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March 3, 2020
Video Premiere for Rachelle Garniez' Cover of "Rhinestone Cowboy"
mxdwn PREMIERE: Rachelle Garniez Releases Faithful Cover of Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy”
Matt Matasci - March 3rd, 2020
New York City’s Rachelle Garniez has a new album Gone to Glory coming out this month in which she covers iconic songs by legendary performers who’ve died. She covers a wide range of artists from many different genres, including Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead, Prince, David Bowie, Sharon Jones, Aretha Franklin, Leonard Cohen and Glen Campbell.
Today, we’re premiering the video for her cover of Glen Campbell’s iconic fish-out-of-water song “Rhinestone Cowboy,” which details the day-to-day life of a performer in New York City. For the video, Garniez is seen walking around various parts of New York City, including subway stations and busy streets, playing the part of the struggling musician from the song’s story.
Gone To Glory Track List
1. “Killed By Death” – Lemmy Kilmister
2. “Raspberry Beret” – Prince
3. “Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)” – David Bowie
4. “My Sister and I” – Bea Wain
5. “The Day Is Past And Gone” – (Traditional)
6. “Don’t You Know” – Della Reese
7. “Ruby (Don’t Take Your Love To Town)” – Mel Tillis
8. “100 Days, 100 Nights” – Sharon Jones
9. “Monsters Of The Id” – Mose Allison
10. “Frank Mills” – Galt MacDermot
11. “How Glad I Am” – Nancy Wilson
12. “Day Dreaming” – Aretha Franklin
13. “Rhinestone Cowboy” – Glen Campbell
14. “Anthem” – Leonard Cohen
March 11, 2020
Rachelle Garniez Stylishly Remembers Bowie, Aretha
Review: Rachelle Garniez stylishly remembers Bowie, Aretha
By PABLO GORONDI
Rachelle Garniez, “Gone to Glory” (StorySound Records)
Rachelle Garniez’s musical world is as wide and wonderful as the range of recently-departed artists she pays tribute to on “Gone to Glory,” from David Bowie and Della Reese to Glen Campbell and Aretha Franklin.
With arrangements prominently featuring accordions, strings and horns, Garniez covers bonafide classics like Prince’s “Raspberry Beret,” which sounds here like a John Mellencamp song, as well as lesser known gems like Reese’s take on Bobby Worth’s “Don’t You Know.”
Garniez, a veteran of New York’s cabaret scene, infuses these 14 versions with the same engaging theatricality she stamps on her original tunes. Bowie’s “Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)” is truly ominous and Mose Allison’s “Monsters of the Id” comes across on the far side of disturbing.
Mel Tillis is remembered with a song he wrote for Kenny Rogers, “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town”; composer Galt MacDermot is recalled with the humorous “Frank Mills” from “Hair”; and Sharon Jones, the late singer of soul resurrectors The Dap-Kings, surely would have enjoyed the pathos Garniez brings to “100 Days, 100 Nights.”
Some songs include hidden acknowledgements, their intros citing compositions linked to other late greats. One of the most easily recognizable is a tip of the cap to Glen Frey on Lemmy and Motörhead’s “Killed by Death,” which is prefaced by the melody of the “Hotel California” guitar solo and then turns into what could be an outtake from “The Threepenny Opera.”
Debbie Reynolds is recognized with a snippet of “Singin’ in the Rain,” which ushers in “My Sister and I,” a genuinely moving and compassionate song from the 1940s about the effects of war and trauma.
Among the closing trio of tunes, Franklin’s “Day Dreaming” is a tad overwrought, but both Leonard Cohen’s “Anthem” and Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy,” written by Larry Weiss, use light as a metaphor for hope and perseverance.
Garniez, whose musical persona has been compared to Liza Minnelli and Rickie Lee Jones, has created quirky and lovely versions of songs that would fit stylishly at any memorial services for those she is honoring.