{"id":22279,"date":"2020-10-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=22279"},"modified":"2021-12-20T18:13:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T02:13:34","slug":"cover-me-tad-jennings-im-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/18\/cover-me-tad-jennings-im-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, Tad Jennings: I&#8217;m on Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know&#8230; another &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/11\/roll-of-the-dice-im-on-fire\/\">I&#8217;m on Fire<\/a>&#8221; cover.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me: at this point an artist needs to bring something new and fresh to the table if they want me to pay attention to the umpteenth cover of Bruce&#8217;s 1985 Top Ten single.<\/p>\n<p>Tad Jennings does that.<\/p>\n<p>Tad is a singer-songwriter and one-man band out of Daytona Beach,\u00a0 and he knows the basic\u00a0 rule for covers of classic songs: do it different or do it better. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCaR4DUoX5d44P-gtg7k3NNA\">YouTube channel<\/a> has several inventive covers worth checking out, and the other day he added a new one to the list: a one-take loop cover of &#8220;I&#8217;m on Fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A great singer, a talented guitarist, and a mean multi-tasker, Tad delivers a performance worthy of a listen even if you think you&#8217;ve heard it all.<\/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\/nOegzE9M1EQ?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>For more of Tad&#8217;s music&#8211;both original and cover&#8211;visit his web site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tadjennings.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-man band Tad Jennings delivers a fresh loop take on Bruce&#8217;s often-covered classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22291,"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":[263,2929],"class_list":["post-22279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-me","tag-im-on-fire","tag-tad-jennings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tadjennings.jpg?fit=900%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-5Nl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2615,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/11\/cover-me-amy-macdonald-im-on-fire\/","url_meta":{"origin":22279,"position":0},"title":"Cover Me, Amy MacDonald: I&#8217;m on Fire","author":"Ken","date":"July 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Scottish singer-songwriter Amy Macdonald sneaks a lovely cover of \"I'm on Fire\" onto the deluxe edition of her most recent album.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cover Me&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cover Me","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/category\/cover-me\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/amy.jpg?fit=380%2C285&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":22769,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/10\/cover-me-scary-pockets-im-on-fire\/","url_meta":{"origin":22279,"position":1},"title":"Cover Me, Scary Pockets: I&#8217;m on Fire","author":"Ken","date":"November 10, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"It's Double-Shot Tuesday! 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