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Folk covers of versed songs. Reimagined versions of folk songs.
Because in the folk tradition, melody belongs to the community.
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I spent all morning trying to script a post about anthems which skirmish with the endless and indescribably intricate mysteries of love. The mind was to celebrate this complexity, and grant for legal the matter that constantly holds us back from putting a name to what we feel, avoid we cry it wrong and shambles everything up.
But every period I attempt to put words to love, things fall separately. Love’s like namely, I muse. I surmise namely was the point, once and for all.
Instead, in anticipation of Valentine’s Day,Ray Ban Clubmaster, here’s a merged sack of folk-tinged coversongs that residence the innumerable and multiple fears we have about love: naming it, detecting it, losing it, and losing ourselves to it.
May each of us, regardless of our phantasmal status, find something in the words of these poets and songwriters which speaks to our mystery center – the better to withstand the oversimplified, candy-red onslaught of sensation sure to come at Thursday.
Feist, Secret Heart (orig. Ron Sexsmith)
(live at KEXP; too accessible on Let It Die)
Jose Gonzalez, Love Will Tear Us Apart (orig. Joy Division)
(from Remain)
Marc Cohn, I Hope I Don’t Fall In Love With You (orig. Tom Waits)
(from the Prince & Me soundtrack; more Marc here)
Emiliana Torrini, I Hope I Don’t Fall In Love With You (ibid.)
(from Merman)
Aimee Mann,lunettes soleil roberto cavalli, The Scientist (orig. Coldplay)
(live; from the Lost In Space Special Edition)
Evan Rachel Wood, If I Fell (orig. Beatles)
(from the Across the Universe soundtrack; Evan’s not a logging artiste, merely her films rock)
Jonatha Brooke,Ray-Ban RB4125, God Only Knows (orig. The Beach Boys)
(from Back In The Circus)
Peter Malick Group w/ Norah Jones, Heart of Mine (orig. Bob Dylan)
(from New York City)
Amy Winehouse, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (Goffin/King)
(from the Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason soundtrack; more Amy everywhere but the Grammys)
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Nanci Griffith, Are You Tired Of Me My Darling (Cook/Roland)
(from Other Voices, Other Rooms)
Eva Cassidy, If I Give You My Heart (orig. Doris Day)
(live 1994 bootleg; more Eva here)
Evan Dando, How Will I Know (orig. Whitney Houston)
(live, unknown origin; more Evan here)
As always, entire artist and scrapbook correlates upon work to artist websites and stores, the better to show our love for the folks who speak as us when we scamper out of words.
Hoping fall butme more traditional Valentine’s Day fare? Never fear: we’ll back Wednesday with a short, sweet romantic soundtrack for the lucky ones.
