(2021) Aoife O'Donovan - Aoife plays Nebraska
Review:
Aoife O’Donovan issued Aoife Plays Nebraska, an LP featuring her album-length live cover performance of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska record. Bruce Springsteen originally released Nebraska in 1982. He wrote all of the material on the mostly acoustic LP including “Atlantic City,” “State Trooper,” “Reason to Believe” and “Mansion On the Hill.” O’Donovan performed the album from her Brooklyn home on May 9, 2020 for a livestream concert. Jody Elff remotely recorded Aoife Plays Nebraska and mixed and mastered the 10-track album. She accompanied herself alone on acoustic guitar, as Springsteen had on the original album in the early 1980s, but that’s about where the similarity ends. The original album was desperate and dark, with doubt coursing through its tracks like murky blood; O’Donovan treats them as canon, saluting Springsteen’s songcraft with clear, pitch-perfect articulation and affable delivery. The approach is suited best to “Reason to Believe,” the finale, a Springsteen classic that contemplates the mysterious pull of resilience. —
nytimes.com
Track Listing:
1.Nebraska 04:03
2.Atlantic City 03:39
3.Mansion On the Hill 02:54
4.Johnny 99 03:03
5.Highway Patrolman 05:19
6.State Trooper 04:28
7.Used Cars 03:14
8.Open All Night 03:30
9.My Father's House 04:25
10.Reason to Believe 04:07
Media Report:
Genre: acoustic, folk-rock, indie-folk
Country: USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits