Hear My Morning Jacket, Preservation Hall Jazz Band Cover Neil Young’s ‘Like a Hurricane’ — SkimNews
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- Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young Vol. 2 & 3 release November 6 with 24 covers total, raising money for the Bridge School, the California nonprofit Neil Young co-founded with ex-wife Pegi 40 years ago.
- My Morning Jacket & Preservation Hall Jazz Band covered "Like a Hurricane" live at Marigny Studios in New Orleans with producer Ross Hogarth, adding soulful brass solos while keeping the monster guitar solo intact.
- Modest Mouse feat. Califone reimagined 1975's "Barstool Blues" with shimmering synths and Isaac Brock's staccato delivery, giving the track a New-Wavey feel that recalls "Then He Kissed Me."
- Bridge School executive director Gabriela Berlanga said the albums mark the nonprofit's 40th anniversary and connect "music's extraordinary ability… to bring people together for a greater purpose."
- Heart of Gold Vol. 1 released last year with Eddie Vedder, Fiona Apple, and Brandi Carlile, whose "Philadelphia" cover drew Rolling Stone praise as "a lovely, meditative reading" and "what tribute records are for."
- Jim James said My Morning Jacket "felt like teaming up with Preservation Hall Jazz Band would add some magic," noting they had attended Bridge School Benefit concerts in the past.
Why it matters: Neil Young is leveraging four decades of industry goodwill to fundraise for a cause he co-founded: two volumes channeling 24 artists' royalties toward the Bridge School's work with children who have speech and physical disabilities, timed to the nonprofit's 40th anniversary milestone.
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