{"id":808208,"date":"2020-06-09T05:10:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T11:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1011722"},"modified":"2020-06-09T05:10:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T11:10:57","slug":"black-pumas-share-tender-cover-of-tracy-chapmans-fast-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/black-pumas-share-tender-cover-of-tracy-chapmans-fast-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Pumas Share Tender Cover of Tracy Chapman\u2019s \u2018Fast Car\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Austin rock duo Black Pumas<\/a> have shared a reverent cover of Tracy Chapman<\/a>\u2019s 1988 classic, \u201cFast Car.\u201d<\/a> The band \u2014 which comprises singer Eric Burton and guitarist Adrian Quesada \u2014 has regularly covered<\/a> \u201cFast Car\u201d during their live sets.<\/p>\n

Aside from dispensing completely with the drums, Black Pumas\u2019 rendition is fairly faithful to Chapman\u2019s original, with Quesada recreating the tender acoustic progression and lacing a few electric licks of his own on top. Burton, meanwhile, delivers a breathtaking performance, letting his voice rise and fall as he sings, \u201cAnd I had a feeling that I belonged\/I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, \u2018Fast Car\u2019 is a song of hope, dreams and a relentless heart to go somewhere and be someone,\u201d Burton said in a statement. \u201cI learned the song when I first began to busk and of the covers that I knew, it garnered the most attention from the random passerby. As a musician and artist, I\u2019m attracted to songs that make us reflect on our daily struggles for making life worth living for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with sharing their cover of \u201cFast Car,\u201d Black Pumas also released a new remix of their latest single, \u201cFire,\u201d<\/a> dubbed the \u201cSteady Groovin Mix.\u201d<\/p>\n

Black Pumas released their self-titled debut album last year. The group will take part in the upcoming livestream benefit concert, A Night for Austin,<\/a> June 10th, which was organized by Paul Simon, Edie Brickell, Willie and Annie Nelson, and will benefit various organizations throughout Austin. Then, on June 21st, they\u2019ll celebrate the one-year anniversary of Black Pumas<\/em> with a livestream concert<\/a> presented by the Texas Lottery.<\/p>\n

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Austin rock duo Black Pumas have shared a reverent cover of Tracy Chapman\u2019s 1988 classic, \u201cFast Car.\u201d The band \u2014 which comprises singer Eric Burton and guitarist Adrian Quesada \u2014 has regularly covered \u201cFast Car\u201d during their live sets. Aside from dispensing completely with the drums, Black Pumas\u2019 rendition is fairly faithful to Chapman\u2019s original, […]<\/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-808208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 21:41:49","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\/808208","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=808208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}