Normally I am not a cover song type person. I don’t care for tribute bands and I rarely
think cover songs are worth much more than a time filler at maybe a festival
where many of the crowd are unfamiliar with your entire body of work. That said, I sometimes come across one that
works perfectly.
Amen Dunes, aka Damon McMahon (no relation to Andrew) is
from New York State and is not entirely new to my radar. I first heard him just
last year, though, as his single “Lilac In Hand” caught my attention as a
retro, psychedelic folk kind of guy with a very interesting voice and Velvet
Underground-esque guitars. Last month he
released this song, a cover of the great Tim Buckley and more recently, This
Mortal Coil, from the 1980s. The
memorable line “did I dream, you dreamed about me” is in the first bridge and I
recommend listening to all 3 versions.
I will post all of them below, starting with Buckley.
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