News - 16/10/2014

Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) teams up with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: listen

Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) teams up with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: listen

The first album in five years by Yusuf Islam, aka Cat Stevens, is set to be out on October 27. It's called "Tell ‘Em I’m Gone" and it features ten tracks - some original compositions and some covers.
The album was assembled with contributions from Richard Thompson, Bonnie "Prince" Billy’s Will Oldham, Tinariwen, Matt Sweeney and Charlie Musselwhite.

After a first preview with the release of a rendition of Edgar Winter’s "Dying to Live", we now can listen - in advance - to the collaboration of Yusuf Islam with Oldham, a cover of Procol Harum’s 1969 "The Devil Came From Kansas".

The artist said, of the song: "Procol Harum was one of my favorite bands. They wrote some great songs and I wanted to sing something that respected their repertoire and I don’t know why but it was something that happened in Kansas when I was traveling. This was kind of apt for me and it reflected some of my memories".


 

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