{"id":974117,"date":"2019-12-19T02:39:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T09:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=929291"},"modified":"2019-12-19T02:39:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T09:39:32","slug":"watch-yola-cover-elton-johns-goodbye-yellow-brick-road-on-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-yola-cover-elton-johns-goodbye-yellow-brick-road-on-kimmel\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch YOLA Cover Elton John\u2019s \u2018Goodbye Yellow Brick Road\u2019 on \u2018Kimmel\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-19-at-9.30.31-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>British musician <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/yola\/\" id=\"auto-tag_yola\" data-tag=\"yola\">YOLA<\/a> appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jimmy-kimmel-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-kimmel-live\" data-tag=\"jimmy-kimmel-live\">Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a> to perform two songs, her own \u201cFaraway Look\u201d and her soulful cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/elton-john\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elton-john\" data-tag=\"elton-john\">Elton John<\/a>\u2019s \u201cGoodbye Yellow Brick Road.\u201d The singer gave both an impassioned, emotional energy while backed by her live band.<\/p>\n<p>YOLA\u2019s cover of John\u2019s 1973 classic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/yola-yellow-brick-road-elton-john-923293\/\">\u201cGoodbye Yellow Brick Road\u201d<\/a> was recently released with a deluxe edition of her album <em>Walk Through Fire,&nbsp;<\/em>which dropped earlier this year. John responded to the cover on his radio show <em>Rocket Hour<\/em>, noting, \u201cIf you haven\u2019t heard of Yola\u2026 go and see her. You\u2019ll be delighted at what you hear.\u201d<\/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\/ujusAEHq4YY?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Walk Through Fire<\/em> was produced by Black Keys\u2019 Dan Auerbach. Since its release, the album has earned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/tanya-tucker-2020-country-grammy-nominees-914983\/\">three Grammy nominations<\/a>, as well as Yola\u2019s inclusion in the Best New Artist category. YOLA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/yola-americana-871579\/\">told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> earlier this year that she\u2019s been surprised by the high acclaim the album has received. \u201cThe response has made me highly emotional,\u201d she said. \u201cGetting tweeted by Kendall Jenner and Jamie Lee Curtis was not on the list of things I expected for this record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>YOLA will cap off the year at Nashville\u2019s Ryman Auditorium on December 30th and 31st for a two-night stand with Old Crow Medicine Show.<\/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\/yola-elton-john-goodbye-yellow-brick-road-kimmel-929291\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British musician YOLA appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform two songs, her own \u201cFaraway Look\u201d and her soulful cover of Elton John\u2019s \u201cGoodbye Yellow Brick Road.\u201d The singer gave both an impassioned, emotional energy while backed by her live band. YOLA\u2019s cover of John\u2019s 1973 classic \u201cGoodbye Yellow Brick Road\u201d was recently released with [&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-974117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 00:00:56","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\/974117","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=974117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}