J. Davis Trio cover's Kate Bush's "There Goes A Tenner"

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Uploaded by on Nov 30, 2006

Back in 1998, Thomas Dunning brought together a great group of Chicago musicians and singers to cover Kate Bush songs on the album "I Wanna Be Kate".

Some of them were close to Kate's original version, and (IMO) less successful than the ones that re-invented the song in their own style.

This is one of the latter.

The J. Davis Trio changed the British criminal milieu of Kate's original into an American, "gangta" one.

This is Kate's father's favorite song on the album.

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  • great cover! Kate bush should hear it!

  • She has. Copies were sent to Kate and her family. I know that her late father particularly enjoyed this track. I've not heard of any statement from Kate about it.

  • I love this. It's so original and inspired. I don't think it's possible to reach any where near Kate's level by simply covering her note for note, but by transposing the style of the song across the Atlantic, they have shown a 'think outside the box' abroach that mirrors what makes Kate's work so genius. 10/10.

  • Glad you dig it. Wish I had better camera work of this once-in-a-lifetime event.

  • Is this really a cover of 'There goes a Tenner'? As a song, it wasn't hideous, however, if I was them, I would have given it a new name and recorded it as an original...

  • It's definitely based on "There Goes A Tenner" - same story, same basic melody, many of the same lines. The main thing is they took Kate's English Cockney criminal argot and translated it into American "Gangsta". A brilliant re-construction. Very likely my favorite Kate cover mainly because it didn't try to imitate Kate. The original exists, if you want to hear it, put on The Dreaming.

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  • damn! that was incredible...God bless inspiration

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  • what a great version. love the fact that its so different and that these guys have heard of kate!

  • @k8fan Do it twice in a lifetime? ;)

  • wow that's so cool! although i can barely identify the song. still great!

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