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Owen Pallett, Billy Bragg + more line up for Newsom cover album
JoeDiddly by Luke Slater November 17th, 2010

You may think that, whilst Joanna Newsom's career so far has been relatively sparkling, she's hardly a worthy subject of whole albums of covers. Some people might agree with you, but if you sit down and think about it, the quality of material points towards more worthiness than not. So reconsider.

That's exactly what has happened, anyway. There's a whole 22 songs which feature on a record entitled Versions of Joanna and is out digitally in December, with all proceeds going to OXFAM. There's some intriguing names on there, no less than the Bard of Barking, Billy Bragg. Wonder how he interprets J-No's own vocal ticks...

Full tracklisting:

  1. Francesco Santocono - "'81"
  2. A Voice Heard on Baer Mountain - "Autumn"
  3. Sarah Katheryn - "Baby Birch"
  4. Joel Cathey - "Book of Right-On"
  5. Guy Buttery - "Book of Right-On" (instrumental)
  6. Josh Mann - "Bridges & Balloons"
  7. Chris Leeds - "Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie"
  8. Ian Cooke - "Colleen"
  9. This Is Deer Country - "Easy"
  10. Doublewuzzy - "Flying a Kite"
  11. Rosa Hinksman - "In California"
  12. White Elephant Gift Exchange - "Inflammatory Writ"
  13. Ian Cooke - "Monkey & Bear"
  14. Billy Bragg - "On a Good Day"
  15. Kristina Forrer - "On a Good Day"
  16. Owen Pallett - "Peach, Plum, Pear"
  17. M. Ward - "Sadie"
  18. Ben Sollee - "Sawdust & Diamonds"
  19. David Miele - "Soft as Chalk"
  20. The Moscow Coup Attempt - "Sprout and the Bean"
  21. Melissa Stylianou - "Swansea"
  22. Jennifer Schmitt - "This Side of the Blue"

Here's what you could loosely call the "cover art".

From http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/joanna452trib.jpg



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