Schnipper’s Slept On
- story THE FADER
Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s a reissue and remix of Richie Havens “Going Back To My Roots”. Listen to “Back To My Roots,” buy an mp3 of the song and read Schnipper’s thoughts on the album after the jump.
This song was never released as a twelve inch single until a few years ago—Richie Havens’ cover of Lamont Dozier’s “Going Back To My Roots.” Elektra, a label I don’t think exists anymore, reissued it along with Danny Krivit’s remix where he takes out the piano. I read about that before I heard it. How can you take out the piano? That is what makes the song. It is like those Garfield cartoons where they erase Garfield. Exactly. It’s just as good, but it isn’t Garfield.
This morning I saw a woman on the train wearing the same jeans as me, looking similarly worn in. Except she did not strike me as someone who would wear the same pair of pants every day for a year to give them a particular sheen. That takes a particular person with particular reasons (me). So she probably bought them used. APC is now selling used jeans, hugely worn in and occasionally gunky, for more than the price of new jeans. That might not even be so bizarre if they weren’t on the same shelf as the new ones.
Why do I talk about jeans all the time? Or anything. I have to not wear jeans a few times coming up and I am panicking. If only people knew could go buy H&M pants for way less than APC would be selling my old ones for.
The new New York magazine has an article about a guy who bought an entire building on Bowery forty years ago for a hundred grand and it’s now worth probably thirty million dollars. But he is just chilling and living in it with his family. He has a garden on the roof. Maybe it’s vintage.
There is a French youtube video where Richie Havens is like “Hey, it’s weird people liked this song and played it at clubs.” It is weird, you are the motherless child guy. But they own it, too. APC jeans are French. That’s probably a coincidence. But I am a rebel and I make my own rules.
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- posted on Sep 23, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS
- tags electronic/dance, folk, Richie Havens
