Sinéad O’Connor’s fine ‘Black Boys On Mopeds’ is one of the tunes covered by Amanda Palmer and her father Jack on You Got Me Singing, which drops on July 15.
"Sinéad wrote ‘Black Boys On Mopeds’ in 1983, after a young black man named Colin Roach was shot dead by British police and his killers were acquitted,” it says in the sleeve-notes. “As the song is beckoned back to life in the wake of Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner’s deaths, we are chilled out of our self-congratulatory illusion of progress - however far we may have come, we have a long way to go.”
Other tracks include ‘You Got Me Singing’ (Leonard Cohen); ‘Wynken, Blynken And Nod’ (Lucy & Carly Simon); ‘Again’ (Melanie); ‘1952 Vincent Black Lightning’ (Richard Thompson); ‘Louise Was Not Half Bad’ (Tom T Hall); ‘All I Could Do’ (Kimya Dawson); ‘In The Heat Of The Summer’ (Phil Ochs); ‘Pink Emerson Radio’ (Kathleen Edwards); ‘Skye Boat Song’ (traditional); ‘Glacier’ (John Grant), and ‘I Love You So Much’ (Noah Britton).