Comments on: Hellhound on my trail

By: zara

zara — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:26:51 +0000

ahahaha I STOLE IT

IT’S IN MY CD CASE RIGHT NOW

By: juliette

juliette — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:14:01 +0000

so THAT’S where the muddy waters cd went! egads woman!

By: rodeorobbie

rodeorobbie — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:10:05 +0000

Alice Moore is one of the classiest singers of her era. Too bad many others don’t know her.

By: zara

zara — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:58:22 +0000

Yep — not that John Darnielle ever puts *that* much emotion into his music; he’s not a blues singer by trade. But you’re right, it’s more of a casual cover.

By: Diesel

Diesel — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:12:52 +0000

The songs are good, but the cover of “Hellhound On My Trail” isn’t; there’s no blues in it, or the sense of guilt and impending doom which made RJ’s version so great. Blues has to come from the heart, and the person singing sounds as if they’re merely covering a song, rather than drawing upon their own experiences of consequence and regret.

JMHO.

By: Diesel

Diesel — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:06:33 +0000

All good songs, but the the cover of “Hellhound On My Trail” is really not very good. It completely sucks the blues out of the song. It doesn’t have the sense of guilt or impending doom that makes RJ’s version what it is. The blues comes from the heart more than most other genres of music, and one must have his/her own experiences to draw upon when playing it. It sounds to me like the person singing is merely covering a song, instead of trying to infuse their own experiences of sadness and futility into it, or that they have none to draw from in the first place.

Good post, though.

By: zara

zara — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:34:03 +0000

I love Muddy Waters! I stole his “best of” CD from my dad when I went to college.

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:05:17 +0000

I always have the blues…now I need to burn you a copy of my Muddy Waters CD :)