Bottom Of The Barrel

Piano version of Footloose

At the tender age of 3, Gabriel Greenberg lost his sister to a car accident in 1985. Unable to really look at the items left behind by his big sister, Greenberg typically just didn't look at them until one day back in 2005 he came across a cassette "with a startling cover photograph - this was Footloose. I couldn't stop listening: it was a portrait of 80's love, desire, pain, freedom, and frenzy; of being a teenager in a time of change. By listening, I could step into Jenny's shoes, see things from her vantage point. I could be emancipated by rock and roll and walkmen, just as she had been. We could listen together." Flash forward 2 years where Greenberg asked his friend Thomas Bartlett [a.k.a. Doveman] to re-imagine the entire album with which they "could reply to the past, tell our own story about being young. This is what he made."



With this eerie and haunting cover of the Footloose soundtrack Doveman and company have found a new way to stretch music across genres as well as generations.

Labels: 80's, Music

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