
Weighted Down (The Prison Song)
Whiskey Bottle
White Freightliner Blues
Willin'
You're Still On My Mind
Your Gentle Way Of Lovin' Me
15 Absolutely Sweet Marie
16 Absolutely Sweet Marie
2000 Light Years From Home
5D (with Roger McGuinn)

Before posting a link to download, I wanted to make sure that first there is a desire to hear the collection and second, that it won't piss anyone in authority off. Perhaps Mark Spencer will weigh in on the subject. I tried to only include live shit that isn't commercially available and in a couple of cases there are 2 versions because I couldn't figure out which one I liked better.

Now, if only Jay would discover his inner Black Sabbath.

Anyhow, let me know, I'll be back tomorrow.

Jay Farrar Covers Project

I love a good cover!

Jay Farrar Covers Project