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Each season I get sucked into watching Nashville Star by the simple fact that I love cover songs. From the truly great ones like Hendrix doing “All Along The Watchtower” or Soundgarden’s extraordinary spin on Black Sabbath’s “Into The Void,” right on through to the absurdly obscure, like Shakira playing “Back In Black,” they’re all good. For me, Nashville Star is just a massive weekly collection of odd covers.
It’s with that thought process that I was tuned in again this week, when something caught my ear. Ashlee Hewitt’s (pictured) first performance was the classic Steve Miller Band tune, “Take The Money And Run.” There was one odd little exception though. Your years of classic rock radio should have taught you that Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue were “two young lovers with nothing better to do, than sit around the home, get high, and watch the tube.” Suddenly this week, they changed to “two young lovers, with nothing better to do, than sit around the home, sit around, and watch the tube.” That just isn’t right. See for yourself, after the jump.
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