Another thumbs up from me for a Scary Pockets video: This is a great example of taking a song that has been done to death and spinning it off into an entirely different place. My favourite kind of cover!
17 January 2023
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Tag Archives: cover songs
2 January 2023
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Haze in the Pockets
It is only 2 January and, already, I think I might have seen my favourite Scary Pockets video of the year: This is the kind of thing I really love from the band – a cover of a song I … Continue reading
20 February 2022
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A Fresh Cover
I wonder if the majority of songs never even make into public? Even with ones released on major labels by world-famous bands there will be tunes that rarely or never make it to their live sets and don’t get covered … Continue reading
10 December 2018
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Perhaps it’s the pedal steel?
Sometimes Scary Pockets cover songs I know well and, as with this example, they sometimes pick ones that pretty much passed me by: In this case, I’d heard the song before but I couldn’t have begun humming it. As with … Continue reading
20 November 2018
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Some Crazy Music
I’ve played this song in a band before and we put our spin on it… which makes me appreciate the Scary Pockets spin on it all the more.
24 May 2018
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Sweet…
I love a cover song that shows how the original could have sounded in an alternative universe: That doesn’t sound much like Guns ‘n’ Roses but, boy, it sounds funky. Thumbs up to Scary Pockets for another great reworking.
12 March 2017
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Anything can be Gypsy Jazzed
I’ve just been doing my homework for a practice tomorrow night with Other Way Up. Most of the songs we are doing are in the jazz / pop mould and I’m happy busking them from chord charts but that isn’t … Continue reading