Cowboy Jack Clement

"John Prine was my hero for a long time when he came into the butcher shoppe to recut one of his deepest classics with me," recalls Kurt. "Man, I was floating and flying and i couldn't hear anything he told me." The EP's out in October.

If on you're way out of the subway in late July you happen to notice a busker that looks a helluva lot like Billy Bragg surrounded by an army of other guitar-weilding maniacs, don't be alarmed...

"Before Kansas City was recorded by everyone from the Beatles to Peggy Lee, the song was first released in 1952 as K.C. Loving by an obscure Houston pianist named Little Willie Littlefield...