Local Folk Notes: New Coverage In The New England Scene featuring Laura Cortese, Cliff Eberhardt, and a new YouTube covers project!
Other than a short feature on local newgrass heroes Crooked Still back in September, it's been a year or more since we returned to the local here on Cover Lay Down. But as previous features on Kristen Andreassen , Rose Polenzani , and various members of the Berklee College and New England Conservatory scenes have demonstrated, Greater Boston remains a hotbed of folk hybridism, thanks to ongoing cross-pollination among a still-growing set of artists living and attending school in and around the area. Berklee still continues to crank [...]
- Cliff Eberhardt - Back Of My Mind [John Hiatt cover]
- James Lee Stanley & Cliff Eberhardt - Love Me Two Times (The Doors cover)
- James Lee Stanley & Cliff Eberhardt - People Are Strange (The Doors cover)
- Laura Cortese - Greasy Coat (trad.)
- Laura Cortese - I Feel It All (Feist cover)
- Laura Cortese - Just Like Heaven (The Cure Cover)
- Laura Cortese & Jefferson Hamer - A Song For You (Gram Parsons cover)
- The Poison Oaks - Tragedy (Dave Godowsky cover)



















Beach House covers Queen
Video: Nas – “Daughters”
The Bee Gees – Tragedy (Equateur Remix)
Ryan Smith - Waiting