{"id":17088,"date":"2013-06-12T13:16:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T21:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=17088"},"modified":"2013-06-12T15:01:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T23:01:10","slug":"watch-elvis-costellos-and-mumford-sons-collective-cover-of-springsteens-the-ghost-of-tom-joad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-06\/watch-elvis-costellos-and-mumford-sons-collective-cover-of-springsteens-the-ghost-of-tom-joad\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Elvis Costello’s and Mumford & Sons’ Collective Cover of Springsteen’s “The Ghost of Tom Joad”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elvis Costello<\/strong> and Mumford & Sons<\/strong> came together for One’s Protest Songs<\/strong><\/a> to cover Bruce Springsteen’s The Ghost of Tom Joad<\/em><\/strong> (which, according to One, Springsteen named after the main character from John Steinbeck’s<\/strong> 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath,\u00a0<\/strong>and which “he hoped the song would personify or represent the voices of the hopeless, disenfranchised, and invisible as the book was said to do in the 1930”).\u00a0 Check it out below, and the medley segment at end.\u00a0 After, watch a video explaining One<\/strong>, which was co-founded by some dude named Bono<\/strong>.\u00a0 Let’s hear it for the downtrodden!\u00a0 Gospel, right there.\u00a0 The Mumford<\/strong> banjo-dude in denim cut-offs, fay vest and trucker hat is a little much to have to pan over, but hey nonetheless:\u00a0 gospel.<\/p>\n