Leyla McCalla Covers Caetano Veloso
We've been huge fans of Leyla McCalla and her unique perspective on traditional folk music for a while now. Her latest single moves into a direction that we aren't familiar with her: "You Don't Know Me" is almost a rock song in McCalla's hands. It features electric guitars and crashing drums and an impossibly infectious groove. This is by far McCalla's most mainstream sounding single, and it's great to hear an artist expand on their sound in this way. McCalla puts such heartfelt emotion into the song, which is a cover of Caetano Veloso's Tropicalismo original, it's impossible to not be moved by it. In a Facebook post, Leyla McCalla says of her new single: "'You Don't Know Me' was written by Caetano Veloso who is one of the architects of the Tropicalismo movement and one of my all time favorite creative heros. The song comes from Veloso's album, Transa, an album of stories that reflect his experience as an immigrant artist i...