Eagle-Eye Cherry - Long Way Around [feat. Neneh Cherry]

What this video is

Released in 2000 as the second single from Eagle-Eye Cherry's album Living in the Present Future, 'Long Way Around' represents a landmark family collaboration: the first studio recording between half-siblings Eagle-Eye Cherry and Neneh Cherry, children of American jazz trumpeter Don Cherry. Eagle-Eye had broken through internationally with 'Save Tonight' (1997–98), and this duet with his sister — a pioneering…

Why it matters

A high-water mark for the late-1990s Scandinavian alternative rock export wave, 'Long Way Around' bridges post-grunge singer-songwriter aesthetics with Neneh Cherry's genre-fluid legacy in alternative rap and soul. As a sibling duet produced by Rick Rubin, it documents a rare intersection of two…

The director

Nick Gordon is a UK-based music video and commercial director active from the late 1990s onward. His verified music video credits include Placebo 'Pure Morning' (1998), Roni Size 'Brown Paper Bag' (1997), Supergrass 'Moving' (1999), Muse 'Sunburn' (2000),…