With this bittersweet duet cover of Townes Van Zandt's 1972 'If I Needed You', French-born Tucson chanteuse Marianne Dissard and English producer and multi-instrumentalist Raphael Mann are capping a series of drastic re-imaginings of other artists’ songs released as standalone singles starting in March 2020 and through the pandemic months.

The collaboration — ongoing, the pair is working on a new album of originals — saw them gleefully deconstruct rock‘n’roll standards such as 'Come on, Let's Go!' by doomed star Ritchie Valens or Steely Dan's 'Dirty Work', tap folk/Americana signposts ('Refractions' by Bobbie Gentry), boldly update dark ballads by Janis Ian ('At Seventeen') and Phil Ochs ('The Scorpion Departs But Never Returns'), and even turn Adriano Celentano's tongue-twister 'Prisencolinensinainciusol' into a dystopian pandemic-era nightmare.

With guitars recorded in Tucson, Arizona and the English production of Ramsgate-based multi-instrumentalist Raphael Mann, this dreamy Dissard/Mann production and duet is a nostalgic love letter snail-mailed across the oceans.

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The video is by Raphael Mann, using footage he shot himself on Ramsgate's seafront and combined with the climactic scenes of 'One Eyed Jacks' with Marlon Brando and Pina Pellicer,