’I don’t see myself as covering these songs in any way. They’ve been covered enough. Buried, as a matter a fact. What me and my band are basically doing is uncovering them. Lifting them out of the grave and bringing…
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Flow (2024) – Gints Zilbalodis (Friday’s Finest)
Storyline: A Latvian, French, and Belgian co-production, Flow features no dialogue and follows a cat trying to survive along with other animals in a seemingly post-apocalyptic world as the water level dramatically rises. The world seems to be coming to an end,…
Thank U (1998) – Alanis Morissette
Basically, I had never stopped in my whole life, hadn’t taken a long breath, and I took a year and a half off and basically learned how to do that. When I did stop and I was silent and I…
Tell Me, Momma (Live 1966) – Bob Dylan & the Hawks (the Band)
“That tour was a very strange process…We’d go from town to town, from country to country and it was like a job. We set up, we played, they booed and threw things at us. Then we went to the next…
Tell Me That It Isn’t True (1969) – Bob Dylan
“I hadn’t realized how much you could get out of voice till I lost it in a motorcycle accident in 1966. When it came back, I had this rich, deep sound.”– Dylan in a 2004 interview Tell Me That It…
Nessun Dorma (Turandot) 1924 – Giacomo Puccini (Ft. Luciano Pavarotti)
Nessun Dorma (Let no one Sleep) from the final act of Puccini’s opera Turandot is one of Puccini’s most renowned arias. It achieved pop status after Luciano Pavarotti’s 1972 recording of it was used as the theme song of BBC television’s coverage of the 1990 FIFA…
Downbound Train (1984) – Bruce Springsteen
I think Downbound Train is one of the most unheralded songs on Bruce’s massive – hit album Born in the USA (BITUSA), yet due to its unassuming melancholic appeal it’s one of the songs from the album I now prefer…
Pi’s Lullaby (Life of Pi) 2012 – Mychael Danna (Ft. Bombay Jayashri) Friday’s Finest
The 2012 movie Life of Pi currently sits at No. 58 on my 100 favourite movies list. Whenever it comes on cable here, which is often, I sometimes immerse myself in it for the umpteenth time. When I very recently…
Stick Season (2022) – Noah Kahan (Alex and Jo Music)
You tube’s best kept secret female duo ‘Alex and Jo‘ are back again to treat us with their lovely version of Noah Kahan’s big hit Stick Season. Today’s featured song marks the sixth occasion the Serbian twins have appeared here…
Angel of the Morning – Merrilee Rush (1968) / Juice Newton (1981)
I wrote Angel of the Morning after hearing the Rolling Stones song Ruby Tuesday on the car radio when I was driving into New York City. I wanted to capture that kind of passion. – Chip Taylor Angel of the Morning starts…
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