Sunday: Jose Gonzalez

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If you’re like me, you read Zack’s interview with Jose Gonzalez too late and didn’t have a chance to catch the Swedish-born/Argentina-raised singer at the 6th and I Historic Synagogue. Well, several months later, he’s back and playing the 9:30 Club on Sunday night. I’ve got tickets this time, and I’m looking forward to hearing a live performance of "Teardrop," his cover of the tune by Massive Attack.

From Wikipedia:

His trademark sound is solo classical guitar with soft vocal melody. His work, although mostly original, also includes acoustic covers of such hits as "Heartbeats" by his fellow Swedes The Knife, "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division, "Born in the U.S.A." and "The Ghost of Tom Joad" by Bruce Springsteen, "Hand on Your Heart" by Kylie Minogue, "Smalltown Boy" by Bronski Beat, "Teardrop" by Massive Attack and "Last Snowstorm of the Year" by Low.

His second album, In Our Nature, was released internationally on 22 September 2007. The album's lyrical content was in part influenced by his reading of books like The God Delusion by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and Practical Ethics by ethicist Peter Singer