Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)
Both a cover and an original: a new song folded around the old standard.
Cowboy Junkies, from The Trinity Session (1988)
- Released
- 1988
- Length
- 4:31
- Album
- The Trinity Session
The song combines a new piece by the band with the pop standard Blue Moon, so it is at once a cover and an original. It was recorded at the church session but did not appear on the Latent pressing of The Trinity Session. It was first released on the compilation It Came from Canada, Vol. 4 (1988) and was added to the RCA release that November, and a single followed in 1989.
Pitchfork's Stephen M. Deusner wrote that the band rewrote Blue Moon as a paean to Elvis. In the 2007 remake Deusner said Vic Chesnutt added twists to it. It is heard in the background of a bar scene near the end of the 2004 film Silver City, and it appeared on the soundtracks of Flesh and Bone (1993) and Hotel de Love (1997).
More songs by Cowboy Junkies
Sweet Jane, Misguided Angel, 200 More Miles, Mining for Gold
Sources
- The Trinity Session, Wikipedia
- Blue Moon (1934 song), Wikipedia
- Cowboy Junkies: Trinity Revisited, Pitchfork (2008-02-22)
- Song database, Cowboy Junkies Fan Site
- Studio discography, Cowboy Junkies Fan Site