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The wonderful world of puss n boots5/6/2023 The trio highlight the song’s tenderness, from the classic pop melody to the dark hope of truisms like “The truth is overrated, I suppose. Catherine Popper, best known for her work as bassist for everyone from Jack White to Ryan Adams, sings lead on the midtempo folk rocker, with Jones and bandmate Sasha Dobson joining in for a three-part harmony on the song’s beautifully bruised refrain. When Mary Lou Lord covered the song in 2015, the Boston folkie focused on that helpless vulnerability, singing lines like “ I still get by” in a near-whisper.īut there’s always been a sappy sweetness to “It’s a Wonderful Lie,” and on the second album from Puss N Boots, Norah Jones’ alt-country group, the song sounds like it’s been discovered anew. “ Misanthropes, guys like me,” the former Replacements frontman sang, leaving no ambiguity as to exactly who Westerberg was talking about. From the Lucha Diaries Vaults: Rocambole contra la.When Paul Westerberg first sang “It’s a Wonderful Lie” more than 20 years ago, it sounded like the Man Without Ties’ sad-sack ode to his self-defeat.
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