SONGS OF THE YEAR: "Fixin' To Die" by G. Love

Our Top 21 Albums issue comes out Dec. 22, but that doesn't come close to telling you what 2011 sounded like. To help find the devil in the details, we've asked City Paper's critics, friends and family to name some of their favorite songs - be they secret gems on terrible albums, sleeper tracks you missed, huge pop songs that need defending, or just plain good songs everybody already knows and loves.

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SONGS OF THE YEAR: “Fixin’ To Die” by G. Love

POSTED: Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 10:00 AM

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Our Top 21 Albums issue comes out Dec. 22, but that doesn’t come close to telling you what 2011 sounded like. To help find the devil in the details, we’ve asked City Paper’s critics, friends and family to name some of their favorite songs — be they secret gems on terrible albums, sleeper tracks you missed, huge pop songs that need defending, or just plain good songs everybody already knows and loves.

It’s probably been a while since you’ve thought about G. Love but this cover of the old blues classic is really worth a listen. Here he teams up with the Avett Brothers for a very different sound and style than we're used to from G. This lyrics evoke images of a wounded man processing signs of his own demise. The rest of the album, also called Fixin’ To Die, is similarly soulful and, at times, a bit country.

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