Even with this summer’s Dresden Dolls reunion, Amanda Palmer remains as busy as ever. Yesterday, she released a video for a new collaboration with her father, Jack Palmer, and it’s a take on Richard Thompson’s 1991 song “1952 Vincent Black Lightning”. The video features a pretty captivating bit of artwork and animation from acclaimed graphic novelist David Mack, composed of more than 250 separate paintings.
In the song, the two Palmers trade off vocals, while Amanda plays the piano.
The Thompson cover is part of a new collection of tracks from the father-daughter team titled You Got Me Singing, and it features their renditions of songs by Kimya Dawson, Lucy and Carly Simon, Sinead O’Connor, and others. It’s out May 16, but available for pre-order now via Patreon. More information about the release, including its streaming availability, can be found here.
Watch the video for “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” below, after the You Got Me Singing track listing…
Jack & Amanda Palmer – You Got Me Singing:
1. You Got Me Singing (Leonard Cohen and Patrick Raymond Leonard)
2. Wynken, Blyken and Nod (Lucy and Carly Simon)
3. Again (Melanie Safka)
4. 1952 Vincent Black Lightning (Richard John Thompson)
5. Louise Was Not Half Bad (Tom T Hall, written by Paul Siebel)
6. Black Boys On Mopeds (Sinead O’Connor)
7. All I Could Do (Kimya Dawson)
8. In The Heat Of The Summer (Phil Ochs)
9. Pink Emerson Radio (Kathleen Edwards)
10. Skye Boat Song (Traditional)
11. Glacier (John William Grant and Thorarinsson Birgir)
12. I Love You So Much (Noah Britton)