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Joan As Police Woman, Union Chapel
Joan As Police Woman, Union Chapel
Cover versions you'd hardly recognise from a subversive artist
Sunday, 04 October 2009
You’ve got to take the pedal off the metal at some point, and in 2009 the prodigiously energetic New Yorker Joan Wasser – otherwise known as Joan As Police Woman - has apparently decided to ease up and release an album of cover versions.
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