The Seven Days of Sufjan Stevens in 2007 is winding down my friends but it has been a good ride thus far. I hope you’ve all enjoyed the tracks posted and if you missed any feel free to click here and view the entire series of posts on one page.
Today I take a look at various covers that Sufjan has preformed, both in studio recordings and live. Although this isn’t a complete list of efforts these tracks serve to show his versatility as a musician as he covers some songs straight up and other songs he puts his own Sufjan spin on. Covers in this series can be found a variety of compilation albums; most notably Dream Brother, A Tribute to Joni Mitchell (iTunes), This Bird has Flown, and the soundtrack to the film I’m Not There (iTunes).
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Free Man In Paris (Joni Mitchell Cover)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Lakes of Canada (Live The Innocence Mission Cover)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - Ring Them Bells (Bob Dylan Cover)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - She Is (Tim Buckley Cover)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - The One I Love (Live REM Cover)
mp3 : Sufjan Stevens - What Goes On (Beatles Cover)
The song Lakes of Canada is especially wonderful and if there comes a request or two I could possibly post the original by The Innocence Band sometime soon. We’ll see if anyone wants it. Cheers.
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Great stuff as usual. Thanks.
A cover (Chicago) by us (Microfilm) of this man (Sufjan) in this post (7 Days of…) doing covers of others.
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“Lakes of Canada” is a beautiful song. I only could find a small excerpt (1:36) at the Innocence Mission site, so if you have the full length mp3 version, I would be interested…
Great songs. Sufjan cannot put a foot wrong. Thanks for enlightening me on some songs that I had not heard previously from Sufjan.
i love all of these, my fave is probably free man in paris, but i haven’t listened to the dylan-cover for that long yet. great work (even though i already had them all! :P)
I love that version of The Lakes of Canada… thank you very much.
They’re called The Innocence Mission….
Yes ‘The Innocence Mission’.