{"id":805321,"date":"2020-03-16T19:16:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T01:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=968287"},"modified":"2020-03-16T19:16:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T01:16:25","slug":"hear-sharon-van-etten-cover-lucinda-williams-if-my-love-could-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-sharon-van-etten-cover-lucinda-williams-if-my-love-could-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Sharon Van Etten Cover Lucinda Williams\u2019 \u2018If My Love Could Kill\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sharon Van Etten<\/a> adds an artful glow to Lucinda Williams<\/a>\u2019 \u201cIf My Love Could Kill\u201d in her cover of the song, issued on the Alzheimer\u2019s Association\u2019s new compilation LP, Music Moments<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMurderer of poets, murderer of songs\/Who robbed me of your memory, who robbed me of your time,\u201d Van Etten croons over staccato piano, pulsing synth and marching drums. \u201cMade her way into the symphony\/Of your beautiful mind, of your beautiful mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview\/in-studio video, the singer-songwriter detailed her inspiration for covering the song, which Williams first released on her 2016 LP, The Ghosts of Highway 20<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom first introduced me to Lucinda Williams\u2019 music when I was a teenager,\u201d Van Etten says in the clip. \u201cBut back then I was a bit angsty, and I rebelled against her very much. And so quietly I would listen, but outwardly I would act like I wasn\u2019t a fan. Then, later in life when I was writing my own music in my Twenties, and my mom and I reconnected as adults, we realized that we still had a shared love of Lucinda Williams. And I had never been so moved before because it was something I felt like we finally shared.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI picked this song \u2018If My Love Could Kill\u2019 because it was a song about [Williams\u2019] dad, who suffered from Alzheimer\u2019s, and her frustration with it, as well as her love for him and the wanting to understand it,\u201d she added. \u201cIt was a combination of love and anger and frustration. And it\u2019s also just a really beautiful song \u2026 It will forever be the soundtrack of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 10-track Music Moments<\/em> also features Sting\u2019s previously released cover<\/a> of Otis Redding\u2019s \u201c(Sittin\u2019 On) The Dock of the Bay,\u201d along with recordings from Band of Horses, Joan Jett, Jason Isbell, Anthony Hamilton, Lee Ann Womack, the Head and the Heart, Nile Rodgers and Brett Eldredge.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Music Moments<\/em> album, and the stories behind the songs, set the stage for sharing experiences and fueling important conversations,\u201d Michael Carson, chief marketing officer of the Alzheimer\u2019s Association, said in a statement. \u201cUltimately, these conversations are critical to reducing stigma about Alzheimer\u2019s and all other dementia. We are relentless in our pursuit to increase awareness and advance the cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Etten\u2019s contribution follows \u201cStaring at a Mountain,\u201d<\/a> her new song for the Eliza Hittman\u2019s film drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Sharon Van Etten adds an artful glow to Lucinda Williams\u2019 \u201cIf My Love Could Kill\u201d in her cover of the song, issued on the Alzheimer\u2019s Association\u2019s new compilation LP, Music Moments. \u201cMurderer of poets, murderer of songs\/Who robbed me of your memory, who robbed me of your time,\u201d Van Etten croons over staccato piano, pulsing […]<\/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-805321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 03:53:50","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\/805321","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=805321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}