Welcome to Kay’s Music Korner, with your special guest blogger Allan Gates. Kay (Mister Falcon) Gillis is off doing brilliant marketing things…

Friday can mean only one thing - a father/son alt-country combo covering classic post-punk songs.

I speak, of course, of the “hardcore troubadour” Steve Earle, country/rock crooner, lefty political activist and recovered heroin addict. He’s none of this blow dried, feathered hair “New Country” tripe that pollutes the airwaves. This man has something to say. If you poke around the Internet, you may come across his ferocious cover of Nirvana’s Breed from the Nevermind album. It loses none of the urgency of the original yet Earle’s modest twang in the snarled lyrics adds something interesting to an already great song.

Then there is Steve’s son, Justin Townes Earle, who is bursting on to the scene. He covers The Replacements song Can’t Hardly Wait -a fantastic tune from one of the most important bands of the late 80s and early 90s, part of the Minneapolis scene that also included the legendary Husker Du and Prince. Pick that song up at iTunes - get the original too.