{"id":27660,"date":"2024-06-21T05:30:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T09:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=27660"},"modified":"2024-06-17T08:52:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T12:52:59","slug":"27660","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/21\/27660\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Classic Covers from Dave Edmunds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Edmunds is a highly regarded guitarist and producer. Working as a solo artist and in bands and collaborative projects, Cardiff, Wales-born Edmunds\u2019 career has spanned more than a half century. Though he\u2019s a solid rocker, his music explores a wide array of styles. Edmunds is also a superb interpreter of others\u2019 work; some of his biggest successes have been covers of songs written by others. Here are five noteworthy Dave Edmunds tracks, all originally from the pen of other composers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSabre Dance\u201d from Love Sculpture\u2019s <em>Forms and Feelings<\/em> (1968)<\/strong><br \/>\nArmenian classical composer Aram Khachaturian wrote \u201cSabre Dance\u201d for his 1942 ballet <em>Gayane<\/em>. At the height of the psychedelic era, Dave Edmunds\u2019 group Love Sculpture cut a frenetic, rocked-up arrangement of the tune. Featuring blazing lead guitar and a breathtaking arrangement, Love Sculpture&#8217;s \u201cSabre Dance\u201d is like nothing else in Edmunds\u2019 body of work. Released as a single, it placed in the Top 40 in the UK, Netherlands, Switzerland and West Germany.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B-bmJ2AYZK4?si=-NHos9FxuIY0GsgS\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI Hear You Knocking\u201d single (1970)<\/strong><br \/>\nMere months after covering \u201cSabre Dance,\u201d Edmunds headed in a very different direction on this single, released under his own name. A cover of the 1966 Smiley Lewis single written by New Orleans legend Dave Bartholomew, it\u2019s a classic r&amp;b tune given a slightly-updated reading by Edmunds. The guitarist scored a Top 10 hit in several countries (#4 in the U.S.), as well as a UK number one with \u201cI Hear You Knocking.\u201d It remains his biggest commercial success.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hMjwb13TFCo?si=siKEQ1hqAOgIbvHL\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cGirls Talk\u201d from <em>Repeat When Necessary<\/em> (1979)<\/strong><br \/>\nWritten by Elvis Costello, \u201cGirls Talk\u201d is a timeless melodic rocker with clever lyrics and a great Dave Edmunds lead vocal. Backed by Rockpile but crediting it as a solo recording, Edmunds scored a hit single in the UK and Ireland with the song; Costello released his own version less than a year later. \u201cGirls Talk\u201d has long been a highlight of Edmunds\u2019 live set. The single made it into the Top 10 in the UK and Australia, but bubbled under at #65 on the U.S. chart.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S4TzjRFfsJs?si=Q01lr-WqjANCFske\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWrong Again (Let\u2019s Face It)\u201d from Rockpile\u2019s <em>Seconds of Pleasure<\/em> (1980)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Squeeze songwriting team of Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook wrote this song, a stylistic throwback that nonetheless still sounds modern today. Musically, the members of supergroup Rockpile \u2013 Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Billy Bremner and Terry Williams \u2013 made great music together, both on the album featuring this cut and on solo releases from the band members. But personality-wise, the group was always an uneasy alliance. Rockpile split shortly after releasing one album under the group name.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mAoYzkyrUyU?si=_VEHHoM8nrTNnHH0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Race is On\u201d from <em>Twangin\u2026<\/em> (1981)<\/strong><br \/>\nA rockabilly tune written by Don Rollins, \u201cThe Race is On\u201d would go on to become a genre-spanning classic. George Jones scored a country hit with the tune in 1964, but it has been covered by other artists as diverse as Alvin and the Chipmunks, the Grateful Dead, the Georgia Satellites and Blackberry Smoke. Edmunds\u2019 version made excellent use of the talents of the Stray Cats, who backed him on this 1981 recording.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3830kIWgdZc?si=yedm0lLnFlBO-sIP\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Edmunds is a highly regarded guitarist and producer. 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