Bella White uses bluegrass to express her brand of melancholy musicality. Tales of lost love and wronged women, in the country tradition. She provides astute covers where she finds those tales from others, as we noted last year. Her most recent cover is of Ted Lucas’ “I’ll Find A Way (To Carry It All).” Continue reading »
Back in 2007, Okkervil River released their free Golden Opportunities covers mixtape. It featured Will Sheff and co. paying homage to some of their favorite songs and songwriters. Four years later, that mixtape has a sequel, in the form of the Golden Opportunities 2 EP. The five tracks find the band digging even deeper than before, covering songs by Bill Fay, Ted Lucas, Jim Sullivan, and David McComb (via his band the Triffids). Continue reading »