Watch The Civil Wars cover The Jackson 5

08 October 2012, 13:41 | Written by Best Fit

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Here’s an exclusive clip of country-tinged duo Joy Williams and John Paul White holed up backstage performing a candid cover of The Jackson 5 mega hit ‘I Want You Back’.

Stripped entirely of its dancefloor imploding roots, the Jackson staple – immortalised further via Cleopatra’s devastating 1998 cover version (the trio amazingly still exist as a group) – is revisited by The Civil Wars who take the song’s yearning lyrical content and set it against a solemn backing. Really rather lovely.

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