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):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.Vile’s performance for Food For Love follows a similar performance for the Biden campaign’s ‘Team Joe Sings’ series in October, where he covered Gillian Welch and Neil Young.Vile’s last.
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