CHAIRMAN MAO: COVER ME! posted by O.W.

Chairman Mao: Run For Cover (snippet)
From Run For Cover (Flatrock, 2005)

Quick break from Green Week:

It's no secret that I'm a big fan of cover songs: I made a mix-CD dedicated to them in 2003 (note: it's not in stock right now. I'm working on fixing that). I've also been working (half-assed) on two potential sequels since then. Therefore, it was of considerable interest that a valued and respected colleague/friend, Chairman Mao (Ego Trip fame) just dropped a mix-CD of full of cover songs. If you've ever peeped out Mao's other mix-CDs before, you know he's at the top of the game: it's never strictly about rarity for rarity's sake - Mao values quality too and this CD has an embarrassing wealth of beauts on it (including a few songs I wanted to use on one of the Deep Covers sequels. Oh well).

The four songs in the above snippet (recorded by me at a shoddy 64 bitrate - cop the CD if you want the good engineering!) are covers of: Gwen McCrae's "Rockin' Chair," Jimmy Hughes' "Steal Away," Kool and the Gang's "Give It Up," and Buddy Miles' "Them Changes." All of them are damn tasty though that "Give It Up" version (by a Thai funk outfit of all people) is especially spicy.