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Buick 6 will probably not do any additional recording until the end of the year, but they will be working up some new material at the rehearsals for the next leg of the Lucinda tour. So yes the contest is still very much in play. Thanks for ordering the cd -I hope you enjoy it.
(I just got my copy of the Buick 6 CD today and am really enjoying it. Their version of “Pipeline” is just tremendous.)
Okay, I have questionable taste, but I’d like to hear what they could do with Johnny Rivers’ “Secret Agent Man”, with “Runaway”. or just about anything in the Chantays’ catalogue.
Someone else has suggested Robert Johnson’s “Cross Road Blues” which I heartily second.
Kent
I’ve got a few ideas off the top… As already mentioned,”Green Onions” always works–keeps things mellow but still rocks….Bob Dylan’s “Nashville Skyline Rag”?–maybe not enough energy…For a chuckle, drop the lights and do an instramental version of Prince’s “Purple Rain” then segue into a long intro/jam instrumental version of Lucinda’s “Can’t let Go”…T.C. http://www.thederelicks.com
I’ll bet that Buick 6 would do a fantastic version of Bo Diddley’s “Who do you love?”. (I’m thinking of the Quicksilver Messenger Service version as a sort of benchmark.) At any rate I’d love to hear an extended jam version from them. Come to think of it, if Lucinda were interested in reworking some of the lyrics, she could make that song her own. Keep the rattlesnakes and barbed wire, lose the 22-year old.
By the way, If they are working up something around the Perry Mason theme, after hearing “Pipeline” I’ve got to think that the music from “Hawaii Five-O” would be a natural. (The extended version that The Ventures do is a point of reference.)
I know, these are strange suggestions, but I’m also thinking of a Carlos Santana version of “The Girl from Ipanema” (the one that he actually never played and never recorded, as far as I know) . Taking the cross-genre hybrization a bit further, what would Buick 6 do with ” ‘Round Midnight”?
Kent
Remember the band Free – Paul Kossof on guitar, Paul Rodgers on vocals.
Heartbreaker, Easy on my Soul, Wishing Well…. Buick 6 could do full justice
to these classicsHeres a few suggestions
a Bryds style Mr Tamborine Man
Grateful Dead Sugaree or Trucking
Sly and the Family Stone Hot Fun
Neil Young Cortez the Killer
Beatles Revolution or Sgt. Pepper
The Rolling Stones Sympathey for the Devil or Juming Jak FlashI think all of tese would be great instrumnetals that every would know plus you can jam on most of them as long as you want.
The Allman Brother’s “Jessica” would be awesome to hear.
If they want to sing, since they did such a good job in Cinnamon Girl, why not try:
Neil Young’s “Cowgirl in the Sand”
Did I say that already? Sorry, two great songs
Steve
You know, one thing that strikes me about both Buick 6 and of course Lucinda Williams is that they both have a lot more musical ideas in them than they get a chance to perform or record in the normal course of things.
I wonder if the best suggestion I can make as to what song I’d like Buick 6 to do would be “anything that interests them at the time”. I think it’s important to give artists and performers some creative space and that Is what I’d like. I’ll bet we’d all get something surprising out of it.
Listening to Lucinda’s recordings, I get the idea that she has a much wider range of genres or ideas that she could draw from to make art if she felt that her fans were along for the ride. I’m perfectly willing to let the trip go wherever that road leads.
Kent
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