Other Songs Converted to Bluegrass

[ChrisStewart]

Excuse me if this is a duplicate thread.

I think it is interesting to find other songs and convert them to bluegrass. Although after hearing Dolly Parton do "Stairway to Heaven" I know it doesn't always work.

Here are some I do: (some done by the Country Gentlemen)

Redwood Hill -Gordon Lightfoot
Early Morning Rain - "
Teach Your Children -Simon & Garfunkle?
The Boxer - "
Time for me to Fly -REO Speedwagon
Fire -Bruce Springsteen
Brain Damage -Pink Floyd
Somewhere Over the Rainbow -?

Anyone else have some good ones?

[Jim Garber]

I've Just Seen a Face -- The Beatles

[billkilpatrick]

more nashville than bluegrass - but "misty" by ray stevens:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRZcQsGQbE0

[Jim Broyles]

Teach Your Children = Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Good BG conversion number.

[JeffD]

When I think about taking tunes and "bluegrassing" them, I can't help but think of Prairie Home Companion's Robin and Linda Willians in their roles as Marvin and Mavis Smiley, doing bluegrass versions of just anything - Fiddler on the Roof, or is in this link, high opera solos.

Its a hoot.

http://www.amazon.com/Marvin-Mavis-S.../dp/B0010W7A78

[ChrisStewart]

Oh yea, thanks Jim (and I even have that album)

I've Just Seen a Face -- The Beatles -that's a good one
also - Don't Pass me By

"misty" by ray stevens: -that may take an actual vocalist

[Fred Keller]

One After 909 makes a great bluegrass train song.

[billkilpatrick]

"misty" by ray stevens: - that may take an actual vocalist

... with or without adenoidal whine?

[GVD]

..Time for me to Fly -REO Speedwagon...

Don't know about that one but the Cafe's own Ron Pennington and the Lonesome Road Band sure worked up a good version of REO's "Keep On Rolling". I really the second break Ron does about 3:05 into it.



GVD

[GVD]

Teach Your Children = Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Good BG conversion number.

Man I pulled out one of my old CS & N cd's just the other day and got to thinking the same thing. I started working it up and played it for the rest of our band at our next practice. Turned out only one other person in the band was familiar with the song. It's hell getting old!

GVD

[mandozilla]

'Peaceful Easy feeling' by the Eagles works.

[mandopete]

One of the best rock cover projects ever was Larry Cordell's excellent tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd called Lonesome Skynyrd Time. I was really impressed with how well all of those tunes worked with bluegrass instrumentation.

Another project worthy of mention if you can find it is the Charles River Valley Boys' Beatle Country.

[auteq]

One of the best rock cover projects ever was Larry Cordell's excellent tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd called Lonesome Skynyrd Time. I was really impressed with how well all of those tunes worked with bluegrass instrumentation....

I concur. I like "call me the breeze" (which I think is a cover for LS too??) to a) do myself and b) listen too- the mandolin solo in Cordell's version is very good.

Also "Honky Tonk Woman" Stones.... and more popular now thanks to OCMS "Wagon Wheel" Dylan

[ChrisStewart]

[QUOTE=GVD;654118]Don't know about that one but the Cafe's own Ron Pennington and the Lonesome Road Band sure worked up a good version of REO's "Keep On Rolling". I really the second break Ron does about 3:05 into it.


Yes that does well

here is my version of time for me to fly: other than we aren't very good I think it works

The Country Gentlemen did Teach Your Children I have it on 25 Years CD

[Barb Friedland]

My band does a bunch of oldies that audiences seem to enjoy :
Blue Moon (the rock and roll tune)
Hello Mary Lou
It Doesn't Matter Anymore
Hand Jive
Don't Be Cruel

We also do I've Just Seen a Face and want to work up more Beatles tunes.

We are delving into broader territory. We currently do a smoking version of Fever and I plan to work on:
Dream a Little Dream of Me
Angel from Montgomery

[mandozilla]

I just thought of this one, the early R & R song 'I'm Walking' by J.D. Crow & the New South'...can't remember who recorded it originally.

[MikeEdgerton]

We do I've just seen a face, The Boxer, Teach your children, California Dreamin', Sea of heartbreak, and of course our re-write of the theme from the Godfather, Don Corleone's Breakdown.

[mrmando]

I just thought of this one, the early R & R song 'I'm Walking' by J.D. Crow & the New South'...can't remember who recorded it originally.

Fats Domino if I'm not mistaken.

[Fretbear]

"Somewhere Over The Rainbow"

[AlanN]

A gorgeous solo mandolin version of SOTR is on a John Reischman workshop tape I have buried in the stack. The voicings and sustain he gets are luscious.

[mandozilla]

our re-write of the theme from the Godfather, Don Corleone's Breakdown.

Wow Mike! I'll bet that's cool. Got a sound file of that one?

BTW, "Don't ever let anyone outside the family know what you're thinking!"

[journeybear]

Demolition String Band - Like A Prayer

Elena Skye, the singer, plays mandolin - not in the video but on the recording (I think), buried in the mix.

I play a bluegrass version of "Little Wing" which I will put up on youtube if I can sort out the technology.

[mandozilla]

I can hear the mandolin chopping in there. The guitar picker needs to chuck that electric and get himself a Martin and they need to 86 the drummer and get a, gulp, 5 string b**jo going in there...IMHO.

[journeybear]

I can hear the mandolin chopping in there. The guitar picker needs to chuck that electric and get himself a Martin and they need to 86 the drummer and get a, gulp, 5 string b**jo going in there...IMHO.

Get a - WHAT? Hush yo' mouth!

They kind of got all gussied up for the video shoot. Didn't want to appeal to a bluegrass (that is, acoustic) audience. Love the wig, though. And the twang. Twang is good ...

[mandolooter]

Carrie has a nice version of Turn the Page on her Myspace pagehttp://www.myspace.com/carriehasslerandhardrain