This album is where you can find all the newest and freshest tunes... April Fools! Quite the opposite in fact - this mix throws together tracks that have been circulating longer than, well, most of us! Jack and Anna may be older than one of the original songs on this list (see if you can find it!). We're entering Spring - and hence - REINVENTION! Let's take what we've got and mix it up - just like these artists have. There's always something to work with and a these artist have captured, in very different ways, an essence of their origins. Each track revisits something we've all heard many times before, and challenges us pull back the covers, shake out the winter, and tune into something new.
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Bon Iver / Bruised Orange
John Prine original. 1978.
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Bon Iver is a Grammy Award winning folk band from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States, and one of Justin Vernon's current and most notable music projects to date. The band also consists of Mike Noyce, Sean Carey and Matt MacCaughan. The name 'Bon Iver' (pronounced "bon ee-VAIR") is a play on the French phrase 'bon hiver' meaning 'good winter'. Vernon independently released Bon Iver's debut album For Emma, Forever Ago in 2007, most of which was recorded during a four-month stay in a remote cabin in Wisconsin. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Johnny Cash / Solitary Man
Neil Diamond original. 1966.
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Johnny Cash (born J.R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. Cash was known for his deep, calm bass-baritone voice Read more on Last.fm more...
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Phosphorescent / Ya Hey
Vampire Weekend original. 2013.
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Phosphorescent is the solo project of American musician and songwriter Matthew Houck (born 1980 in Alabama). Houck began recording and performing under this nom de plume in 2001 in Athens, Georgia, USA. He is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Before recording under the name Phosphorescent, Houck traveled the world playing under the moniker Fillup Shack and, in 2000, self-released a limited pressing of the album "Hipolit". In 2001 Houck changed his recording name to Phosphorescent Read more on Last.fm more...
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First Aid Kit / Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
Fleet Foxes original. 2008.
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There are three bands called First Aid Kit: 1. Swedish indie/folk duo which consists of sisters Johanna (b. 31 October 1990) and Klara Söderberg (b. 8 January 1993) both from Enskede, Sweden. The sisters began composing songs in 2007, taking their name at random from an English dictionary. They began uploading their music to their My Space page and sending their songs to Swedish radio station, this led to live performances and offers from Record Companies. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Blind Pilot / Look at Miss Ohio
Gillian Welch original. 2003.
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Blind Pilot is an American indie folk band based in Portland, Oregon. The band has performed on Carson Daly's show, opened arena shows in England and been selected as iTunes' Single of the Week. After a busy summer that included the Lollapalooza, Sasquatch!, and Outside Lands festivals and a high-profile slot opening for fellow Portlanders the Decemberists on select dates, Blind Pilot is embarking on a national headlining tour to support their magnanimous debut, 3 Rounds and a Sound, released last year on Expunged Records. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Kishi Bashi / This Must Be the Place
Talking Heads original. 1983.
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Kishi Bashi is the pseudonym of singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Kaoru Ishibashi (born November 4, 1975). He is a founding member of the New York synth rock outfit Jupiter One, as well as a touring member of Georgia based indie rock group of Montreal and has also toured with Regina Spektor, predominantly as a violinist. Kishi Bashi is Kaoru Ishibashi's self-recorded and self-produced project started in 2011 with his first EP; Room For Dream, released in May 2011 http://kishibashi.bandcamp.com/ Read more on Last.fm more...
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Ryan Adams / Wonderwall
Oasis original. 1995.
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Ryan Adams (born David Ryan Adams on November 5, 1974) is an alt-country and rock and roll singer-songwriter from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Initially part of the group Whiskeytown, which was at the time considered one of the leaders of the alt-country genre, Adams left the band and released his first solo album, Heartbreaker, in 2000 (which was subsequently nominated for the Shortlist Music Prize). As well as his solo albums, Adams has released five albums as Ryan Adams & the Cardinals. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Of Monsters and Men / Skeletons
Yeah Yeah Yeahs original. 2009.
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Of Monsters and Men are an indie folk band which formed in 2010 in Keflavík/Garðabær, Iceland. The band consists of Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir (vocals, guitar), Ragnar Þórhallsson (vocals, guitar), Brynjar Leifsson (guitar), Kristján Páll Kristjánsson (bass), Arnar Rósenkranz Hilmarsson (drums) and the former member Árni Guðjónsson (keyboards, accordion), who left the band in 2012. The band released their debut album "My Head Is an Animal" in September 2011. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Lady Danville / Kids
MGMT original. 2008.
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Michael Garner and Dan Chang grew up in Danville, CA -- a small town in Northern California home to fond childhood memories, girls with cooties, and the world’s best deli, Doeminico’s Delicatessen. While strangers to each other in Danville, Michael and Dan would eventually meet at UCLA on one fortuitous night while auditioning for Awaken A Cappella, UCLA’s premiere a cappella group to which Matt Frankel already belonged. With Matt’s approval Read more on Last.fm more...
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Alex Clare / When Doves Cry
Prince original. 1984.
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Alexander George "Alex" Clare (born 14 September 1985) is a British singer and songwriter from south-west London now living in north-west London, UK. The Too Close Songfacts says that he took up the trumpet and drums as a youngster, but as he grew older he graduated to guitar-based songwriting, playing open-mike nights with original material. Clare dated Amy Winehouse for a year during these early days, after meeting her during a performance at The Hawley Arms in Camden, North London. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Cat Power / House of the Rising Sun
The Animals "original" - traditional folk song from New Orleans. 1964.
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Cat Power is American singer-songwriter, musician, occasional actress, and model Charlyn Marie Marshall (also known as Chan, pronounced "Shawn") (born in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. on 21 January 1972). Cat Power was originally the name of Marshall's first band, but has become her stage name as a solo artist. After dropping out of high school, Marshall started performing under the name Cat Power, while in Atlanta, backed by musicians Glen Thrasher, Mark Moore, and others. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Smashing Pumpkins / Dancing In the Moonlight
King Harvest original. 1972.
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The Smashing Pumpkins are an influential American alternative rock band, formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Billy Corgan and James Iha met in a record store, and began performing in local nightclubs with their bassist, D'arcy Wretzky, using a drum machine. Playing with a drum machine frustrated both the band and their audience, and so Chicago jazz drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was hired soon afterwards. Less influenced by punk than many of their contemporaries Read more on Last.fm more...
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Pearl Jam / You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
Beatles original. 1965.
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Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in 1990 in Seattle, Washington. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder (lead vocals), Mike McCready (lead guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), and Jeff Ament (bass). Since 1998, the band has also included drummer Matt Cameron (also of Soundgarden). Boom Gaspar (piano) has also been a session/touring member with the band since 2002. Formed after the demise of Gossard and Ament's previous band Read more on Last.fm more...
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Xavier Rudd / No Woman No Cry
Bob Marley original. 1974.
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Xavier Rudd (born 29 May 1978) is a soulful Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose songs encompass themes such as spirituality, humanity, environmentalism and the rights of Indigenous Australians. He recorded his 2010 album "Koonyum Sun" in collaboration with South African musicians Tio Moloantoa (bassist) and Andile Nqubezelo (percussionist) as Xavier Rudd & Izintaba. Growing up in a family of seven children in Torquay, Victoria (Australia) Read more on Last.fm more...
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The Civil Wars / Between the Bars
Elliot Smith original. 1997.
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The Civil Wars were an American musical duo composed of singer-songwriters Joy Williams and John Paul White. After releasing a live-performance album and a four-song EP, their full-length album Barton Hollow was released in 2011. The band won the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance and Best Folk Album in 2012. Williams and White met in 2008, during a song-writing session or "writing camp" at a music studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Maxence Cyrin / Where Is My Mind?
Pixies original. 1988.
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MAXENCE CYRIN is a classically trained French pianist currently residing in Paris. His latest album 'Modern Rhapsodies' is homage to electronic music. Maxence, accompanied only by his piano, has restyled 'Windowlicker' from Aphex Twin, 'Behind The Wheel' from Depeche Mode, 'Unfinished Sympathy' from Massive Attack, 'Smokebelch II' from Sabres Of Paradise and even 'Acid Eiffel' from Choice - one of Laurent's Garnier alter-egos. Indeed the latter runs the F Com label and with this album he has his first 100% acoustic release. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Metric / Nobody Home
Pink Floyd original. 1979.
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Metric is an indie rock/New Wave band formed in 1998 in Toronto, Canada. The band members are Emily Haines (vocals, synths, guitar, tambourine), James Shaw (guitar, synths, theremin, backing vocals), Josh Winstead (bass, synths, backing vocals) and Joules Scott-Key (drums). The band name was inspired after a sound called "Metric" that was programmed by Shaw on his keyboard. They were based at various times at Toronto, Montreal, London, NYC and LA. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Michael Andrews / Mad World
Tears for Fears original. 1982.
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Michael Andrews is a San Diegan musician and film score composer. Also known as Elgin Park, he is the guitarist and a founding member of The Greyboy Allstars. Those who have heard of Mike Andrews' name associate him with the music of Donnie Darko, the UK Christmas #1 "Mad World", celebrated TV show Freaks & Geeks and Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know. He's also credited as a producer, songwriter or composer on more than 20 albums, including those for Metric, Brendan Benson and Gary Jules. Read more on Last.fm more...
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The Killers / Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
Kenny Rogers "original" - actually first recorded by Johnny Darrell. 1967.
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There are at least five artists named The Killers: 1. An American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada, formed in 2001. 2. A Uruguayan rock band from the early 1970s. 3. An American hardcore band from Chicago, IL, from the 1990s. 4. An American band from Cleveland, Ohio, from the 1980s. 5. A British punk rock band from the 1970s. 1. The Killers is an American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada, formed in 2001. Their line-up is: Brandon Flowers (vocals, keyboards), Read more on Last.fm more...
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Madeleine Peyroux / Dance Me to the End of Love
Leonard Cohen original. 1984.
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Madeleine Peyroux is a jazz singer who was born in 1974 in Athens, Georgia, USA, and raised in New York City and Paris, France. She is noted for her vocal style, which is highly reminiscent of Billie Holiday. Madeleine also has qualities similar to Ella Fitzgerald. Though Peyroux may remind some listeners of Holiday, there are differences, and she has her own sense of phrasing and interpretation. Peyroux started singing at the age of fifteen, when she discovered street musicians in the Latin Quarter in Paris. Read more on Last.fm more...
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John Mayer Trio / I Got a Woman
Ray Charles original. 1945.
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The John Mayer Trio is the brainchild of pop sensation John Mayer, who, in 2005, decided to move his music in a new direction teaming up with Steve Jordan, and Pino Palladino, pursuing a more blues-influenced style and paying homage to the great musicians of his childhood days. In October 2005, they toured as the opening act for The Rolling Stones on some dates. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Willie Mae Thornton / Hound Dog
If you've made it this far this is a bonus - not originally by Elvis at all but by Big Mama herself. :) 1953.
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