That's Stevie Nicks with her new recording of Stephen Stills' "For What It's Worth." Last week, ROLLING STONE reported:
Stevie Nicks has dropped a cover of Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth,” putting her own witchy spin on the classic Sixties protest anthem.
Nicks recorded the song earlier this year in Los Angeles with producer Greg Kurstin, longtime guitarist and session legend Waddy Wachtel, and backing vocalist Sharon Celani. Her rendition contains the spirit of the original -- which Stephen Stills wrote about the Sunset Strip curfew riots in Los Angeles -- while her husky vocals contribute a current feel.
“I’m so excited to release my new song this Friday,” Nicks wrote on social media earlier
this week. “It’s called ‘For What It’s Worth’ and it was written by
Stephen Stills in 1966. It meant something to me then, and it means
something to me now. I always wanted to interpret it through the eyes of
a woman — and it seems like today, in the times that we live in — that
it has a lot to say…”
The problem, as Kat noted, is that a woman already interpreted it. And did so back in 1969. Cher did it on her album 3614 JACKSON
HIGHWAY. And here she is performing it in 1969 on Glenn Campbell's variety series.
Who in the world do you think that you are fooling?
Well I've already done everything you are doing.
