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Hitchin' A Ride

Certain Songs #1881: The Replacements – “Hitchin’ A Ride (Maxwell’s 1986)”

August 1, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Live at Maxwell’s 1986
Year: 1986

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From their earliest days, covers were a key of the Replacements aesthetic. Hell, as everybody knows, they stuck a KISS cover right in the middle of Let It Be. And while that was the only cover they ever put on an album (until Songs For Slim, which was all covers), any Replacements show worth its salt had more than one cover, and the show documented in For Sale: Live At Maxwell’s 1986 had five: an aborted take on Sweet’s immortal “Fox on the Run;” the aforementioned “Black Diamond;” plus T. Rex’s “Baby Strange,” The Beatles “Nowhere Man” and the cheesy pop goodness of Vanity Fare’s 1970 top 5 single, “Hitchin’ A Ride.”

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Hitchin' A Ride, Live at Maxwell's 1986, The Replacements

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