The Boulevard of Broken Covers - December 07

A nice one to start this edition of The Boulevard of Broken Covers: the soundtrack to HBO's hit series The Wire. This includes four versions of Way down in the hole: by the Blind Boys of Alabama, The Neville Brothers, DoMaJe and Tom Waits himself. Steve Earle's version, which was also used in the series, is missing. Release date: January 8. 

Tyler James covers Shiver me timbers for Paste magazine.

Mark Erelli covers Innocent when you dream on the album by the same name.

Holly Cole covering Waits is not exactly news, but at CBC Radio, you can listen to her live versions of Invitation to the blues and Shiver me timbers.

And I'm sure you all already knew, but  Robert Plant and Allison Kraus cover Trampled Rose on Raising sand.

And still no word on the long-expected Johansson album. Should you happen to have her telephone number, I'd be more than happy to give her a ring to try and find out what's the delay. 

A big thank you to Jiri, Steve and Cheryl and many others. And an even bigger apology to all people who sent me an e-mail but haven't heard back from me (yet). I try, but often fail - so I hope you forgive me and I'll put this on top of my New Year's resolutions list.