Friday music News and Odds & Ends

***So Wilco is raising money for the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives by offering a download of a brand new cover of a Woodie Guthrie track called The Jolly Banker.Feist is credited as being on the track playing the garden weasel.Minimum donation is two bucks but for those in some hard times wilco is nice enough to give it for free right here


***Bob Dylan on track for fifth number one album.

***Merge Records,home to such favorite artists like Spoon,Conor,Oberst,Destroyer,Arcade Fire and many more are throwing a music fest to celebrate their twentieth birthday. It's happening July 22-26 and the band lineup looks killer .Spoon,Connor Oberst,Superchunk,The Clientele plus more . I would love to see this show.Get more details here.
Speaking of Merge here is a beautiful cover of a Crooked Fingers track from The National,off of the Score!20 years of merge records. The Covers.
The National-Sleep All Summer

*** Exclusive First Listen: Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band's 'Outer South'

***The Hold Steady have got a Daytrotter session up from SXSW