Music Tuesday #018: I promise, no metal this week. It’s guilty pleasure time!
Morgan James is a very talented vocalist. She interprets songs, something we don’t really appreciate over here… the French for instance don’t look down on people who sing songs others wrote.
So here’s how she got on my radar.
It all started with “All about that Bass” remake by Post Modern Jukebox (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLnZ1NQm2uk), the song which is about twenty times more popular on Youtube than the original by Meghan Trainor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PCkvCPvDXk).
In the remake Hailey Reinhart takes the front role but where Morgan James’ voice got my attention too. So I started checking out if she had a repertoire outside Post Modern Jukebox. And indeed she has, touring now in the US after singing Broadway musicals for a couple of years: Human by Rag'n'Bone Man (Morgan James Cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mguL895wN_w
And a very hard song to cover, I don’t think many have even tried:
Last Goodbye by Jeff Buckley (Morgan James cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARUuyk4w63E
I forgive her Hallelujah cover. You know there’s only one who could cover Leonard Cohen properly and that was Jeff Buckley. Did you ever notice how almost no one plays with shifting the accent on the chorus like Cohen? Morgan James does it towards the end of her version, but she still doesn’t come near to the intensity of Buckley.
It all started with “All about that Bass” remake by Post Modern Jukebox (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLnZ1NQm2uk), the song which is about twenty times more popular on Youtube than the original by Meghan Trainor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PCkvCPvDXk).
In the remake Hailey Reinhart takes the front role but where Morgan James’ voice got my attention too. So I started checking out if she had a repertoire outside Post Modern Jukebox. And indeed she has, touring now in the US after singing Broadway musicals for a couple of years: Human by Rag'n'Bone Man (Morgan James Cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mguL895wN_w
And a very hard song to cover, I don’t think many have even tried:
Last Goodbye by Jeff Buckley (Morgan James cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARUuyk4w63E
I forgive her Hallelujah cover. You know there’s only one who could cover Leonard Cohen properly and that was Jeff Buckley. Did you ever notice how almost no one plays with shifting the accent on the chorus like Cohen? Morgan James does it towards the end of her version, but she still doesn’t come near to the intensity of Buckley.
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