#Listen to Devendra Banhart Cover Grateful Dead’s “Franklin’s Tower”
“#Listen to Devendra Banhart Cover Grateful Dead’s “Franklin’s Tower””
Devendra Banhart has shared an Amazon Original cover of Grateful Dead’s “Franklin’s Tower” from their 1975 studio album Blues for Allah. Banhart made the cover to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the album. Listen below. (Pitchfork earns a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.)
Noah Georgeson produced and mixed Banhart’s “Franklin’s Tower” cover. Banhart performed the track with his current touring band: guitarist Nicole Lawrence, synthesist Jeremy Harris, and drummer/percussonist Gregory Rogove. Banhart said in a press release:
I find myself
Fighting dread
With the dead…
We chose “Franklin’s Tower” for its opening line, one of my favorite opening lines of all time:
“In another time’s forgotten space
Your eyes looked through your mother’s face”
This is the gift of the Dead,
The paradox of personal universality…
Wisdom found at the end of a maze,
The bliss of unconditional love and acceptance…
There’s a Dead for everyone…
Through the pandemic, I
go on daily immersions into Blues for Allah, marveling at Phillip
Garris’s eerie and alluring cover art,
Help/Slip/Frank guiding me through the weird underworld that the day
has become, & I feel at once remarkably insignificant and the most
precious thing in the universe, A wave, held in the ocean of my
mother’s eyes… a child dancing, rolling away the dew…
Knowing Help is indeed on the way…
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