![]() ‘Delilah,’ for example, is usually such a drunkard karaoke sing-along that I feel like most people still don’t notice it. “At the time, I didn’t process how dark some of them really are. “I remember hearing Tom Jones songs around my parents and their friends when I was young,” he told Brooklyn Vegan. ![]() That’s just how dramatically Amigo the Devil’s Danny Kiranos transformed the song. ![]() Amigo the Devil – Delilah (Tom Jones cover)Īmigo the Devil’s version of “Delilah” sounds so much like some old murder ballad – and so little like what I think of as Tom Jones – that I had to double check Jones hadn’t recorded some gritty folk project at some point (he has released 40 albums, after all). The two most prominent come from honorary Australian Amanda Palmer and actual Australian Missy Higgs, on a charity EP that sees the first low-key Dresden Dolls reunion in ages, and from Julia Stone, who put together a covers set that comes out next month and features The National and more covering Aussie acts. The sudden abundance of covers of a great song is not a silver lining – there is no silver lining – but hopefully the funds from these go some small way towards rebuilding. Julia Stone – Beds Are Burning (Midnight Oil cover)Īmanda Palmer & Friends: Forty-Five Degrees – A Bushfire Charity Flash Record by Amanda Palmer & Friendsĭue to the wildfires devastating Australia, Midnight Oil’s ecological anthem “Beds Are Burning” has gotten covered a lot this year (Patti Smith was, as always, ahead of the curve). Amanda Palmer – Beds Are Burning (Midnight Oil cover)
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