I’ve yet to hear HEM do a cover I didn’t like. Here, the Brooklyn based countrypolitan outfit take on Costello’s “(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes.” (culled from the 2003 tribute compilation Almost You :: The Songs of Elvis Costello)
MP3: Hem :: (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
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Let’s first address the 800 lb gorilla in the room: Elvis Costello’s catalog has notoriously, in the last decade, been reissued, repackaged, re-reissued, re-repackaged, and then some…if you’re keeping score the latest “reissues” came out less than a year ago. Every few years, each reissue again touts itself as the “definitive” and/or “deluxe” edition, [...]