Here's on what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
One	Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club	Even Better Than The Real Things, Vol. 3	U2
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own	The Persuasions	The Persuasions Sing U2	U2
Mysterious Ways	Angelique Kidjo	In The Name Of Love: Africa Celebrates U2	U2
With Or Without You	The Relatives	The Ultimate Tribute to U2	U2
Where The Streets Have No Name	Low Strung	Low Strung	U2
Numb	Wide Awake	The Dub Tribute to U2 from Vitamin Records	U2
40	Starfield	In The Name of Love: Artists United for Africa	U2
Love Is Blindness	Cassandra Wilson	New Moon Daughter	U2
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For	Marva Wright	I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For	U2

49 minutes |

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Here's on what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
Ich Kann Nix Darfur	Nena, Olli and Remmier	Ich Kann Nix Darfur	Peter, Bjorn & John "Young Folks"
Radiostar No Higeki	Floppy	Floppy	The Buggles "Video Killed The Radio Star"
Ved Me Dal, Cesto Ma	Pavel Bobek	30 Let Ceske Country	John Denver "Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Itsy Bitsy Petit Bikini	Richard Anthony	A Good Year	Brian Hyland
These Boots Are Made For Walking	Eileen	Tom Middleton Presents Crazy Covers Vol. 2	Nancy Sinatra
Shaft	Malik Adouane	La Musique De Paris Derniere, Vol. 4	Isaac Hayes
Helden	Apocalyptica	Worlds Collide	David Bowie "Heroes"

32 minutes |

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Here's on what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
Steppin' Out	Fantastic Plastic Machine	Hotel Costes, Etage 5	Joe Jackson
Start Me Up - Brown Sugar	Corcovado Frequency	Bossa 'N' Stones	The Rolling Stones
Always	Leonard Cohen	The Future	Irving Berlin
The Scientist	Aimee Mann	Lost In Space (Disc 2)	Coldplay
The Other Day I Met A Bear	Barenaked Ladies	The Simple Life: Camp Songs	Traditional
Livin' La Vida Loca	The Toy Dolls	Cheerio & Toodlepip - The COmplete Singles	Ricky Martin

50 minutes |

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Here's on what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
The River Of Dreams	Jerry Lawson & Talk Of The Town	Jerry Lawson & Talk Of The Town	Billy Joel
The Downeaster "Alexa"	Show Of Hands	Covers	Billy Joel
You May Be Right	Hussalonia	Glass Houses (free album download)	Billy Joel
It's Still Rock and Roll To Me	Kill Cupid	Push	Billy Joel
We Didn't Start The Fire	Nikki Puppet	Militant Mother	Billy Joel
Root Beer Rag	Wise Guys	Skandal	Billy Joel
And So It Goes	Jennifer Warnes	The Well	Billy Joel
Just The Way You Are	Barry White	Gold	Billy Joel

38 minutes |

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OK, I'll be the first to admit that I had low expectations for the new Scarlett Johansson all-Tom Waits cover album, "Anywhere I Lay My Head", when it was first announced. Relating the lyrics and songwriting of one of music's most revered songwriters seemed too lofty a task for any actress-turned-singer to take on.

But I've been listening to the "Listening Party" samples here:
http://www.scarlettalbum.com/listening.lasso

And I'm pleased to say that I like it. I like it a lot. Her voice, deep, echo-y and appearing distant within a lush wall of orchestration, doesn't try to do more than it should. Her vocals remind me a little of Patti Smith or Johnette Napolitano. I'll be picking this album up as soon as it's released, and hopefully getting permission to air a track or two on the show.

There are bigger Tom waits fans out there than me, though. I'd love to hear what you think of her interpretations. (If comments are still not working, send me an email, and I'll add a few responses to this post)

Here's on what's on the show tonight:

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Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
I Can't Turn You Loose	Was (Not Was)	What Up, Dog?	Otis Redding
Soul Man	Booker T. and the MG's	Soul Men	Sam & Dave
Hey Bartender	Koko Taylor	Koko Taylor (Deluxe Edition)	Floyd Dixon
Think	Joan Osborne	How Sweet It Is	Aretha Franklin
Rawhide	The Meteors	Corpse Grinder	TV Theme
Rubber Biscuit	Supersuckers	Devil's Food	The Chips
Squeezit The Moocher (Minnie The Moocher)	Danny Elfman	Forbidden Zone (Original Soundtrack)	Cab Calloway

34 minutes |


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Here's on what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor	Baby Charles	Baby Charles	The Arctic Monkeys
Romeo & Juliet	The Killers	Sawdust	Dire Straits
Islands In The Stream	Constantines & Feist	Single (available here!)	The Bee Gees/Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
Tonight You Belong To Me	The Bird And The Bee	One Too Many Hearts	Kay Starr/David Lee/Billy Rose
Knockin' On Heaven's Door	Danny Federici	Out Of A Dream	Bob Dylan
Sorcerer	Stevie Nicks	Trouble in Shangri-La	Stevie Nicks (re-cover)

53 minutes |

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There's a Musically Challenged in this show! Thanks to Jean Paul for sending it in!

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Very embarrassing!

Listener dwasson asked me for the link to the other members of the cover bloggers in the Roundtable episode #450, and I feel horrible that I didn't include them on the post (as I truly intended).

Here's they all are, and all are highly recommended!

Copy,Right:
http://copycommaright.blogspot.com/

Fong Songs:
http://fongsongs.blogspot.com/

Cover Freak:
http://coverfreak.com/

Cover Lay Down:
http://coverlaydown.blogspot.com/

Covering The Mouse:
http://www.coveringthemouse.com/

Here's on what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
Say It Ain't So (non-blbum bonus track)	MoZella	I Will	Weezer
Wanted Dead Or Alive	The Slackers	Wasted Days	Bon Jovi
Still Alive (Portal)	missFlag	Website	Jonathan Coulton
Black Hole Sun	Handsome Hank and His Lonesome Boys	La Collection Des Reprises Décalées	Soundgarden
Blitzkrieg Bop	The Ramonetures	The Ramonetures	The Ramones
My Sharona	Buffalo Daughter, Towa Tei & Tycoon Tosh	Flash	The Knack

35 minutes |

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There are some things happening with the website, and I want to make sure to keep everyone up-to-date on what's going on.

1. Comments are working again! I basically had to flush all the old Movable Type templates, which had dome some custom design work done, and use the new templates, which use a whole new system. But regardless, they're working, so comment to your heart's content!

2. The MP3 feed is having problems in iTunes for some users. If you're subscribed in iTunes to the MP3 feed, and you haven't gotten the last couple of shows, there's an easy solution. In iTunes, go to your Advanced Menu, and choose "Subscribe To Podcast". Then copy and paste the following:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/coverville

This will fix the issue. Sorry for the inconvenience. I'm looking into why this is working in other podcast receivers, but not iTunes.

3. I'm looking for a WordPress design guru. The change to Movable Type has still caused some other issues I'm not happy about, and I'm going to move the blog from Movable Type to WordPress. This is as good a time as any to do it, and I might as well take advantage of some design changes I wanted to make to the site at the same time. If you know CSS and WordPress and can help, please email me at the address at the top of the page. I could go to eLance and hire someone to do it, but I'd rather hire someone who knows the show and the site already. I don't have a huge budget, but I will pay you for your time and effort. Let's talk.

Thanks for your continued support of the show! Tristan and I will be recording a new episode today. Look for it soon.

The fine folks at Error FM's The Waiting Room have put together another installment of Drunk Covers, this one their sixth!

It'll air live tonight, and be available afterwards as a podcast.

Click Here

Here's on what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
Sad Songs and Waltzes	Cake	Fashion Nugget	Willie Nelson
I Hear You Knockin'	Willie Nelson	Goin' Home; A Tribute to Fats Domino	Fats Domino
On The Road Again	Me First & The Gimme Gimmes	Love Their Country	Willie Nelson
Goodnight Irene	Nitty Gritty Dirt Band w/Tom Petty & Willie Nelson	Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. 3	Leadbelly
Darkness On The Face Of The Earth	Jools Holland and His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, feat. KT Tunstall	Moving Out To The Country	Willie Nelson
One After 909	Willie Nelson	Come Together: America Salutes The Beatles	The Beatles
Everywhere I Go	Eddie Spaghetti	Old No. 2	Willie Nelson
Sitting In Limbo	Willie Nelson	Countryman	Jimmy Cliff

35 minutes |

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Here's on what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
American Girl	Saints of the Underground	Love The Sin, Hate The Sinner	Tom Petty
This Is How It Feels	Carter U.S.M.	You Fat Bastard	Inspiral Carpets
Have You Ever Seen The Rain?	Juju Stulbach	Have You Ever Seen The Rain - single	Creedence Clearwater Revival
Games Without Frontiers	Michael Knott	Website	Peter Gabriel
L-O-V-E	Fisher	Uppers & Downers	Nat King Cole
Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy	Jason Mraz	Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen	Queen

34 minutes |

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I've just upgraded the blog to Movable Type 4.1, to make it more compatible with the post generation tool I use (ecto).

But for whatever reason, I can't make the comments work. I've got a message on the Movable Type forums to see if there's someone who can help, so I hope to have comments up soon!

Honestly, I'd rather move the whole blog to WordPress (which all of my other blogs are using), but I think that with the number of posts, comments and links I have, it would be a huge undertaking.

If you're a subscriber to my daily podcast, "Today In Music History", you've noticed that there haven't been any updates for the past week. The TPN servers have been having some security issues, and because of hackers, I haven't been able to post any new shows.

I'm still producing them, however, and as soon as the servers are back up and running, I'll be posting all of the old shows as well.

Thanks for your patience!

Here's on what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
(sample) Nothing Compares 2 U	Dan Kelly	No Man's Woman	The Family/Sinead O'Connor
(sample) Over The Hiccups	Negativland	Escape From Noise	Judy Garland
Heartbreak Hotel	Blues Magoos	Never Goin' Back To Georgia	Elvis Presley
Young Americans	Danny Michel	Loving The Alien	David Bowie
Part Of Your World	Suemitsu & The Suemith	Man Here Plays Mean Piano	Disney
Anarchy In The U.K.	Low IQ 01 feat. Yukari Fresh	Master Low 2	The Sex Pistols
The Only Living Boy In New York	Shawn Colvin	Live at the Mann Theatre (8/9/01)	Paul Simon

90 minutes |

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After recording the Dave Edmunds show last night, my buddy Chris Browne called and invited me to the Nick Lowe concert at the Boulder Theater. I mentioned Nick several times during the Dave Edmunds Cover Story, as the two were frequent collaborators, so the coincidence of seeing Nick Lowe on the same day (and Mr. Edmunds' birthday) was too good to pass up.

The show was fantastic. It was Nick and his guitar in a solo acoustic performance. And in addition to playing several tracks from his latest album, At My Age, he covered his whole catalog of tracks, including some Rockpile stuff, and Brinsley Schwartz' original version of "What's So Funny ('Bout Peace, Love and Understanding)".

Nick is continuing his tour out East, touring with Ron Sexsmith, and I highly recommend you check him out if he's coming to a town near you.

Links:
Nick Lowe Tour Dates
The Nick Lowe Cover Story (to get you in the mood!)
Coverville 302, featuring Ron Sexsmith's "I Don't Like Mondays" cover

Here's on what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
The Race Is On	Dave Edmunds	The Dave Edmunds Anthology	George Jones
A1 On The Jukebox	Elizabeth McQueen and the Firebrands	Happy Doing What We're Doing	Dave Edmunds
When I Write The Book	Sparkle*Jets UK	Lowe Profile: A Tribute To Nick Lowe	Rockpile
When Will I Be Loved	Rockpile	Seconds Of Pleasure	The Everly Brothers
Queen Of Hearts	Dave Edmunds	Repeat When Necessary	Dave Edmunds
Rock This Town	Lee Rocker	Racin' The Devil	Stray Cats
Sabre Dance	Love Sculpture	Chronicles (1968-1984)	Khachaturian
King Of Love	Blackie and the Rodeo Kings	Kings Of Love	Dave Edmunds

37 minutes |

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Here's on what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
Sympathy For The Devil (Pleased Remix)	Freedom Dub	Bossa n' Stones	The Rolling Stones
Can't Help Falling In Love	Bono	Honeymoon In Vegas	Elvis Presley
Here Comes The Sun	Richie Havens	Alarm Clock	The Beatles
Helter Skelter	Bonerama	Bringing It Home	The Beatles
Under Pressure	Keane	Radio 1: Established 1967	Queen & David Bowie
Bohemian Rhapsody	Grey DeLisle	Classic Rock 28	Queen

50 minutes |

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Here's on what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
Rich Girl	The Swimmers	Fighting Trees	Hall & Oates
Maneater	Splithabit	Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is	Hall & Oates
I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)	Orson	The Saturday Sessions: The Dermot O'Leary Show	Hall & Oates
Private Eyes	Towa Tei	Sound Museum	Hall & Oates
Sara Smile	Joan Osborne	Breakfast in Bed	Hall & Oates
I Can Dream About You	Hall & Oates	Our Kind Of Soul	Dan Hartman
Out Of Touch (Kopia Kör)	The Mexicos	Website	Hall & Oates
I Can't Go For That	PJ Pooterhoots	No Go	Hall & Oates

43 minutes |

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