Thursday, March 10, 2022

You Could Have Stood By Me, For Heaven's Sake

And speaking of Dwight Yoakam, as we have been for some reason this week, from 1997 and his fabulous Under the Covers album, here's the man hisself and a drop dead great version of The Clash classic "Train in Vain."

I don't know if the song's authors, i.e. Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, ever heard that version, although I presume they must have, but I'm pretty sure they would have dug the hell out of it if they did.

3 comments:

GetAwayGoober said...

From Dwight's Used Records, his take on Johnny Cash's Understand Your Man is complete with the mariachi horns.

daudder said...

its excellent. great songs are great songs, but when they are translated into another genre, their greatness multiplies....thnaks!

Gummo said...

This is the difference between merely covering a song and re-imagining it.

Reimagining is much more dangerous but potentially much more rewarding.

He pulls it off here, for sure. Great version!