What I'm Loving Wednesday

So Sunday was something called International Women's Day. Whatever that is. I just used it as an excuse to dig into some of favorite female artists. This is pretty much just chicks that rock. And by no means all inclusive. There are so many fantastic women in rock.

And after saying that, I'm going to start out with a country song. Of course it has Pat Benatar, so it counts. Here is Benatar along with country powerhouse Martina McBride doing McBride's "Independence Day" on CMT's show Crossroads.



I love Stevie Nicks. Her voice anyway. Always have. Instantly recognizable and unique. This is a live performance from 2011 of her song "Edge of Seventeen." Still sounds and looks great.



Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart were my first chicks that rock loves. So talented. Here they are playing Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" with the surviving members of Zep in the audience. Notice how happy Jimmy Page is with this rendition.



Original Runaway, the lovely Lita Ford, is still bringing it with new music. I'm partial to this cover of Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed" which brings a much needed female voice to the song.



I'm hanging onto the theory that rock is not dead. At least as long as there is still young talent making rock music like 16 year old Gabbie Rae.



Listen to good music. Enjoy the music you like.

Interesting Cover Songs: Gabbie Rae and Patrick Kennison

I had a conversation with a friend not too awful long ago regarding cover songs. We fairly well agreed that, with exceptions of course, most covers are not better than the original. Very few are even as good.

That being said, different and interesting covers get my attention. Not that they are better, just different. And interesting.

I stumbled upon 15-year old Gabbie Rae on YouTube doing some very interesting covers along with Patrick Kennison accompanying on guitar and backing vocals.  I don't know much about either other than they make some interesting music together, taking songs of different genres and putting their own spin on them.

Here is a very stripped down acoustic version of Ronnie James Dio's "Rainbow in the Dark":





And here is a cool version of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean":


They have also done covers ranging from Iron Maiden to Stevie Nicks to Curtis Mayfield