2024 lijkt een beetje het jaar van de covers voor mij. Nog nooit eerder heb ik er zoveel gepost. Wanneer ze echter zo verdomd goed zijn als deze, dan gooi ik er héél graag nog eentje op het www. Damn zeg, wat Stephen Wilson Jr. met het origineel van Ben E. King (1961) doet grenst aan het onwaarschijnlijke.
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About the cover, Wilson Jr. shares, “'Stand By Me' was the song that brought my dad back, if only for a few. It's the song that started this journey and it was that song that made it all clear what I was supposed to be doing with my time from that moment on.”
In 2024, Wilson Jr.'s career skyrocketed with his late night television debut on NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers with a raucous performance of his viral hit “Cuckoo,” followed by performances of “Year To Be Young 1994” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert's #LateShowMeMusic series and Later… with Jools Holland. This fall, CBS News' Jeff Glor traveled to Nashville for Wilson Jr.'s first major television interview, which was followed by a performance of three songs on CBS Saturday Morning.
