quote:Originally posted by GaalDornick: House of the Rising Sun Cover: Both Muse and Santa Esmeralda made awesome versions, both completely different takes Original: I think it was The Animals
Excuse me. That is a folk song. It was in a Lomax collection, even. I don't know that you can say they "covered" it if it's been around for ages, can you?
It's a folk song, but there are still "covers" in the sense that there have been a number of classic "definitive" recordings in different styles- and those have influenced other recordings, so you could call those "covers" of the recordings themselves.
There are plenty of rock and blues standards today that we receive primarily through covers or influenced recordings, rather than those that inspired them, or the original songs themselves as folk songs.
For instance, Catfish blues and Red House are identified with Jimi Hendrix, but were in his day identified with Muddy Waters. If you "cover" one of those today, you are probably covering Hendrix. Same goes for Bob Dylan's "All along the Watchtower," the definitive recording is definitely Hendrix and not Dylan- so you'd say you were doing a cover of Hendrix, and a Bob Dylan song. It does annoy me though when the original authorship is ignored.
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