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Michael Hurley - Sweedeedee
Perhaps you have heard the Cat Power version of this song. She nails it, without a doubt, and it was through Cat Power (who also covers Hurley’s ‘Werewolf song’ and ‘troubled waters’) that I discovered Michael Hurley.
As far as which version is better, I tend to go back and forth. Recently I have favored this one. Both versions remove me from wherever I am (subway, work, bus, earth) and take me to a somber Greenwich Village apartment where two down on their luck lovers are doing their best to get by.
If you enjoy this track, I would check out his most recent release, The Ancestral Swamp, on Devendra Banhart’s Gnomonsong label.
