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Inside Tracks #1: Tim Moore, "Second Avenue" + Covers by Art Garfunkel (1974) & Colin Blunstone (2009)

Under the covers with musical arrangement analysis of Tim Moore's original, Garfunkel's immediate cover the same year, plus Blunstone's cover 35 years later. Vote for your favorite in THE POLL!

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Brad Kyle
Aug 06, 2022
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For “Inside Tracks,” we put a couple of cover versions under the audio microscope, and compare them to the songwriter’s original version. How similar or dissimilar are they? What did the songwriter intend with the original, and how were the featured covers crafted?

For this “Inside Tracks” episode, Front Row & Backstage is enlisting the impressive musica…

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