{"id":34729,"date":"2020-08-03T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34729"},"modified":"2020-08-02T07:42:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T11:42:05","slug":"black-marble-shares-new-track-johnny-and-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34729","title":{"rendered":"Black Marble shares new track \u2018Johnny and Mary\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Black Marble aka Chris Stewart has shared a new single, Johnny and Mary<\/em>, a rendition of <\/strong>a song originally performed by Robert Palmer, and the second song lifted from an EP of cover songs titled \u2018I Must Be Living Twice,\u2019 due out August 14, 2020 via Sacred Bones Records. \u2018I Must Be Living Twice\u2019 was recorded shortly after 2019\u2019s acclaimed full-length album \u2018Bigger Than Life,\u2019 and is available for pre-order via Bandcamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Stewart shares: \u201cA lot of people know Robert Palmer as this slightly garish 1980s pop icon, but not everyone is aware of his early more bedroomy synth stuff he wrote before he really got big. I\u2019m always reminded of a festival he headlined in the early \u201880s. The Cure opened. They get the hook for time reasons and walking off stage, Robert Smith proudly proclaims \u2018fuck Robert Palmer\u2019 to a throng of drunk festival goers. A smattering of the chant \u2018punk rock\u2019 (still a relatively new thing at the time) starts to be heard. Everyone has their time I guess, sort of a recurring theme of my work. Even my band\u2019s name is more or less about going in and out of fashion.\u201d <\/em>He goes on to say: \u201cIt’s not hard to find this old song kind of enchanting and more accessible than his \u2018Addicted to Love\u2019 era stuff, all relevancy subtext aside. And since the themes of the song deal with someone who\u2019s undergoing sort of a career crisis, \u2018scared that he\u2019ll be caught, without a second thought,\u2019 I thought it would be interesting to cover in the context of who he was and what he (and artists more broadly) often go through. It also felt nice to give some props to an early tune, focusing on a time in his ascent before a lot of inevitable complications.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to Black Marble\u2019s cover of Johnny and Mary<\/em> via YouTube below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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