this one i found via a stereo deluxe compilation and it's a brazilian cover of 'hit the road jack'. it's quite funky and straddles the original rhythm and blues but shifts it onto a more drum & bass influenced rhythm but still keeping the sensibility of the traditional versions. the original is a standard and i think my favourite version has been one that i heard some years ago where it was it downplayed to a smoky jazz or blues type thing. i'm racking my brain to remember who performed it but nothing comes up to be honest.
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for me this song was first introduced in my life via monica zetterlund's version in swedish and it's done in a female perspective and unlike the common ray charles version where the hook is sung from the female perspective and the verses is jack trying to get sympathies.
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i also found this version on spotify and it's by swedish act movits! and they did a rendition where they introduce the song as "this is for everyone that heard 'hit the road jack' and wondered what happened afterward". they do it in a very stripped down fashion and over the original chord progression johan (singer of movits!) explains what caused jack to bolt and get kicked out etc etc.
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