Description

Rather than make a traditional covers record, I thought it would be much more fun to create a new type of project in which artists communicated with each other and swapped a song for a song, i.e. you do one of mine and Ill do one of yours, hence the title
Scratch My Back And Ill Scratch Yours.
Peter Gabriel, 2013

Scratch My BackAnd Ill Scratch Yours is a series of song exchanges in which Gabriel and other leading artists reinterpret each others songs. The ?rst half of this double album, titled Scratch My Back, was originally released in 2010. Gabriel covers work by seasoned superstars like David Bowie, Paul Simon and Lou Reed, but he also took on marvelous interpretations of work by younger acts like Arcade Fire, Bon Iver and Radiohead.

In 2013, most of these artists returned the favour on And Ill Scratch Yours. The reciprocating artists opted for differing approaches to Peters songs. A few chose to radically reinterpret the original material, in the process leaving it barely recognisable
Lou Reeds snarling Solsbury Hill or the frighteningly futuristic version of Mother Of Violence by Brian Eno, co-writer of David Bowies Heroes covered by Gabriel on Scratch My Back. Other contributors include Arcade Fire (Games Without Frontiers), Elbow (Mercy Street) and Regina Spektor (Blood Of Eden).