{"id":30858,"date":"2021-12-02T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=30858"},"modified":"2021-12-02T07:16:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T15:16:38","slug":"cover-me-round-up-im-on-fire-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/02\/cover-me-round-up-im-on-fire-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me Round-Up: I&#8217;m on Fire (Part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another installment of\u00a0<em>Cover Me Round-Up: <a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/11\/roll-of-the-dice-im-on-fire\/\">I&#8217;m on Fire<\/a>&#8212;<\/em>a song so nice, they covered it seventy bazillion times. At this rate, we&#8217;ll never catch up, so let&#8217;s jump right in.<\/p>\n<p>First up is a familiar face. We met Carson McKee a couple of months ago when we listened to his lovely <a href=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/23\/cover-me-carson-mckee-and-skylar-mckee-nebraska\/\">cover of &#8220;Nebraska&#8221;<\/a> with his brother Skylar. Carson has another musical partner, though&#8211;he also performs with Joshua Lee Turner as indie folk duo The Other Favorites.<\/p>\n<p>Carson and Josh have over 600,000 subscribers on YouTube and their videos have amassed more than 150 million views. Relatively speaking, their terrific video performance of &#8220;I&#8217;m on Fire&#8221; has gone under the radar at &#8220;only&#8221; 73,000 views. Not too shabby, guys.<\/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\/xFiJdnJK7nw?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>Our next artist made quite the splash with his cover of &#8220;I&#8217;m on Fire&#8221; when he performed it as his live audition for the Australian television show <em>The Voice<\/em> in 2019. Conor Smith was only sixteen when he skated on stage and blew the judges away with his soulful cover of a song recorded twenty years before he was born.<\/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\/mpnohqocBG8?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>Next is the most adventurous of today&#8217;s batch. Harry Manx&#8217;s music has a unique sound, a marriage of the blues with classic ragas. His cover of &#8220;I&#8217;m on Fire&#8221; is a perfect example, the lead track from his 2007 album with Kevin Breit, <em>In Good We Trust. <\/em>\u00a0The Indian instrumentation shades Bruce&#8217;s song with tones both bright and brooding, resulting in one of the best covers of &#8220;I&#8217;m on Fire&#8221; and certainly one of the freshest.<\/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\/iVBhmab70PA?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>Netherlands-based Nikki Henskens is our newest artist in today&#8217;s round-up. She just released <em>Balcony Baby, <\/em>her debut EP of original material<i>, <\/i>during the pandemic lockdown. You can check out her original music <a href=\"https:\/\/nikkihenskens.nl\/?fbclid=IwAR1Vrl2RDTKddAsQ94oE9kGLFywlx67RJStqsFsrBCfh7iGb5mxFMHOf6PU\">here<\/a>, but she&#8217;s quite the cover artist as well. Her gorgeous vocals are front and center in this intimate solo performance of &#8220;I&#8217;m on Fire.&#8221;<\/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\/RPTVH6XLUEI?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>We&#8217;ll wrap up today&#8217;s installment with a cover that not only takes musical liberties but lyrical ones, too.\u00a0 Cody Quintana and Seda are Maui-based musicians who perform together under the name Cuppa. Their interpretation of &#8220;I&#8217;m on Fire&#8221; is more smoke than flame, a world-weary duet between cautious lovers who we sense have been burned before. Seda adds a few verses of her own to flesh out her character, and the result is an instantly recognizable yet very different song.<\/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\/eETPbrtCfNE?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>That&#8217;s it for today&#8217;s installment of\u00a0<em>Cover Me Round-Up<\/em>, but never fear: there will be more&#8211;particularly for &#8220;I&#8217;m on Fire,&#8221; a song that never ceases to inspire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take a look and listen to five fantastic and fresh takes on Bruce&#8217;s most-covered song, &#8220;I&#8217;m on Fire.&#8221; 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