Friday, August 31, 2012

Radio KBwD is on the air: the covers edition





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Yeah, yeah... we know. It's the last Friday of the month rather than the first but we're calling the shots around here so just relax.


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First out of the box, from Kingsland, Arkansas, it's Johnny Cash performing "Big River":

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And now for the cover, from deep in intergalactic space, it's the Grateful Dead doing it live in 1991:




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Yes, that is Bruce Hornsby on the piano.


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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Always enjoy the covers edition. John covered so many and did it so well, but the 'Dead did not do this justice.

'Dawg

Hey, I don't have a lot of time to recover my Google account. I was requested to fill out a new profile, but was blocked so many times....why the anon.

B-Daddy said...

Thanks, I don't remember this particular effort by Johnny Cash. Of course I prefer the Cash version. But to give the Dead credit, they don't seem to be covering this tune so much as rebooting it as a New Orleans jazz band number.

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