Counting Crows’ 1996 energy ballad “A Lengthy December” has emerged as a depressive lighters-up normal. In recent times, a bunch of individuals have lined “A Lengthy December”: The Maintain Regular, Oceanator, Knifeplay. Earlier this yr, Noah Kahan sang it with lead Counting Crow Adam Duritz. And over previous week, the 2 leaders of Wendesday added their very own “A Lengthy December” covers to the checklist.
Just lately, Wednesday guitar hero MJ Lenderman and his band the Wind (which incorporates Wednesday’s Xandy Chelmis) have been touring behind Manning Fireworks, one in all our favourite albums of the yr. This previous fall, Hurricane Helene swept by Lenderman and his band’s Asheville, North Carolina house base, leaving the town and the encircling space devastated. It actually has been an extended December, and an extended November, for individuals round Asheville. Lenderman needed to postpone some tour dates, together with hometown gigs on the Orange Peel. He performed each reveals this previous weekend, and he performed his model of “A Lengthy December” throughout his encores on Friday night time. Watch fan footage under.
Because it occurs, a few Lenderman and Chelmis’ Wednesday bandmates additionally lined “A Lengthy December” in a special North Carolina metropolis a couple of nights beforehand. Final Tuesday, Wednesday chief (and Lenderman’s ex) Karly Hartzman and bassist Ethan Baechtold tried their very own cowl of “A Lengthy December” on the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro. Their model was much more stripped-down, and it hit some completely different emotional notes. So: coincidence? Or is there a Wednesday band group chat the place everybody’s been evaluating “Lengthy December” covers? Watch the Hartzman/Baechtold model under.