Covers
Devendra Banhart has covered the song during live performances including Bonnaroo 2006, the Pitchfork Music Festival and Tim Festival 2006, in Brazil. Amy Winehouse also incorporated the song into her own "He Can Only Hold Her" at live concerts in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Rihanna covered the song while on Kanye West's Glow in the Dark Tour in 2008. The American avant-garde band Mr. Bungle often performed an excerpt of the song as an outro for their song Travolta (Quote Unquote) while simultaneously playing Hemanta Mukherjee's "Ei Raat Tomar Amar" during live shows in the late nineties, and up to their unofficial demise in 2002. Kanye West's protégée Teyana Taylor, signed in 2012 to his G.O.O.D. Music label, released a mixtape in early 2012 called The Misunderstanding of Teyana Taylor, which draws particular influeunce from much of Hill's work. One of the tracks, called "Lauryn's Interlude," features Taylor performing a shortened, A Capella performance of Hill's classic song.
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Famous quotes containing the word covers:
“Boys finding for the first time their loins filled with hearts
blood
Widowed farmers whose hands float under light covers to find
themselves
Arisen at sunrise”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)
“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“Wishing to get a better view than I had yet had of the ocean, which, we are told, covers more than two thirds of the globe, but of which a man who lives a few miles inland may never see any trace, more than of another world, I made a visit to Cape Cod.... But having come so fresh to the sea, I have got but little salted.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)