{"id":25337,"date":"2016-01-06T16:45:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T00:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=25337"},"modified":"2016-01-07T06:50:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:50:44","slug":"watch-gallants-with-sufjan-stevens-masterful-one-take-cover-of-stevens-blue-bucket-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-01\/watch-gallants-with-sufjan-stevens-masterful-one-take-cover-of-stevens-blue-bucket-of-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Gallant&#8217;s (with Sufjan Stevens) Masterful, One-Take Cover of Stevens&#8217; &#8220;Blue Bucket Of Gold&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12274205_1262687350414516_3362714275359737584_n.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25339\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-25339\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12274205_1262687350414516_3362714275359737584_n-650x433.jpg\" alt=\"12274205_1262687350414516_3362714275359737584_n\" width=\"635\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12274205_1262687350414516_3362714275359737584_n-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12274205_1262687350414516_3362714275359737584_n-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12274205_1262687350414516_3362714275359737584_n-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12274205_1262687350414516_3362714275359737584_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/12274205_1262687350414516_3362714275359737584_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LA soul-rock artist<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/sogallant.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gallant<\/a><\/strong> gallantly opened for <strong>Sufjan Stevens<\/strong> on Stevens&#8217; recent North American tour, and we were impressed by the game gent&#8217;s vocal acumen and stage presence. \u00a0 Now <strong>Stevens<\/strong> and <strong>Gallant<\/strong> have released a stirring video of <strong>Gallant<\/strong>\u00a0(backed only by<strong> Stevens<\/strong> on solo piano and harmonizing) performing <strong>Stevens&#8217;<\/strong> stellar <em><strong>Blue Bucket of Gold<\/strong> <\/em>off his tremendous 2015 album <em><strong>Carrie &amp; Lowell<\/strong><\/em>. Watch below as <strong>Gallant<\/strong>\u00a0gives a masterful read of the song (lad&#8217;s got serious pipes) with<strong> Stevens<\/strong> providing perfectly-restrained backing in a one-take performance. Chills. \u00a0Hold on for the end when <strong>Stevens<\/strong> explains the backstory of the song (though not the personal contextualization in the song). \u00a0Regardless, it&#8217;s a moving performance by the duo and <strong>Gallant<\/strong> in particular.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rJAxAdZgGnE\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA soul-rock artist Gallant gallantly opened for Sufjan Stevens on Stevens&#8217; recent North American tour, and we were impressed by the game gent&#8217;s vocal acumen and stage presence. \u00a0 Now Stevens and Gallant have released a stirring video of Gallant\u00a0(backed only by Stevens on solo piano and harmonizing) performing Stevens&#8217; stellar Blue Bucket of Gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25337","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\/25337","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=25337"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25346,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25337\/revisions\/25346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}