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Bluegrassy ‘Black Star’
You could do many worse things to your iPod than installing upon it Gillian Welch’s very nice cover of Radiohead’s “Black Star” (remember back from the days of “The Bends” when Radiohead did simple melodic rock?), which has become a staple on KGSR lately.
The woodsy cover of the song has yielded opposing opinions in my household, from “It’s nice” to “I don’t like her voice.” It is a bit “O Brother, Where Art Thom Yorke?” but I can’t think of a better example of why I like KGSR than Gillian Welch covering a prog-rock-but-electronica band from England.
Her Web site offers the song, recorded last year live in Minneapolis, for direct download (99 cents, cheap) and goes so far as to offer it to you in your choice of AAC (iTunes format), MP3 or FLAC format (best for listening to Roberta Flack songs). You can even pay for it with Paypal.
Go to the Download section and check it out under “Latest tracks.”
Would that all songs you like on the radio could be acquired this easily.
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