Saturday, November 07, 2009

Saturday Morning Music

I'm willing to bet that most readers who have been around for a while are familiar with Eric Burdon's version of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood." You might not have known it was a cover of a more emotional song done by Nina Simone:



Much can change with arrangments of a particular piece of music. Leon Russell showed it in a single stream-of-consciousness hippie-style conversation when he jammed "Straight Brother" at two distinctly different time signatures. Here's what happens when "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" gets updated by a master:



Now doesn't that make you want to go out and find some Honzu steel?

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