Let It Slide

  My gnarled old fingers have been preventing me from making progress in improving my guitar skills.  Lately I found that tuning it to open-D  and using a slide on my ring finger may not improve my proficiency but it does make the resulting noise a little more listenable.

  Here are three songs that I can't play that use a slide.

Pure- Denial

Stone Roses - Love Spreads

The Faces - That's All You Need

Raveonettes Got it Covered

  The other day while digging up the media to fill out the Whip-poor-will post I came across the Raveonettes version of Hank Williams 'I'm So Lonesome I could Cry'.  Their effort was definitely blogworthy. Although when I clicked on the youtube video to preview the song, I found in the right-hand column a couple of other intriguing tunes that the Danish band had covered.  So I pulled their version of the Williams classic from the whip-poor-will post so that it could lead off this post of Raveonettes covers.  The whole dilemma reminded me of an always  compelling, fascinating, educational, recurring theme that Chicago Sun-Tmes columnist Sydney Harris used to use periodically called "Things I Learned En route to Looking Up Other Things".

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams)

The End (Doors)

I Wanna Be Adored (Stone Roses)