July 19, 2009
Maybe Isaac Hayes’s 11-minute
performance of “I Stand Accused” is one of the most over-the-top (and wonderful) cover versions ever done, but I’d like to recommend you take a listen to Lee Michaels’s stammering and unhinged assault on “Can I Get a Witness?” which I find immensely more satisfying than “Do You Know What I Mean?” He does a fine “Rock Me Baby” too.
And while you’re at it, how about Arthur Brown’s cover of “I Put a Spell on You,” a slow burn which ends up as purely insane as his own “Fire”?
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