Saturday, July 5, 2025

Exiles On The Same Street

 

While browsing Stones covers, it became apparent that an Exile On Main Street cover album would be easy to assemble, especially since both Pussy Galore and Phish have recorded versions of the entire abum.  Fortunately, it was only necessary to use one song by each of them.

SIDE A: Rocks Off (Reagan Youth)/ Rip This Joint (Billy Squier)/ Shake Your Hips (Th' Legendary Shack Shakers)/ Casino Boogie (Casino Steel)

SIDE B: Tumbling Dice (Blackberry Smoke)/ Sweet Virginia (Jerry Lee Lewis)/ Torn And Frayed (Black Crowes)/ Sweet Black Angel (Wailing Souls)/ Loving Cup (US Rails)

SIDE C: Happy (Steve Conte)/ Turd On The Run (Pussy Galore)/ Ventilator Blues (Richard Hell & The Voidoids)/ Just Wanna See His Face (Blind Boys Of Alabama)/ Let It Loose (Phish)

SIDE D: All Down The Line (The Dirty Truckers)/ Stop Breaking Down (Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears)/ Shine A Light (Allison Crowe)/ Soul Survivor (Hoss).

AND ANOTHER THING: Here's the third (and final) volume of NUGGETIZED (more cover versions of songs compiled by Lenny Kaye from the First Psychedelic Era).  

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  1. jonderJuly 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM

    EXILES: https://pixeldrain.com/u/yJmHSh43

    NUGGETIZED v3: https://pixeldrain.com/u/pBfUdLvy

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    1. Art58KoenJuly 6, 2025 at 8:21 AM

      Listening to it now, excellent Jonder!

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    2. jonderJuly 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM

      Glad you like it! Exile is an album that I spent a lot of time with years ago. Haven't heard the songs in a long while, and it's interesting to refresh old memories with these versions. Some of them are quite good, and there are lyrics that I couldn't decipher in the original recordings which are interesting to hear. They seem to come from a more thoughtful and introspective person than the guy who wrote "I'm so hot for her and she's so cold."

      Beatrice Demesier is the vocalist on Reagan Youth's version of "Rocks Off".
      Keef plays on Jerry Lee's version of "Sweet Virginia".
      Sharon Jones and Saundra Williams of the Dap-Kings sing backup on "Shine A Light".

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    3. jonderJuly 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM

      Well, dang. Koen just showed me that the blog Cover Me already did this album, with five of the same cover song choices.

      https://www.covermesongs.com/2017/10/cover-rolling-stones-exile-main-st.html

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    4. art58koenJuly 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM

      Which clearly shows that great minds often think alike!

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  2. GuypinotJuly 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM

    Don't know if you know about it, but in 1968, Rabli8n' Jack Elliott put out an album on Reprise...one of the songs - very cool version - is "Connection."

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