Ezra Furman performing in Liverpool (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Ezra Furman will digitally release his Songs By Others covers EP tomorrow.
Previously available as a limited vinyl, its selection of covers, which include Melanie’s Good Book, will now get a wider audience. “It’s a genius song,” Furman’s said of Good Book. “I had actually never heard a song that is about what that song is about: how an audience wants something from a performer and wants reassurance.”
“And that was a time when we were putting out Perpetual Motion People, and we had really been pretty obscure. That was the first album of ours that came out where it felt like a lot of people were waiting for it to come out and talking about it and playing the lead single on the radio.”
“So I was just thinking a lot about what can be emotional or tender or beautiful in the audience-performer relationship. That song is like, ‘Tell us you love us so we don’t feel alone’, and it seems like the best thing a song could do – to make someone not feel so alone.”