{"id":41314,"date":"2025-07-02T20:54:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/?p=41314"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:45:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:45:39","slug":"ben-kweller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2025\/07\/ben-kweller\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Kweller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\" lang=\"NL-NL\" xml:lang=\"NL-NL\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41315\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/https___images.genius.com_a088d283e81c7d05ed68d8eb47bf8d54.300x300x1.jpg?resize=200%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/https___images.genius.com_a088d283e81c7d05ed68d8eb47bf8d54.300x300x1.jpg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/https___images.genius.com_a088d283e81c7d05ed68d8eb47bf8d54.300x300x1.jpg?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/https___images.genius.com_a088d283e81c7d05ed68d8eb47bf8d54.300x300x1.jpg?w=430&amp;ssl=1 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Het is een Joods gebruik om bij het overlijden van iemand de spiegels te bedekken. <strong>Cover The <\/strong><\/span><strong><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">Mirrors<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\"> (The Noise Company) heet dan ook het nieuwe album van <a href=\"https:\/\/benkweller.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Kweller<\/a><\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\"> (uit <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">Dripping<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\"> Springs, Texas)<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">Zijn 16-jarige zoon Dorian kwam twee jaar gel<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">e<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">den om bij een bizar auto-ongeluk. Hij ging na het eten nog even naar een<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\"> vriend, moest uitwijken voor een tegemoetkomende tru<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">c<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">k, raakte van de weg, waarna een tak door het raam tegen zijn hoofd kwam. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">Op een vreemde manier bracht het Kweller ook weer tot leven, in muzikaal opzicht. Ja, natuurlijk er is veel<!--more--> verdriet en rouw, maar Kweller, die al jaren min of meer stilstond in in muzikale ontwikkeling, kwam ook <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">tot het inzicht dat hij in de kern toch echt muzikant is.<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\"> Op <em>Cover The <\/em><\/span><em><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">Mirrors<\/span><\/em><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\"> is het verdriet niet <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">de dominante emotie. Wel wordt hier en <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">daar aan<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">aa<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">n<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\"> Dorian gerefereerd. Natuurlijk in de schitterende<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">, rollend<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">e <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">afsluiter <em>Oh Dorian<\/em>, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">waarin Kweller wordt ondersteund door MJ <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">Lenderman<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">: Oh Dorian, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">my<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\"> best <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">friend<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\"> \/ I <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">can&#8217;t<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">wait<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">to<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\"> hang <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">with<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">you<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">aga<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">in<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">. Ook andere muzikale vrienden schieten Kweller te hulp<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">:<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\"> The <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">Flaming<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\"> Lips op <\/span><em><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">Killer <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">Bee<\/span><\/em><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\"> en <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">Waxahatchee<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\"> op <em>Dollar Store<\/em>.<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">Bijzonder is ook <\/span><em><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">Trapped<\/span><\/em><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">, waarvan het eerste couplet <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">nog <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">geschreven werd door Kwellers overleden zoon, die zelf ook al aan de weg timmerde als muzikant en songschrijver<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">.<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\"> Met zijn gevarieerde songs die laveren tussen country- en <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">indierock<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">, is<\/span><em> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\">Cover The <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">M<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW228559253 BCX8\">irrors<\/span><\/em><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW228559253 BCX8\"> een prachtig en integer eerbetoon geworden.\u00a0<\/span> <\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW228559253 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fXH-EbA5dOQ?si=Pl_uNjfwqz0CH2ib\" width=\"470\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Het is een Joods gebruik om bij het overlijden van iemand de spiegels te bedekken. Cover The Mirrors (The Noise Company) heet dan ook het nieuwe album van Ben Kweller (uit Dripping Springs, Texas). Zijn 16-jarige zoon Dorian kwam twee jaar geleden om bij een bizar auto-ongeluk. Hij ging na het eten nog even naar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recensies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41314"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42391,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41314\/revisions\/42391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}