Watch Bill Callahan and Yo La Tengo Cover Carly Simon’s “Touched by the Sun”

Watch Bill Callahan and Yo La Tengo Cover Carly Simon’s “Touched by the Sun”
Bill Callahan (Photo by Brill/ullstein bild by way of Getty Images), Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo (Photo by Burak Cingi/Redferns)

Bill Callahan joined Yo La Tengo onstage at New York’s Bowery Ballroom final night time to carry out a canopy of Carly Simon’s “Touched by the Sun.” The music initially appeared on Simon’s 1994 LP Letters Never Sent. Watch a clip of that beneath.

The live performance marked night time 5 of Yo La Tengo’s 8 Nights of Hanukkah, a collection of dwell reveals working from December 2-9 at Bowery Ballroom. A protracted-standing Yo La Tengo custom, 8 Nights of Hanukkah was reinstated in 2017. Prior to that, the band took a five-year hiatus from the occasion because of the closing of Maxwell’s, the Hoboken, New Jersey venue that had been the placement of the performances for over a decade. Last 12 months, particular company similar to Bob Odenkirk, Jeff Tweedy, and Todd Barry made shock appearances.

Yo La Tengo’s newest LP There’s a Riot Going On arrived in March. Bill Callahan’s final studio album was 2013’s Dream River. More just lately Callahan launched Live at Third Man Records. Back in 2016, Yo La Tengo and Bill Callahan carried out at a farewell concert for the enduring document retailer Other Music.

Read Pitchfork’s 5-10-15-20 interview with the Yo La Tengo here.

 
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