I love cover songs. On last week's mixtape I did all Joy Division - New Order Covers to celebrate the release of the double A 7” release from Numero Group featuring Bedhead and Codeine delivering personal favorite Joy Division covers. You can check it out at the Face Radio Archives page, or at my MattPapeWorldy Mixcloud page.
Covers are so much fun, discovering favorite songs reimagined, or favorite artists taking on other people’s work, whether it be faithful renditions or complete shifts. So I’m thrilled to start a new series in the Matt Pape Mixtape collection - Pull The Covers Off The Lovers.
For the first edition of this I’m featuring the exclusive broadcast of Hudson Palace’s Tattoo - a cover of the Who song. You heard it first folks!
Hudson Palace started out as a Covid dating survival tactic: date nights between Tony Fletcher and Paula Lucas, a new couple with nowhere to go. Figuring that one of them could play guitar and the other could sing, they started working their way through the many songbooks they owned and beyond, seeking uncommon musical ground. When Tony found himself rewriting Buzzcocks' power pop punk classic "Love You More" as an acoustic ballad in 3/4, a project was properly born, the arrangement was recorded, released in early 2023, and followed by a second acoustic Buzzcocks cover, "Love Is Lies."
Now, a year down the line, Paula and Tony are about to unveil another themed pair of cover versions, these of mid-60s Who songs. The Who Sell Out's "Tattoo" from 1967 comes first, on Feb 29, followed around a month later by the previous year's 45 "I'm A Boy." The songs sit together thematically in that they deal with the gender confusion Pete Townshend articulated with such wit during this period - wit that takes on new meaning when sung by a woman.
Both Hudson Palace interpretations have a somewhat "baroque" feeling to them, and though there are still no drums, they each have considerably more parts than the Buzzcocks covers. All instruments by Tony, recorded in Kingston, NY, and mixed by Noel Fletcher.
Oh yeah, also featuring Nico, Badly Drawn Boy, Angel Olsen, Galaxie 500, The Jam, Billy Bragg, Cat Power and loads more. Enjoy.
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