Cover Me by Ray Padgett

Author:Ray Padgett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sterling

Although Al Green’s Explores Your Mind was released in 1974, one year after his religious conversion, it was still plenty romantic.

This difference was not entirely intentional. These art-school kids played their best approximation of Southern soul . . . but their best approximation simply wasn’t very accurate. “As much as we hoped it would sound like Al Green, it never did,” says Frantz. “I’m sure at the time I felt like, ‘Oh, wow, this is really funky,’ but it still sounded like a bunch of white kids from the suburbs.”

Pretty soon the trio of Byrne, Frantz, and Weymouth added Modern Lovers guitarist Jerry Harrison to complete the band lineup. They had to teach him “Take Me to the River” from scratch, since he’d never heard the original. As far as Harrison was concerned, it was just another Talking Heads song. “When I finally listened to Al Green’s version years later, I was like wow, this is different!” he says. “The Talking Heads version is a more strident, driving song, whereas the original versions—both Syl Johnson’s and Al Green’s—are more delicate.”

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