Angel Olsen has released a cover of Lou Reed’s “I Can’t Stand It”—the opening song on the Velvet Underground singer’s debut solo album. She did the cover with Maxim Ludwig, the Los Angeles singer-songwriter with whom she toured last year. Listen to the track below.
Olsen and Ludwig made their cover for the forthcoming compilation The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed. The 12-song album—out April 20—features additional contributions from Keith Richards, Rufus Wainwright, and more.
Angel Olsen (born Angelina Marie Carroll; January 22, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter from St. Louis, Missouri who lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
To date, Olsen has released six studio albums: Half Way Home (2012), Burn Your Fire for No Witness (2014), My Woman (2016), All Mirrors (2019), Whole New Mess (2020), and Big Time (2022).
Maxim Ludwig began his musical career in the band Maxim Ludwig & The Santa Fe Seven, an Americana rock band centered around himself. The band undertook many transformations since their first appearance at the Stagecoach Festival in 2009. Significant buzz surrounded Ludwig around this time, with Los Angeles Times music critic August Brown pleading in an article that “someone sign Maxim Ludwig by the end of the day” and writing that his songs “have all the swagger of the E Street Band, if that E Street were in 1970s Laurel Canyon and gently tweaked hippies drove it riding in stolen Cadillacs”. Meanwhile, the Times‘ Randy Lewis compared the importance of Ludwig’s shows to seeing Buffalo Springfield’s early gigs, describing him as being “deeply schooled in the art of Americana music stalwarts such as Bob Dylan, the Band, Gram Parsons-era Byrds/Flying Burrito Brothers and the twangiest leanings of the Rolling Stones”.
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