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Kurt Vile has performed an acoustic version of his track ‘Runner Ups’ for the Food For Love charity livestream over the weekend.
‘Runner Ups’ comes from Vile’s 2011 album ‘Smoke Ring For My Halo’, which
NME gave four stars at the time of its release.
Watch the performance below (around the 1:57:16 mark):
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Food For Love was organised to benefit the New Mexico Association of Food Banks, and has raised more than £500,000 ($700,000) so far. The livestream also featured appearances from David Byrne, Nathaniel Rateliff and
Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin.
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Says Byrne: “On February 13 (Valentine’s Day Eve), some musician friends of mine, and many I’ve never met, are doing a virtual concert to raise money for meals for New Mexico’s hardest hit. New Mexico ranks almost at the bottom in poverty (49th) in the US and the Navajo and other Native American lands have long been short of basic health, jobs and education services- so the impact of Covid on these folks has been devastating.
“How in the world are they going to fit all these folks into one show? We’ll see.
Mutual appreciation
“Now for some folks my connection to these musicians might seem a little odd – we don’t exactly make the same kind of music – but I sense there exists some mutual appreciation – it’s certainly there from my end. I met Terry Allen, the artist and musician who helped put this together, in the mid eighties when I was making the
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