Usually, younger bands are supposed to pay tribute to older, legendary, seminal-type bands, often by covering their songs on tribute albums. That’s just how it works. But in an inversion of the formula, Iggy Pop and Cream/Blind Faith drummer Ginger Baker have teamed up to record an exceedingly faithful cover of the Black Keys’ still-kinda-new single “Lonely Boy.” The track will appear on a new tribute album called Black On Blues, in which blues veterans take on Black Keys songs. Download the Iggy/Ginger version below.
Black On Blues is out 7/17 on Cleopatra.
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ginger baker left the house?
Not quite adding anything or make this song worse.
I like the energy in Charlie Winston’s cover better. Cute video too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiuqWBWkDwA
Ginger is an underrated spice.
I know they’re old men, but they are legends and can do better than this, especially Ginger Baker’s drumming. It’s borderline amateur-ish at times (changing drum patterns mid-stream, miss-timing/miss-hitting cymbals or other drum parts here or there).
Ginger says your drumming sucks.
Ginger says you suck.
At life.
That seems highly unlikely, especially since Ginger would never speak in sentence fragments.