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Billy Bragg » Joanna Newsom

On a Good Day

This one's kind of a great story; the ladies in Uganda had covered Joe Purdy's "Suitcase," then Joe covered REM, and then Mike Mills did Billy's "Sing Their Souls Back Home." Shortly afterwards Mike saw Billy at SXSW, told him he had covered his song and gave him the whole story. Next thing you know we're emailing to set up a session. We made plans to catch up with Billy at his hotel room during a layover in London. Just watching this again realizing that some plonker outside the hotel is saying "I have to apologize for my wife." No idea what that's about. Billy was awesome, he's really funny, self deprecating, smart, sweet...which is cool because, let's face it, the guy's a legend.

It just seems surreal where these cover chains are taking us and where this message is going but we're glad to be taking the ride. Word is getting out there, we just got some more donations in which means more program support on the ground, keep tuned to the Programs page for some updates there.

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