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- In Living Cover
- - 10,348 plays
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Jay Brannan
Released 2009

Drowning
04:26
973 plays

The Freshmen
04:16
964 plays

Good Mother
03:11
960 plays

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- 1
- Beautifully
- 03:15
- 2,016 plays

- 2
- Say It's Possible
- 03:26
- 1,134 plays

- 3
- All I Want
- 04:06
- 1,039 plays

- 4
- Blowin' In The Wind
- 02:03
- 943 plays

- 5
- The Freshmen
- 04:16
- 964 plays

- 6
- Good Mother
- 03:11
- 960 plays

- 7
- Both Hands
- 01:27
- 1,020 plays

- 8
- Zombie
- 03:13
- 1,299 plays

- 9
- Drowning
- 04:26
- 973 plays

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album review

Jay Brannan dives into his iPod collection with In Living Cover, a collection of cover songs and original material. The two original tunes featured here -- "Beautifully" and "Drowning" -- take their cues from the Lilith Fair school of songwriting, mixing bookish lyrics with bursts of acoustic guitar. The effect is reinforced by Brannan's voice, a somewhat androgynous tenor whose range and tone serve him well on the covers, too. Joni Mitchell, Ani DiFranco, and the Cranberries all serve as source material for Brannan's six cover songs, and he pays tribute to those artists with soft, acoustic renditions of their hits. When he ditches the acoustic guitar and performs DiFranco's "Both Hands" with an a cappella arrangement, the result is striking, due in no small part to his imaginative reinterpretation of the original. ~ Andrew Leahey, All Music Guide