Jim White - Bluebird (reprise)
''The last track, and the other 'cover,' is a re-working of White's "Bluebird," originally from 2004′s Drill a Hole in that Substrate.. In a conversation with White years ago, around the time of the release of ..Substrate, he expressed a desire to have others sing his own music -- to play on the tracks himself, but have others voice the words he wrote. What starts as a nearly music-less opening driven only by the female singer's voice slowly becomes an amazing channeling of the original's haunting examination of desperation into a much more hopeful and daring piece. As a conclusion, it loops back on the opening sentiments of love and brings about White's own wishes from years ago and finds them actualized. As a documentation of "the Americans," it couldn't get much more perfect than that.''
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