Spartan effort, to be sure, but it has been a tired, empty day. So we’ll just get straight to the YouTube Cover Theater, where the talents of anonymous people are shared online because they have a camera and somewhere to host their artistic abilities. This week’s featured cover artist is indie-favorite Gillian Welch. I spent all of Tuesday night studying listening to her music, so it seemed a fitting way to wrap up the week.
First, there’s this incredibly solemn version of I Dream a Highway:
Sam and Sue play around with a song you might have heard here or there:
Catrina Rogers handles Gillian’s standard, Time the Revelator, with a lonely AM vibe:
And since many people may not know Gillian’s work aside from that tune and a few movie appearances, I’ll include a video of her covering a song herself.
One day someone will invent an instrument even my talentless hands can master. And I’ll start a band, and we’ll find another band that likes to do ensemble pieces. And we’ll play medium-tempo stuff and swap out the leads. Somewhere along the way someone will come up to me and say “Why don’t you play The Weight?”
I will say “Because it has already found perfection.”
