{"id":24086,"date":"2015-06-18T17:48:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T01:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=24086"},"modified":"2015-06-19T05:40:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T13:40:41","slug":"in-honor-of-apples-new-music-streaming-service-watch-sylvan-wassner-cover-gillian-welchs-everything-is-free-for-a-v-undercover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-06\/in-honor-of-apples-new-music-streaming-service-watch-sylvan-wassner-cover-gillian-welchs-everything-is-free-for-a-v-undercover\/","title":{"rendered":"In Honor of Apple&#8217;s New Music Streaming Service:  Watch Sylvan Wasner Cover Gillian Welch&#8217;s &#8220;Everything Is Free&#8221; for A.V. Undercover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-24089\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200-650x366.jpg\" alt=\"1200\" width=\"635\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200-650x366.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had lost track of <strong>A.V. Undercover&#8217;s<\/strong> great series in which they list songs and capture artists covering them.\u00a0 But today we stumbled upon one of the latest and best vignettes featuring our faves <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylvanesso.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sylvan Esso<\/a><\/strong>, combining with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wyeoakmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wye Oak\u2019s<\/a> Jenn Wasner<\/strong> (hence &#8220;<em><strong>Sylvan Wasner<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;), to cover <strong>Gillian Welch\u2019s<\/strong> brilliant ode to music piracy, <strong>Everything Is Free<\/strong>.\u00a0 We love their treatment on this devastating cover.\u00a0 To our ears it sounds like a eulogy for songwriters everywhere, and the soft-pulsing synth-sound emblematic of the weakening pulse of musicians everywhere.\u00a0 Thanks for piling on <strong>Apple<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2roLC4yBmZU\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything is free now, that&#8217;s what they say<br \/>\nEverything I ever done, gonna give it away<br \/>\nSomeone hit the big score, they figured it out<br \/>\nThey were gonna do it anyway, even if it doesn&#8217;t pay<\/p>\n<p>I can get a tip jar, gas up the car<br \/>\nTry to make a little change down at the bar<br \/>\nOr I can get a straight job, I done it before<br \/>\nNever minded workin&#8217; hard, it&#8217;s who I&#8217;m workin&#8217; for<\/p>\n<p>Everything is free now, that&#8217;s what they say<br \/>\nEverything I ever done, gotta give it away<br \/>\nSomeone hit the big score, they figured it out<br \/>\nThey were gonna do it anyway, even if it doesn&#8217;t pay<\/p>\n<p>Every day I wake up, hummin&#8217; a song<br \/>\nBut I don&#8217;t need to run around, I just stay at home<br \/>\nAnd sing a little love song, my lover, myself<br \/>\nIf there&#8217;s something that you wanna hear, you can sing it yourself<\/p>\n<p>Cause everything is free now, that&#8217;s what I said<br \/>\nNo ones gotta listen to the words in my head<br \/>\nSomeone hit the big score, I figured it out<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m gonna do it anyway, even if it doesn&#8217;t pay&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had lost track of A.V. Undercover&#8217;s great series in which they list songs and capture artists covering them.\u00a0 But today we stumbled upon one of the latest and best vignettes featuring our faves Sylvan Esso, combining with Wye Oak\u2019s Jenn Wasner (hence &#8220;Sylvan Wasner&#8220;), to cover Gillian Welch\u2019s brilliant ode to music piracy, Everything [&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-24086","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\/24086","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=24086"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24094,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24086\/revisions\/24094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}