{"id":16363,"date":"2020-02-24T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=16363"},"modified":"2020-12-20T10:40:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T18:40:30","slug":"cover-me-barney-bentall-and-the-cariboo-express-moonlight-motel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/24\/cover-me-barney-bentall-and-the-cariboo-express-moonlight-motel\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, Barney Bentall and the Cariboo Express: Moonlight Motel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barney Bentall may not be a familiar name outside of his native Canada, but he&#8217;s certainly well-known there.<\/p>\n<p>His debut 1988 album with The Legendary Hearts went platinum, and its very first track, &#8220;Something to Live For&#8221; became a number one hit&#8211;and it&#8217;s easy to hear the Springsteenian influences from the outset.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wkACgkxKcsg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>More than thirty years later, Bentall is still recording and performing across Canada, both solo and as part of four different bands&#8211;one of which, the Cariboo Express, is (in Bentall&#8217;s words) a travelling, fundraising old-time musical revue.<\/p>\n<p>At one of the revue&#8217;s recent shows in St. Albert, Bentall chose to cover a brand new Springsteen song, and his choice revealed a deep appreciation and respect for Bruce&#8217;s music.<\/p>\n<p>Their cover of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/30\/roll-of-the-dice-moonlight-motel\/\">Moonlight Motel<\/a>&#8221; is perfect&#8211;delicate, intimate, and nuanced like the original, making full use of the band&#8217;s violinist and pedal steel guitarist.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder the audience is rapt from the start. Take a listen:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hGq2ZS-F0hk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>There might be a road trip up I-5 to Vancouver in my future when the Express comes around again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From November 2019, Barney Bentall and the Cariboo Express gift us with their superb cover of Bruce&#8217;s instant classic, &#8220;Moonlight Motel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[2658,2659,2528],"class_list":["post-16363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-me","tag-barney-bentall","tag-cariboo-express","tag-moonlight-motel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/BBTOURsizedown.jpg?fit=874%2C847&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-4fV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14140,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/07\/cover-me-reflekter-moonlight-motel\/","url_meta":{"origin":16363,"position":0},"title":"Cover Me, Reflekter: Moonlight Motel","author":"Ken","date":"November 7, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"James Gooch's acoustic cover of \"Moonlight Motel\" is the first Western Stars cover I've featured on this blog, and it's bound to be a controversial one. 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