Published by Taybin on 18 Jul 2008
Doveman – Footloose Soundtrack
This is just awesome. Doveman did these Cat Power style covers of the entire Footloose Soundtrack. It has a sad backstory of being a tribute to a deceased sister. It’s pretty effective.
I’m certainly not going to criticize the songs, but they’d be so good with a full band doing these songs. Maybe Sufjan Stevens it up a bit with some banjo? They’re a collection of hymns the way they’re done anyways.
Wow, even WNYC’s Soundcheck is all up on this. Not that I blame them though.
All the comments on the blogs talk about how ironic these songs are, but I don’t see it. They’re just great.
The mp3s have been C&D’d off Doveman’s website, but I’ve got two of the tracks here, because, you know. Fuck the man: