“C'mon billy” by PJ Harvey

"C'mon Billy" followed "Down by the Water" as the second single from To Bring You My Love, PJ Harvey's third album, in 1995, and it has been held up as a clear sign of how far her sound had traveled since she broke away from the PJ Harvey Trio. The song has a woman pleading with Billy to come back home and meet his boy, and Harvey sings it in what one description called frantic purrs.

She plays guitar and organ, Joe Gore adds more guitar and John Parish handles drums and percussion, while Pete Thomas arranged the strings: Sian Bell's cello, violas from Jocelyn Pook and Jules Singleton, and Sonia Slany's violin. Flood produced and mixed it, and he and Harvey both engineered.

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