{"id":19351,"date":"2013-11-09T15:42:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T23:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=19351"},"modified":"2013-11-09T22:52:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T06:52:09","slug":"watch-the-cowboy-junkies-cover-lou-reeds-sweet-jane-anew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-11\/watch-the-cowboy-junkies-cover-lou-reeds-sweet-jane-anew\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The Cowboy Junkies Cover Lou Reed&#8217;s &#8220;Sweet Jane&#8221; Anew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SJ3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-19352\" alt=\"SJ3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SJ3-650x365.png\" width=\"635\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SJ3-650x365.png 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SJ3-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SJ3-450x253.png 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/SJ3.png 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of <strong>Lou Reed&#8217;s<\/strong> passing, many good memories have floated by.\u00a0 One such memory is catching the <strong>Cowboy Junkies<\/strong> in the late &#8217;80s in Berkeley as they gave a hazy, lazy, but ultimately triumphant, reading of <strong>The Velvet Underground&#8217;s<\/strong> <em><strong>Sweet Jane<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 A more perfect match of song and band is hard to imagine. <strong>Lou Reed<\/strong> himself described the Cowboy Junkies cover as &#8220;the best and most authentic version I have ever heard.&#8221;\u00a0 Check out a new, visually-superb rendering by the Junkies below (as exquisitely captured in the house concert television series <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theneighborsdog.tv\/X.html\">the neighbors dog<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong>&#8211;straight outta Saskatchewan).\u00a0 After, check out a 1989 performance by the band on the <strong>Johnny Carson Show<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While watching the latest video, watch for the boat pulling away from the shore, crossing to the other side.\u00a0 <strong>RIP Sweet Lou<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RleJ0xUSBtU\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NtoxrBKGBCE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of Lou Reed&#8217;s passing, many good memories have floated by.\u00a0 One such memory is catching the Cowboy Junkies in the late &#8217;80s in Berkeley as they gave a hazy, lazy, but ultimately triumphant, reading of The Velvet Underground&#8217;s Sweet Jane.\u00a0 A more perfect match of song and band is hard to imagine. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}