Rolling Stone Listen to Bartees Strange Cover Judee Sill’s ‘The Pearl’
Track is off upcoming tribute
Down Where the Valleys are Low: Another Otherworld for Judee Sill
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Down Where the Valleys are Low: Another Otherworld for Judee Sill, out March 12th via StorySound Records.
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Heart Food cover is accompanied by an animated video, featuring the late singer-songwriter exhaling a puff of a starry night sky. “Beautiful pearl, oh when will you reappear?” Strange sings. “Mysterious unfurl and become so clear/When I feel you near.”
“Anyone who’s had someone in their life who’s fighting against addiction knows what ‘The Pearl’ is about,” Wolff said of the track. “It’s not introspection from the perspective of an addict, it’s the story that your friend tells you before she goes out to cop again…I had seen [Bartees Strange] in his hardcore band Stay Inside and expected a much more aggressive delivery. Instead we talked about his childhood
By Rich Flowers
rflowers@athensreview.com Jan 19, 2021 courtesy photos
In the years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., Black Athens residents have been elected to serve on both the Athens City Council and Athens Independent School District Board of Trustees.Â
The latest are Councilwoman Sytonia Freeman and Trustee Bryan Barker. Both paused to reflect on the impact of King s life and the difference he made for the Black community.
Freeman was elected in November to represent Place 3 on the City Council. She said the observances in honor of King are fitting in light of what he meant to the Civil Rights Movement.