Classic Albums Covered – The Harder They Come

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The Harder They Come

Steven Carter has way too much free time and the uncanny ability to listen to a hundred cover versions of the same song to try and find the interesting ones without going completely insane. Some songs have hardly been covered at all. Some have been covered way too many times. A few not at all. The results of this obsessive behaviour are assembled into rebuilds of classic albums made out of cover versions.

Tracklist
  • You Can Get It If You Really Want – Jahtones
  • Draw Your Brake – Burning Heads
  • Rivers of Babylon – The Rastafarians
  • Many Rivers to Cross – The Animals
  • Sweet & Dandy – Border Radio
  • The Harder They Come – Willie Nelson
  • Johnny Too Bad – John Martyn
  • 007 (Shanty Town) – Byron Lee
  • Pressure Drop – The Clash
  • Sittin’ Here In Limbo – Jerry Garcia, David Grisman
  • You Can Get It If You Really Want – Broilers
  • The Harder They Come – Joe Jackson

Somewhere out in the digital wastelands, where the media streams congeal to become vast rivers depositing layer upon layer of binary silt washed down from the great cities, a lone figure crouches at the bank patiently sifting through the filth, panning for sonic gold. Occasional flickers of brightness catch on his mind and another nugget is pulled from the dirt, an echo of an echo of the past, ready to be formed into ancient and delicate structures.