Joe Purdy » REM

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A great part of this is having artists choose who and which song to cover, to see where it leads us, but also to see which artists or which songs they choose and why... it could be a friend they love, another band in their community (and the women have surely shown us how strong a force that can be...a community of individuals supporting each other through music and passing it on), the first song to come to their mind, or a song that relates directly to war or peace. Growing up in the South as Joe did you couldn't have missed the influence of REM, their importance...something so positive, so amazing, so revolutionary for their time coming from a place we still too often associate with an old war.