In 2002, when O was released, it wasn’t just an album—it was a raw and intimate conversation, laid bare between Rice and Hannigan. The record emerged from a deeply personal place in Rice’s life, blending acoustic folk with melancholic reflections on love, heartbreak, and vulnerability. The songs were minimalist in arrangement but monumental in emotional depth.
The song came from Motown, Holland-Dozier-Holland wrote it, Marvin Gaye cut it in 1964, and the original hits hard enough on its own terms. But The Band had been hauling “Don’t Do It” through live sets for years before those New Year’s Eve shows, and you can hear what that does to a song.
Two YouTube videos which capture the natural flow of life in the surrounds, while this angel, incarnated here on earth, lifts us up over the small talk and petty postures of ego into the sublime.