Just watched the 2004 American Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony and I’m thinking specifically of Jonny Lang singing Steve Wonder’s Living for the City. An excellent instance of a great song remade as blasting rock and roll. Though I have to think that some people were wondering about the length of Lang’s blistering guitar solo, much as I enjoyed it. We need more of this and, for example, I’d love to hear What Becomes of the Brokenhearted done this way, after hearing the traditional arrangement on Standing in the Shadows of Motown the other night.
(Why am I not surprised to find that Lang covered the Wonder tune on his last release?)
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