Cover To Cover
It's been interesting to watch the cover songs of Gordon Lightfoot. One of them was by Billy Joel of Sundown . I hate to say it but the covers of Lightfoot don't do justice to the originals. What might be happening is that the recording itself makes the song. Some people intimately identify with recordings, which is one of the primary reasons that people like to hear cover music as close to the recording as possible. It's the recording that echoes in our heads, not the song itself being performed with just the voice and accompaniment. It's the emotion in the sounds draped around the musical framework of the song. Personally, I like radical re-arrangements and interpretations of music that express the core of the music, but even then, the songwriters might see it as inappropriate because they were there with the muse when they got the idea. What's interesting about the evolution of ideas into recorded versions is that it is kind of a "confabulation", not un...
