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Certain Songs #2400: The Soundtrack of Our Lives – “Fly”

July 15, 2022 by Jim Connelly

Album: Communion
Year: 2008

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Nick Drake was such a specific-sounding artist that covering him seems like a fools errand. Luckily, the members of The Soundtrack of Our Lives were exactly the kind of fools to run that errand. And I’m glad, because their cover of his 1970 song “Fly” is one of the greatest covers I’ve ever heard in my life, even if they don’t so much cover “Fly” as smash it into a windscreen.

Certain Songs #325: Dixie Chicks – “Sin Wagon”

September 28, 2015 by Jim Connelly

Album: Fly
Year: 1999

This is all because of Rox. She’s always been a fan of country music — especially tough-chick country music — and in the years just after we got married, nobody was bigger or tougher than the Dixie Chicks.

Had they not been so popular, they would have slotted easily into the alt-country that I’d been a fan of since Rank and File, but their popularity was part of what made them great.