It sort of seems hard to believe, but it’s been ten years since Jack Johnson put out his debut album Brushfire Fairytales via the small indie-label Enjoy Records (which is
While we don’t usually fancy ourselves as a destination for financial news, we did think this was an important enough story to share: on Tuesday it was announced Citigroup has
As we previously reported, we were psyched to see that Solid Sound Festival will return for its second year to MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. As promised earlier this
With the runaway success of the film Once, it’s really no surprise that it would eventually be adapted for the Great White Way. The stage version of the 2006 flick,
At a performance at Congress Theatre in Chicago on New Year’s Day, influential Rock & Roll legend Chuck Berry collapsed on stage. According to an official statement on Berry’s website,
I’m starting to get the feeling I sound like a broken record, but I’ve got another album for the “In Case You Missed It” pile for 2010 – Good Things,
On Tuesday night the Foo Fighters played a “secret” show in Tarzana, CA, where the band showcased a number of songs from their new album that hits stores sometime next
In the pantheon of gut wrenching, emotionally charged break up albums none may top the sheer heartbreak found throughout Bob Dylan’s 1975 release Blood On The Tracks. The album has been mined for its share of covers over the years, but it’s the first time we are actually featuring a track from what is arguably one of Dylan’s best LPs.
While there may be a few more obvious choices, we’re going with the moody album’s melancholy closing track, Buckets Of Rain. The tune, which according to Wikipedia has astonishingly only been played live once by Dylan, is as tender as it is devastating with lines such as, “Like your smile, and your fingertips. Like the way that you move your lips, I like the cool way you look at me. Everything about you is bringing me misery.”
The Constestants:
Before hitting it big on his own, M. Ward was a member of Beth Orton’s touring band. The duo’s version finds Orton and Ward trading off on the verses, which was released as the B-side for the digital single of Heart Of Soul, a track that Ward co-wrote with Orton for her 2006 album Comfort Of Strangers
READ ON for more covers of Buckets Of Rain from the likes of Neko Case, David Gray, Vic Chesnutt and more…
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Earlier this year, The AV Club invited 25 bands to stop by their Chicago office to take part in their inaugural A.V. Undercover series – which yielded some fantastic results. As a follow up, the website decided to go with a holiday music theme, but changed the rules a bit, by allowing bands to pick their own song, with the caveat that it had to somehow be holiday related.
The first band to take the challenge was New York-based, indie-rockers The Walkmen, who have awesomely and cleverly chosen Lindsey’s Buckingham’s Holiday Road – otherwise known as the theme to the National Lampoon Vacation series. READ ON to see the results…
