Last year, Les Claypool went through a huge Django Reinhardt phase and “a lot of really, really old hillbilly stuff from the Thirties and Forties,” all of which served as the impetus for his latest ...

Rare are the cover songs that perhaps shine as brightly — if not more so — than the original versions. Consider, then, this trio of cosmically connected examples: The duo of Iron & Wine (Sam Beam) and ...