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| Released | August 4, 2017 | |||
| Recorded | 2015–17 | |||
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| Length | 51:43 | |||
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Re-Covered is the third studio album from singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Dan Wilson, released on August 4, 2017 via Ballroom Music and Big Deal Media. [1]
Re-Covered is a collection of reinterpretations of songs Wilson wrote for other artists including Adele, Dixie Chicks, Chris Stapleton, Taylor Swift, and more. [2]
The album was met with resoundingly positive reception from critics seeing coverage in The Associated Press, [3] Rolling Stone, [4] [5] Billboard, [6] Stereogum, [7] ABC News, [8] LA Weekly, [9] Salon, [10] Los Angeles Times, [11] The Washington Post, [12] Variety, [13] New York Daily News, [14] and more. The album was announced on June 1, 2017 in an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple's Beats1 Radio alongside the worldwide premiere of pre-release track "Someone Like You," which Wilson co-wrote with Adele. [15] Kronos Quartet is featured on Wilson's Re-Covered version of the song. [16]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "All Will Be Well" | 4:43 | |
| 2. | "Home" |
| 4:40 |
| 3. | "You and I" |
| 4:36 |
| 4. | "Someone Like You" (featuring Kronos Quartet) |
| 4:49 |
| 5. | "Never Meant to Love You" |
| 3:44 |
| 6. | "Not Ready to Make Nice" | 3:42 | |
| 7. | "Landing" | 2:50 | |
| 8. | "Treacherous" |
| 3:40 |
| 9. | "Borrowed" |
| 3:26 |
| 10. | "Your Misfortune" |
| 3:04 |
| 11. | "When the Stars Come Out" |
| 3:58 |
| 12. | "If I Walk Away" |
| 3:58 |
| 13. | "Closing Time" | Wilson | 4:33 |
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"Singing in My Sleep" is a song by American rock band Semisonic. It was released on August 18, 1998, as the second single from their second studio album, Feeling Strangely Fine (1998). It was written by Dan Wilson and produced by Nick Launay. In the United States, it reached number 11 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 31 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Two years later, in 2000, the single peaked at number 39 in the United Kingdom that March.
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