Old School Freight Train “Heart Of Glass”

You hear that a bluegrass/Americana band is going to do a Blondie song, and you automatically assume that it’s going to be an ironic take. But kind of like when Richard Thompson did Britney Spears’ “Baby One More Time,” while the initial idea might have been ironic, the actual execution really, really works. This Old School Freight Train version, again like the RT song, loses any arch-ness that inhabited the original, and reads the lyrics with gravity.

The first time we ran across this band, at Merlefest 2005, I think, they did Randy Newman’s “Louisiana 1927.” There’s another song that can have the gravity and the irony dialed up or dialed down in the delivery, but still remains serious and sarcastic in the right places, no matter how it’s sung.

Hear Old School Freight Train “Heart Of Glass”