Antony Hegarty covers Fleetwood Mac

Antony Hegarty (ie. Antony sans the accompanying Johnsons) has contributed a tiny heartbeat of a cover to the spectacular Just Tell Me That You Want Me Fleetwood Mac tribute album.

The record features a little bouquet of worthwhile listens and some utter gems, like Best Coast’s gorgeous take on Rhiannon, and The Kills cover of Dreams. Marianne Faithfull also has a look in.

Antony takes on the oft-covered Landslide, which has appeared in many forms on various records over the years, and this version is so delicate and determined, it sounds like it’s being sung to you by a battered, bewildered pigeon after it flies into a window.

Nicks apparently wrote Landslide while staring at the Colorado Rocky Mountains trying to decide whether to go back to school, or to carry on being with Lindsey Buckingham, and being in Fleetwood Mac.

Another reason I need to pilgrimage to Colorado.

So, take this love, take it down
Oh if you climb a mountain and you turn around
If you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well the landslide will bring you down, down

@JoshuaRadin and @MissyHiggins. Patty Griffin. Winters. Clarity. Long Ride Home.

I first heard Australia’s Missy Higgins a few years ago when I lived in Cape Town and she was touring South Africa. I remember her having some adorable anecdotes about game reserves and the touristy experience of this end of the world.

I remember turning up late for the show that night with my boyfriend at the time, and I was unhappy about that and about being with him at all, but I was trying not to be on both accounts.

I was wading through one of those periods that you look back on and realise were set up all wrong to begin with, but while you’re in them, the only clue you have is the very vaguest sense of discord – like putting on a coat that looks like yours but definitely isn’t, and then getting home and realising it, and wondering what you were thinking.

Anyway, there was lots of thick, cloudy confusion at the time, but I remember getting to the gig and finding my friends and then finding Missy Higgins, and hearing something completely lucid and clear in everything she sang, in the midst of my own idiotic tempest.

She’s with Joshua Radin in this video, covering Patty Griffin (with whom I’ve been smitten for a few weeks now, and who I’m quite sure will be the soundtrack to this winter).

Griffin famously guest appeared on Joshua Radin’s You’ve Got Growing Up To Do.

Which comes full circle quite nicely for me, since his We Were Here album was the soundtrack to my first winter here in Johannesburg.

It’s comforting how things have a way of settling the upset all by themselves, isn’t it?

Forty years go by with someone laying in your bed
Forty years of things you say you wish you’d never said
How hard would it have been to say some kinder words instead
I wonder as I stare up at the sky turning red

First Aid Kit cover Johnny Cash

Woah: Amos Lee covers Guns ‘n’ Roses

Acclaimed blues folk singer takes on the biggest symphonic rock ballad of them all, with full supporting band.

When I look into your eyes
I can see a love restrained
But darlin’ when I hold you
Don’t you know I feel the same…

And it’s hard to hold a candle
In the cold November rain

Anita Carter | Ring of Fire

Originally recorded by June’s sister Anita, and later covered by that Johnny feller.

I fell into, into the ring of fire
Down, down, down into the deepest mire
And it burns, burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire, the ring of fire