{"id":23737,"date":"2015-04-24T07:47:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T15:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=23737"},"modified":"2015-04-24T07:47:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T15:47:23","slug":"watch-elbows-guy-garvey-gainfully-cover-ewan-maccolls-the-first-time-ever-i-saw-your-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-04\/watch-elbows-guy-garvey-gainfully-cover-ewan-maccolls-the-first-time-ever-i-saw-your-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Elbow&#8217;s Guy Garvey Gainfully Cover Ewan MacColl&#8217;s &#8220;The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PANews-BT_P-3b19dfae-548b-479a-82dd-e8627da4d05d_I1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PANews-BT_P-3b19dfae-548b-479a-82dd-e8627da4d05d_I1.jpg\" alt=\"PANews BT_P-3b19dfae-548b-479a-82dd-e8627da4d05d_I1\" width=\"608\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PANews-BT_P-3b19dfae-548b-479a-82dd-e8627da4d05d_I1.jpg 608w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PANews-BT_P-3b19dfae-548b-479a-82dd-e8627da4d05d_I1-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PANews-BT_P-3b19dfae-548b-479a-82dd-e8627da4d05d_I1-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ewan_MacColl\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ewan MacColl<\/strong><\/a> was a seminal British folk singer, songwriter, communist, labor activist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer.\u00a0 Amongst many great songs <strong>MacColl<\/strong> wrote (including <em><strong>Dirty Old Town<\/strong><\/em>, covered so well by <strong>The Pogues<\/strong> and many others), he wrote <em><strong>The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face<\/strong><\/em> (made famous by <strong>Roberta Flack<\/strong>).\u00a0 <strong>MacColl<\/strong> was recently (what took so long?) inducted into the BBC <strong>Folk Awards Hall of Fame<\/strong>, and <strong>Elbow&#8217;s Guy Garvey<\/strong> was there to render an evocative reading of the song, joined by <strong>Ewan MacColl\u2019s<\/strong> sons <strong>Calum MacColl <\/strong>and<strong> Neill MacColl,<\/strong> and daughter-in-law <strong>Kate St. John<\/strong>, plus <strong>Duncan Lyall<\/strong> on bass and <strong>Harry Mead<\/strong> on percussion.\u00a0 Check the stirring performance out below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p02ptxz6\/player\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ewan MacColl was a seminal British folk singer, songwriter, communist, labor activist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer.\u00a0 Amongst many great songs MacColl wrote (including Dirty Old Town, covered so well by The Pogues and many others), he wrote The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (made famous by Roberta Flack).\u00a0 MacColl was recently [&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-23737","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\/23737","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=23737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23739,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23737\/revisions\/23739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}