Match Made In Heaven

January 18, 2006 at 4:22 pm · Filed under audio

* Tortoise & Bonnie Prince Billy: Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen) (7.5 mb) | Daniel (Elton John) (5.5 mb)
From The Brave And The Bold : Overcoat Recordings

The Brave And The Bold

Well, this one is definitely a surprise. When I first heard rumours about this collaboration between Tortoise and Bonnie Prince Billy, I just chalked them up to the interweb rumour factory. I mean, it didn’t really seem possible that post-rock pioneers and alt-country superstars would be able to find enough common ground to record an album together, right? Well, apparently I was wrong, and here’s the proof. We’ve got Tortoise and Bonnie Prince Billy flexin’ their muscles on ten covers that range from the distorted/cracked Daniel (Elton John) to the slowed down, not quite recognizable, Thunder Road (The Boss). It’s strange to hear these two very different artists together, but somehow it works. I can’t wait to see if they work together on developing original material.

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2 Comments

  1. Squirrel boy said,

    January 20, 2006 @ 10:51 am

    The link goes back ten years and mostly occurs because of shared members of (Will Oldham’s) Palace, Slint, and Torotise; Dave Pajo was in all three, I think, for one or more albums …

  2. cb said,

    January 21, 2006 @ 3:40 am

    Ah, yes. I forgot about that Dave Pajo connection.

    -cb

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