Bob Dylan Lay Lady Lay (Magnet and Gemma Hayes Cover)

Popfolk keyboardist Gemma Hayes, born in Tipperary in 1977 and now based in Dublin, is relatively well known in the indie crowd, thanks to multiple soundtrack appearances, plenty of love from European charts and stages, and the above collaboration with Norwegian electrofolkie Magnet, which appeared in the film Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Her Sade cover, recorded in 2005 for the radio, is a lovely rough-cut slice of pensive singer-songwriter folk, reminiscent of Jonatha Brooke's best and quietest work, sweetly transformed and beautiful with yearning; the gentle, pulsing Kate Bush cover - a triumph of interpretation that channels the best of Bush's distinctive tones while retaining the restrained delicacy of Hayes' natural delivery - is her most recent release, a 2009 holiday gift to the universe recorded live in Dublin - Cover Laydown