Natalie Walker

[Soot and Stars]

Natalie Walker

Here's an artist I'm rediscovering and with good reason. Her latest effort is a Smashing Pumpkins cover and it's one of my favorite SP songs. I'll always love the oroiginal best but it'sa beautiful cover and does it justice! It's off of this new album:

Spark

Check it out! I'll leave the original SP version so non-SP afficionados can make the comparison:

Galapagos (original and cover)


Now ironically the first time I ever heard Natalie was a couple years ago when she covered a favorite Counting Crows song of mine "Colorblind"! Now Natalie isn't just a cover artist and I'll leave some original later but she picks great material to cover and makes them haunting and beautiful. The "Colorblind" cover is off this album:

Urban Angel

Once again I'll post the original too for those that don't know it!

Colorblind (original and cover)


I'll be looking more into this artist but those two songs alone are enough to make me a fan! The Smashing Pumpkins one alone is only the second good cover of the band I've ever heard!

 

[ILoveJimmyPage]

Sooty, I just came across her cover of Colorblind today. Very nice! Then I found this thread (should've known you'd make one) Small world.

 

[aeroplane]

Love the long, flowing hair on the Spark photo.

I know, I'm sorry. I couldn't resist.

 

[Soot and Stars]

Oh wow, two bumps to a thread I thought would never get bumped! Thanks for initiating it ILJP and for your dedicated eye for beauty Aeroplane! Not only did she do a great cover of an already perfect Counting Crows song but she's one of the only artist to do justice to any Pumpkins song!

 

[limpy]

I just had a little poke around on her website and quiet liked this song by her:

Cool Kids


Btw..sorry I didn't catch this thread earlier! You can kill me later
I'll have a closer look when I get home tonight

 

[Soot and Stars]

You know Limpy that's actually a good track! I was looking through her original stuff but honestly while it was good nothing struck me but that one was the best one I'd heard! It kind of reminds me of Jem!