The Voice Project features my hero Billy Bragg this week. He’s doing a cover of Joanna Newsom’s “On A Good Day” and it’s, of course, just lovely. I can’t embed it for you here, so hop over there and watch it along with all the other cover songs by artists you know and love and follow like: Peter Gabriel doing Tom Waits’ “In The Neighborhood,” Kitten doing Cat Power’s “The Greatest,” Steel Train doing LaRoux’s “Bulletproof,” Andrew Bird doing Cass McCombs’ “Meet Me Here At Dawn” and so many more.
The Voice Project is an effort by Northern Ugandan women to bring a message of peace to Africa’s longest running conflict. Here’s how they say their project works:
a. Artists do the cover chain episodes to spread the word (one covers another and so on)
b. We put the videos up at our site and
c. We use money from donations, sponsors and advertisers made there to support programs on the ground which aid in the peace, reconciliation and rebuilding efforts.
So go visit their site. Do as you will. And find a way to let music find its way to the people there who need it.
This song is from a fellow who goes by the name antiqcool. He sends me stuff from time to time and I love each and every bit of it, even if I don’t often get around to posting it here. This song seemed very a propos to the project that crossed my path tonight.
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Nice song.
Though I’m not sure I was prepared for a beardy Bragg.
Ha! I know!! I like it tho