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Marissa Nadler & Milky Burgess – “Forever” (Buddy Killen Cover)
Marissa Nadler and Seattle musician Milky Burgess have released a new cover of “Forever”, a song written by Buddy Killen. The collaboration reunites the pair after their 2025 EP The Bloody Gardener and highlights their continuing creative partnership, with Burgess also having contributed arrangements, recording and engineering to Nadler’s album New Radiations.
Nadler said she first fell in love with Pete Drake’s version of the song, which was originally released by the Little Dippers and Billy Walker in January 1960. She and Burgess had created the basic structure of their cover some time ago, but recently revisited and reworked it before releasing the finished track.
In short
- Nadler and Burgess release a cover of Buddy Killen’s “Forever”.
- The pair previously collaborated on The Bloody Gardener.
- Nadler cites Pete Drake’s version as her inspiration.
Explained simply
Marissa Nadler is an American singer-songwriter known for atmospheric songs that draw on folk and country music. Milky Burgess is a Seattle musician and producer who has worked with Nadler on recordings and arrangements.
“Forever” was written by country songwriter Buddy Killen and first recorded in 1960 by the Little Dippers and Billy Walker. Nadler has said Pete Drake’s later version inspired her; Drake was a country musician known for playing pedal steel guitar. Cover versions give artists a way to reinterpret older songs and bring them to new listeners.
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