Coverocktober Song #2: "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" by JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound

Song #2 in Coverocktober comes courtesy of Chicago soul band JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound (who later changed their name to JC Brooks Band).  I saw them back in 2011 at Schuba's, a small and lovely live music venue in Lake View, and I was blown away.  The show was all energy, and I'm sure I wasn't the only newbie in attendance who they made into a fan.

Anywho, one of my favorite songs of theirs actually isn't theirs.  "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" was the first track off of Wilco's signature 2002 album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.  The original is a plodding, fuzzy psychedelic indie rock song, coming in at just under seven minutes long.

JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound originally recorded their cover of the song in 2009 and also included it on the band's 2011 Want More album.  They turned the song on its head, making it their own by chopping the song in half and making it into a rollicking, toe-tapping soul rock song, complete with a horn section and call-and-response.  It's, quite simply, a damn fine cover and a damn fine song.