Durand Jones & The Indications, who released their critically acclaimed second album, American Love Call, at the start of March last year on Dead Oceans / Colemine Records, have today shared their own unique take on David Bowie’s classic Young Americans.
Initially recorded for Howard Stern’s SiriusXFM radio show, the band have now decided to share the track with their fans. Featured on Bowie’s 1975 album of the same name, which saw him move away from the glam of earlier recordings towards a more soulful sound, Blake Rhein from The Indications said:
The entire Young Americans album is an incredible piece of soul music history with brilliant flares gospel, funk, and disco. The way Bowie is able to use these ingredients and apply them to his own brand of weird-o pop is just amazing.
The track was recorded in August of 2017 at Russian Recording in Bloomington, Indiana after the Stern show reached out as they were putting together a compilation featuring various artists covering different Bowie songs. Having seen no one was covering Young Americans, the decision to record the track was relatively straight forward as the soul-stylings of the original perfectly suited Durand Jones & The Indications.
The band were joined during recordings by Alonza Lawrence, Saren Oseitoto and GeDeane Graham on backing vocals, Ana Nelson on saxophone and Jesse Klirsfeld on trumpet.
Fronted by duel vocalists Jones and Aaron Frazer (drums), The Indications’ sound of “old-school soul with a new-school honesty” (NPR’s All Things Considered) is rounded out by Blake Rhein (guitarist), Kyle Houpt (bassist), and Steve Okonski (keyboard), the months following the album release saw the band sell out shows across the U.S. and U.K. as well as make a number of high profile network TV appearances on CBS This Morning: Saturday, Jimmy Kimmel Live and Last Call With Carson Daly and the end of the year saw them feature in best of the year polls in Mojo and The Guardian amongst others.
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