{"id":973652,"date":"2019-11-21T13:46:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T20:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=915533"},"modified":"2019-11-21T13:46:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T20:46:19","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-bonnie-light-horseman-jane-jane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-bonnie-light-horseman-jane-jane\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Bonnie Light Horseman, \u2018Jane Jane\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/bonnie-light-horsman.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span>The new folk supergroup <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/anais-mitchell-bonny-light-horseman-865692\/\"><span>Bonnie Light Horseman<\/span><\/a><span> (Anais Mitchel, Eric Johnson of the Fruitbars and Josh Kaufman) have already given a few teases from their upcoming eponymous debut album, slated for early 2020. But \u201cJane Jane,\u201d the trio\u2019s third preview, offers the clearest portrait of the type of folk re-imagining at the core of the band\u2019s mission statement.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sung by Johnson and Mitchell, \u201cJane Jane\u201d is a Southern traditional, first captured as \u201cJane-Jane (Three Mocking Birds)\u201d in a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/resource\/afc9999005.7150.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> field recording<\/a> by a singer named Lila May Stevens in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1939. An earlier version of the song was eventually recorded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sYCZmjQbBxk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Peggy Seeger<\/a>, but Bonnie Light Horsemen\u2019s rendition is based in large part on the Seventies folk singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d9GBZVGgQTs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tia Blake\u2019s recording<\/a>, which combines elements of the Christmastime spiritual \u201cChildren, Go Where I Send Thee.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mitchell sings the \u201cChildren, Go Where I Send Thee\u201d refrain, a hypnotic major chord ditty that stands in stark contrast to Johnson\u2019s minor chord verse. \u201cIt gives me chills and makes me feel like laughing at the same time,\u201d Mitchell said of the way the song rapidly alternates between its two primary sections. It\u2019s a tantalizing preview of what the group\u2019s debut album promises to achieve: making nearly-century-old songs sound like they were written just yesterday.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><i><span>Find a playlist of all of our recent Songs You Need to Know selections <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/rsedit\/playlist\/4z2ebTTKukc34eMDlqrnW4?si=mwZhc_Q_TeeZkOYCOwBiXA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><i><span>on Spotify<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bonnie-light-horseman-jane-jane-915533\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new folk supergroup Bonnie Light Horseman (Anais Mitchel, Eric Johnson of the Fruitbars and Josh Kaufman) have already given a few teases from their upcoming eponymous debut album, slated for early 2020. But \u201cJane Jane,\u201d the trio\u2019s third preview, offers the clearest portrait of the type of folk re-imagining at the core of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 22:38:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}