By request, and totally appropriate for this month, tonight’s Cover Story features the music of The Decemberists, an indie folk-rock band from Portland, OR. Here’s a band I was largely unfamiliar with, save their cover work, of course, and I love what I’m hearing so far. I hope you will too!
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Such a great choice for a cover story, Brian. Can’t wait to hear this.
Thanks for putting the Shankhill Butchers cover in there… my first exposure to The Decemberists was via this cover, lots more to discover – thanks for the great stuff Brian!
no Colin Meloy sings Sam Cooke? Brian you have let me down.
Great, great show!
Brian, you are a star, wonderful choice for an episode
Love, love, love the Morrissey cover. I have always loved that song, and Meloy does it justice. Also, Nick Cave needs to cover Red Right Ankle and then go on to create more songs with the title format “Red Right [body part].”
First episode of C’Ville in a while where I simply didn’t like anything I heard. Oh well, can’t win ’em all. I didn’t really know the Decemberists much beyond their name before, but I guess I’m not a fan…
Interestingly, I ended up not really enjoying this episode either, which is striking as they are one of my favorite groups. That cover of Red Right Ankle was atrocious and the Vitamin Quartet left me cold. Even their covers were meh at best. Shankill Butchers is fantastic though, as is the Morrissey cover.
Hey, Brian – looks as though you have a request for a song for a Sam Cooke cover story!
Awesome show, Brian. I think I might have told you already, but I’ll say it again. I think Sarah’s cover of Shankill Butchers is better than the original. Blasphemy to some people, I’m sure, but I feel the song suits her voice better.
After years listening to his podcast I think I was suffering overload – but this episode has got me back – I’ve heard a few Decemberist songs before, but this show was just thrilling – especially Shankill Butchers. I loved Marianne Faithful as well. For the first time in ages I’ve gone back to listen more than once to an episode. Great job Brian.
No crap that that Morrissey cover album is hard to find…still searching the internet for it. One site says this about the album: “Recorded at home. Printed by Strumpton Printers. An exclusive edition of 1000. Self-released by Colin Meloy only available on his solo tour.”
So it looks like you were right, Brian. Very limited…