{"id":573881279,"date":"2011-02-25T21:14:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T03:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573881279"},"modified":"2011-02-26T18:29:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T00:29:07","slug":"youtube-cover-theater-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/02\/25\/youtube-cover-theater-3\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Cover Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spartan effort, to be sure, but it has been a tired, empty day. So we’ll just get straight to the YouTube Cover Theater, where the talents of anonymous people are shared online because they have a camera and somewhere to host their artistic abilities. This week’s featured cover artist is indie-favorite Gillian Welch. I spent all of Tuesday night studying listening to her music, so it seemed a fitting way to wrap up the week. <\/p>\n

First, there’s this incredibly solemn version of I Dream a Highway:<\/p>\n

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Sam and Sue play around with a song you might have heard here or there:<\/p>\n

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Catrina Rogers handles Gillian’s standard, Time the Revelator, with a lonely AM vibe:<\/p>\n

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And since many people may not know Gillian’s work aside from that tune and a few movie appearances, I’ll include a video of her covering a song herself. <\/p>\n

One day someone will invent an instrument even my talentless hands can master. And I’ll start a band, and we’ll find another band that likes to do ensemble pieces. And we’ll play medium-tempo stuff and swap out the leads. Somewhere along the way someone will come up to me and say “Why don’t you play The Weight?”<\/p>\n

I will say “Because it has already found perfection.”<\/p>\n

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