and if you return to me
One of my favorite songs off one of the albums I’ve listened to the most in the last year, this new cover of Damien Jurado’s “Beacon Hill” is suffused through the warmed-up, knowing rasp of Jon Russell (of The Head and The Heart). It’s been on constant repeat for me this week, since it was unveiled as part of an extremely cool mini-series of covers over on Andrew Matson’s music column in the Seattle Times.
Beacon Hill (Damien Jurado) – Jon Russell
Jon takes an icy, somber song that originally aches of that echoey sort of desperation, and infuses it with his own glowing embers. The harmonies of Brenna Carlson are enveloping, and perfect.
Beacon Hill – Damien Jurado
Get Saint Bartlett if you never did, and stream Damien’s entire new forthcoming record, Maraqopa, here. Highly recommended — is anyone else also hung up on “Life Away From The Garden” (in addition to “Working Titles,” of course) like I am?
Keep your ears tuned to Matson’s column for the Seattle Times (check out Pickwick’s!). I don’t know what covers are coming next, but they can’t help but be amazing if this is the magnetic songwriting fodder we have to work with.
UPDATE: JUST GET RIGHT ON OUT OF TOWN. Magic will do what magic does.
[photo by Marcelle Davidse]
Name: Heather Browne
Working Titles is first favorite song of the year… Museum of Flight is right up there with it.
Cliff — February 15, 2012 @ 11:14 am
Thanks so much for posting this Heather! Would love it if you could post mp3s of the other DJ covers as well, all of them have been great!!
Paul J — February 16, 2012 @ 7:57 am
Nevermind, Andrew Matson posted a link to download them all at his blog. There’s a link in this post: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/matsononmusic/2017527944_neo-folk_forerunner_damien_jur.html
Paul J — February 20, 2012 @ 12:14 pm
Nice! Thank you!
browneheather — February 20, 2012 @ 1:00 pm
[...] Listen to the song they were working on for Damien Jurado’s record release. [...]
genevieve pierson — April 10, 2012 @ 11:05 am