Rubblebucket cover Sufjan Stevens for The Voice Project

Rubblebucket » Sufjan Stevens from The Voice Project on Vimeo.
Rubblebucket recently covered Sufjan Stevens' "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." for  The Voice Project, a non-profit charity organization that raises the profile of the plight of women in Uganda in an effort to help them. Throughout the ongoing war Ugandan Women's groups have been trying to pass songs on by word of mouth to bring home child soldiers and abductees. The Voice Project is an extension of that. The band had this to add about their choice of song "The song deals with a killer, but not in the obvious ways, how it tries to penetrate to the humanity of the situation. That humanizing, the struggle for that understanding is what's been dealt with in Uganda, and now Congo, CAR and South Sudan on a daily basis. Peace and forgiveness are easy words to toss around, to advocate, but given the scope and brutality of the atrocities it can sometimes seem distant and difficult to visualize when hearing the story of how it is really happening. It seems if we are to learn from what's going on, it's up to us all to humanize and try and understand that process at a real level.” Nice work.