Go ahead and add this to the “Covers You Never Thought You’d Hear” file. For a new covers record perfectly titled Eagles Of Death Metal Presents Boots Electric Performing The Best Songs We Never Wrote, Eagles Of Death Metal and Boots Electric vocalist/guitarist Jesse Huges has just released a riveting rendition of Mary J. Blige’s R&B smash “Family Affair.”
Taking a sort of bluesy almost Black Keys-styled take on the 2001 track, Hughes’ new cover is a good sign of things to come for his first new music since EODM’s 2015 release Zipper Down.
Sharing info about the upcoming 13-track covers LP, Hughes posted online, “Who wants some phenomenally rad Boots Electric cover songs?? We could not be happier to announce a June 7th release of ‘Eagles Of Death Metal Presents Boots Electric Performing The Best Songs We Never Wrote’ – featuring magical renditions of jams by AC/DC, KISS, Yusuf / Cat Stevens, Mary J. Blige, George Michael, David Bowie + a whole lotta others!”
For your first look into the forthcoming, sure-to-be-fantastic album, be sure to check out the cover of “Family Affair” below. Afterward, to pre-order Eagles Of Death Metal Presents Boots Electric Performing The Best Songs We Never Wrote, head here.
Tracklist:
01 – “God Of Thunder” (Kiss cover)
02 – “It’s So Easy” (Guns N Roses cover)
03 – “High Voltage“/”It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘N’ Roll)” (AC/DC cover)
04 – “So Alive” (Love and Rockets cover)
05 – “Beat On The Brat” (the Ramones cover)
06 – “Abracadabra” (Steve Miller Band cover)
07 – “Careless Whisper” (George Michael cover)
08 – “Family Affair” (Mary J. Blige cover)
09 – “The Hunger” (The Distillers cover)
10 – “Long Slow Goodbye” (Queens Of The Stone Age cover)
11 – “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Is In)” (Kenny Rogers And The First Edition)
12 – “Trouble” (Cat Stevens)
13 – “Moonage Daydream (David Bowie cover)
