{"id":782,"date":"2014-04-11T09:02:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T08:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2014-04-09T12:21:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T11:21:18","slug":"song-of-the-week-stay-away-by-charles-bradley-and-the-menahan-street-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: “Stay Away” by Charles Bradley and The Menahan Street Band"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

This is “Stay Away” by Charles Bradley and the Menahan Street Band:<\/p>\n

Charles Bradley and the Menahan Street band — “Stay Away”<\/a><\/p>\n

I thought I jump on the end of the slowly departing Kurt Cobain Death Anniversary Bandwagon this week.<\/p>\n

One mark of a good song is the ways in which it can be transformed from one idiom to another. One mark of a good artist is the way in which he or she can transform a song from one idiom to another. Charles Bradley puts in a great performance on this version of Nirvana’s song.\u00a0 In fact, it’s so good, it makes it hard to even remember what the original version sounds like. It’s a little bit different<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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