‘The Best Covers Ever’ series counts down our favorite covers of great artists.
Last week, we ranked the 30 Best Police Covers. We debated at the time whether to group Sting solo songs into that list. Ultimately, we decided that Sting’s solo songs are just too different—more mellow, more adult-contemporary, and, most importantly, missing two essential ingredients that made The Police The Police. So, today, a bonus list rounding up ten killer covers of songs from Sting’s post-Police career. Continue reading »
There are a number of ways to tackle a covers album. The easiest is arguably to top-load it with songs and/or artists sufficient to attract the applicable demographic of fans. On Don’t Let It Die, Vol. 1, Deslondes have assuredly not done this. Indeed, this album houses a dozen deep cuts that would credit the deepest of crate diggers. None of these songs are on the tip of tongues of John Q. Listeners out there, let alone those of grizzled old completists like me. Indeed, if you know this New Orleans band and their quirky take on a country-funk jamband ethos, Don’t Let It Die could easily pass as all their own work. Which is no bad thing.
The Tom Waits fanbase is not entirely starved for news lately, but most of it is about Waits’s acting career. On the music side, the news is small change: something about singing on a new Pogues tribute, and similar tidbits.
