MERCURY REV Everlasting Arm EP 1994

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Mercury Rev - Everlasting Arm EP

1. Everlasting Arm (Mercury Rev) [5:27]

2. Deadman (Alan Vega/traditional arrangement by Donahue, Mackowiak) [34:36]

Here's a blurb from the inner sleeve: So it came to pass that Mercury Rev, already working on a track for an upcoming Suicide (former band of Alan Vega's in the 80's) tribute album, suggested a collaboration. Vega offered a reading of "Deadman", a piece he'd written for a book of prose and verse that he was about to publish under Henry Rollins' 2.13.61 imprint. Mercury Rev took "Deadman" home and scored it with a traditional tune borrowed, they claim, from an old Bessie Smith record.