![]() Here you’ll find feel-good backporch and living room sessions (The Dead Pigeons’ stringband Listen To Her Heart long-haired folk collective Andrew Leahey & The Homestead’s Walls acoustic indiefolk quartet JJ and The Pillars with a holiday favorite), folk-to-funk variations (Hope & Social and Sam Airey’s incredible mashup of I Won’t Back Down with old spiritual I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free), piano-and-harmony pop balladry (Bloom’s Free Fallin’ and The Maine’s Wildflowers) and true-blue country rock ballads (Charles Kelley’s duet with Stevie Nicks on Southern Accents). Stunning and sublime in turn, they represent a broad spectrum of gravitas and genre – powerful variations on a theme, in a mix comprising both some familiar songs distinctly different in interpretation from those posted previously, and a few songs previously uncovered and now brought to light and life. Petty’s canon is broad and diverse, a wide river rich in silt and sediment our working criteria for a second set of Tom Petty covers is steep, and these eminently make the cut. Rest assured, coverfans: though not predominantly recorded by household names, today’s set contains no also-rans. And so, today, Cover Lay Down presents a few more: a list almost exclusively amateur in origin, sourced almost entirely from the world of streaming video, and almost all recorded in the last year or two. ![]() And I don’t want to have to think about it today, on the cusp on yet another workweek with the family split across the state: half of us in the hospital, half of us sleepwalking through our days, our hearts far, far down the turnpike.īut conveniently, in the two weeks since our giant feature on the Tom Petty songbook, covers of the Floridian roots rock giant have been coming out of the woodwork. I need comfort, and bittersweet understanding, that I might soak in myself. I need something upbeat, something eminently freeing. I need to get away from the thinking, critical mind. We’ve got wonderful new bluegrass, indiefolk, singer-songwriter singles and albums to celebrate, and video finds burning in our eyes and ears.īut a whirlwind weekend of family hospitalization as we struggle to find balance in the face of chronic children’s illnesses has left me still thinking about the past far too often, unable to focus on more than the here and now, and the how we got here. We try to avoid revisiting feature posts so soon after their first iteration, and generally eschew dipping too often into the same thematic lens-setting. The Year’s Best Coverfolk Singles (2019)Ī-sides, b-sides, deep cuts, one-shots and more!.Sean Watkins, Sam Gleaves, and Anais Mitchell’s new supergroup! (Re)Covered: New Covers from Familiar Folk.Isolation Coverfolk: A Social Distancing Playlist. ![]()
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