Obscure COVERS

[rayc]

Hi Folks,
I bought a CD late last year that had some surprising stuff on it. It was/is Fairport Convention's 1st & eponymous LP.
It was a shock because it is psych folk rather than the rediscovering of trad Brit folk & blend of rock that they are rightly famous for.
The other shock was their version, again folk psych, of LC's Suzanne. Not a bad cover at that. Well worth searching out if you don't have it.
Does any one else have pointers to obscure covers of LC songs?
Cheers
rayc

[Ghoti]

Not really a cover but i was surprised a few weeks ago to hear Micheal Stipe sing the first line of suzanne to tune his mike at an REM concert in dublin.

[Kush]

i've posted this before.....you can hear Russell Crowe (the actor) do a very good version of Take This Waltz on the link below...he sounds eerily like LC himself. Click on the link and wait a couple of secs...


http://membres.lycos.fr/christinebertel ... mmers2.htm

p.s. In between aiming telephones at hotel clerks and punching art directors he obviously has great taste in music and poetry.

[jarkko]

Rayc, "Suzanne" is not the only LC cover performed by The Fairport Convention. On the same album (Heyday, 1969) they also covered "Bird on a wire", and in 1995 they returned to Cohen on the album "Jewel in the crown" with the track "Closing Time".

[rayc]

Hi Jarkko & Co.,
The album I referred to is 1968's eponymous release, (Polydor 068 291-2). The version has only a male vocal as it was, probably, recording between Judy Dyble leaving & Sandy Denny joining. It is a bonus track on the CD & it is inferred that it was previously unreleased. Is it the same version as on Heyday?
I'll have to look up Heyday as I only have the above plus Leige & Leif.
I'm not too surprise about Michael stipe. REM's version of FWTManhattan on I'm Your fan showed they had some taste back then in the midst of mega stardom.
I'll have a listen to the Kiwi Crowe this evening, (Australian's traditionally adopt NZ'ers when they are successful & abandone them when they gone wrong - but then again we do the reverse to our own - Tall Poppy syndrome used to be a corner stone of our culture).
Thanks for the nudges folks. I now have some mor stuff to look for & listen to.
Cheers
rayc