15
Oct
with every mistake we must surely be learning
(or: october 15’s honey from the hive)
posted at 10:32 am by brandon in sweet you rock and sweet you roll
Santana featuring India.Arie & Yo-Yo Ma —
“While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
(from Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time
As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, Guitar Heaven‘s extraordinary guest list is what keeps the album from being swallowed whole by the bland, hellish hokum which has demolished covers collections of a similar stripe. Of late, the remarkable Arie has become the queen of the classy, compelling remake, having turned in radiant recent takes on Don Henley’s “The Heart of the Matter” and Stephen Bishop’s “It Might Be You,” and of course she shines like a diamond here breathing brilliant new life into some of the finest words the late George Harrison ever wrote.
