{"id":32244,"date":"2022-01-27T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=32244"},"modified":"2023-01-03T07:13:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T15:13:19","slug":"cover-me-round-up-im-on-fire-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/27\/cover-me-round-up-im-on-fire-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me Round-Up: I&#8217;m on Fire (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217; s time for our first &#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; round-up of 2022, and we&#8217;ve got some great ones to enjoy today. Each of today&#8217;s artists gifts us with a different spin on Bruce&#8217;s oft-covered classic.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start off with singer-songwriter Stefanie Joyce&#8217;s country arrangement. &#8220;This song is so fun because it&#8217;s been covered by so many artists in so many drastically different ways,&#8221; Stefanie wrote on her YouTube page. &#8220;I&#8217;m partial to the Whitey Morgan version. We tried to do something a bit country, a bit bluegrass, and a whole lotta dark.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stefanie enlisted Danya Olsen on fiddle and Nick Halsted on percussion and backing vocals for an intimate trio arrangement that serves the song admirably. If you&#8217;re interested in hearing Stefanie&#8217;s own music, check out her site <a href=\"https:\/\/stefaniejoycemusic.com\/#:~:text=Steeped%20in%20the%20tradition%20of,redemption%2C%20and%20everything%20in%20between.\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s take a trip in time. Our next cover artists reimagine &#8220;I&#8217;m on Fire&#8221; in styles that were popular long before or well after Bruce&#8217;s 1985 single was climbing the charts.<\/p>\n<p>First up is <a href=\"https:\/\/vanilaswing.com\/\">Vanila Swing, <\/a>a rockabilly\/swing band from Athens, Greece. After a moody first verse, the band cuts loose with a 1950s-style rockabilly arrangement that&#8217;ll get you on the dance floor. It might lose the tension in Bruce&#8217;s original version but it certainly retains the heat.<\/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\/iRFG-K4ahLA?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>Moving forward a few decades, Philly-based Sharon Little and Tim Sonnefeld show us what Bruce&#8217;s song might have sounded like if he&#8217;d released it in the mid-nineties instead of the mid-eighties. Sonnefeld&#8217;s backing track is moody, broody, and intense&#8211;and Little&#8217;s vocals will blow you away, particularly when the song bursts open about halfway through.<\/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\/t3aoZZpAoAw?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>If Sharon&#8217;s name and voice sound familiar, you might have seen her at Light of Day in 2017 or opening for Robert Plant, Alison Krauss and T Bone Burnett before that. Her songs have also been featured in several television show episodes, and you can check out all her original music <a href=\"https:\/\/sharonlittle.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And as long as we&#8217;re in a moody mood, let&#8217;s check out French musician Halem&#8217;s stunning bluesy cover of &#8220;I&#8217;m on Fire&#8221; from his upcoming EP. This one is best listened to with the lights out!<\/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\/hPNnB7wVtkI?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>Halem&#8217;s EP is due in April; for more updates or to explore his own music, check out his YouTube page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCxHCWSyx6BLvQ2AdA-UyoVQ\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally (for now), let&#8217;s make a return visit to Pennsylvania, a little further west this time&#8211;to Johnstown, where we check on The Evergreens, a married couple whose videos alternate between informative, entertaining travel vlogging and terrific musical covers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m on Fire&#8221; is their most recent release, and while it may be the most familiar-sounding of today&#8217;s round-up, it&#8217;s a truly great performance that really captures the song&#8217;s steamy soul.<\/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\/7ZxORhHKrVM?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, but new covers of &#8220;I&#8217;m on Fire&#8221; seem to find me faster than I can write about them, so rest assured: we&#8217;ll be back again before too long with another installment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five more fresh takes on Bruce&#8217;s steamy hit single.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32570,"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":[3401,263,3400,3399],"class_list":["post-32244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-me","tag-halem","tag-im-on-fire","tag-sharon-little","tag-stefanie-joyce"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/little.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w3Lk-8o4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25178,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/05\/cover-me-round-up-im-on-fire\/","url_meta":{"origin":32244,"position":0},"title":"Cover Me Round-Up: I&#8217;m on Fire","author":"Ken","date":"March 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Presenting the first in an occasional catch-up\/round-up of terrific \"I'm on Fire\" covers.","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\/2021\/03\/mainline.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mainline.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mainline.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mainline.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mainline.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":29309,"url":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/27\/cover-me-round-up-im-on-fire-part-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":32244,"position":1},"title":"Cover Me Round-Up: I&#8217;m on Fire (Part 2)","author":"Ken","date":"September 27, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"It's time for another trip around the world. 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