Album of the Day - Jack & Amanda Palmer’s You Got Me Singing: a fantastic family affair

From the pastiche album cover onwards, this is all about bringing it back home, as American creative alchemist Amanda Palmer teams up with her choral singer father for a variety of decades-ranging covers that hold special relevance to each of them (and for Amanda, specifically at the time of recording, her unborn baby).

The primary rationalisation behind the song selection was simplicity, which is why You Got Me Singing is much more folk-oriented than anything Palmer has previously released.

Glad to say that the covers, delivered via piano and ukulele, are splendid – highlights include Richard Thompson's 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, Sinead O'Connor's Black Boys on Mopeds, Kimya Dawson's All I Could Do, Kathleen Edwards' Pink Emerson Radio, and John Grant's Glacier.

[ amandapalmer.net ]