Our own Dick Heath's ALT2 Radio show Returns

 

i hope you've had a nice day, sir :)

 

The headache was whittling a tremendous list down to 3 hours play! The variants of tunes from Genesis's Lamb Lies Down Of Broadway and King Crimson's Red are well into double figures. Led Zeppelin suffer covers which too often don't move the tunes on other than being close copies, but when a band makes the effort to rearrange and produce something interestingly different but faithful to the original,then they tend to be worth the listen, e.g. much of Dread Zeppelin's reggae-fied LZ with an Elvis impersonator as vocalist, or Lenny White jazz funk with groove take on Kashmir. Zappa plays the comedy very seriously with his version of Stairway. The blues is easier, since even Robert Johnson's version of Crossroads on the definitive box set attributes composer as "traditional" - odd that Clapton lists the composer as "Johnson". And I have to pay Blackwaterside, which from the very nameof Giltrap's album, you know he knews this is a Bert Jansch's tune not Jimmy Page's.