Stream: Death Cab for Cutie: “Rocking Chair" (The Band cover)

Stream: Death Cab for Cutie: “Rocking Chair" (The Band cover) My Morning Jacket + The Band = good combo.

Death Cab for Cutie + The Band = the sadness.

Ben Gibbard slathers his sappy voice on this deep cut from the Band's self-titled second album (where it was called "Rockin' Chair"); the resulting DCFC hit-and-run is set to appear on the forthcoming Endless Highway Band tribute compilation, out via 429 Records on January 30.

It's a shame that Death Cab don't do much more with this song than make it sound like a Transatlanticism B-side, and Gibbard's disinterested lullaby croon does no justice to the lived-in feel of a song with the lyric, "I'm pushing age 73." Even more depressing: the other songs on Endless Highway.
Posted by Dave Maher on Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 4:15pm