Sunday Music

In this blog's previous incarnation every, (well most), Sunday I would post 6 covers. The posts were called, descriptively but not imaginatively, Covers for Sunday. They were by far the most popular posts I did. Even today, 3+ years on from the final Covers for Sunday, the most viewed post ios an old Covers for Sunday.

I don't want to do Covers for Sunday again. I want the blog to be different now, and searching for 6 different covers every week is surprisingly time consuming. I do, however, want to post some music every Sunday. So the plan is every Sunday I'll post at least 3 songs and at least one of them will be a cover. Those are the only rules I'll impose upon myself.

Here are this weeks songs:

Firstly a cover. You may or not like folk, you may or may not like Springsteen. You may not even like music and have happened upon this looking for film talk. Regardless, you owe it to yourself to listen to this cover, truly one of the best covers I've heard in years. It is Hayward Williams covering Bruce Springsteen's Thunder Road:

I've posted Fela Kuti before, one of the most interesting people of the second half of the 20th century in my opinion and a great musician. Not enough people have heard his music, because everybody should have heard it. If you haven't heard any of his music here's your chance to change that. Fela Kuti with Lady:



Let's have another cover, and this one too is a folk cover. Anais Mitchell covering Bob Dylan's A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall. There's not much to say about this except it's an exceptional live cover. The type that makes you wish you'd been in the room to experience it in person:

Someone else I've posted about before is Christian Scott. In the comments for this video someone describes it as jazz for the 21st century. I think that sums it up perfectly. This track comes from the album Anthem, which you really should own. Christian Scott Quintet performing Litany Against Fear:

It's no secret that The Velvet Underground are my favourite band so it's only fitting they should be featured here. This is from their third album, The Velvet Underground and was the only single released from that album. What Goes On by The Velvet Underground:

Finally, a live version of Karmacoma by Massive Attack. Already a great song, this version manages to make it even better: