Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Allison Crowe Covering the Counting Crows


I listened to the Counting Crows' debut album August and Everything After far too much growing up. I got tired of hearing it everywhere, but it still survived all this time on my Ipod because it is a pretty good album. As for the rest of their cds after that, well, let's just say they make some pretty good coasters.

Sometimes though, an artist can cover a song and bring a whole new life to it, arguably improving on the original version. Perhaps the best example of that that I have heard in some time is Canadian singer Allison Crowe's slowed down take on the Crows' song "A Murder of One" with just a piano backing up her powerful, moving vocals. Check out the sound clip from YouTube below before downloading the track.



Allison Crowe - A Murder of One

Allison also recorded a nice version of "Raining in Baltimore," another song from August and Everything After

Allison Crowe - Raining in Baltimore

There are free downloads of many of Allison Crowe's albums, which are filled with many other great covers, on her website here.

Thanks for checking this out.

4 comments:

  1. pretty good coasters? how can you disregard the rest of their music like that? ridiculous. i prefer allison's other crowes covers.

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  2. They had one good record... and then it all went poopy. Sorry.

    What else does she sing that you like? Haven't seen anything else on any of her cds.

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  3. FYI, it's August and Everything After that was pivotal in turning Allison Crowe from a group rock/funk music direction, in her teens, into becoming a singer-songwriter. Adam Duritz inspired the shift upon the release of AAEA. Raining in Baltimore is really the first song she covered when she took the staqe at a coffee-house. A Murder of One also still resonates for her, big-time.

    I may well be wrong, but, I'm guessing that The Kid in the Front Row is saying he likes other covers Allison performs - Crowe's covers instead of Crows' covers.

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