{"id":2423,"date":"2020-09-15T12:17:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T12:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2020-09-15T12:18:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T12:18:55","slug":"tammy-faye-starlites-new-version-of-jackson-brownes-these-days-encapsulates-mood-of-our-times-video-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/15\/tammy-faye-starlites-new-version-of-jackson-brownes-these-days-encapsulates-mood-of-our-times-video-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"TAMMY FAYE STARLITE\u2019S NEW VERSION OF JACKSON BROWNE\u2019S \u201cTHESE DAYS\u201d ENCAPSULATES MOOD OF OUR TIMES; VIDEO OUT NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HOLLYWOOD (Perfect Music Today) 9\/15\/20\/–Celebrated artist Tammy Faye Starlite has been performing \u00a0\u201cThese Days,\u201d Jackson Browne\u2019s seminal song, for many years, specifically as part of her\u00a0Nico Underground<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0performance piece. \u00a0It was first recorded by Nico [of Andy Warhol and Velvet Underground renown] for her 1967\u00a0Chelsea Girl<\/em>\u00a0album and has been covered countless times thereafter. Among the versions released over the past 53 years are readings \u00a0by Gregg Allman, Glen Campbell, Fountains of Wayne, Cher, The Golden Palominos, Paul Westerberg, Tom Rush, David Alan Coe, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Drake. Jackson Browne\u2019s own rendition was released six years after Nico\u2019s on\u00a0For Everyman<\/em>, his second album. Tammy\u2019s new recording is true to the original that Browne wrote when he was just sixteen but dispenses with Nico\u2019s Germanic affect, creating something new and quite personal in the process.<\/p>\n

The rave New York Times review of\u00a0Nico Underground<\/em>\u00a0took noted Tammy\u2019s vocal prowess with Charles Isherwood writing, \u201cMs. Starlite\u2019s voice is arguably richer and rangier than Nico\u2019s was.\u201d He went on to call the performance \u201cremarkable \u2014 and howlingly funny.\u201d Similarly, a recent profile in NJ Arts suggested, \u201cWhile Starlite\u2019s version is influenced by Nico, her haunting voice reveals her own melancholy and defiance. Her voice is warmer than Nico\u2019s, her pain more palpable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese Days,\u201d in Tammy\u2019s care, underscores the song\u2019s message and mood that is so universal, especially… these days.\u00a0 She says the lyrics \u201cresonate for everyone now\u201d and ponders, \u201cwill we see our loved ones, or even our liked ones?\u201d Referencing the lines, \u201cThese days I seem to think about\/How all the changes came about my ways\/And I wonder if I\u2019d see another highway,\u201d she says she wonders if she herself will see another highway, so that she can perform again and connect with friends.<\/p>\n

She recorded the song with producer Tom Beaujour and backing by guitarists Keith Hartel (acoustic) and Richard Feridun (electric).\u00a0 Within a week\u2019s time of the session, a video, directed by Michael Schiralli who\u00a0also directed\u00a0Nico Underground,\u00a0<\/em>had been produced with a masked Tammy wandering empty New York City streets.\u00a0 The only other recognizable person in the piece is Danny Fields who signed Nico to Elektra Records decades ago and has become a mentor to Tammy in recent years.\u00a0 His career is chronicled in the documentary\u00a0Danny Says<\/em>, the title adapted from the Ramones song he inspired. Beyond Nico and the Ramones, Fields worked with the Doors, Iggy Pop, the Velvet Underground and Steve Forbert.\u00a0 It is in Danny\u2019s apartment that the camera lingers on a portrait of Nico on the wall.\u00a0 Tammy says, \u201cHis wit, his supreme intellect, all the things he\u2019s done \u2014 he\u2019s continually astounding to me. His love for Nico was\/is very profound.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tammy commented on the turn of events that brought \u201cThese Days\u201d back into her personal and professional life.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve\u00a0always loved \u2018These Days\u2019 \u00a0– such an elegiac song –\u00a0its\u00a0themes of regret, of time passing, of a certain kind of deliberate ennui to deflect from the pain of what\u2019s been lost – all those elements, and the haunting melody, resonate so deeply,\u00a0especially now, when ‘I wonder if I\u2019ll see another highway\u2019 is heartbreakingly true. The\u00a0aspirations of\u00a0youth, the beauty\u00a0that was ours,\u00a0seem to have\u00a0inexorably faded, and the line,\u00a0\u2018These\u00a0days I seem to think a lot about the things that I forgot to do,\u00a0and all the times I had the chance to,\u2019 along with \u2018Please don\u2019t confront me with my failures\/I have not forgotten them,\u2019 haunt our hearts- the fear in wondering if we\u00a0will\u00a0ever have another chance.\u00a0I\u2019m not sure of anything, these days.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    Michael Hepworth   HOLLYWOOD (Perfect Music Today) 9\/15\/20\/–Celebrated artist Tammy Faye Starlite has been performing \u00a0\u201cThese Days,\u201d Jackson Browne\u2019s seminal song, for many years, specifically as part of her\u00a0Nico Underground\u00a0\u00a0performance piece. \u00a0It was… <\/p>\n

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