>This covers thread raised a question for me -- what's it called when an >artist -- I'm thinking of Dave Alvin, specifically -- "covers" a tune that >he wrote for a band that he played in, but didn't sing, and covers it in a >wildly different (and better, in Alvin's case) fashion? Border Radio, >Romeo's whatever, a few others. I'll try to think of some other artists >who did this sort of thing. -- Terry Smith How about when Bob Dylan covers Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away," but the arrangement of the song adheres pretty closely to the Dead's version? Is there a name for that? Isn't it Harmolodic Bifurcation? OR maybe I'm thinking of Caesarean Retrofication? Yeah, that's it. Lance . . .
