Cover Songs: Ryan Adams Covers Ratt’s “Round and Round”

This week, Chimesfreedom has focused on new versions of old songs, so here is one more. Ryan Adams recently performed an acoustic cover of Ratt’s 1984 hit song, “Round and Round” on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday. He has reportedly been playing the song periodically in concert while promoting his CD Ashes & Fire (2011). Check it out.

Ryan Adams – Round and Round (Ratt cover) (Live on NPR) by rfp86

Unfortunately, there is no Milton Berle appearance as in the original Ratt video.

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    2 thoughts on “Cover Songs: Ryan Adams Covers Ratt’s “Round and Round””

    2. I understand anyone’s desire to cover a song that’s somehow important to them or just catches their fancy (and the possible financial rewards of doing so), but yes, this is awful.

      Certainly, Stephen Pearcy et. al. came up with a hair-band classic with this tune and it has been covered successfully many times, but the worst of Adams’ whispery, mumbly reductive guitar work doesn’t work here.

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