{"id":637848,"date":"2026-08-15T01:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T01:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/637848\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T01:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T01:26:15","slug":"hear-the-head-and-the-heart-cover-the-swimming-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/637848\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear The Head And The Heart Cover ‘The Swimming Song’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Head And The Heart<\/strong><\/a> have released \u201cThe Swimming Song<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d a new cover of Loudon Wainwright III\u2019s 1973 track. The recording features Scott McMicken of Dr. Dog and is available now for streaming and download.<\/p>\n

The song has long been part of the band\u2019s history. In its early Seattle days, the group said time between shows, rehearsals and work often led to trips to Lake Washington or Rattlesnake Lake, with friends, food and music packed into the car. Wainwright\u2019s \u201cThe Swimming Song\u201d repeatedly found its way onto those drives. \u201cThere\u2019s something about the song\u2019s simple melody and plainspoken honesty that made the sunlight across the water feel almost tangible,\u201d the band said. Years later, The Head And The Heart returned to the song for its own recording with McMicken.<\/p>\n

The single arrives during The Head And The Heart\u2019s 15th Anniversary Tour, which has featured performances of the band\u2019s RIAA Platinum self-titled debut in full at venues across the United States. The album includes \u201cDown in the Valley\u201d and \u201cRivers and Roads.\u201d The anniversary run opened with a Benaroya Hall performance alongside the Seattle Symphony and later included two sold-out nights at Red Rocks. The tour concludes in August with stops in Costa Mesa, Napa, Saratoga and Sandy, Utah. After a short break, the band is scheduled to join Brandi Carlile for another run of dates in September.<\/p>\n

The Head And The Heart released their sixth studio album, Aperture, on May 9, 2025 through Verve Forecast. The album was the band\u2019s first self-produced full-length since The Head And The Heart in 2011 and followed 2022\u2019s Every Shade of Blue. On February 27, 2026, the group released the seven-track Ghosts In The Machinery, featuring alternate versions of material from Aperture and a piano version of \u201cBeg, Steal, Borrow.\u201d The Aperture single \u201cArrow\u201d also reached No. 1 at Alternative radio after a 30-week climb and spent more than 20 weeks on the Adult Top 40 radio chart.\n<\/p>\n

Listen to The Head And The Heart\u2019s cover of \u201cThe Swimming Song\u201d here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Head And The Heart have released \u201cThe Swimming Song,\u201d a new cover of Loudon Wainwright III\u2019s 1973…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[8313,18,117,47519,19,17,269687,337,35294,269688],"class_list":["post-637848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-alternative","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-homepage-featured","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-loudon-wainwright-iii","tag-music","tag-the-head-and-the-heart","tag-the-swimming-song"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117096925844839843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}