Artist	Song
Natalie Merchant & R.E.M.	Photograph
from Retrospective 1990-2005 (2005)
Hindu Love Gods	Raspberry Beret
from Hindu Love Gods (2008)
Michael Stipe & Coldplay	In the Sun (With Coldplay) [Recorded Live At Austin City Limits]
from In the Sun - EP (2006)
The Minus 5	Moonshine Girl
from The Lonesome Death of Buck McCoy (1997)
The Baseball Project	Past Time
from Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails (2008)
Dashboard Confessional	Hands Down (feat. Michael Stipe)
from MTV2 Album Covers: Dashboard Confessional & R.E.M. (2004)
Patti Smith	Glitter In Their Eyes
from Land (1975-2002) [Remastered] (2002)
The Replacements	I Will Dare
from Let It Be (2006)
10,000 Maniacs	A Campfire Song
from In My Tribe (2007)
Indigo Girls	I'll Give You My Skin (featuring Michael Stipe)
from Rarities (2005)
Billy Bragg	You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
from Don't Try This At Home (2010)
The Dream Academy	The Party
from The Dream Academy (2005)
Drivin' n' Cryin'	Straight to Hell
from Mystery Road (2007)
Jason & The Scorchers	Hot Nights In Georgia
from Fervor / Lost & Found (2008)
Kevn Kinney	MacDougal Blues
from MacDougal Blues (2008)
Steve Wynn	A Dazzling Display
from Dazzling Display (2005)
Kristin Hersh	Your Ghost
from Hips and Makers (2010)
Neneh Cherry	Trout
from Homebrew (2007)
Michael Brook	Ill Wind (You're Blowing Me No Good)
from Albino Alligator (2001)

Comment:

When R.E.M. isn’t on the road, you can [i]always[/i] find them in the studio — and not necessarily with one another. The Hindu Love Gods (basically a Michael Stipe-free R.E.M. with the late Warren Zevon behind the mic) muscle up Prince’s “Raspberry Beret” with a reading that doesn’t just put hair on its chest — it puts hair on its [i]back[/i]. As for the group’s garage-ified grunginess, Bill Berry recalls the album sessions taking “about as long to do as it takes to listen to.” The weepy whine of pedal steel echoes Billy Bragg’s overtorqued heartstrings in “You Woke Up My Neighborhood,” the high-lonesome aftermath of love gone bad (cowritten by Peter Buck and featuring Stipe on harmony vocal). And Michael Stipe & Coldplay buff out the ragged, jagged shards of “In the Sun,” Joseph Arthur’s angst-soaked confessional, in a sympathetic version recorded live at Austin City Limits. But that’s not all — artists from Patti Smith to Dashboard Confessional have turned toward Athens’ hometown heroes for a helping hand . . . or guitar, or vocal . . . and we’ve got ’em right here.

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