Covers by Gus Black

[mrblues]

I rarely like covers but Gus is just amazing. He's one of my favourite musicians and it makes me a little sad that hardly anyone knows him. I took this chance to spam him =p. They are all youtube videos and I hope you'll like them =).

I discovered Gus Black several years ago while randomly picking up one of his cd's in a music store. I have loved his music ever since. This will probably make me sound quite stupid but I heard his versions of the 2 songs below before hearing the original ones. I'll be the first to admit that I'm a cover idiot. I never know when it's a cover =p. I love both the original songs but I also like how Gus translated the songs into his own style. When I saw him live he sang both songs with only his voice and an acoustic guitar and it was amazing. When a song is great without all the extra stuff, that's good in my book.

Paranoid Black Sabbath || Gus Black

(Don't Fear) The Reaper Blue Oyster Cult || Gus Black

Comments

[ennika]

I know about five people that have heard of Gus Black, and every single one randomly picked up his CD at a store or the library without having heard of him before. Whatever he's doing promotion-wise, it doesn't quite seem to work ;) But yes, he's great! Hadn't heard those covers before, good stuff!