#tezeta

13. a reboot of a song/songs you already loved (remix, mashup, acoustic, etc.)

oh i Lovvvveeeee reboots of many and sundry kinds... can i do covers do covers count. i'm gonna do covers.

Elizabeth Fraser / This Mortal Coil'ss version of Tim Buckley's Song to the Siren -

Elizabeth Fraser -

Tim Buckley (on of all things the Monkees show) -

I was also really pumped to hear Pick Poor Robin Clean in SINNERS!!! i have been into the OG version of that by Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas for a long time (content warning period typical language...)

I also love their Last Kind Words Blues one of THEE great blues songs -

which had an INSANE cover by Dex Romweber duo with Jack White -

MAJOR moment for me when this came out . ...

There isn't a lot known about Geeshie & Elvie but this NYT piece on them does probably as much as is possible: "There are musicians as obscure as Wiley and Thomas, and musicians as great, but in none does the Venn diagram of greatness and lostness reveal such vast and bewildering co-extent." here's Chris Thomas King (important blues artist) on the lengths he went to to get an original copy of Last Kind Words. There's fewer than 10 original copies of their records - three discs, six songs - left in existence.

i've also been obsessed for some years with the Wailers version of Like A Rolling Stone which takes elements of Bob Dylan but adds some verses and is WILDLY different

19. a song from an artist whose old music you enjoy more than their new music

HMMMM!!!! I'm not very up to date on new music. I willlll say that . I truly love the band Young Fathers. my favourite boyband <3. have seen them live several times (they are Very compelling live .. the first time i saw them they had such a quality of strangeness and newness to their movements and their presence it was immediately clear I was seeing something important) although not for a couple of years... they remain interesting to me. But i do prefer their first couple of albums (tape one, tape two, dead) over the next couple of albums.

27. an instrumental song

hhhhh what shall i give you. well I listen to a certain amount of non western music. Once at a festival I saw the Ethiopian saxophonist Getatchew Mekuria perform with the Dutch punk band The Ex and at the time i was like. this is the greatest thing ive ever seen and heard in my LIFE. They did two collab albums BUT the track i keep coming back to is not really a collab - it's a pure solo by Getatchew in the Tizita / Tezeta (nostalgia, longing) genre, which starts around 39.19 in the video below (could only find it in a full album upload on youtube). I think he was about 70 when they made this album.