Ever Since The Fire Went Out

Florence + the Machine featuring Josh Homme “Jackson”

I attended this MTV Unplugged taping a few months ago and had to keep my mouth shut about this Johnny Cash and June Carter cover for a long while. It wasn’t easy! Florence Welch and Josh Homme don’t seem like an obvious pairing, but their voices go together very well, especially as Homme does a pretty reasonable Cash impression. Covering big classics like this can be a thankless task, but I think there’s a lot of charm and heart in this performance, and the singing benefits greatly from the natural reverb of the Angel Orensanz space. You can hear it in the recording – there’s something wonderful about the way those voices fill the room. She really ought to just record everything in a church from here on out.

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