Mar 20
Jeannie Lewis
John from Australia sent me an email with a song attached and warned me that I may love this or hate it. Now, IMO, if you’re a true Bowie music fan, that’s the whole point. Almost every song that Bowie’s done I never liked upon first listening. Let’s Dance, Never Let Me Down, and Tonight were easy listening, but that’s it. Some of Bowie’s stuff I hated upon first listening, and still do. Some Bowie stuff I hated on first listening, but grew to love it. Most of it wasn’t meant to be pretty background music for elevators and doctors’ offices. It was meant to assault your senses. The beauty of the Ziggy era tours was it was a full bluntal assault that took on your visual, your hearing, and your logic.
Jeannie Lewis understood that in 1975. Her version of Bowie’s All The Madmen is different to say the very least. I’ll just wrap this up with this warning: You’ll either love it, or hate it.
I can’t find that Jeannie Lewis’ stuff is available to buy online. If anyone is aware that it is, please let me know so I can plug her stuff. I would venture to guess her stuff is quite interesting.
Thanks again John.
UPDATE: Mr. Kenneth just sent me yet another Jeannie Lewis Bowie remake. This just happens to be one of my all-time favorite songs. Time. If I were going to do Bowie song, for real, it would have either been Time or Heroes. Jeannie nails it. She gets the campiness of the song and the “flame” aspect of it as well. The only thing missing is Mick’s solo at the end. Here they are! Thanks as well Mr. Kenneth!
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Jeannies page: http://www.jeannielewis.com/ includes a discography with clickable links to the still available material.