More Covers of the Rolling Stones

    I hope it's not overkill, but I thought it was necessary to have a different cover of Satisfaction in each volume, especially as I just couldn't see leaving either the Devo or Otis Redding version out.  Also, while I was putting together these comps, I went back and listened to a lot of Stones albums, some of which I hadn't listened to in a long time - growing up listening to classic rock radio in the 70s kind of burns one out on just about any classic rock song that's in heavy rotation (for years and years...).  Anyway, I have to say that I came away newly impressed by how well the Stones transitioned into the disco era of the late 70's.  Some Girls, Emotional Rescue, and Tattoo You  aren't my favorite Stones albums, but, they still sound like a band following their muse, rather than a band just trying desperately to follow a trend.  I mean, I'm not gonna name any bands, but.....some releases from rock artists in the late 1970s and early 1980s were pretty dreckful.  

   Anyway, hope folks like this third volume.

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Backstreet Girl	Lambchop
Loving Cup	The Bittersweets
Angie	Womack And Womack
Fool To Cry	Tegan & Sara
Honky Tonk Women	The Flying Burrito Brothers
19th Nervous Breakdown	Jason & The Scorchers
Brown Sugar	Alice Russell
Sister Morphine	Ren Harvieu
As Tears Go By	Marianne Faithfull
Ventilator Blues	Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Gimme Shelter	Cal Tjader
Paint It Black	The Feelies
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	Devo

Leave No Stones Song Uncovered: A Tribute to the Rolling Stones

      Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are both turning 80 this year (July 26 and December 18, respectively) so I thought it only appropriate to put together a Rolling Stones tribute.  Perhaps maybe I should have done a compilation of songs the Rolling Stones recorded themselves, but I still find that a compilation of covers almost always gives me a better appreciation of the musicians' artistry and songwriting ability.  Even though there are very few covers on this compilation that I definitively prefer to the Rolling Stones' versions (and I shan't say which ones), but they all have their charms and hearing the song in a different voice often enhances my fondness for the original.  Anyway, hope you like them and I'll post a Volume 3 next week 

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  Volume One

Dead Flowers	Townes Van Zandt
She Smiled Sweetly	Billy Bragg
No Expectations	Odetta
Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind	Vashti Bunyan
Jumpin' Jack Flash	Ananda Shankar
Mother's Little Helper	Liz Phair
Let's Spend The Night Together	Joe Simon
Satisfaction	Otis Redding
Aqui En Mi Nube	Sonia
Play With Fire	The Fleshtones
Miss You	The Concretes
Wild Horses	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
I Got The Blues	Aloe Blacc & Joel Van Dijk
Volume Two
Waiting On A Friend	Over the Rhine
Emotional Rescue	St. Vincent
Moonlight Mile	Lee Fields
You Can't Always Get What You Want	P.P. Arnold
Sympathy For The Devil	Motörhead
The Last Time	Dwight Yoakam
Satisfaccion	Los Apson
What a Shame	Lorelle Meets The Obsolete
Under My Thumb	Veronica Falls
Bitch	The Sugarman 3
Just Wanna See His Face	The Blind Boys Of Alabama
I Am Waiting	Jennifer Warren
I'd Much Rather Be with the Boys	Reigning Sound