MP3 | Tennis — ‘Is It True?’ (Brenda Lee cover)

We can’t get enough of Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley’s debut album Cape Dory when the sun’s out, but the seafaring couple have really made our day with a brand new cover of Brenda Lee’s ‘Is It True?’, available now as a freebie download using the widget below.

As Alaina explains, “Brenda Lee has been a great source of inspiration for me. We stumbled across the song ‘Is It True’, a less popular single she recorded later in her career and loved it not just for her more mature, crackly voice, but for the randomly awesome inclusion of a very young Jimmy Page on electric guitar. The song is such a jam, we really enjoyed the chance to record it ourselves. Despite the limitations of recording it on a 4-track cassette, and then having to mix it in a pinch on an 11 year old laptop, that crashed regularly, all the parts we love are there.”

Tennis are back in the UK next week for a couple of shows:

06.07.11 Cargo, London
08.07.11 Lounge On The Farm Festival, London

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