re: Cover Songs that Cross Musical Genres But Still Work

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Got To Get You Into My Life

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I’m a huge Beatles fan but never cared for this song. EW&F did an excellent cover of it.

Glen Campbell- Gentle On My Mind

Clint Black - Desperado

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Wilson Pickett with a soul cover of "Hey Jude"

"Hey Jude" - Wilson Pickett

Love the horns in the 'nah nah nah-nah-nah-nah' climax.


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Clapton hearing Duane's solo is what led him to seeking out Duane for the Derek and the Dominos album

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"I remember hearing 'Hey Jude' by Wilson Pickett and calling either Ahmet Ertegun or Tom Dowd and saying, 'Who's that guitar player?'" says Eric Clapton in the top video below.

It turns out that guitar player was a 22-year-old guitarist named Duane Allman, aka "Skydog."

"I just filed it away," Clapton adds. "To this day, I've never heard better rock guitar playing on an R&B record. It's the best."

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A few uninspired days into the Layla sessions, Tom Dowd, who was also producing for the Allmans for their album Idlewild South, invited Clapton to an Allman Brothers outdoor concert in Miami, where he first heard Duane Allman play. After several hours in the studio earlier that day the band was sneaked into the show with the help of Dowd and sat between the riser and fans below. At the concert, Dowd distinctly remembers:
" Duane was in the middle of a solo; he opens his eyes and looks down, does a dead stare, and stops playing. Dickey Betts is chugging along, see Duane's stopped playing, and figures he'd better cover, that Duane must've broken a string or something. Then Dickey looks down, sees Eric, and turns his back. That was how they first saw each other."
The next day (Aug 27, 1970) Duane arrived at the Criteria studios about 3 o'clock and would quickly befriend Clapton; Dowd says their easiness with one another was instantaneous, saying they were " trading licks, they were swapping guitars, they were talking shop and information and having a ball, no hold barred, just admiration for each other's technique and facility. We got back, turned the tapes on, and they went on for 15, 18 hours like that. I went through two or three sets of engineers. "
After the jam sessions Clapton invited Allman to become the fifth and final member of the Dominos.

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