Friday 13 November 2009

Beck covers 'Oar'

Beck's Record Club: Can it get any more awesome? Yes it can. And it just did. As you know, Record Club works like this: Beck rounds up a revolving cast of guests to cover an entire album's worth of songs in a day. The results are then posted in weekly installments on Beck's website.

The latest entry in the series? Beck, Wilco, Feist, and Jamie Lidell teaming up to cover the 1969 cult fave Oar by onetime Moby Grape/Jefferson Airplane member turned acid casualty Skip Spence. The album's leadoff track, "Little Hands", is up on Beck's site right now.

We had previously reported that Beck and Wilco had teamed up to cover this album, but hey-- added Feist and Lidell? We'll take it! Sitting in on drums was James Gadson, who has drummed with Bill Withers, while Spencer Tweedy, son of Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, pitched in on drums as well.

The two previous entries in the Record Club series were a cover of The Velvet Underground & Nico with producer Nigel Godrich and actor Giovanni Ribisi and Songs of Leonard Cohen starring MGMT and Devendra Banhart.
@'Pitchfork'

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