The Breeders’ Kim Deal Covers Michael Nesmith’s “Joanne”: Watch

Before the Breeders release their new album All Nerve on March 2, Kim Deal shared a special acoustic cover of a song called “Joanne.” It’s a 1970 solo song by Michael Nesmith after he the Monkees and started his own group the First National Band. Deal recorded the cover at Steve Albino’s Chicago studio Electrical Audio. The Breeders worked with Albini on the upcoming album. All Nerve features the same lineup from 1993’s Last Splash: Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs, and Jim Macpherson.

Today, the author Neil Gaiman shared a new bio that he wrote about the Breeders. Among other things, he reveals that he began writing his iconic Sandman comics while listening to Breeders CDs. After bemoaning how music has lost its value in the age of streaming, Gaimain writes, “And then All Nerve arrives and it’s as if no time at all has passed. Music slices us in time, and I get to remember what it means to be excited by music all over again. For a start, All Nerve sounds like a Breeders album: it’s not retro, it’s not ’90s, it just is what it is: smart rock music with a Breeders sound and an oblique Breeders point of view.” Read the entire bio.

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