“Sunshine” isn’t the song that’s been sold to us, a song of light and picnics and dandelions it’s a song of darkness, of despair, of the fear of losing everything. This track gives us no choice but to hear the lyrics to “You Are My Sunshine,” and, when we do, it’s impossible to un-hear them. “The way ‘You Are My Sunshine’ flows is so gradual and has more verses than we’ve ever included in one song,” says bassist Jessica Kion, “and the lyrics become more defeated and depressed with every verse.” Not only does the track starkly bring out the lyrics that so many listeners are cheerily unaware of, but it manages to take the song’s structure and turn it into one more tool in the band’s expansive repertoire. We thought it’d be interesting to build an arrangement that showcases the darkness of the verses.”īent Knee has never shied away from extrapolating darkness from the songs they cover, and “Sunshine” artfully takes this to its furthest depths. “Everyone knows the chorus of the song but hardly anyone knows the verses,” added Welch, “which give the song a completely different, much darker meaning. I think it was Vince who pointed out the contradiction between the poetry and the music, and we decided that the words and melody were worth exploring and presenting in an entirely different context.” “It’s a piece about desperation and heartbreak, but you don’t get any of that from the original, at least in a musical sense. “We primarily chose to cover ‘Sunshine’ because we wanted to portray the lyrical content of the song in a more accurate light,” violinist Chris Baum tells us.

You may recognize their take on “You Are My Sunshine” from last year’s live performance of it, but today we’re proud to exclusively host the “Sunshine” MP3 – the band’s first studio release in over three years, off their new album Shiny Eyed Babies.

While their covers don’t come around as often as we’d like, they’re an absolute treat every time they do. Their covers somehow manage to simultaneously be both nuanced and almost overwhelmingly powerful, and to work with their source material instead of feeling like they’re working on it.

It’s no secret that we’re big fans of Bent Knee here at Cover Me.

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