A brand new compilation of Lou Reed covers is at the manner. For The Energy of the Middle: A Tribute to Lou Reed, Mild within the Attic has corralled a generation-spanning visitor checklist together with Angel Olsen (who collaborates with singer-songwriter Maxim Ludwig), the Afghan Whigs, Joan Jett, Lucinda Williams, Rufus Wainwright, and Rickie Lee Jones, in addition to the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, whose model of the Velvet Underground’s “I’m Looking forward to the Guy” is out now. Test that out under, together with the tracklist. The compilation is out April 20.
Learn Philip Sherburne’s evaluate of the brand new reissue of Reed’s Hudson River Wind Meditations.
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The Energy of the Middle: A Tribute to Lou Reed:
01 Keith Richards: “I’m Looking forward to the Guy”
02 Maxim Ludwig / Angel Olsen: “I Can’t Stand It”
03 Rufus Wainwright: “Best possible Day”
04 Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: “I’m So Loose”
05 Bobby Rush: “Sally Can’t Dance”
06 Rickie Lee Jones: “Stroll at the Wild Aspect”
07 The Afghan Whigs: “I Love You, Suzanne”
08 Mary Gauthier: “Coney Island Child”
09 Lucinda Williams: “Mythical Hearts”
10 Automated: “New Sensations”
11 Rosanne Money: “Magician”
12 Brogan Bentley: “The Energy of the Middle”
