Cover versions you like better than the originals

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Written & originally recorded by John Lee Hooker
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John Lee Hooker, 1964 Vee-Jay #575
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Rufus Thomas and company killing it with a cover of "Tutti Frutti". Great wah, great brassy-sounding fuzzy slide:



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:headpop: i just heard this! it's pre Big Star but sounds like an out-take from Like Flies On Sherbert

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simonm wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 7:23 pm :headpop: i just heard this! it's pre Big Star but sounds like an out-take from Like Flies On Sherbert
Dude, whatever you do, if you like "Flies on Sherbert", grab a copy of "Free Again: The 1970 Sessions". Absolutely KILLER. Some of my favourite Chilton stuff ever. :tu:
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^love that and cheers for the heads up Horsey

Heard this today on the radio, not heard it in years. 801 live :party:

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HorseyBoy wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:39 pm
simonm wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 7:23 pm :headpop: i just heard this! it's pre Big Star but sounds like an out-take from Like Flies On Sherbert
Dude, whatever you do, if you like "Flies on Sherbert", grab a copy of "Free Again: The 1970 Sessions". Absolutely KILLER. Some of my favourite Chilton stuff ever. :tu:
I've always been meaning to get it, is there a decent vinyl version?
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