Various Artists

Dark Was The Night

Based on 7 reviews

2009 Ranking: #73 / 282

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Track List

This Disc:

Dirty Projectors and David Byrne: "Knotty Pine"
The Books [ft. Jose Gonzalez]: "Cello Song" (Nick Drake cover)
Feist and Ben Gibbard: "Train Song" (Vashti Bunyan cover)
Bon Iver: "Brackett, WI"
Grizzly Bear: "Deep Blue Sea"
The National: "So Far Around the Bend" (arrangement by Nico Muhly)
Yeasayer: "Tightrope"
My Brightest Diamond: "Feeling Good" (Nina Simone cover)
Kronos Quartet: "Dark Was the Night" (Blind Willie Johnson cover)
Antony and Bryce Dessner: "I Was Young When I Left Home" (Bob Dylan cover)
Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner: "Big Red Machine"
The Decemberists: "Sleepless"
Iron and Wine: "Stolen Houses (Die)"
Grizzly Bear and Feist: "Service Bell"
Sufjan Stevens: "You Are the Blood"

That Disc:

Spoon: "Well-Alright"
Arcade Fire: "Lenin"
Beirut: "Mimizan"
My Morning Jacket: "El Caporal"
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings: "Inspiration Information" (Shuggie Otis cover)
Dave Sitek: "With a Girl Like You" (The Troggs cover)
Buck 65 [ft. Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti]: "Blood Pt 2" (based on "You are the Blood" by Castanets)
The New Pornographers: "Hey, Snow White" (Destroyer cover)
Yo La Tengo: "Gentle Hour" (Snapper cover)
Stuart Murdoch: "Another Saturday" (traditional)
Riceboy Sleeps: "Happiness"
Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues: "Amazing Grace" (traditional)
Andrew Bird: "The Giant of Illinois" (Handsome Family cover)
Conor Oberst and Gillian Welch: "Lua"
Blonde Redhead and Devestations: "When the Road Runs Out"
Kevin Drew: "Love vs. Porn"

Reviews

Pitchfork (Full Review)

Charity albums all start wonderfully-- with good intentions and noble causes. Alas, they frequently end poorly, entering the world as collections of outtakes, abandoned ideas, and uninspired covers. Whether that matters is another thing: If you share Natalie Portman's interest in the value of microcredit, or any number of executive producers' hope for more Darfur awareness or money for Doctors Without Borders, getting a decent Death Cab song or Afrobeat comp should simply be a bonus "thank you" for your minimal contribution.

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