At a Tuesday night show on in Salt Lake City, Ed Sheeran brought out tour opener Ben Kweller to perform together a live cover of the classic “Stand By Me.”
Introduced with “You all know the words to this,” and the guitarists proceed to trade 0ff verses and do a spine-tingling rendition of the song. The decision to play this song was a fitting choice as it came as a little tribute to the man behind the original, Ben E. King, who passed three weeks ago. In typical Sheeran style, the Irish singer-songwriter threw in a bit of “Beautiful Girls,” the “Stand By Me”-sampling song by Sean Kingston. Check that out above.
(RS)
