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The nonagenarian's son, Micah, produced the album, which features renditions of songs by Waits, Neil Young, Beck, the Flaming Lips, Nina Simone, and others
“I was laying in bed, trying to sleep, and it was like three in the morning. And, and suddenly I just heard the beginning of the song,” Nelson says of “Velocirapture (The Serpent Flew)”
Sean Ono Lennon, Rufus Wainwright, Jeff Tweedy, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, and more performed covers to mark the late Beatle’s 80th birthday
