Good Cover Version: Widowspeak Does Neil Young

Pulp gave the world the song "Bad Cover Version." But seeing as I'm a sonic optimist, I'm of the belief that there's more likely than not more good cover versions floating around than bad ones. Good Cover Version celebrates the good, and leaves all that bad and ugly stuff alone.

Capturing more than a little of the original's moonlit magic, Widowspeak add their own wonderful witchery to Neil Young's "Harvest Moon." Underneath all the gauzy vocals and guitar lurks no small amount of yearning, burning embers. Well done indeed by these New Yorkers.    



[posted 11.12.17]