[Harp-L] Coltrane/Afro Blue

[George Brooks <gbrooksvt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the birthday wishes, guys.  I wish I had never "corrected" 
Jonathan Metts (who I also think is a wonderful person) about Afro Blue 
because there is really no harp content there.  I simply wanted to 
correct any misimpression and give appropriate credit on our archived 
List.  But once started, I have trouble dropping a point.  Sound like 
anyone around here?

Jonathan wrote:

I never said that Coltrane wrote
the song.... What I implied is that
Jason Ricci & New Blood are
covering the Coltrane version.

What he said in his original post was:

four of the twelve songs are covers
(of The Misfits, Willie Dixon, John Coltrane,
and Sun Ra).

Now to the point or, actually, the question:  If your band was doing 
All Along The Watchtower the way Hendrix did it, would you say you were 
doing a cover of Jimi Hendrix or Bob Dylan?  If you were doing With A 
Little Help From My Friends like Joe Cocker did it, would you say you 
were doing a cover of Joe Cocker or the Beatles?

I'm big on giving songwriters credit, but that's just me.  It bothers 
me when people performing This Masquerade say they are doing a George 
Benson cover.  George Benson covered the song.  Leon Russell wrote and 
recorded it.

George