“Who knew the Pixies’ "Wave of Mutilation" sounds best played as a back-porch country stomper? Only Rhett Miller, apparently, who gives the song that treatment halfway through this collection of covers recorded live at the Los Angeles club Largo in 2008. Elsewhere, the Old 97’s frontman favors more modest makeovers: David Bowie’s "Queen Bitch," with Jon Brion banging away blissfully […]”
