
While on BBC 2 promoting his upcoming Ashes & Fire LP, Ryan Adams busted out an unlikely cover: Iron Maiden's "Wasted Years." Adams has had long flirtations with metal (he even put out that metal single last year), but this is something different: He deconstructs the song until it sounds like an Adams original, with a rustic acoustic guitar riff and plaintative choruses. Dude puts on a master class in covers with this, pretty much. Listen to the original by going here. [Stereogum]
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