Continuing “Excellent Contemporary Bands Covering Canonized Songwriters Week,” I present psychedelic drone deities, Wooden Shjips, rendering Neil Young’s “Vampire Blues” in druggy, dirt-splattered fashion. Fans of On the Beach will scarcely recognize the original within the distorted, hallucinatory coffin Wooden Shjips construct for Old Shakey’s ode to eco-conservation (no “Drill Baby Drill”). Now if they’ll only cover “Computer Age.”

From: Wooden Shjips-Vampire Blues/I Hear the Vibrations 7″

[Via Miles Raymer/Chicago Reader]

Download:
MP3: Wooden Shjips-”Vampire Blues”
MP3: Neil Young-”Vampire Blues”

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