Covers Sundays – 20 Covers that Reinvent the Original

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Based on a conversation with my best friend last night and subsequent article that I read upon his recommendation, I felt compelled to share some of the best covers that I have heard. I wanted to identify cover songs that create a new sonic experience that often confuses the listener to whom the song should originally be attributed to. Common examples that come to mind are Jimi Hendrix classic rendition of Bob Dylan’s “Along the Watchtower,” and Johnny Cash’s iconic cover of Nine Inch Nails opus “Hurt,” which I would have preferred to put in the top slot.

The following twenty covers re-imagine and recreate the original songs. In many cases, they reinvent the songs and the new versions make them listenable music.

Cover Sundays – Alice Smith & Citizen Cope – “Pop Life” Prince Cover

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The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Blue Lines Blog – #FMSPhotoADay – November – Day 17 – Last Thing I Bought

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The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Music Mondays – 2011 Year In Review

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Acoustic, After The Storm, Andy Allo, Atlanta, Bears, Beyond Race Magazine, Blue Hurt, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Bon Iver, Brooklyn, California, Chicago, Chicago Bears, Chicago Cubs, Citizen Cope, Cloth, Common, Cubs, Dreams, Ernest Wilson, Floetry, Florence and The Machine, Foo Fighters, How To Make It In America, I Should Have Known, I'm Sorry Who's Yosi?, Jamie Woon, Justin Vernon, Kanye West, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia Yemaya Walker, Late Nights & Early Mornings, Lonnie Lynn, Lost In The Woods, Lost in The World, Love, Marsha Ambrosius, Mumford And Sons, Music Mondays, MW, New York, Night Air, No I.D., Rebekah Jordan, sex, Soundfix Lounge, Stevie Nicks, Strange Love, The Dreamer/The Believer, The Kooks, The Trouble With Fiction, The XX Remix, Theophilus London, Va$htie, Va$htie Kola, Vashtie, Vashtie Kola, Wasting Light, You Got The Love (The XX Remix)

Cover Sundays – Gary Clark, Jr. – “My Guitar Gently Weeps” The Beatles Cover Thanks Tracy and Citizen Cope

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A new artist Citizen Cope presented with Alice Smith last Thursday in New York. My homegirl Tracy, actually put me on to someone, now I’m putting you all on.


The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Music Monday – Citizen Cope – “Awe”

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The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

What I Learned Sundays – Wow…Reenvisioned…Amended

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Apache Cafe, Atlanta Braves, Blackberry, Blue Lines, Boardwalk 11, Citizen Cope, HotHeavy&Bad, iPhone, iPod, Joi Gilliam, Karaoke, Key Yemaya Walker, Keypsiia, Keypsiia Walker, LA Dodgers, music, Pal's Loung, Sideways, Solvang California, Wine Tasting, Work Wife, World Wide Lounge

Damn, let’s restart. This post initially began as “What I Learned Sundays – Yesterdays,” after Work Wifey, and my Cuzzo read it, the decision was made to pull it back. I will make special exceptions for a select few. This version has been amended also. Thus called “Reenvisioned”

What did I learn? Well I had the unique opportunity to reconnect with the subject of my manuscript, Blue Lines. An experience that involved exceptional highs, and some lows, it also brought perspective and allowed her to become a “person,” and not this fictional character that she had been over the last 14 years, dating back to “When We Were Babies.”

Though a learning process, that did not bring “peace,” per se, it allowed me to see the forest for the trees, a strange journey, only because it was not “new” to me, but had never happened previously. Although, I have not yet confirmed, I think WW and I had this familiar conversation regarding a dream I had had in the past few months, and felt like déjà vu, that in the most important respects was eerily familiar.

It encompassed reconnecting with some of my recently transplanted friends, meeting new people both through my previous experience. Other than that, many details are not of import both publically, and because today is a totally different day than any last night and this weekend.

Music I Like – Alice Smith – “Do I”

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I woke up (the second time), and this song is burned in my mind right now.


The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Music Mondays pt 2 – Citizen Cope “Healing Hands”

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The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Cover Sundays – Easy Star All-Stars feat Citizen Cope – “Karma Police (Radiohead Cover)”

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A cool downtempo teaming of one of my favorite artists and covering another of my favorite bands. From the 2006 East Star All Stars cover reggae album or Radiohead called Radiodread.


The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.