Bangles singer Susanna Hoffs and Elvis Costello have launched a canopy of the Rolling Stones‘ Connection to mark guitarist Keith Richards‘ 81st birthday.
Connection initially appeared on the Stones’ 1967 album Between The Buttons, and located Mick Jagger and Keith Richards sharing the primary vocal.
“I did the Keith half,” says Hoffs. “We each wished to do the Keith half, however I received! I had the good honour of singing with Elvis at a few his exhibits, and it was a lifelong dream to file a track collectively.
“I like Keith, his smile, his swagger, his songwriting – the way in which he strikes on stage, as if his guitar is part of his physique and collectively they meld with the music and the emotion of the track. He’s sung lead on three of my most favorite Rolling Stones songs: Comfortable, You Bought The Silver and Connection.”
“What a gasoline to sing with Sue once more,” provides Costello. “I’d be the ‘Keith’ to her ‘Mick’ any day.”
Hoffs and Costello’s cowl of Connection additionally options guitarist Albert Lee, bassist Davey Faragher, drummer Pete Thompson, guitarist/organist Jeff Alan Ross and mandolinist John Jorgenson.
Hoffs isn’t any stranger to cowl variations, having labored with a number of members of Costello’s band The Imposters on final 12 months’s covers album The Deep Finish, which included a model of one other Rolling Stones basic, Underneath My Thumb. She additionally launched Underneath The Covers with Matthew Candy, a sequence of three albums respectively dedicated to songs from the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.
