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I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats

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The Mountain Goats

I think when I hear a woman cover a man song or vice versa, it already feels like you're hearing something transposed. There's slightly different instruments that have different timbreal residences. John has kind of like a higher-pitched male voice. So if you got like somebody with like a rich bass opera voice, that would be a whole other thing. The phrasing of the mountain goats is often not what she expects. Erin McYown had to write down a chart of the phrase for this one.

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