Hey Brother Where Art Thou

[Mandosummers]

Look up the song "Hey Brother" by Avicii. Recognize the lead vocal?

[Marty Jacobson]

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[OldSausage]

To save you all the pain of discovering this for yourselves, this courtesy of Wikipedia

"Hey Brother" is a song by Swedish producer Avicii from his debut studio album, True (2013). It features uncredited vocals from American bluegrass singer Dan Tyminski, and was written by Avicii, Ash Pournouri, Salem Al Fakir, and Vincent Pontare. "Hey Brother" was solicited to Australian radio on 9 October 2013 as a promotional single from True.[1][2] It was released as the album's third single on 28 October 2013 in Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Poor old Dan:

http://youtu.be/YxIiPLVR6NA

[Fretless]

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Great song, great video - thanks for posting it! I was surprised when they launched into Julia Delaney - an unusual choice but they pulled it off beautifully.

Fretless

[BlueMt.]

"Hey Brother" caught my attention when my wife was watching The Voice. I heard one of the contestants singing it and came in to listen. She said they gave Dan Timinsky credit along with Avicii (whoever he is).

[M.Marmot]

Look up the song "Hey Brother" by Avicii. Recognize the lead vocal?

I just encountered this today in a newspaper article http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/mu...-die-1.2083980 - and, knowing that, on evidence of many recent threads, the mandolincafe, music lovers each and all, like to discuss the music that they don't and never will listen to ... i thought that i'd ressurect this thread rather than start a new one.

So, Mr D. Tymnski providing vocals to, this ...

Hey, it's good stuff to rag on!

But, then I thought, maybe, we could try and find if, rather than just a simple reductive negative dismissal, we try and find folks that try to redeem the song, translate it to their own mores

So, i did a quick search and found this


and this