Every week, Bill Callahan and Bonnie "Prince" Billy have been teaming up with a fellow Drag City artist to cover a different song from a previous decade. First they covered Cat Stevens' 1967 track "Blackness Of The Night" with AZITA. Then they did Hank Williams Jr.'s 1979 track "OD’d In Denver" with Will Oldham's old…

Just last week, Drag City legends Bill Callahan and Bonnie "Prince" Billy teamed up to cover Cat Stevens with an assist from AZITA. Bill and Billy are back today with another cover, this time a version of "OD'd In Denver" by legacy country star and disgraced Monday Night Football theme song guy Hank Williams Jr.

In 1967, when he was still known as Cat Stevens, the folk singer-songwriter Yusuf Islam released his sophomore LP New Masters. On that LP, which he reissued earlier this year, Islam included a truly bleak and desolate protest song called "Blackness Of The Night": "For this bad, bad world I'm beginning to doubt/ I'm alone…

Missy Elliott is making history as the first female rapper inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame, whose 2019 class also includes legendary British singer Cat Stevens and country-folk icon John Prine.

The Simpsons theme song has gotten increasingly experimental in the show’s twilight years (see: the thoroughly weird one from the season premiere) and this week, they paid homage to Cat Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, by playing Stevens’ “Tea For The Tillerman” from the 1970 album of the same name instead of the...