Sometimes a song is so iconic it’s better, or perhaps safer, to try rethinking it from the ground up, to try to find a new way to find something in it that will separate your cover out from under the shadow of the original.
Stephen Wilson Jr. showed this year that he has a knack for looking at a song differently – his recent cover of Nirvana’s “Something in the Way” feels quite distinct from the original. And though the same aesthetic is present on his new cover of Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me,” it still doesn’t prepare us for how radically he reinvents the song on his battered, electrified acoustic guitar. Continue reading »
