![]() I had given one of my TNPC colleagues a loan of Tim Buckley’s S tarsailor LP, and in return he had alerted me to Annette’s solo debut. I first heard ‘I’m The One’ around 25 years ago. In addition to being a great interpreter of others’ songs, Annette Peacock is also a true innovator. Hers is one of the most striking cover versions ever recorded and one of the highlights on I’m The One, her first official solo album released in 1972. Similarly, with ‘Love Me Tender’, Peacock was able to excavate the cracks and crevices of that yawning cave to extract from it every ounce of emotional nectar, every last drop of raw-nerved soul. Cale recognised the potential for a sonic overhaul of Mae Boren Axton & Tommy Durden’s classic, in order to provide a more suitably unsettling backdrop to the familiar tragic narrative. ‘Love Me Tender’ are not by Elvis Presley, but by John Cale and Annette Peacock respectively. ![]() The best recorded versions of ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ and Cover versions are more often than not a waste of time, but not always.
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