today i was listening to jeff buckley's grace cd and started wondering what it would sound like if over the rhine covered the song 'hallelujah'.

given time, i'm sure i could come up wtih other fantasy covers for the band but right now i'm interested if any one else out there has any thoughts for possible otr cover songs.

yes kylie, i know you REAAAALLLLYYYYY want to hear karin sing proud mary!

on a wonderful friday eve.
zayne

I said this a long time ago on the list, but I've always wanted to hear Karin take on "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." Imagine the chills...

I've wanted to hear Karin do SON OF A PREACHER MAN forever... Someday, someday...

EDIT: I moved this topic from the MEMBER BIO forum to the general OTR forum.

Now, that would be nice. I wouldn't mind hearing Karin wrap her voice around most anything Dusty Springfield did.

thanks drew, i realized my mistake wayyyyy too late to do anything abt it.

z

Tainted Love or Trust in Me (yes, from Junglebook )

I think something by Natalie Merchant would be nice.
'Carnival' or 'Motherland'....maybe 'I may Know the Word'
Simon and Garfunkle's 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' would sound great as a K/L duet with either or both on piano...I think it would make a nice quiet acoustic.
'Big Yellow Taxi' would be awesome IMO....very Karin.
'Chucky's in Love' by Rickie Lee Jones
Just a few thoughts.
T xo

Yaz's (also: Yazoo) Upstairs at Eric's was one of my first cd purchases, I can't believe it's 21 years old... so on that note, to hear Karin belt out 'Midnight' would be so freakin' cool.

I'd love to hear an Elvis Costello song.
"Almost Blue" maybe (at least he performed it, now I'm wondering if he wrote it or not....) else "All This Useless Beauty".

friends and i were talking about covers after the excellent louisville show wednesday night. one stated she would LOVE to hear karin cover patsy cline's song 'crazy'.

we also made a new otr convert wednesday night!!!!

be well,
zayne

I'm not sure this qualifies as a "cover", but I would absolutely love to see K&L do a recital of Schubert's songs. If you've never heard them (well, you've doubtless heard Ave Maria), Happy to Be So is very reminiscent of his more tragic compositions. I know they're both classically trained, although I don't know if Karin sings in German.

But I'd settle for Son of a Preacher Man.

I'd like to hear them interpret Yes' "Wonderous Stories". Karin covering Jon Anderson's vocals would be cool, Linford backing would be neat, and it somehow strikes me that song could have a real OtR-type feel.

Plus, I never caught it live at any Yes show

Eric

I hadn't thought about "Crazy." That would be even better then Norah Jones' cover, which is incredible in and of itself.

O.K., this dates me, but I'd enjoy Linford's creative piano/keyboard ramblings almost as much as Karin on "Whiter Shade of Pale!"

That's another good one. I think we've come up with an interesting collection of songs should Linford & Karin begin looking for material for a cover's album...

heard fleetwood mac's song 'landslide' on the way home tonight -- wonder what it would sound like flowing from karin.

thinking out loud,
zayne

Yeah, Bridge Over Troubled Waters would be lovely.
And, yeah, Elvis Costello wrote Almost Blue.

I'd love them to do a slow, acoustic cover of Dylan's Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You. (Original lyrics here, though they've been changed some over the years -- the Live '75 collection opens with a great version of this song with slightly different lyrics.)
His song Forever Young would be lovely, too.
And I'd love to hear Karin wrapping her voice around Come Rain Or Come Shine.

God Bless America at the Cinti Reds opening day.

Morning has Broken - Cat Stevens

Dave

freebird

lol

now you know better than that don't you!

think you lose your bill/karin picture posting privileges for that one.


sunday,
zayne

Uh....
I don't get it.
Txo

i think "freebird" got requested a lot @ early shows. maybe if people weren't familiar with them or, thought they were a cover band. karin's response was usually "if i had a nickle". i think they ought to just do it.

Being that Christmas time is approaching, and the tour looks to be starting back up, I would love to hear an accapella (sp?), crowd sing along version of O Come All Ye Faithful. Would also love to hear Karin belt out What a Wonderful World.

This would make me one happy country boy.

Russ

Of course (as always, haha) I have to agree with Bethany and say that "All this Useless Beauty" would be a great one to hear.
I have to disagree with "Ave Maria," because everyone does that one.
I have yet to hear a badly done version of Prince's "When Doves Cry," (save for Prince's), so it might be interesting to hear them take a stab at it.
Oooooh, I don't know if any of you are familar with the now defunct band "My Brother's Mother," but they had a wonderful song called "Someday" that I think I'd like to hear.
And of course, wouldn't it be great to hear Karin attempt to do something from Tori Amos? Maybe "God" or "Silent all these years."

I'd love to hear Karin sing Joni Mitchell's River. Emily Salier's did a version on 1200 Curfews and I was imagining how awesome it would be to hear a Karin version.

[quote=michelle,Mar 8 2004, 06:43 PM]I'd love to hear Karin sing Joni Mitchell's River. Emily Salier's did a version on 1200 Curfews and I was imagining how awesome it would be to hear a Karin version.[/quote]
Gah! I was gona say Jonies Mitchell's, "River"! Great minds think alike, eh, Michelle? I have heard many many covers of this song, but it's always moved me. Moved me to tears at a Tori Amos concert!
~margarita
Quoth michelle: [/quote]

No, no, no. Freebird is an international joke request. People yell it out at every concert. I have no idea how it all got started, but it certainly isn't specific to K&L. I like to yell it out at rap concerts, and I'm waiting for the day some hipster says, "to h*ll with it" and breaks out in a most excellent hip-hop version.

"I'm as free as a bird
this homey you cannot change, yo"

I also would love to hear Karin cover Mitchell's River. I had hoped she'd drag it out at Taft last year, but I didn't hear anything about it. Would've been (can be?) a heck of a Christmas tribute.

Well aren't you the prophetic one, zayne!

EJ, Tiny Dancer or Mother, from Pink Floyd the Wall (Sinead did an excellent version of this live in Berlin.... You should check it out.) Into the Mystic just popped in my head, too, some good old Van.

Awesome.
And speaking of Joni Mitchell covers, in addition to 'Big Yellow Taxi', I'd love to hear
'Come in From the Cold'
T xo

Zayne,
Back in September when you posted this, did you ever think they would be doing it on the Christmas Tour?
T xo

i'm confident this will happen.

i only want the very beginning. the 'nice and easy' part. or the whole song - whatever. and i would prefer Linford do back up. like ike and tina.

you KNOW it would be great.

But of course... The mack-daddy of them all... Dusty Springfield's Son of a Preacher Man.

I'd pay good $$$ to hear Karin perform that one!

AAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! Anna, I love you. Reading that brought me to life before my caffeine! HA!


As for River, maybe, just maybe we'll get spoiled at Taft *this* year, eh? And Margarita, I knew great minds thought alike when you created the Scamper pin & charm (that I'm wearing now).

But I actually saw Karin hold up her middle finger and say "This is the only free bird we know." at a show once.

That's great! Thank you for the early-afternoon giggle.

Oh, isn't that a great song! One of my favorite Joni songs...

Feelin's mutual, ya know. Happy to oblige.

Freebird!!!! Haha. I actually yelled that the other night at a local show and the musicain said, "Here's your freebird" and she flipped me off. Hysterical.
Umm, I think it might be cool to hear OTR do some Costello covers. Maybe "Veronica," "All this uselss beauty."
Of course I am probably answering this question in this way because I"M SEEING ELVIS COSTELLO TONIGHT!!!

I'd like to hear them record the cover "Orphan Girl" that they have played live!

I really hoped that was going to be on OHIO

I've got that on some CD... Where'd it come from?

RE: Orphan Girl

If it's not off a bootleg, then it's pry from when it was an mp3 of the month...? Though which month/year I don't remember. Do you burn cd's from rarities?

"Orphan Girl" is a Gillian Welch song ... do you have any Gillian Welch CDs, Drew? That might be where you recognize it from (other than Karin's stunning live renditions, of course).

I am in full support of OtR covering "Son of a Preacher Man" and "Hallelujah." And I think Karin would do an amazing cover of "At Last (My Love Has Come Along)" as well.

I'm fairly certain Orphan Girl was a rarity of the month. And I think it was during the summer. 2002. Although I'm not certain. And by summer I mean the time including and surrounding my summer break from school.

Hrm. No Gillian CDs here. Musta been from a Rarity... That's the only thing I can think of.

Unless, of course, they played it at one of my house concerts. That COULD be it.

Orphan Girl is also on a compilation CD called Lifted which includes a Rufus Wainwright version of Hallelujah. Starbucks sells it. Could this be where you heard it Drew?

I'm going crazy thinking of these cover songs. "Son of a preacher man" makes me very excited, along with "Into the Mystic" (I love me some good Van), "At Last" and Hello! "Tiny Dancer" would be awesome too. Let me just say "Hallelujah" was breathtaking and "Fever" was so hot.

But let me tell you all something very important. This is the one they must do. It's absolutely perfect. I don't know if you've heard of a little gal called Eva Cassidy (bless her departed soul). She used to sing a Pete Seeger song called "Oh, Had I a Golden Thread" (which apparently was her favorite song). It's got a kick ass Hammond organ part and Karin's voice would be right at home in this melody. Plus, it's a fun song to sing.

Of course, the only problem with hearing Karin and linford's cover of a song is that it seems ridiculous that anyone else would try to do it.

gettin chills,

Nichole

Nichole

Nah. Before I'd ever go into Starbucks, I'd let someone take a giant dump in my mouth. Starbuck's coffee is over-roasted to the point of being unacceptable to me.

I _know_ I've got Orphan Girl sung by Karin somewhere on CD. I'll hunt around. Maybe it was a house-concert.

Thinks for rubbing it in twice. I'm not jealous at all or anything.

At my house.

It was a house concert.

At my house.

(Sorry... Had to rub it in some more!)

P.S. It was a house concert at my house.

rough, drew. we're obviously not as lucky as you. what do you think they'd charge to come to my house for a bar-b-que this summer? there'll be free food and meed for them! my brother steev does a great rendition of "hallelujah" but i bet karin and linford could out-do him any day. my vote? son of a preacher man. think if we start a petition, they'll do the most requested one?