Wilco celebrate David Bowie's birthday with "Space Oddity" cover

NPR Music and West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s live performance radio show Mountain Stage have announced anew compilation album.

Live On Mountain Stage: Outlaws and Outliers will feature a collection of live performances from various artists captured during Mountain Stage tapings over the years, including Rhiannon Giddens, Margo Price, John Prine, Jason Isbell, Indigo Girls, Tyler Childers, and Birds of Chicago featuring Allison Russell among many others.

Mountain Stage have also shared the first track from the compilation, a cover of "Space Oddity" by Wilco, released today in honour of David Bowie’s birthday.

"As a gratefully, if not begrudgingly, Earth-bound band, it’s always an honor and a challenge to tackle any of David Bowie’s space-soaring arrangements,” stated Wilco. “Striving to reach the heights of his freedom and talent is a wise goal for any band. We thank Mountain Stage for letting us give this song another home on Earth.”

"Mountain Stage has always been about our guests,” stated founder and original host Larry Groce. “Our only purpose has been to showcase their incredible talent. We’ve heard a lot in forty years and these songs are just a few of the treasures from our archives that we want to share with the world. When we got the chance to work with Oh Boy Records on this project, we jumped at it. John Prine is an American music icon who set the bar for performing songwriters like the ones in this collection. There’s a lot of fun here but there’s also a lot of insight as to what life is all about.

Tracklist:

1. Wilco – Space Oddity (David Bowie cover)
2. Watchhouse – The Wolves
3. Molly Tuttle – You Didn’t Call My Name
4. Tyler Childers – Going Home
5. Lucinda Williams - Joy
6. Eric Church – Sinners Like Me
7. Margo Price – Hurtin’ (On The Bottle)
8. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings – One More Dollar
9. Bird of Chicago – Lodestar
10. Kathy Mattea – Redwing Blackbird
11. The Indigo Girls – Closer To Fine
12. John Prine – Souvenirs
13. Steve Earle – You Know The Rest
14. Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn – What’cha Gonna Do”
15. Sierra Ferrell – I’d Do It Again
16. Tim O’Brien – Cup of Sugar
17. Rhiannon Giddens – Black Is the New Color
18. Alison Krauss – Let me Touch You For A While
19. James McMurtry – Canola Fields
20. Jason Isbell – Traveling Alone
21. Sam Baker – Isn’t Love Great