I meant to post this last week: Carrie Manolakos covering Creep by Radiohead.

I could do with hearing a recording where her voice is more prominent and the piano (a lot) less so, but this is still a hell of a cover version.¹

Whatever you do, be sure to keep listening to the 2:25 mark – which is to say the point where it goes from classy to pretty fantastic.

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1. The track isn't included on her debut album or available as a studio recording; if I were her management, I'd get right on that. ↩

Catching up on my backlog of Coverville podcasts I came across a track by Low Strung, also known as:

"Yale's only cello-rock group."

Their cover of U2's Where the Streets Have No Name doesn't appear to be available to stream at their MySpace page, but trust me: it's well worth listening to Coverville 459 for.

I liked Low Strung's U2 cover so much I went and bought their album. The ensemble's taste in covers isn't what you'd call adventurous, but the highlights – Baba O'Riley, Don't Stop Believing, Sympathy For the Devil and Fix You – are such fun¹ that I can forgive that minor sin.

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1. Both for the listener and, I suspect, the group. ↩