Cover songs are like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get. We here at Dying Scene love hearing punk bands do their own take on other band’s songs. Sometimes they pull off amazing interpretations of old classics, sometimes they’re not much more than humble tributes to a fellow artist, and other times they’re just downright laughable renditions of otherwise great songs. Good or bad. Intriguing or mundane. We’ll let you be the judge.
This week it’s Canadian punks The Flatliners covering the Johnny Cash’s song “Cry, Cry, Cry.” Check the cover and compare it to the original right here.
The cover song appears on “All Aboard: A Tribute to Johnny Cash”, which was released in 2008 through Anchorless Records. The original version appears on Johnny Cash’s 1957 debut release “With His Hot And Blue Guitar.”