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Kelli is of course!
Yep, we are hunting down a number of classic tracks that would be a good addition to the set list over the coming months. It makes a lot of sense to give the initial audiences something that they can immediately recognize and then of course blow them away with a unique Kelli interpretation. We already have great versions of Your Cheating Heart and Why Cant He Be You by Hank Williams and Patsy Cline respectively but we are looking to add a few more.
Last week we worked up an incredible version of the Bill Wither track:Aint No Sunshine When Shes Gone, of course Kelli sings He rather than She, and this is no ballad any more, it is a full on grooving rocker. Two others that we will be working up very soon are Crazy, the Patsy Cline signature track and Bobby McGee, the Janis Joplin classic. Both are tracks that are dear to Kelli and she has been singing them for years, here is a clip of Kelli singing Crazy back in 2001:
Of course the new version is going to be a little different as the ShadowMen will bring their own inimitable style to it. With Thom out of town for another week we might have to put Mr. Lesniak behind the kit to get the ball rolling, should be a lot of fun, we might even post some audio clips to whet your appetite!
We spent yesterday looking in the modern Country catalog for a suitable track and it was surprising to find so few stand out songs. One of the ones that Kelli is considering is the Toby Keith track Whos Your Daddy? There are very few men out there who could take this track and make it their own, but anyone that knows Kelli, knows that she could knock this one out of the park; can’t wait to see the look on the guy’s faces!
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