ON THE NIGHT OF NOVEMBER 30, a stuffed, though sacred, cow named Daisy presided over the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theatre, an opera house as weathered yet acoustically sound as the pair of queer Messiahs who joined her onstage proved to be as they launched into two hours of storytelling, Christmas songs, and quite a bit of drinking. As the story goes: Away in a manger one late December night, animals of various sorts attended the virgin birth of the nice Jewish boy who inspired the world’s most rabid fanbase. One of these animals was Daisy, who, while snacking on the local Bethlehemian
Grandaddy covers Belle & Sebastian’s “Fox in the Snow” & Beach Boys’ “In My Room” (listen)
Grandaddy s
Along those same lines, Jason has just shared covers of
Belle & Sebastian s Fox in the Snow and
The Beach Boys In My Room is a similar spare manner, with just a little more accompaniment than the
Slump songs. Both are terrific. I ve loved this Belle & Sebastian song for ages, Jason says of Fox in the Snow. I had to slow it down and tame the bounce that it had though. I wanted it sweeter and sadder. That s how I hear it: sweet and sad.