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Bill Callahan, Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Azita have released a new cover of Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ 1967 protest song, “Blackness of the Night.”
The song starts with an acoustic guitar line layered over an unsettling synth drone, but the arrival of Callahan and Billy’s voices help re-center the song. The cover maintains that balance throughout, leaving room for a tasteful guitar solo and little synth wobbles, while Yusuf’s lyrics remain as haunting as ever, especially when sung in such sweet harmony: “I’m a fugitive, community has driven me out/For this bad,...
The song starts with an acoustic guitar line layered over an unsettling synth drone, but the arrival of Callahan and Billy’s voices help re-center the song. The cover maintains that balance throughout, leaving room for a tasteful guitar solo and little synth wobbles, while Yusuf’s lyrics remain as haunting as ever, especially when sung in such sweet harmony: “I’m a fugitive, community has driven me out/For this bad,...
- 10/1/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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