A lot of artists have covered Tim Hardin’s song “Reason To Believe,” this folk ballad written in 1965 by the late singer-songwriter. Covers by Marianne Faithful, Neil Young and Rickie Lee Jones. But few have breathed as much heartache and longing as this new version from Sweden’s Alice Boman .
Shot in a large, empty hall at Hotel Blume in Baden, Switzerland, the video is as spare and remote as Alice Boman’s arrangement. “Knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried,” she sings, with only her piano and incidental sounds to accompany her “Still I look to find a reason to believe.” . While Tim Hardin’s original version of “Reason To Believe” has an almost breezy swing to it, Boman slows it way down and finds its most broken pieces. “I love this song,” she says. “The melody. And the directness of it. It’s one of those lyrics that just hit you, and you cannot not listen.” Boman says her version was inspired by singer Karen Dalton’s cover. Boman has released two EPs, Skisser and EP II.
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