Jimmied
This one goes out to the fine folks over at La Dimension De Trastos who did a rather nice write up about Versions the other day. Seems he stumbled into an earlier post we did about an Afrobeat cover of a Jimi Hendrix tune and then got lost in our Cheesecake Factory-sized menu of fine cover selections. Well La Dimension, as a way of saying thanks got another badass, afrobeat Jimi Hendrix cover for you. This time it’s a spitfire paced rendition of Fire from Afro-Brazillian UK funksters Saravah Soul.
Enjoy! (and thanks again for the write up!)
LS
Tags: Fire, Jimi Hendrix, Now if only I could get Pitchfork to write about us...
March 10th, 2011 at 7:44 am
Thanks!
For me, one of the best Jimi Hendrix-tracks is “If 6 was 9″. I know of a funky cover done by Bootsy Collins, same fine still up-to-date lyrics, completely different music. I bet there must be more covers of this song… got some?
March 10th, 2011 at 7:52 am
Yeah probably in the archives somewhere. Just wanted to showcase the one afrobeat cover this time.
Don’t have the Bootsy cover. Thanks for the tip though, I’ll go find a copy!
Speaking of Jimi I just found out about this weird shiznit (#10) about one of my favorite Hendrix tracks:
http://www.cracked.com/article_18896_10-mind-blowing-easter-eggs-hidden-in-famous-albums.html
March 10th, 2011 at 8:14 am
thanks for the link about the hidden stuff in lyrics/music, funny.
If you want Bootsy, I got everything ever done by any of the P-Funksters, just send a mail and I’ll fork over the 6-was-9 cover and some more versions from the Bill Laswell-Projects.
March 10th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
A thousand thanks! Another humdinger!
March 15th, 2011 at 9:27 am