Don't Give Up (Peter Gabriel cover) performed by The Big D

I discovered this gem of a song by Peter Gabriel just this month, and gratefully that out of all the various divas having performed this duet with him, my first listening experience of it featured the incomparable voice of none-other-than Tracy Chapman; which is to say, alongside noting Peter's original authorship of the material in this video-clip, my performance similarly owes specific crediting to Tracy inasmuch as its vocal influence.
Nevertheless, I made significant alteration to the original rhythmic style of the composition which I found to be akwardly challenging insofar as coordinating both the vocal and intrumental rhymic patterns, whilst still in the process of learning the lyrics... and, for those who have no idea what I'm talking about, frankly I just can't resist 'skanking' up most any song I perform these days anyhow - I'd be itching all day to be able to jam out the song, and somehow the skank beat saved the day, naturally. I feel this song is quite fitting of such 'Africanisation' - let me know what y'all think...

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[rustedspear]

Wow man.... you blew me away....excellent.

[SilentLD]

Sorry but you can't sing and can't play the guitar - in a word - "rubbish" - absolutely terrible dude. Don't Give Up your day job!

[MikadosReturn]

damm mon u kill it everytime u sing i wish people cud undastand the true meaning of love and life like us bredah... Blessins yo yah sing so good wish me sounded like yah hahah.. me inspiration goes out to me fav reggae artist of all time Mishka.. u can find him on youtube or whever.. and second is Xiavier Rudd... One is Burmudian and the otha is I like Australian :)

Mikado

[IncredibleChair]

Interesting take on this song, and you sang it from the heart =D good stuff man