Keith Richards Covers Velvet Underground’s ‘Waiting for the Man’ for Forthcoming Lou Reed Tribute Album
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Even amid the literally thousands of Lou Reed cover versions that have emerged over the past half century — by everyone from David Bowie to Patti Smith to R.E.M.
to Beck , it’s hard to imagine a more fitting musical tribute than Keith Richards covering “Waiting for the Man,” the 1967 song that heralded not just the Velvet Underground’s arrival, but a whole new realm of ultra-real, novelistic songwriting in rock music.
Richards’ version of the Reed classic arrived Friday morning, previewing “The Power of the Heart,” a tribute album that also features Angel Olsen, Lucinda Williams, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Rufus Wainwright, Rickie Lee Jones, Rosanne Cash and others; the full tracklist for the album, which was unveiled rather quietly as part of the larger Record Store Day announcement — appears below.
It arrives April 19 — with a special Record Store Day edition arriving the following day — on Seattle’s awesome indie Light in the Attic Records (which was chosen by the late artist’s estate to handle his reissues and got a Grammy nomination for the “Words & Music: May, 1965” album).
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