It’s the inaugural post of a we’ll-see-how-long-it-last series, Versions–assertively curated lists of much-covered songs. Not just any much-covered songs, but ones you might want to hear over and over, or at least add to occasionally shuffle upon in your overstuffed Spotify library (if that’s how you do things). First up: “Memphis, Tennessee” (aka “Memphis”) Chuck Berry’s love song…oh wait it’s about kid…and divorce. Chuck Berry’s 1959 mega-classic, which has been covered every which way. Not all of them good. Here’s our heavily weeded best-of:
And here’s Berry at it in psychedelic paisley.
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