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Acoustic Beatles Covers

Posted Sat Jul 4, 2009 12:24pm PDT by Robert of the Radish in The Y! Music Playlist Blog

It's hard to believe that the Beatles catalogue is still not available for streaming, or download, by any legal means on the Internet. Frankly, by the time it is available, the rights holders will have already lost billions of unrecoverable dollars. The one good thing to come out of this is that people have explored a lot more Beatles cover songs online than they would have otherwise. There is little to no doubt that the songs of the fab four are the most heavily remade on the planet. Every musician learns to play a Beatles song at some point in their life, and you can find Beatles covers in every imaginable style and language. We will not see a more influential band in our lifetime.

For this playlist I have chosen only acoustic-based cover versions of Beatles songs. Explore it and see how their music can be captured without plugging in.

Acoustic Beatles Covers 

   1. Norwegian Wood - The Charles River Valley Boys   

   2. Across The Universe - Fiona Apple   

   3. Here Comes The Sun - Acoustic Duo   

   4. And I Love Her - Neil Diamond   

   5. Another Girl - Beatlegras   

   6. Dr. Robert - The Grassmasters   

   7. For No One - Emmylou Harris   

   8. I'm A Loser - Vince Guaraldi   

   9. Nowhere Man - Low   

   10. Mother Nature's Son - John Denver   

   11. All You Need Is Love - Echo and the Bunnymen   

   12. Blackbird - Dionne Farris

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3 Comments

1. D33PPURPLE -
The thing for an acoustic track to work is that it must recapture the lost "muscle" by means of charm.

From the little excerpts I heard, most of these did accomplish that.

2. Jack -
hello

3. -
Thanks for the cool Beatles-related list - off to listen now!
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