My Morning Jacket “Do It Again” with Steely Dan Cover at Red Rocks

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Aug 202025
 
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My Morning Jacket is on the road, celebrating the 20th anniversary of their album, Z and at a recent gig at Red Rocks in Morrison, Colorado, busted out a cover of a Steely Dan classic.

After performing Z in its entirety, Jim James busted into “Do It Again,” from the Dan’s 1972 debut album, Can’t Buy a Thrill. With an impressive light show and smoke machine, MMJ’s version remained pretty faithful to the original. You can watch fan-shot footage of the performance below.

The Red Rocks show was one of five shows on this tour that saw the band perform all of Z to mark it’s 20th anniversary and an upcoming deluxe reissue.

Lest you think My Morning Jacket has the market cornered on “Do It Again” covers, Smash Mouth covered the song on the soundtrack for the 2000 comedy Me, Myself and Irene, before appearing on the band’s greatest hits record.

The Best Cover Songs of April 2025

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Apr 302025
 
Cover Songs of April
Ben Harper — Ghost Dance (Patti Smith cover)

Hopefully a full recording will be released of the Carnegie Hall tribute to Patti Smith. Until then, there are a number of videos on YouTube. Best I’ve seen is Ben Harper doing “Ghost Dance,” Smith’s mesmerizing mediation from 1978’s Easter. Note Flea on bass and Dylan/Costello sideman Charlie Sexton on guitar. Continue reading »

My Morning Jacket and Preservation Hall Cover Cymande’s “Bra” at Weekend Festival

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Apr 072025
 

Pretty much every band now has some sort of a weekend getaway festival event on their yearly calendar and My Morning Jacket are no different. This past weekend, the band held their third annual “One Big Holiday” event, this time in Miramar Beach, Florida. The festival kicked off on Thursday, with MMJ taking the closing spot. After playing a few songs off their most recently released record, the band wrapped up the evening by inviting members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band to join them on stage. After a performance of MMJ’s “Highly Suspicious,” the bands broke into a lovely version of British 1970’s funk band Cymande’s “Bra.” Continue reading »

Cover Me Q&A: What’s a cover that hits differently when the covering artist keeps the original lyrics?

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Jan 152025
 

Welcome to Cover Me Q&A, where we take your questions about cover songs and answer them to the best of our ability.

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Here at Cover Me Q&A, we’ll be taking questions about cover songs and giving as many different answers as we can. This will give us a chance to hold forth on covers we might not otherwise get to talk about, to give Cover Me readers a chance to learn more about individual staffers’ tastes and writing styles, and to provide an opportunity for some back-and-forth, as we’ll be taking requests (learn how to do so at feature’s end).

Today’s question:

What’s a cover that hits differently when the covering artist keeps the original lyrics?

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The Best Cover Songs of August 2023

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Aug 312023
 
Amanda Palmer and The Righteous Babes — The Last Day of our Acquaintance (Sinéad O’Connor cover)


You’re going to notice a theme here. We have the usual grab-bag included below (see “Best of the Rest”), but, for our featured covers up top, it’s all Sinéad. There were so many wonderful tributes performed, often in concert and always powerful and moving. Many did “Nothing Compares 2 U,” technically a Prince cover but really a Sinéad song now and forever, but others selected from elsewhere in her catalog. Of this one, which just came out Tuesday, Amanda Palmer wrote, “This song means a great deal to me, as does the artist who penned it, along with everything she still stands for.” A portion of the money from sales will be donated to The Irish Women’s Survivor Support Network. Continue reading »

The Best Cover Songs of July 2023

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Jul 312023
 
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Bob Dylan — Bad Actor (Merle Haggard cover)

Bob Dylan has been on a covers roll this year. On tour, he has primarily covered a number of Dead (“Truckin’,” “Stella Blue,” “Brokedown Palace”) or Dead-associated (“Not Fade Away,” “Only a River”) songs. But he’s dipped into other classic catalogs occasionally too. He did Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic” for the first time and then, not long after, maybe the deepest cut yet: Merle Haggard’s 2016 track “Bad Actor.” The tape took a while to surface. It was worth the wait. Continue reading »

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