{"id":973900,"date":"2019-12-05T22:52:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T05:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=923114"},"modified":"2019-12-05T22:52:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T05:52:19","slug":"watch-courtney-barnetts-unplugged-performance-from-new-live-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-courtney-barnetts-unplugged-performance-from-new-live-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Courtney Barnett\u2019s \u2018Unplugged\u2019 Performance From New Live Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CourtneyBarnettLUnplugged.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/courtney-barnett\/\" id=\"auto-tag_courtney-barnett\" data-tag=\"courtney-barnett\">Courtney Barnett<\/a> has unveiled her <em>MTV Australia Unplugged Live in Melbourne<\/em> album via stream. The physical album will be released on February 21st and is <a href=\"https:\/\/courtney-barnett.lnk.to\/mtvunplugged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">available for pre-order<\/a>. The performance, which was filmed in October at Howler in her hometown of Melbourne, spans covers and songs from her catalog as well as her original new song, \u201cUntitled (Play it on Repeat).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Backed by bandmates Dave Mudie and Bones Sloane, her intimate, stripped-down performance also features cellist Lucy Waldron. Guest collaborators include Paul Kelly, Marlon Williams and Evelyn Ida Morris.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLuoF6akxiyWLG-VVbZ4St8vEAZSRKvrnJ&amp;hl=en_US\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For her new song, Barnett appears solo on acoustic guitar. Over a melancholic melody, she emotively sings the vulnerable lyrics. \u201cEvery day I wake\/Hope it\u2019s a mistake\/Wish I could go back to dreaming\/Everything I make\/trying not to break\/Going round and round in circles,\u201d she wistfully sings. \u201cTell me, would you even know?\/Would you even care if you never see me again?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love playing to Melbourne crowds\u2026 I wanted to have a mixture of old songs, new songs and covers, and tracks that we don\u2019t perform all the time \u2014 it\u2019s been interesting to see the songs through a different filter,\u201d Barnett said in a statement. \u201cAnd it brings out this other emotional side to the music and the lyrics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>MTV Australia Unplugged Live in Melbourne<\/em> Track List<\/strong><br \/>1. \u201cDepreston\u201d<br \/>2. \u201cSunday Roast\u201d<br \/>3. \u201cCharcoal Lane\u201d featuring Paul Kelly \u2014 written by Archie Roach<br \/>4. \u201cAvant Gardener\u201d<br \/>5. \u201cNameless, Faceless\u201d featuring Evelyn Ida Morris<br \/>6. \u201cUntitled (Play it on Repeat)\u201d<br \/>7. \u201cNot Only I\u201d featuring Marlon Williams \u2014 written by Seeker Lover Keeper<br \/>8. \u201cSo Long, Marianne\u201d \u2014 written by Leonard Cohen<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-courtney-barnett-mtv-australia-unplugged-live-in-melbourne-album-performance-923114\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtney Barnett has unveiled her MTV Australia Unplugged Live in Melbourne album via stream. The physical album will be released on February 21st and is available for pre-order. The performance, which was filmed in October at Howler in her hometown of Melbourne, spans covers and songs from her catalog as well as her original new [&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-973900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 10:59:19","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\/973900","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=973900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}