New Elvis Perkins Video - "While You Were Sleeping"
Unlike "All The Night Without Love," there's no sign of Mr. Perkins's backing band, Dearland -- this one's meant just for Elvis, casting him as a throwback folkie with full moon eyes, mismatching socks, and excellent penmanship. In the end the sun rises, and though insomnia is never fun, at least Elvis got a powerfully poetic tune out of it. We usually just get bleary eyes and terrible morning breath. It's another one courtesy of MTV, so apologies to you guys outside of these fifty States. YouTube soon!
Ash Wednesday is out via XL.
Posted at 4:01 PM in Video
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Elvis Perkins is just so damn endearing...relatively basic video premise but he looks so casual and comfortable and then the song, well, the song speaks for itself.
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Sorry, but I have a question to propose for everyone. Is the version of 'All The Night Without Love' from his video available on record? The version in the video has him playing harmonica and the other dude playing a harmonium. Tis not the version on the released album I have. Is that strictly a live performance for the video? I've been going nuts over this for quite some time. Thanks if anyone has any info on it.
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I think this is also a different mix from the album cut. You can tell after the drums finally kick in-- it's much sooner on this version. Btw, I saw/met Elvis at the MFA in Boston, and he was the nicest guy in the world.
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the video for "all the night without love" was shot and recorded live with dearland and is not the same recording featured on "ash wednesdsay".
and yes this is an edited version of "while you were sleeping"
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I thought they were both different, thanks. I really liked the version of 'While You Were Sleeping' on Letterman. Actually one of my favorite Letterman performances I have seen....Link below...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmEoUNWQrwg
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everytime I see elvis's gibson I get guitar envy.
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i love that it's not "Elvis Perkins and Dearland" but "Elvis Perkins in Dearland."
One time i saw this guy live, and one of the first things he said was "thank you very much" in a serious manner. You think people named Elvis would be overly cautious to avoid that.
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