The lead single from the new Robert Plant album is a cover of “Everybody’s Song,” written by Duluth band Low. The song first appeared on Low’s 2005 album The Great Destroyer. Plant’s new record, Saving Grace, is set for a Sept. 26 release on Nonesuch Records.
This is the third time the former Led Zeppelin lead singer has released a cover version of a Low song. His 2010 album Band of Joy featured “Silver Rider” and “Monkey,” each of which also appeared on Low’s The Great Destroyer.
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The New Yorker published an article today on Duluth musician Alan Sparhawk, chronicling his career in the seminal indie-rock band Low and concluding with news about his latest recordings. “The fruits of this work will be released this fall under his own name, as a record called White Roses, My God,” reads the article’s final sentence.
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Though the July 26 episode of the podcast 60 Songs that Explain the ’90s is about the Mazzy Star track “Fade Into You,” music critic Rob Harvilla spends the first 20 minutes of the show gushing over another song and band entirely.
“My new favorite song is ‘Cue the Strings’ by the Duluth, Minn. band Low from their 2005 album The Great Destroyer,” he states at the start of the show, before launching into a deep dive into the music of Alan Sparhawk and the late Mimi Parker. …
The February issue of Mojo, the top music magazine in the United Kingdom, includes Duluth’s Mimi Parker in its “Real Gone” obituary column. The cover of the March issue features Duluth-born Bob Dylan. …
