For rockers and bluesers...

[desrt]

Which is better:

The original:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDCNbacVt5w&feature=related

Or the cover:
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=-t1_ETuWIbE&feature=related

[mikesimon]

I agree

[nygirl7]

I'm not much into WS really the cover is fine but it's just another cover to me and sort of reminds me of any old bar band of which I've heard enough in my years.

[mikesimon]

The original - no doubt about it.

Mike

[IAmTheWalrus]

Hard to compare the two. For sure the original is a masterpiece, with no tech help, just simple soulful blues on a dobro. But I liked the big sound of the cover, too. I think the cover captured the soul of the original and gave it a more complicated treatment with a lot of feeling. Didn't really like the antics, but the sound was great.

[desrt]

I actually enjoy both versions. If you ever watch the film 'It Might Get Loud', it's an interesting moment when John Gillis momentarily puts aside his 'Jack White' persona and speaks of how moved he was to hear Son House for the first time as a teenager and how much of the "cartoonishness" of the White Stripes was just a means to get away with playing this music without being considered "just another white boy blues band".

"The best lack all conviction
While the worst are filled with a passionate intensity."

W.B.Yeats

[GSDgirl]

I'm with Trin, like the original.  I have Robert Johnson's CD collection and much prefer that style over all the screaming guitar.  Hurts my ears

[Trinity4]

I like number one because it puts in the mind of sitting in a juke joint on the bayou, tapping my foot with a glass of sippin whiskey in front of me.  Suits me better than head banging.

Trin