Cut Loose...

This caught my eye in this week's Entertainment Weekly.

A cover of the entire soundtrack of FOOTLOOSE by the artist "Doveman" (aka Thomas Bartlett.)  



After a google search I came across these words written by Thomas' friend Gabriel Greenberg.

"When I was very young, my half-sister Jenny died tragically. She was a teenager, and it was the 80's. She left behind a wardrobe of brightly colored clothes, rainbow stickers, life-size paintings, doodles on lined paper, and hundreds of tapes. These constitute most of my memories of her. It's sad for me to look at these things, and usually I don't. But a couple of summers ago I found a tape of hers with a startling cover photograph - this was Footloose. I couldn't stop listening: it was a portrait of 80's love, desire, pain, freedom, and frenzy; of being a teenager in a time of change. By listening, I could step into Jenny's shoes, see things from her vantage point. I could be emancipated by rock and roll and walkmen, just as she had been. We could listen together.

I asked my friend Thomas to cover the album, which, sheltered as he is, he had never heard before. I was clear that I wanted to him to cover the whole album - the point wasn't to rework any one song, but to re-imagine the picture they made together. With a new Footloose we could reply to the past, tell our own story about being young. This is what he made."

-- Gabriel Greenberg

This is AMAZING and very moving.  It was available as a free download, but it got taken down.  You can still here the album on this site...  

http://www.dovemanmusic.com/footloose.htm