Song of the Day – Greg Laswell

It’s been a while since I posted a cover song on here and boy do I have a great one for you today.  My good friend Justin first introduced you all to Greg Laswell a little over a month ago with his most recent video starring none other than Elijah Wood, the hobbit himself.  If you haven’t seen that yet you gotta check it out.  This cover is exactly what a cover song should be.  Taking the basics of another artists song and then molding it to fit your style of music.  Now this only works if at its core the song was already solid.  Some of you may disagree, but I think that Cyndi Lauper definitely deserves some credit.  Laswell didn’t create something out of nothing here.  Now I would choose to listen to his version a thousand times or more before I ever go back to the original, but that diamond was there to begin with.  Laswell just did some of the dirty work and polished it out so that it actually can be heard. I don’t if any of that made any sense.  But what I do know is that this is a fantastic cover song, which I am sure you will enjoy.

I hope you head for the hills.

Greg Laswell – Girls Just Want to Have Fun (removed 2/13/09)