DISCUSS HOW AND WHY SPOON COVERED HIT SINGLE, "DON'T YOU EVAH"
The Natural History’s second LP, The People That I Meet, will be reissued by Rare Bird on May 18, 2020 featuring liner notes by Spoon’s Britt Daniel. The third track on The People That I Meet, “Don’t You Ever,” was famously covered by Spoon on their 2007 breakout LP Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga as “Don’t You Evah,” and appeared again this past summer on the indie legend’s Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon album released by Matador Records.
Daniel and Spoon have always supported The Natural History, and in 2019 Playboy magazine published an interview between Daniel and The Natural History’s Julian and Max Tepper, where the three spoke at length about how the Austin icons came to cover “Don’t You Ever."
The album reissue coincides with the recent release of Julian Tepper's novel that fictionalizes the record’s creation. Tepper’s third novel, BETWEEN THE RECORDS(Rare Bird), is a work of rock ’n’ roll fiction born out of his experiences in the band. Within its pages, the writing and recording of The People That I Meet receives the novelistic treatment marking the first time that the literary and music worlds have intersected in this unique way, pushing the boundaries and causing these worlds to collide.
Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo offered his take on Between The Records:
“Julian Tepper has written an autobiographical slice of late 90s/early 00’s rock ‘n’ roll life reflecting a period both he and I lived thru (and, happily, survived) with such ease that I recognized this world immediately, intimately.”
