Fiona Apple Duets With Nickel Creek’s Sean Watkins on "Banks of the Ohio"

Fiona Apple has teamed up with Nickel Creek’s Sean Watkins for a new cover of the 19th century murder ballad “Banks of the Ohio”. “It’s a good example of how a lot of these old bluegrass songs can be so violent,” Watkins told Rolling Stone about the song. It’s due on a 7″ that’s out in April. Listen above.

Watkins discussed meeting Apple at Largo with Rolling Stone:

“Largo was still a small place back then, a place you could go try out new things and learn new songs, so we started finding some music we both could identify with. I learned some songs she had grown up singing—mostly jazz standards—and then she learned the equivalent for me, which was bluegrass songs and murder ballads.”

The B-side is Watkins’ cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Dead Flowers”, which features Old Crow Medicine Show’s Willie Watson.

Read our interview with Apple.

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