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Archive for the ‘New Songs’ Category
Bring It On Home
Collectively, there’s not a single guy in the band that doesn’t love Zeppelin. And aside from Andy Buchanan, who staunchly defends his designation of Neil Peart as the greatest drummer of all time, we recognize each Zeppelin member at their respective positions as being among the best at what they do. With that heavy praise in mind, it might come as a surprise to know that we currently only feature one Zeppelin tune in our set list.
We’ve been moderately limited with the selection of Zeppelin songs we could cover as a great number of them are so well known and revered and we’ve been reluctant to try and cover them unless we were confident in our ability to do them justice. Plant’s voice alone, for instance, keeps me from comfortably singing about 50%-60% of the songs they play!
It’s with great excitement then, Remedy has decided to cover a heavy hitting Zeppelin tune entitled ‘Bring It On Home,’ originally released in 1969 on the Zeppelin II album. At 4:20 seconds long, the song features a bluesy intro and outro, with a bone crushing guitar lick that carries listeners through a very short musical roller coaster ride in between. The intro and outro were deliberate homages to the original Sonny Boy Williamson song, while the rest of the track was an original Jimmy Page/Robert Plant composition.
With fair amounts of reasonably intricate harmonica parts and guitar parts that feature both lead and rhythm sections, the song should prove to be a substantial challenge for the band but an extremely rewarding song to cover at the same time.
In case you’ve not heard the song before, have a quick listen and be sure to brace yourself for the guitar intro!
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Statesboro Blues
Huge fans of the Allman brothers, Remedy has decided to take on a classic by the beloved southern rockers entitled, ‘Statesboro Blues.’ Originally recorded by Blind Willie McTell, a popular blues musician who played in Georgia until his death in 1959, the Allman Brothers recorded the song for the first time at the Fillmore East in 1971. Well known for the incredible slide guitar work done by Duane Allman, ‘Statesboro Blues’ was ranked #9 by Rolling Stone Magazine in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time. Not so ironically, Statesboro is a city in Georgia not far from Macon, where the band lived.
A tremendous admirer of Duane Allman’s skills with the slide, Tim is looking forward to taking on the challenge of duplicating the smooth, fluid style of Allman, while trying to infuse a bit of Remedy flavor into the classic hit. Always requested and heavily applauded during gigs, songs by the Allman Brothers always go over incredibly well with local folks wherever we play, and we look forward to seeing (and hearing) the response we get following the addition of ‘Statesboro Blues’ to our setlist.
If you’ve not heard the song before, have a quick listen to the song below and we’ll be sure to replace it with our version in a few weeks as a basis for comparison.
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Bringing Back the Beard
Remedy has decided to assemble a medley from one of the most famous bearded rock and roll groups of all time; ZZ Top. Featuring three songs from the band, the medley kicks off with some killer guitar riffs in ‘Just Got Paid,’ transitions into ‘Waitin’ On The Bus,’ and finishes strong with ‘Jesus Just Left Chicago.’ The latter two songs naturally transition from one to the other but Remedy decided to add ‘Just Got Paid’ to the mix as the prominent guitar lick at the beginning of the song was just too good to pass up. It’s a heck of a lot of fun to play and Tim, as usual, nails the guitar parts as Andy and Jon chime in perfectly with their respective instruments.
Have a listen to Just Got Paid’ by selecting the play button below.
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Big fans of the group and their music, Remedy can regularly be heard playing a few other ZZ Top songs on any given night including ‘Sharp Dressed Man’ and ‘La Grange.’ I don’t know if we’ll be growing the beards anytime soon but you’ll surely hear us pay tribute to bearded boys from ZZ Top during one of our next gigs out. We certainly hope you enjoy it!