Norah Jones, Jack White, Lord Huron, fun., and more to be featured on Beck’s Song Reader
Beck at Firefly 2014 | Photo by Joe del Tufo | http://www.joedeltufo.com/concert.htmTwo years ago, Beck released his new “album” – Song Reader – a book of sheet music and art featuring twenty new songs. The new songs weren’t recorded by Beck at all; the idea was that the songs would be recorded by others using the sheet music. “There are no rules in interpretation,” said Beck in an interview with McSweeney’s, who released Song Reader. “These songs are meant to be pulled apart and reshaped,” he said in the interview. “The idea of them being played by choirs, brass bands, string ensembles, anything outside of traditional rock-band constructs—it’s interesting because it’s outside of where my songs normally exist,” said Beck.
On July 29th, Norah Jones, Jeff Tweedy, Lord Huron, Jack White, Beck himself, and others will be featured on Warby Parker Presents Song Reader. Co-produced by Beck with Wes Anderson and Randall Poster, proceeds will be donated to 826 National – a nationwide nonprofit organization that offers a variety of opportunities to students, ages 6-18, to “explore their creativity and improve their writing skills.”
Beck is playing on Sunday, July 27th at the XPoNential Music Festival presented by Subaru. The set list for Song Reader is below.
1. Moses Sumney, “Title of This Song”
2. Fun., “Please Leave a Light on When You Go”
3. Tweedy, “The Wolf Is on the Hill”
4. Norah Jones, “Just Noise”
5. Lord Huron, “Last Night You Were a Dream”
6. Bob Forrest, “Saint Dude”
7. Jack White, “I’m Down”
8. Beck, “Heaven’s Ladder”
9. Juanes, “Don’t Act Like Your Heart Isn’t Hard”
10. Laura Marling, “Sorry”
11. Jarvis Cocker, “Eyes That Say ‘I Love You'”
12. David Johansen, “Rough on Rats”
13. Jason Isbell, “Now That Your Dollar Bills Have Sprouted Wings”
14. Marc Ribot, “The Last Polka”
15. Eleanor Friedberger, “Old Shanghai”
16. Sparks, “Why Did You Make Me Care?”
17. Swamp Dogg, “America, Here’s My Boy”
18. Jack Black, “We All Wear Cloaks”
19. Loudon Wainwright III, “Do We? We Do”
20. Gabriel Kahane & Ymusic, “Mutilation Rag”