Your vote for greatest (covers) album

Ramones’ Acid Eaters

Mary Lee’s Corvette - Blood On the Tracks (by Bob Dylan) at Arlene Grocery.

The guy from the audience at the beginning of Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts is fantastic. Speaking of real Bob Dylan fan.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YLehh_t62M

"Seventeen years ago, they were a ubiquitous presence in what was then a thriving Lower East Side rock scene. One of the few remaining venues from that time, Arlene’s, had a series of “classic album” cover nights. Most of them were pretty cheesy and didn’t draw very high-quality talent, further reinforcing the assumption that the best musicians all want to play their own material.

One of those nights featured a local venue owner doing a version of an album by the Band. The other album on the bill that night was Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks, which Mary Lee’s Corvette played all the way through, after only two rehearsals.

It was one of the most transcendent shows ever witnessed by anyone from this blog (or its more primitive predecessor – in the fall of 2001, blogs as we know them today didn’t exist). That e-zine rated Mary Lee’s Corvette’s venomous version of Idiot Wind as the best song of the year. A few months later, the band officially released the live recording, which by then had been circulating among collectors who were in awe of frontwoman Mary Lee Kortes’ vocals and the band’s similarly electrifying performance."

https://maryleescorvette.com/music

https://newyorkmusicdaily.wordpress.com/2019/01/22/mlkpetes/