Covers
As of 01 April 2010, (Amazon.com lists at least 6 covers of this song in their MP3 collection: Most recently by Birdsong at Morning from the album "Vigil", another by Jennifer Faust from the album "Light As a Feather, Stiff As a Board" and one by Complexblue from the album "Knot the Thought That Counts". There is also an acoustic cover in the language of Catalan (named "Mate Kudasai") recorded live by singer Gerard Quintana which can be found in his 2005 album "Per un tros de cel".
On 07 February 2011, Kurt Elling released the album The Gate, with a version of "Matte Kudasai" as the opening track.
On 20 April 2011, k.d. lang and her band the Siss Boom Bang covered Matte Kudasai as part of her concert at the BBC Radio Theater. The audio and video of that performance were broadcast on 21 April 2011 on BBC Radio 2. Lang noted in her introduction to Matte Kudasai that the song was influential on her sound of her fifth album, Ingenue.
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Famous quotes containing the word covers:
“Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 10:12.
“And mimic desolation covers all.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
“Boys finding for the first time their loins filled with heart’s
blood
Widowed farmers whose hands float under light covers to find
themselves
Arisen at sunrise”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)