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Ryley Walker Will Release a Dave Matthews Band Covers Album

'The Lillywhite Sessions' is, Walker says, "just an extension of what I was doing in middle school, when I’d drink a gallon of milk and barf it up at the lunch table."
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Ryley Walker is neither the hero we need nor the hero we deserve, but he's a hero of sorts anyway. The merry prankster of experimental music announced today that he'll release a new full-length called The Lillywhite Sessions on November 16 via Dead Oceans. It's a track-for-track cover of the Dave Matthews Band's scrapped-but-much-bootlegged album of the same name, and you can hear one of the songs from the record, "Busted Stuff," below.

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The track comes via Stereogum, who interviewed Walker about the project and inevitably ended up with two dozen-or-so vivid quotes about DMB's under-appreciated genius. "This record is just an extension of what I was doing in middle school, when I’d drink a gallon of milk and barf it up at the lunch table," he said. "I like reaction. I like not doing what’s fun or cool. I have no shame in being a total idiot and poking fun at the rest of the world."

Unfortunately for Walker, the only truly shocking thing for him to do now would be a full LP of Leonard Cohen covers.

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