Each Friday I pick a song–new, old, borrowed, blue–that’s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.
This is “Stay Away” by Charles Bradley and the Menahan Street Band:
Charles Bradley and the Menahan Street band — “Stay Away”
I thought I jump on the end of the slowly departing Kurt Cobain Death Anniversary Bandwagon this week.
One mark of a good song is the ways in which it can be transformed from one idiom to another. One mark of a good artist is the way in which he or she can transform a song from one idiom to another. Charles Bradley puts in a great performance on this version of Nirvana’s song. In fact, it’s so good, it makes it hard to even remember what the original version sounds like. It’s a little bit different.
