Speedy Ortiz - Lost Something in the Hills

When we told Sadie Dupuis, who plays guitar with the Massachusetts band Speedy Ortiz, that this month’s theme is The Great Unknown, she immediately thought about Sibylle Baier, a German woman who recorded 14 beautiful folk songs in the early ’70s, then did nothing with them. About 30 years later, her son found those recordings and sent one to J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., and almost 10 years after that, Speedy Ortiz covered one of them for us! That song, “Lost Something in the Hills,” “was a lot harder to learn and play than we thought it was going to be!” says Dupuis. To get into the tune’s spooky mood, Speedy O recorded it in the middle of the night (with some help from their friend Ben Scherer, from Palehound), at the summer camp Dupuis attended as a child and taught music at as a young adult.

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Recorded, mixed, mastered by Ben at Studio 59 at Buck's Rock Performing & Creative Arts Camp in New Milford, CT.