{"id":28908,"date":"2020-07-16T15:27:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T23:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=28908"},"modified":"2023-12-05T11:17:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T19:17:03","slug":"duck-2020-and-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2020-07\/duck-2020-and-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck (2020) and Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BenPray-650x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BenPray-650x366.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BenPray-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BenPray-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BenPray-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BenPray-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BenPray-2048x1153.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/meg-angel-petty-650x433.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/meg-angel-petty-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/meg-angel-petty-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/meg-angel-petty-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/meg-angel-petty-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/meg-angel-petty.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Words cannot express the mind-boggling madness of the last six months.  Or can they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thankfully, we have talented artists like <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benfolds.com\/\">Ben Folds<\/a><\/strong> to provide perfectly apt expressions that capture this errant epoch and other artists like <strong>Meg Duffy (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.handhabits.band\/\">Hand Habits<\/a>)<\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/angelolsen.com\/\">Angel Olsen<\/a><\/strong> to perfectly re-purpose a <strong>Petty<\/strong> song that limn&#8217;s well the current quarantine conundrums.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know <strong>Hand Habits<\/strong> and <strong>Meg Duffy<\/strong>, their\/her 2019 album <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/handhabits.bandcamp.com\/album\/placeholder\">Placeholder<\/a><\/em><\/strong> was one of our <strong>Top Ten Albums of 2019<\/strong> and their live performances (including <strong>Meg&#8217;s<\/strong> hilarious and touching banter) are not to be missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out <strong>Ben Folds&#8217;<\/strong> well-crafted song <strong><em>2020<\/em><\/strong> via its lyric video below. And then watch the beauty laid out by <strong>Meg<\/strong> and <strong>Angel<\/strong> in their cover of <strong>Tom Petty&#8217;s<\/strong> luminous song <strong><em>Walls<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4znKUAMFY9A\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oeY6hfMyN_Y\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words cannot express the mind-boggling madness of the last six months. Or can they? Thankfully, we have talented artists like Ben Folds to provide perfectly apt expressions that capture this errant epoch and other artists like Meg Duffy (Hand Habits) and Angel Olsen to perfectly re-purpose a Petty song that limn&#8217;s well the current quarantine [&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-28908","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\/28908","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=28908"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28948,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28908\/revisions\/28948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}