{"id":2444806,"date":"2019-05-31T03:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=842410"},"modified":"2019-05-31T03:00:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T09:00:40","slug":"hear-how-hippo-campus-discovered-donnie-and-joe-emersons-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-how-hippo-campus-discovered-donnie-and-joe-emersons-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear How Hippo Campus Discovered Donnie and Joe Emerson\u2019s \u2018Baby\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/HippoCampus-3-Credit-PoonehGhana.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Each week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/spotify\/\" id=\"auto-tag_spotify\" data-tag=\"spotify\">Spotify<\/a>\u2019s Under Cover podcast features artists who record covers of songs and discuss their decision to do so. The covers artists choose are typically big hits\u2014from Joni Mitchell\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rita-ora-joni-mitchell-spotify-834070\/\">\u201cBig Yellow Taxi\u201d<\/a> to Johnny Cash\u2019s famous cover of Nine Inch Nail\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/gashi-talks-johnny-cashs-hurt-coping-with-darkness-827247\/\">\u201cHurt.\u201d<\/a> So it was a surprise when indie rock band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/hippo-campus\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hippo-campus\" data-tag=\"hippo-campus\">Hippo Campus<\/a> decided to cover a song that had spent the last three decades virtually unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Donnie and Joe Emerson\u2014two teenage brothers living on a farm in Fruitland, Washington\u2014recorded their album <em>Dreamin\u2019 Wild<\/em> in their home studio in 1979. After being discovered in an antique shop in 2008, <em>Dreamin\u2019 Wild<\/em> was re-released in 2012. With groovy coos of \u201cbaby, ooh\u201d over subtle guitar, the song \u201cBaby\u201d has since gained a cult following (an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q3utvDLTynY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ariel Pink\u2019s Haunted Graffiti cover<\/a> didn\u2019t hurt.)<\/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\/ONIJXHvoynw?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>According to Hippo Campus, they first discovered the song in a Tim &amp; Eric film. \u201cI listened to it so frequently after that point,\u201d said Zach Sutton. \u201cIt just became one of my favorite songs ever.\u201d Because Sutton and Nathan Stocker spent years in a cover band, the decision to record one was unlikely\u2014rarely have they performed them live. \u201cWe played 80s classic rock covers, so I think Zach and I had been a bit traumatized,\u201d said Stocker.<\/p>\n<p>The band recorded \u201cBaby\u201d at Spotify Studios in New York. Lead singer Jake Sutton only did a few takes of his vocals. \u201cI think it was the second or third take,\u201d he said. \u201cWhich is rare. Typically I like to go into tracking vocals and be very nitpick-y with it. But for this particular song, it felt best to keep it loose and vibe-y.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hippo-campus-discovered-donnie-and-joe-emersons-baby-842410\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, Spotify\u2019s Under Cover podcast features artists who record covers of songs and discuss their decision to do so. The covers artists choose are typically big hits\u2014from Joni Mitchell\u2019s \u201cBig Yellow Taxi\u201d to Johnny Cash\u2019s famous cover of Nine Inch Nail\u2019s \u201cHurt.\u201d So it was a surprise when indie rock band Hippo Campus decided [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 01:56:47","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}