282 Plays
“Strange Fruit” by Jeff Buckley (Billie Holiday cover)
Any Billie Holiday song is difficult to cover, for the simple fact that her voice was so sincerely unique and timeless. With that said, Buckley, my favorite musician throughout high school, creates a haunting (as per usual) cover of a perennial classic. Sometimes, I forget that this was a recording of a young man, and not an elderly black woman, not unlike the women I grew up vaguely knowing, somewhere in the Deep South. I think, perhaps, Buckley, and maybe Antony Hegarty, are the only ones who could pull off such a cover and not sound like they are cloying.
