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10 great cover songs to pass the time

By George Lenker

Special to The Republican

t’s always a delight to hear an inventive cover of a great song. So while we are all holed up and remaining socially distant, here are 10 such reworkings of some tunes you might want to seek out. In no particular order:

toward the end just to make the offbeat transformation complete. Jimi Hendrix: “All Along the Watchtower” We could probably list plenty more Bob Dylan songs that have been covered better or as well, but this one stands the test of time. Hendrix took Dylan’s loping harmonica-heavy folk-rock tune and turned it into a tale of apocalyptic psychedelia. While others, such as Dave Mason and later Dylan himself, also provided stellar rock versions, Soul rock singer Joe Cocker on stage and mid-song at the Hendrix’s version stands Isle of Wight Festival in Enabove the rest.

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Rock guitar virtuoso Jimi Hendrix caught mid guitar-break during his performance at the Isle of Wight Festival in August 1970. (EVENING STANDARD / GETTY IMAGES)

Disturbed: “Sound of Silence” While the original by Simon and Garfunkel is quietly haunting before jogging into an almost jaunty folk-rock tempo, Disturbed reinvented the song ingeniously without destroying the basic format. Like the S&G version, Disturbed’s cover starts out quietly eerie, with singer David Draiman bringing a muscular goth-metal urgency to each succeeding verse, then ending on a bittersweet utterance of the words “of silence.”

from the one we know except for a last-minute change of heart by the singer, who scrapped the entire first take because she couldn’t find the groove for singing it the way she wanted to. Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Gold stepped in and basically overdubbed all the tracks for the new version, which became the first single off “Heart Like a Wheel.”

Sturgill Simpson: “In Bloom” You might not even recognize this Nirvana song for a Linda Ronstadt: few seconds after it starts. It “You’re No Good” begins as a lazy country stroll Ronstadt was the queen of replete with steel guitar, as great covers, doing songs by opposed to Nirvana’s forward-march insistent beat everyone from Buddy Holly and crunching guitars. It’s to Warren Zevon, but this almost a completely different 1974 No. 1 hit may be her song, but one that you’d have best. Originally recorded by to think Kurt Cobain would Dee Dee Warwick and first have enjoyed, given his broad covered by The Swinging Blue Jeans, Ronstadt’s version taste in music. Simpson even might have sounded different adds a cool horn arrangement

Tom Waits: “Somewhere” This gorgeous ballad from “West Side Story” gets Waits’ gravel-throated treatment here, and it’s never sounded more tender and hopeful. If you don’t think Waits is a good singer, give this a few spins and you’ll change your mind. It’s also a soothing balm in these troubled times. Joe Cocker: “With a Little Help from My Friends” It’s almost impossible to do a better version of a Beatles’ original than the Fab Four themselves, but Cocker pretty much pulled it off with his gospel-infused version of the “Sgt. Pepper’s” tune. Granted, the original was sung by Ringo, a great drummer but

certainly the worst vocalist in the band. You will miss Paul McCartney’s superb loping bass line in Joe’s version, but otherwise his cover just might beat the original. Johnny Cash: “Further On Up the Road” It’s one of the best songs off Bruce Springsteen’s album “The Rising,” but The Man in Black gives it a sense of urgency that few artists can equal. Cash probably could have several songs on this list from his “American” album series alone. This one came on “American V: A Hundred Highway,” which was the first album by Cash that was released posthumously.

Thin Lizzy: “Whiskey in a Jar” This traditional Irish tune has been recorded by dozens of artists and performed by probably thousands, but Thin Lizzy’s stands out as the first real rock version. The guitar lines by Eric Bell are instant hooks, but the real ear-opener here is Phil Lynott’s singing. It was also the song that put Lizzy on the musical map. Bonnie Raitt: “Angel from Montgomery” There is no doubt about John Prine’s ability to write a classic song (or 50), but when this one got channeled through the soulful sound of Raitt’s singing, it took on a whole new dimension. Plenty of other artists have covered this gem, but no iterations top this one by Raitt, who said the song probably “meant more to my fans and my body of work than any other song.”

Bonnie Raitt performs onstage during the Grammy Awards on Jan. 26 in Los Angeles. (KEVIN WINTER / GETTY IMAGES FOR THE RECORDING ACADEMY)

A 1977 photo of country western musician Johnny Cash. (ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE)

Prefab Sprout: “He’ll Have to Go” British Prefab Sprout leader Paddy MacAloon has had a lifelong love affair with all things American, and this cover of the old Jim Reeves song is a gorgeous tribute to the nation’s country music. MacAloon gives it a straightforward treatment, sprinkling just a touch of pedal steel guitar for authenticity, but the addition of Wendy Smith’s haunting and airy background vocals puts this one over the top.

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MUSIC

Iron Horse Music Hall booking 2021 shows

HILE MANY live music venues are inching postponed concerts ahead by a month or two, the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton is looking a bit further into the future for rescheduled shows. The Northampton venue has added Nada Surf to its 2021 calendar, postponing the originally scheduled May 26 performance to April 16, 2021. Scottish singer KT Tunstall (“Black Horse and the Cherry Tree”) was also swept off the 2020 calendar for a Feb. 11 date in the New Year. It is not unusual for the Iron Horse and its affiliated clubs (Pearl Street, Calvin Theatre all under the Iron Horse Entertainment Group umbrella) to advance shows that are a year out. The annual New Year’s Eve concerts at the Iron Horse featuring Enter the Haggis are currently on sale. Tickets for all Iron Horse shows are on sale through the Northampton Box Office at 413-586-8686 and online at iheg.com. Liner notes • Gateway City Arts in Holyoke has found new dates for a couple of its bigger shows this spring.

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Forced to cancel or postpone live events due to the COVID-19 crisis, the venue was able to shift Big Al Anderson and the Floor Models from May 1 to Sept. 12. After a quarter-century with the beloved NRBQ, Anderson has carved out a niche as one of country music’s most sought after songwriters. Robyn Hitchcock’s May 8 performance has been postponed to the now-ubiquitous “TBA” and Polaris, originally scheduled for May 15 has been moved to Oct. 9. Ticket information for all shows is available through the venue website at gateway cityarts.com. Other shows on the schedule, such as the May 7 Red Molly date, have been canceled. • Liz Phair is the latest

KT Tunstall will play Feb. 10, 2021, at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton. (RICH FURY / INVISION / AP)

concert casualty to fall to the coronavirus as the rocker’s show in North Adams has been postponed. Originally slated for May 16 at Mass MoCA, the performance has been downgraded to “TBA” status. Mass MoCA is still listing a June 5 date with Violent Femmes and X, and a Sept. 5 date with They Might Be Giants. The annual Fresh Grass music and camping festival is still on the board for the weekend of Sept. 25. • Bob Weir is the latest rock star to adopt a digital platform to perform for fans. The Grateful Dead co-founder has announced “Weir Wednesdays” to air recorded shows from his solo tours and performances with his band, Wolf Bros. Weir will air the shows on nugs.tv with links to the stream from his Facebook Events page. Just last week, Weir’s Dead & Co canceled its 2020 summer tour including two August shows at Fenway Park. Grateful Dead fans have also been treated to “Shakedown Stream” a weekly stream of Grateful Dead concerts that began airing on the band’s YouTube channel on April 10. • Nick Cave is supposed to be on a European tour but the coronavirus shut it down. In response, the Australian rocker has developed and launched a new YouTube channel dubbed “Bad Seed Teevee.” The channel, named for his band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, will air music videos, interviews, and live performances. Cave’s European 2020 spring tour was postponed until 2021 but the veteran performer is holding out hope for the scheduled North

Liz Phair’s May 16 show at Mass MoCA in North Adams has been postponed. The new date has yet to be annoucned. (DAVID PETKIEWICZ / CLEVELAND.COM)

American run that is supposed to begin in the fall. That tour includes a stop at Agganis Arena on the campus of Boston University on Sept. 25. • Pitbull is (tentatively)

coming to Connecticut. The international rap star has a show scheduled for Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket on July 24 at 8 p.m.

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reports, the song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and recorded in CONTINUED FROM PAGE E3 2019. The pair dusted off the Tickets are available onoriginal, reworked the lyrics line at foxwoods.com and a bit and released it as a “sign of the times” commentary. through all Ticketmaster It’s their first original outlets and locations including ticketmaster.com and composition since “Doom by phone at 800-745-3000. and Gloom” and “One More Pitbull has sold over 70 mil- Shot” were included on their lion records worldwide and 2012 compilation album released “Libertad 548” on “GRRR!” The Rolling Stones recently CD this past September. canceled their planned 2020 He is the winner of 35 Billboard Latin Music Awards. tour due to the pandemic.

A new Rolling Stones song turned out to be unexpectedly timely. (MICHELE EVE SANDBERG / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE / GETTY IMAGES)

MUSIC

The Rolling Stones miss you, and 13 more new songs New York Times

is Amy Lee’s voice, somePop critics for The New York where between ferocious Times weigh in on notable and hymnal. And there is the new songs and videos. arrangement, part understated hard rock and part power The Rolling Stones, soul ballad. And there is the “Living in a Ghost Town” rendering of melodramatic A song the Rolling Stones subject matter with power and had worked on last year, “Liv- quasi-Christian grace: “I don’t ing in a Ghost Town,” turned need drugs/I’m already 6 feet out to be timely. It’s a muscu- low/wasted on you.” lar, minor-key reggae-rocker – Jon Caramanica that harks back to “Miss You” (along with the Specials’ 1981 Juice WRLD, “Righteous” “Ghost Town” and a brief nod Juice WRLD was 21 when to Jimi Hendrix’s “Crosstown he died in December from an Traffic”). The video has studio accidental overdose of oxycodone and codeine. In his first shots of the Stones together posthumous single, he sings prepandemic, but the lyrics about pills and codeine, “Tawere revised in isolation, kin’ medicine to fix all of the and Mick Jagger yowls them damage/my anxiety the size of with commitment. “Life was a planet,” over the kind of miso beautiful — then we all nor-key guitar picking he also got locked down,” he sings, used in his megahit “Lucid and concludes, annoyed and rueful, “If I wanna party, it’s a Dreams.” (He adds, “We may die this evening.”) Although party of one.” – Jon Pareles it may be a studio illusion, the song sounds like it was largely Evanescence, “Wasted on finished; Juice WRLD saw his You” self-destructive path. The first song from the first – Jon Pareles new Evanescence album of original music in nine years is Jónsi, “Exhale” Jónsi, whose androgynous cathartic and familiar. There

voice was at the center of the sustained, endless-horizon soundscapes of Sigur Ros, chose an unlikely co-producer for his first solo release in a decade: A.G. Cook from the PC Music circle, who tends to prize brittle, glitchy sounds. For its first minutes, “Exhale” lingers at a near-motionless tempo over open-ended piano chords, disrupted at times by taps, thuds and electronic stutters, intrusions from a more chaotic realm. Near the end, a beat appears and the song starts to suggest some abstract gospel, with a message of absolution. “This is the way it is/It isn’t your fault.” – Jon Pareles Onyx Collective featuring duendita, “Glad to Be Unhappy” The Onyx Collective is less concerned with doing something startlingly new than with mixing nostalgias; the result is a hybrid that feels as jumbled and personal as memory. Onyx’s proclivities run from funk to free jazz;

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• Mohegan Sun continues to move its shows around to adjust to quarantine guidelines and social distancing concerns. The Connecticut casino has rescheduled the appearance of comedian Dave Chappelle to Aug. 22, with two performances set for 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. The casino has also pushed Frankie Valli to the fall. He will appear on Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. Tickets for both shows are available through all Ticketmaster outlets and locations including ticketmaster.com and by phone at 800-7453000. • The Rolling Stones dredged up a previously recorded track and dressed it up for the times in a new single. “Living in a Ghost Town” is available through Apple Music and other streaming services. According to published

• Heavy metal rock fans won’t be able to see Five Finger Death Punch on May 5 in Worcester, but they can catch the band on YouTube. 5FDP was on a roll before the coronavirus hit and forced the cancellation of concerts, sporting events, and just about everything else as well. The band had just released a new studio album “F8” and was still riding the wave of success from 2018’s “And Justice For None,” which debuted in the Top Five and was one of the top metal releases of the year. Forced into quarantine, the band has taken to its YouTube channel to critique its own video releases. Each episode features vocalist Ivan Moody, guitarist Zoltan Bathory, and bassist Chris Kael screening a selection from the group’s music video selection and providing a behind-thescenes view of the filming. New episodes air every Friday at 1 p.m.

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While Since I Went Outside” during a period of self-isolation before the pandemic CONTINUED FROM PAGE E4 quarantine. It turned out to the centering obsession is be oddly prescient: “Tried to Manhattan, New York. Even climb my way out of this dark before the coronavirus threw hole of doubt/but I’m not gothe world into stark disarray, ing anywhere,” she sings, over the collective’s music seemed a moody, retro-flavored mix of orchestral strings and distortto ask what would become of their beloved island — as a ed guitars, a slice of self-amplirepository of myth and mem- fied cabin fever melodrama. ory — now that everything – Jon Pareles feels digitized, capitalized, ephemeral. On “Manhattan Earl Sweatshirt featuring Special,” the newest LP, the Maxo, “Whole World” group revisits jazz standards The affect is flat and deadand other songs from the eyed for both Earl Sweatshirt past 100 years of American and his guest rapper Maxo music, flipping through in “Whole World”; “I got styles like pages in a picture the whole world ’round me album. On Richard Rodgers crumblin’,” goes the refrain. and Lorenz Hart’s “Glad to The track slowly alternates two Be Unhappy,” over a bed of chords, neither a secure place groggy digital synths, young to rest, and Earl Sweatshirt raps vocalist duendita sings in a about catacombs, a funeral quietly disarming alto, some- and feeling “anxious, moving times deadpanning like Nico, at a pallbearer’s pace.” It’s as sometimes confiding like a if ceaseless dread has ground classic jazz crooner. down any other response. – Giovanni Russonello – Jon Pareles

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going stir crazy. – Jon Pareles Fivio Foreign, “Drive By” Of all the hits emerging from Brooklyn’s drill scene, the most unhinged has been Fivio Foreign’s “Big Drip,” a chaotic slapfest of exclamations and yelps. On the opening track from his debut EP, “800 BC,” Fivio tries a slightly more sober approach. “Drive By” never bubbles over — the menace is measured, pointed, ice-cold. – Jon Caramanica nothing,nowhere., “Death” Scabrous, immensely satisfying emotional expurgation from Joe Mulherin (who records as nothing,nowhere.) that deploys early Beastie Boys drums and Rage Against the Machine bark-rapping in service of a rap-rock revival bathed in righteousness. – Jon Caramanica

Country singer Ashley McBryde’s new album “Never Will” is full of tight spaces and human drama. (DANIEL MIEGS)

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Ashley McBryde makes honesty sound bright By Chris Richards

park with “Hang In There Girl,” where McBryde is Like any great country cheering for a girl — “about songwriter, Ashley McBryde 15, gray sweatpants” — who knows how to squeeze needs to survive her adolescence before she can bother copious human drama into to dream of what comes a pithy tune. On her new album, “Never Will,” the living after. McBryde makes the spaces are packed extra tight. guitars do Mellencampy There’s a teenager stuck things, but they quiet down in a mobile home, straining during the titular refrain, to dream of a bigger future. which shimmers like a Fleetwood Mac song being played There’s a grandmother on digital harpsichords in dying in a hospital room SEE ALBUM, PAGE E6 overcrowded with beeping machines and people who won’t shut up. There’s an emotionally distant father who, after saying grace, fills the dining room with a paralyzing silence. The more claustrophobic the setting, May 11-18 the higher the stakes. When McBryde asks an adulterer to ponder the coziness of a freshly dug grave, it almost counts as comic relief. The album starts in a trailer Washington Post

GRID, “Nythynge” If you’ve heard the doomiLe featuring Natalie jazz of Harriet Tubman or the X, “Free” Lafourcade, “En Cantos” sludge metal of Harvey Milk, Foundational Los Angeles iLe, from Puerto Rico, and maybe you think you’re ready punk band X has suddenly Natalia Lafourcade, from for GRID, a trio of young, reunited to release “Alphabetland,” its first new album Mexico, trade verses about experimental improvisers who in 35 years after decades a “crazy” infatuation. First, make music as if kneading of solo projects and partial they’re accompanied mostly waves of acid. Nominally, Matt regroupings. It fully reclaims by harmonized humming. Nelson plays the saxophone in the sound it had in 1977, with But behind them, a rhythm this group, Tim Dahl handles a rowdy punkabilly rhythm gathers, mixing traditional the bass and Nick Podgurski is drums and programmed beats section carrying the voices of on drums, but in practice what as the lust comes to a serious John Doe and Exene Cervenyou hear is a heaving, thunderka, sometimes in harmony and ing squall, with distortions of simmer. – Jon Pareles sometimes in collision. “Free” differing frequency and depth is a slamming rumba-rocker rising and combining. More Rufus Wainwright, with slicing, twanging guitar than in other bands with a simi“Alone Time” lar method, the drummer falls leads from Billy Zoom, as “Alone Time” starts like right into the flow: Far from Doe and Cervenka warn, some other Rufus Wainwright “My words are fire, my fist is serving as a steady shoreline songs, solo with steady piano raised.” against which those waves can chords and a long-breathed crash, Podgurski can roll and – Jon Pareles fold along with them, protean melody. He asks for “alone Mike Campbell, and unsettled as ever. time” but quickly adds, “Don’t “Lockdown” – Giovanni Russonello worry, I will be back.” But as “Ain’t nobody else around/ he offers extravagant promises for his return, his backup I’m in a lockdown,” Mike vocals sweep in like a tsunaCampbell — formerly and mi; their entrance is hair-rais- obviously from Tom Petty’s ing before they enfold him in Heartbreakers band — moans reassurance. in “Lockdown.” Luckily he’s in – Jon Pareles a lavishly equipped recording at the Irish Cultural Center studio where he can be a oneDelanila, “It’s Been a man band — socking out drumGift certiﬁcates are available online! While Since I Went Outbeats, stacking up guitar parts, side” recording low-res video of the We are currently closed until further notice. Delanila — songwriter and whole process — to build this Stay safe and healthy, and we will see you soon. film composer Danielle Eva wry, pithy, Rolling Stones-style Schwob — wrote “It’s Been a stomp, “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” PURCHASE ONLINE AT: IrishCenterwne.org

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VIDEO GAME REVIEW

‘In Other Waters’ thoughtful, serene BY Christopher Byrd

Special to The Washington Post

In many ways Gareth Damian Martin’s “In Other Waters” feels like a game from another time. Its minimalist graphics fly in the face of much contemporary video game design that tends to prioritize visual appeal. For those of a certain age, the game’s aesthetics may recall the PC games of late 1980s and early 1990s which emphasized the more technical aspects of travel — the instrumental readouts, trajectories between coordinates and the like. However, other aspects of “In Other Waters” — its hypnotic, atmo‘IN OTHER spheric music and WATERS’ elegant text narrative —betray its Developed more modern-day by: Jump sensibilities. Over the Age “In Other WaPublished ters” tells the story by: Fellow Traveler of Dr. Ellery Vas, a Available on: xenobiologist who Mac, Nintenhas spent much of do Switch, PC her career exploring alien planets in a fruitless search for life. Her fortunes change after she receives a mysterious transmission from Minae Nomura, a former colleague and love interest, asking her to come to a planet that Vas assumes has already been ruled clear of life. On the ocean-covered planet, Vas finds a thriving ecosystem situated along an

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expansive coral reef. Traveling amidst basalt towers, gullies and other underwater geological structures, Vas comes across various types of creatures ranging from fungal “stalks” that communicate using spores, to creatures which resemble “diaphanous veils.” To her knowledge, these are the first forms of life to have been discovered outside of Earth. Mankind’s home planet contains few warm memories for Vas, who thinks of it as a dead planet, a resourceless place left to those with too little money to leave it. (From now until who knows when, expect to see more cultural objects that succinctly meld themes of

somersaulting rhyme: “How it goes is: Bar closes, there’s no king bed covered in roses, CONTINUED FROM PAGE E5 just a room without a view/ I paradise. It’s one of the few don’t want a number you ain’t times her music takes us by gonna answer, let’s just stick surprise. Most everywhere to the one-night standards.” else, the instrumentation Does honesty get more brutal stays traditional, so as not to than that? siphon any suspense from the It does. “Shut Up Sheila” is story lines. the song set in the hospital, McBryde is resourceful but thankfully Sheila isn’t the with tempo, too. During grandma in extremis. She’s a “One Night Standards,” she’s God-fearing interloper – maybe a neighbor or someone’s chatting up some stranger at new fiance – offering unsolicclosing time, but the music’s measured pace tells us she’s as ited advice to a stressed-out patient as she is lonely as she family as they prepare to grieve their matriarch. While is sober. “Can’t you just use an acoustic guitar glints me like I’m using you?” she discreetly in the background, asks over that disenchanted rhythm. Then she glances into McBryde loses her temper with Sheila in the third line: her immediate future with a

climate change and economic inequality.) Assuming the role of the AI system responsible for overseeing Vas’s explorations, players spend the majority of their time pouring over a nautical chart, lining up points for Vas to travel between (which appear as little triangles on the map) and operating the diving suit’s various subsystems that handle tasks such as sample collection, propulsion, obstacle clearance and drone retrieval, i.e. fast travel back to your base. Speaking as someone who is not exactly at home in cartography, I found it fascinating how, over time, I invested

more and more meaning into those onscreen dots and squiggles that represent the various kinds of phenomena that Vas encounters. At a certain point, I had no trouble seeing a canopy of stalks in a series of dots spread fan-like over the screen. I was able to find beauty in such abstractions through the lens of Vas’s descriptions of her surroundings. So evocative are her observations that I couldn’t help but read them with David Attenborough’s voice in my head. For example, here is a description of the predatory “Snare Veils”: “Wide, delicate silken panels of bioluminescent cells they work in unison to entrap and digest creatures which come too close.” The edge of their chain is described as, “Here the tangle is receding, a few of its trailing veils hanging still in the dark water like the poised limbs of a dancer.” As Vas continues her exploration of the planet, she trips over other mysteries that challenge her fundamental assumptions and make her rethink her relationship to her missing colleague, Minae. “In Other Waters” is a game where observation becomes an end in itself. Its simple gameplay mechanics are supported by a quiet, vibrant narrative that works to put players into the mind of a working scientist. If you’re not put off by its low-key, text-centered nature, you may well find it to be one of the more serene games to have recently pulled into port.

Alas, this is a country album, not a morality puzzle – and if we’re actually keeping score, McBryde’s lyrics almost always stick up for the wounded, the flawed, the lonesome and the misunderstood.

planet. From a hard-truthteller like McBryde, it sounds, should we say, uncharacteristically sociopathic? But there’s a backstory. “Styrofoam” was written by the late Randall Clay, a songwrit“Why don’t you and Jesus take Bryde’s “one night standards” er who helped pen three of to the singer’s father, using the best songs on McBryde’s a walk down the hallway?” previous album, “Girl Going During “Stone,” she frames him the same way he’s using her? Nowhere.” Here, McBryde is that short fuse as something Alas, this is a country album, memorializing a lost friend, she inherited from a taciturn not a morality puzzle – and if singing waggish lyrics in father – and then she lights we’re actually keeping score, gracious tones. Plus, when it with “Martha Divine,” a McBryde’s lyrics almost alClay sang “Styrofoam” in his song aimed directly at that scorched twang, he sounded philandering dad’s secret girl- ways stick up for the woundfriend. “I’ve got this feeling,” ed, the flawed, the lonesome like he was having a laugh McBryde sings, “and I’ve got and the misunderstood. The at humanity’s impending this shovel.” Yes, that’s an only cut that doesn’t fully doom. McBryde’s delivery is absolutely lethal opening line, check out is “Styrofoam,” too bright for any dark humor but where’s the benefit of the a song that prioritizes the to land. Instead of a wink, doubt? How do we know Mrs. coldness of today’s booze over there’s something else in her Divine hasn’t applied Mcthe habitability of tomorrow’s eye.

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‘Parks and Recreation’ cast reunites for special New episode airing tonight to support coronavirus relief

bringing these characters back for a night could raise some money,” executive producer and co-creator Schur said in a statement. “I sent a hopeful email to the cast and they all got back to me within 45 minutes. Our old By Matt Brennan ‘Parks and Rec’ team has put together Los Angeles Times one more 30-minute slice of (quarYou may be stuck at home because antined) Pawnee life and we hope of the COVID-19 pandemic — but that everyone enjoys it. And donates!” doesn’t mean you can’t visit your pals The telecast is designed to solicit donations to Feeding America’s from Pawnee, Indiana. See the small-towners of the beloved COVID-19 Response Fund, which sitcom “Parks and Recreation” again provides assistance to food banks with NBC and Universal Television’s amid high demand due to the economic contraction that has accompa“A Parks and Recreation Special.” The nied efforts to stop the spread of the scripted, 30-minute special, set to air Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, leads the charge of Pawnee’s Parks and Recrecoronavirus. tonight at 8:30 on NBC, will beneation department in “Parks and Recreation.” (BEN COHEN / NBC / TNS) fit hunger-relief nonprofit Feeding State Farm and Subaru of America America, the network announced last will each make matching donations In the special, the Indiana burgh’s Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey week. of $150,000. Combined with those All of the original characters from most optimistic resident, Leslie Knope from NBCUniversal and the writers, Plaza, Chris Pratt, Adam Scott, Rob series, created by Greg Daniels and (Poehler), connects with her fellow Lowe, Jim O’Heir and Retta. (NBC’s producers and cast of “Parks and Michael Schur, will return in the citizens at a time of social distancing. Recreation,” a total of $500,000 in announcement also teased “several special, played by original cast mem- guest stars from the Pawnee uni“Like a lot of other people, we were matching donations will be made bers Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, verse.”) looking for ways to help and felt that through May 21.

DVD RELEASES

‘The Assistant’ shows systems behind workplace abuses By Katie Foran-McHale

Tribune News Service

A Harvey Weinstein-inspired story is the top new DVD release for this week. “The Assistant”: A young woman, Jane (Julia Garner), gets an exciting job as an assistant to an esteemed Hollywood producer. Those familiar with the systemic abuses of women in the workplace will recognize the story beats, inspired by Harvey Weinstein, who was convicted of rape and sentenced to 23 years in prison last month. But there’s much more to the story than that. As Jane continues to learn about what’s going on at the company, the film shows how people, systems and power structures enable these types of abuses. It’s much, much bigger than one monster at the top. Writer-director Kitty Green does a masterful job showing, not telling, this story, with silences more powerful than words could be, wrote Tribune

Writer-director Kitty Green does a masterful job showing, not telling, this story, with silences more powerful than words could be, wrote Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh in her review.

“Tread”: Documentary examines what led welder Marvin Heemeyer to decimate a small Colorado town.

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Sharing a beer virtually is just not the same

S I NOTED LAST week in this column, I usually don’t drink a lot of beer at home, preferring to drink draft beer out at various locales with friends. I enjoy draft beer better and enjoy the social aspect that drinking in a pub provides. But, as I also noted, those things are not available now, so drinking at home it is. Fortunately, we live in a time that even when we are self-quarantining, you can share a glass with friends via Zoom, FaceTime or other technological platforms. And I’ve been doing just that. It’s not the same, of course, and it made me wonder exactly how these two things aren’t the same. So I’m writing about that concept today. I have shared beers (and other drinks) with various friends over that past 40-plus days using both Zoom and FaceTime. Sometimes it has been just one close friend (Shannon), sometimes it has been two of my best pals (Michael and Michael), and other times, it’s a small group between three and seven (my wonderful buddies at The Deuce — too many to name, but a shoutout to Kevin, Princess, Kami and Ben for almost always being there). First, let me say that I am

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and stay-at-home in place, the dynamics of the occasion are sure to be different. Hamel’s Creative Catering in Holyoke has responded to the challenge by creating a Mother’s Day dinner package designed for curbside pickup and at-home finishing. In addition to six different main course possibilities, the package includes salad, two vegetable sides, two “starch” sides, and dinner rolls. Dessert options can be added at an additional charge. Hamel’s is currently running an online contest with a delivered Mother’s Day dinner as • Historically Mother’s Day the grand prize. Contests details are has been the busiest dining available at Hamel’s Faceout day of the year, but this SEE MENU, PAGE E11 May, with social distancing items including cheese ravioli, lasagna, beef bracciole, and roast pork. All family meal packs, which are sized to serve from four to six depending on the appetites involved, additionally include salad and bread. Figaro further supplements its pick up options with “Grab N Go” sauces, soups, and individual meals. Orders can be called in to 860-745-2414. Figaro Ristorante is open for pickup Monday through Saturday 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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survive and eventually recover might want to opt either for curbside pickup or, if a restaurant offers it, delivery by that establishment’s own personnel. Doing so might seem a little less convenient than a few taps on a smartphone app, but it helps ensure that revenue dollars get to the restaurant businesses that sorely need them.

Instagram, the “30 Gift Cards for 30 Days” provides opportunities to win $50 gift cards to different restaurants during the 30 days the promotion runs. Contest winners are chosen randomly. The Greater Springfield Convention & Visitors Bureau can be found on Facebook at Facebook.com/Explore WesternMass and on Instagram at Instagram.com/ explorewesternmass. The 30 Gift Cards for 30 Days contest runs through May 6; the Greater Springfield Convention & Visitors Bureau answers at 413-314-2675.

• Figaro Ristorante in Enfield has expanded its family meal menu to add two selections featuring “filet mignon roast.” A whole roasted beef filet, which will yield enough for eight to 10 portions, is available, as is a “half roast,” Side dishes a choice suitable for a smaller • The Greater Springfield family. Convention & Visitors Bureau Each package contains has been running a promomashed potatoes, Marsation designed to build and la mushroom sauce, and a maintain awareness of what vegetable du jour. Due to the Western Massachusetts has preparation time involved, to offer. advance ordering is required. Targeted at visitors to the The restaurant’s selection bureau’s social medium of family meals continues to outposts on Facebook and expand, with recent featured

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OW THAT THE restaurant business is well into the second month of pandemic-driven dining-room shutdowns, the outline of how events are reshaping the industry is becoming clearer. Restaurants have reacted to the shutdown mandate with one of two strategies — going exclusively takeout or closing altogether. The latter response has predominantly been the choice of eateries, most often (but not exclusively) high-end, whose business strategy originally focused on the dining-in, being-served experience. Other, perhaps nimbler, operations have pivoted quickly to a “food hub” strategy, in which they are keeping their kitchens open to prepare and sell food to-go. Such an approach offers a restaurant two sustaining benefits — maintaining cash flow and keeping key employees — while at the same time meeting the needs of those who can’t (or won’t) cook at home. Confounding factors in this shift to preparing and selling food for off-site enjoyment have been the third-party delivery services like DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats. Pandemic-driven dining room shutdowns have not surprisingly created a market for food delivery services these three entities are eager to exploit. However, the hefty fees delivery service impose on restaurants means that the growth of such services comes at the expense of the restaurants involved. Several of the delivery “big three” have announced deals to promote themselves, but the incentives they offer typically focus on discounts to end users. What’s been mostly absent is commission relief to restaurants, who typically lose money on every third-party delivery order they accept. Those consumers who want to help the restaurant industry

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same. Good bartenders are treasures. (So remember that when we finally can go out again and tip even better.) • At a real bar, you aren’t looking at/talking to everyone all at once. Even if you’re there with a group of seven or eight (or more) people, you usually are only talking to one or two at a time and aren’t seeing everyone’s face equally and sharing every word with everyone equally. And the more participants in any given conversation necessarily waters it down. That is not always bad, it’s just a fact. Corollary: You also aren’t looking at yourself, which you definitely are on Zoom, although on FaceTime, at least your own image is smaller and in a corner. • At a real bar, you have more choices. Unless you are the type of person who keeps an extensively stocked bar in your home, you basically only can drink what you happen to have on hand. While this isn’t that bad at all, it ramps down on spontaneity and the ability to switch gears or offer to buy a friend a drink that they have never tried. However, I did have the good fortune to share a beer (at a safe distance) outside my house with one of the Michaels, who was delivering some growlettes of Building 8’s The Double (Heads-up, as I mentioned I’d let you know last week: It’s available but maybe won’t be by the time you read this. Call ahead). Michael brought along two bottles of Pilsner Urquell (which he had wiped down) for us to share in person. We drank and chatted and had some laughs, and although it wasn’t at a bar, it reinforced how important being with people in person is. Which brings me to my final point: • At a real bar, you can hug or high-five or embrace your friends. Let’s hope and pray we will be able to do that again someday. Stay safe. Cheers.

3 winemakers discuss how coronavirus is affecting wineries in France

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HE CORONAVIRUS pandemic continues to affect nearly every aspect of our lives — from where we can go, where we work, where we eat to even how we walk down the street. And while wine sales may be up in the United States due to the coronavirus, I have been wondering in recent weeks what effect this pandemic has had on the people who make our wine.

No, same as for the wines in the cellar, we can take care of the vines. It is actually easier in the vineyard as people usually work on their own.

Q. How is this year’s

growing season going so far?

Champagnes tasted by the author at Taittinger in Reims, France. (KEN ROSS PHOTO)

So far very good. We had some worry earlier in the month of April with some frost episodes that brought some stress but hopefully we won’t have more warnings. The weather has been beautiful for the past five weeks and the vines love it. They happily grow and soon we should see the future tiny clusters. Always an exciting time!

Let me add that I sincerely Yes we can still export to hope life returns to normal for the U.S. all of us as soon as possible Champagne Taittinger here and in France or wherevKen Ross er you happen to be reading Has your winery had (Reims, France) Wine Press this article. to delay any parts of the Questions answered by wine-making process due Claire Sarazin, communiMaison Joseph Drouhin cation project manager at to the coronavirus? While some industries can (Beaune, France) Champagne Taittinger stop production for a few Luckily no, we can take Questions answered by weeks or months, winemakers do not have this luxury. How is the coronavirus care of our wines no probVeronique Drouhin, head lem but we worry for the affecting your winery? Every spring, their grapevines winemaker, Maison Joseph forthcoming harvest. We will blossom. And these winemak- Drouhin ers only have one opportunity We have lost 90 to 95% of have enough hand labor and How is the coronavirus how will we deal with social the business to get each year’s harvest just affecting your winery? right. distancing? Is your winery still able This week, I reached out to Directly in Beaune, the Has the coronavirus to export wines to the Unita few winemakers I have had ed States right now? part that is the most affected affected how you are dealthe good fortune to visit in France in recent years. Below, is the welcome of visitors. We ing with this year’s grapes SEE WINE, PAGE E11 just starting to grow in the had to close all visits of our you’ll find the answers to historical cellars. It is a shame my questions about how the as this is the time of year coronavirus is affecting their where we have lots of people wineries. The winemakers come from coming to see our beautiful historical cellars and taste three of France’s most iconic our wines. The other part of wine regions — Burgundy, Champagne and Chateauneuf course is the business we do with restaurants. At the moDu Pape in France’s Rhone ment, it is equal to zero as all region. restaurants are closed. We do In particular, I wanted to have however maintained our know if they are still able to make wine and if they’re still direct to consumer sales. We able to export their wine to the can still send or deliver wine United States. The winemak- everywhere. ers also discussed how this Is your winery still able year’s wine growing season to export wines to the Unit- The wine cellars of Maison Joseph Drouhin in Beaune, France. has been going so far in their (KEN ROSS PHOTO) ed States right now? part of France.

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end of August so far), things can change but at the present before without doing anything time if the season’s weather CONTINUED FROM PAGE E10 as before, that is to say that the maintains itself that should be activities are exactly the same. the case. No wines are sold at the The vine continues to grow, present time as frontiers are our objective is to preserve and Domaine Roger Sabon (Chateauneuf-Du-Pape, closed. safeguard the future harvest so we continue our activities but France) Has your winery had to we have rethought, reflected Questions answered by Dididelay any parts of the wine er Negron, head winemaker at all our actions: closed meeting places, no cloakrooms, no Domaine Roger Sabon making process due to the canteens, individual transport, coronavirus? How is the coronavirus distancing in the vineyards. So We were closed from affecting your winery? after having pruned and tied the 16th of March, part of the our vines we are currently in For the moment, the employees (sales team and a waiting phase for disbudding ; it is usually a collective COVID-19 crisis affects of marketing/communication ) method which is generally course our commercial activity. were working in home office organized on the scale of a mu- No sale on the French marmode, the vineyard team had nicipality and which this year ket, we sent some pallet on to readapt their way of working but they never stopped will be organized individually. a different export market for working. At the present time, Furthermore we also work the some order which was before our 2 productions sites have re- soil because it is necessary to the crisis. started production by adapting remove the grass under the Is your winery still able themselves to all the sanitary row in particular, this grass is requirements since the 13th of extremely competitive for the to export wines to the United States right now? April. This implies reinventing vine at this stage. the way of working things on How is this year’s growFor the moment, we are a production site but so far so ing season going so far? waiting on the position of good. the distributors, because this Has the coronavirus This season the weather is time where our national affected how you are dealhas been amazing and we are agents propose the new vintage ing with this year’s grapes expecting an early harvest (2018). We have the possibiljust starting to grow in the (our chef de caves Mr. Alexan- ity to send some pallet if it’s dre Ponnavoy is speaking of needed to U.S., and I hope that fields?

were very low and we had the opportunity to practice several days of bottling period, today we are more ready for the moment where the commercial activity will be better, not before Autumn I think.

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book page, facebook.com/ hamelscreativecatering, along with information about the Mother’s Day package. Hamel’s Creative Catering answers at 413-538-7431. • The Center Square Grill in East Longmeadow has expanded its pickup or delivery to seven days a week. The restaurant currently operates from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. daily, with expanded hours (noon to 8 p.m.) on Friday. The Grill’s “Curbside Pickup” selection is extensive, with appetizers, salads, sandwiches, tacos, and entrees as well as several “family style” options, which scaled to serve six or so. Bill Collins, the proprietor of Center Square Grill, has also made wine available for take-

Several of the delivery “big three” have announced deals to promote themselves, but the incentives they offer typically focus on discounts to end users. out, with all the bottles in the Grill’s inventory being offered at half price. For more details, contact the Center Square Grill at 413-5250055. • The Wyckoff Country Club in Holyoke continues to offer dinners-to-go every evening except Monday. The selection changes daily and from week to week, but choices are primarily comfort food favorites such as meatloaf, seafood casserole, baked stuffed shrimp, and an all-thefixin’s turkey dinner. To get menu information or place an order for pickup, call 413-536-3602; pickup hours at the Club are from 4 p.m. to 6

p.m. Each week’s dinners-to-go lineup is also posted at wyck offcountryclub.com. • Chicago-based McDonald’s Corp., in concert with participating franchisees, has rolled out a nationwide “Thank You Meal” effort. Designed to provide health care workers, public safety personnel, and paramedics with free meals and a “thank you,” the program is valid for one free meal a day. Eligible frontline workers can access this deal by showing their badge or visiting in uniform. At breakfast, a Thank You Meal includes a choice from among an Egg McMuffin, Chicken McGriddle, or a Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Biscuit as well

affected how you are dealing with this year’s grapes just starting to grow in the fields?

Didier Negron, head winemaker at Domaine Roger Sabon, In the vineyard, during standing near a barrel in the the beginning of the season it’s winery in January 2019 in very often a mechanic working Chateauneuf Du Pape, France.

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despite the crisis the distributors have a position to import some cases with the fact that the Trump tax is to stay the same to August and with our degrees of alcohol we have no tax increase.

Q. Has your winery had to delay any parts of the wine making process due to the coronavirus?

By chance, we have no problem with that, like we are a small structure, very often I’m working alone in the cellar. Before the crisis, our stocks

as hash browns and coffee. The lunch and dinner version of McDonald’s Thank You Meal incorporates options such a Double Cheeseburger, a sixpiece Chicken McNuggets, or Filet-O-Fish sandwich. A soft drink or coffee and small fries completes the package, which also includes a note of appreciation. Contact individual McDonald’s locations to confirm participation in the Thank You Meal program, which runs through May 5. • Delaney’s Market, the prepared-food-to-go spinoff of the Delaney House Group in Holyoke, has added a weekend option to its takeout dinner packages. Its Weekend Family Meal, which is designed to provide a weekend’s worth of meals, includes three different entrees, a build-a-pizza-kit, garlic rolls,

with a tractor. For the moment, our employees work alone on the tractor and prepare the vineyard for later.

Q. How is this year’s growing season going so far?

For the moment, not so bad in our area. We had good rains during the end of 2019. Just a little problem with frost but not a lot in our Vin de France vineyard. But the period to harvest is long and we are careful with the 2020 vintage. Wine Press by Ken Ross appears on Masslive.com every Monday and in The Republican’s weekend section every Thursday.

and salad. The menu selections change weekly, but a recent lineup included lasagna rolls, honey barbecue chicken, chicken and broccoli teriyaki Alfredo, and a Buffalo chicken pizza kit. Orders need to be placed by 2 p.m. on Thursdays in order to be ready for Friday evening pickup at Delaney’s Market locations in Longmeadow, Westfield, or Wilbraham and the Log Cabin in Holyoke, where there is a Delaney’s Market “pick-up” only satellite operation. More information on Weekend Family Meals is available at delaneysmarket.com. Hugh Robert is a faculty member in Holyoke Community College’s hospitality and culinary arts program and has nearly 45 years of restaurant and educational experience. Robert can be reached online at OffTheMenuGuy@aol.com.

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