Jim O’Rourke :: Fast Car (Live In Japan, 9/16/2002)

Luke Combs this is not. Fourteen years after its initial chart-topping 1988 release, sonic chameleon Jim O’Rourke laid hands on Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” in 2002 while touring Japan. Where the original tracks just under five minutes, O’Rourke’s alchemy transmutes the iconic riff into a thirty-three minute atmospheric drone. In a word, hypnotic . . .

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