{"id":12295,"date":"2019-08-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=12295"},"modified":"2024-01-02T09:03:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T17:03:53","slug":"cover-me-jennie-abrahamson-lift-me-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/26\/cover-me-jennie-abrahamson-lift-me-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, Jennie Abrahamson: Lift Me Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are so many covers of Bruce Springsteen’s songs out there that I sometimes wonder if I’ll ever be able to catalog them all.<\/p>\n

Most are the usual suspects: “I’m on Fire<\/a>,” “Because the Night,” “Atlantic City<\/a>,” and “Dancing in the Dark<\/a>” all get lots and lots of love.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, though, an artist takes a crack at one of Bruce’s deep cuts, and they don’t get much deeper than “Lift Me Up.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Bruce recorded “Lift Me Up” for the movie\u00a0Limbo<\/em>, and it was released on the soundtrack in 1999. Sung in a falsetto, Bruce’s voice is almost unrecognizable to the uninitiated, but it spoke to Swedish singer\/songwriter Jennie Abrahamson nonetheless. Here’s how she describes it:<\/p>\n

A beautiful love song about dependence, about letting oneself be lifted by love. That’s how I interpret it… I first heard it when I was on the mat in a yoga class. I remember being still for quite a long while in a quite complex position, but despite the heavy body work my mind just drifted away to this song and I found tears running down my face. It had such an immediate beauty to it, it spoke right to my heart.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jennie was so taken with the song that she tinkered with it in the studio and created a modern arrangement that preserves and honors Bruce’s haunting, ethereal original. The result was so powerful that Abrahamson chose to close her latest album with it.<\/p>\n

Here’s that track, from her 2017 album Reverseries.<\/em><\/p>\n