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New Music: Jens Lekman: "Water Runs Dry" (Boyz II Men cover; live in New York) [MP3]

Nov 13, 2008, 2:15pm

Jens Lekman played a few songs ahead of fellow Swede Frida Hyvönen 's set Tuesday night at Googie's Lounge in New York, BrooklynVegan reports . As shouldn't be too surprising from a guy who had a roomful of Williamsburgers dancing to Mariah Carey during his CMJ set less than a month ago, one of those songs was a Boyz II Men cover. Lekman does II 's emotional, Babyface-penned ballad "Water Runs Dry" totally straight, [...]

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