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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.
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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