Pete Yorn tackles 'The Classics' on new covers album

Veteran New Jersey singer-songwriter Pete Yorn has released his covers album Pete Yorn Sings the Classics (via Shelly Music) exclusively on Bandcamp. Its lead single “They Don’t Know” - is a cover of Kirsty MacColl’s original track from 1979, which was also reimagined by Tracey Ullman in 1983.

That single is available now on all DSP’s. Yorn will be performing “They Don’t Know” for the first time on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on January 19.

The Classics is Yorn's first solo studio album since the release of Caretakers in 2019. Pete has also been busy with a string of successful livestream shows throughout the last year that The New York Times highlighted as must-watch content.

Yorn’s covers album celebrates his musical influences, with a collection of songs originally performed by Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, The Velvet Underground, The Stone Roses, Simon and Garfunkel and more. Liz Phair sings with Pete on "Here Comes Your Man" and "Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)". Rami Jaffee (Wallflowers, Foo Fighters) plays on the majority of the songs on the record.

Yorn, who produced Pete Yorn Sings the Classics with Marc “Doc” Dauer, says of the collection, “...all of these songs resonate so deeply with me, they just made me want to sing along. They affected me emotionally, psychologically, and viscerally at one cosmic moment in time or another, and I carry a torch for them still.”

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Track listing:

1. Here Comes Your Man 02:39
2. Lay Lady Lay 03:32
3. Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) 02:31
4. They Don't Know 02:59
5. More Than This 03:30
6. Surfer Girl 02:58
7. Ten Storey Love Song 03:19
8. I Am A Rock 03:27
9. New Age 03:34
10. Moon River 02:44

Since his 2001 debut gold-certified album musicforthemorningafter, which included the AAA radio charter toppers "Life on a Chain" and "Strange Condition," Yorn has released a total of eight albums of critically-acclaimed rock. He has notched five more top 10 songs at that radio format. 

In 2019, Yorn released Caretakers (via Shelly Music), his first solo album in three years featuring the top 2 AAA single “Calm Down”. Yorn performed songs from the album on Ellen, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.