Steve Earle Covers Tom Waits For The Wire
Kanye’s Connect Four thrashing was our excuse to bring up The Wire yesterday. Today’s excuse: Tom Waits and Steve Earle. Show obsessives (there are no casual fans, here) know that Steve plays recurring character Waylon, the former addict who’s taken a shine to (now-clean!) Bubbles, but Earle ups his involvement for the urban drama’s final season by covering the Tom Waits-penned theme song “Way Down In The Hole” (prior seasons saw renditions from The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Tom himself, The Neville Brothers, and Baltimore teen group DoMaJe).
Of course, you already knew Steve was doing the final season’s theme music because you regularly read the New Yorker and saw last June’s Earle profile (right?), but thanks to the show’s OnDemand premiere in advance of Sunday, now there’s YouTube of the Steve soundtracked opening montage.
Fonte: Stereogum
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