Saturday, 25 May 2013
Version City #11 - Mark Lanegan sings Gene Clark
A tweet from the venerable Sid Griffin,
reminds me that May 24th 2013 was not only
the 72nd birthday of Bob Dylan, but also the
22nd anniversary of Gene Clark's death.
In his tweet, Sid also mentions 'Some
Misunderstanding', a sublime song from
Gene's masterpiece, 1974's 'No Other', which
in turn got me thinking about a terrific
interpretation of that song by Soulsavers, fronted by Mark Lanegan. Soulsavers have released four long-players
to date, two of which feature Lanegan
extensively - 2007's 'It's Not How Far You
Fall, It's the Way You Land' and 2009's
'Broken', from where this version is taken.
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3 comments:
Nice version from that fabulous album
That is a mighty, mighty fine version of Gene's beautiful original. Must get to hear some more Soulsavers. Is all their stuff that good?
Old Pa. Glad you enjoyed.
SB. I don't know the first Soulsavers LP and the latest features Dave Gahan on vocals, who I'm not mad keen on, so I've not checked it out, but I'd unreservedly recommend the two albums I mentioned - they're Mark Lanegan albums in all but name. For a further sample here's the fantastic opener on 'It's Not How Far You Fall..'
http://youtu.be/Wp1rL7DI_D4
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