{"id":1375,"date":"2016-09-16T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2016-09-08T13:39:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:39:05","slug":"song-of-the-week-valley-clouds-by-sam-beam-and-jesca-hoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1375","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Valley Clouds&#8221; by Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Valley Clouds&#8221; by Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a7QFdnY4gIE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another highlight of this summer&#8217;s End of the Road Festival was Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop.\u00a0 They played as a duo on The Garden Stage, and played a wonderful set of beautiful and interesting songs, including the material they&#8217;ve recorded together, Iron and Wine songs, and some well-chosen cover versions (a reworking of &#8220;Islands in the Stream&#8221; was a particular highlight).\u00a0 During their set, two parrots flew over and crapped on the crowd; they worked it into the song they were performing without missing a beat.\u00a0 Either that or they&#8217;ve spent as much time training parrots as they have on their songcraft.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Valley%20Clouds%22%20by%20Sam%20Beam%20and%20Jesca%20Hoop\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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