{"id":794688,"date":"2019-04-10T09:31:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=820530"},"modified":"2019-04-10T09:31:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T15:31:08","slug":"hear-the-raconteurs-riff-hard-on-new-cover-of-donovans-hey-gyp-dig-the-slowness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-the-raconteurs-riff-hard-on-new-cover-of-donovans-hey-gyp-dig-the-slowness\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear the Raconteurs Riff Hard on New Cover of Donovan\u2019s \u2018Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/raconteurs-new-song.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-raconteurs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-raconteurs\" data-tag=\"the-raconteurs\">The Raconteurs<\/a> unveiled a blistering cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/donovan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donovan\" data-tag=\"donovan\">Donovan<\/a>\u2019s 1965 song \u201cHey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)\u201d as part of the launch of Third Man Records\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.bandcamp.com\/2019\/04\/10\/third-man-comes-to-bandcamp-and-the-raconteurs-share-new-song\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">new Bandcamp<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The cover, which features on the reunited band\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-raconteurs-new-album-help-us-stranger-816534\/\">upcoming LP <em>Help Us Stranger<\/em><\/a>, finds the Raconteurs turning the brisk acoustic blues-rocker into a no-frills ripper, with Jack White\u2019s vocals chugging alongside drums that pump like pistons. The song builds steadily to a final freak out that screams with razor-edge guitars and a fiery harmonica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Along with the Raconteurs new cover of \u201cHey Gyp,\u201d Third Man\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/thirdmanrecords.bandcamp.com\/music\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bandcamp<\/a> page also features the rest of the band\u2019s discography along with selections from the label\u2019s catalog including Margo Price\u2019s <em>All American Made<\/em>, Craig Brown Band\u2019s <em>The Lucky Ones Forget<\/em> and Sleep\u2019s <em>The Sciences<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Raconteurs debuted their cover of \u201cHey Gyp\u201d on Saturday during their first live performance in eight years at Third Man\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/raconteurs-jack-white-third-man-nashville-818771\/\">10th anniversary celebration<\/a> in Nashville. The group also performed two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jack-white-raconteurs-new-songs-770987\/\">new songs<\/a>, \u201cNow That You\u2019re Gone\u201d and \u201cSunday Driver,\u201d which will appear on <em>Help Us Stranger<\/em>, out June 21st.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Raconteurs will embark on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-raconteurs-north-american-tour-help-us-stranger-819025\/\">North American tour<\/a> in support of the record July 12th in Detroit, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/raconteurs-donovan-hey-gyp-dig-the-slowness-820530\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Raconteurs unveiled a blistering cover of Donovan\u2019s 1965 song \u201cHey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)\u201d as part of the launch of Third Man Records\u2019 new Bandcamp page. The cover, which features on the reunited band\u2019s upcoming LP Help Us Stranger, finds the Raconteurs turning the brisk acoustic blues-rocker into a no-frills ripper, with Jack White\u2019s [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 02:19:43","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}