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  Hear Best Coast's Lo-Fi Cover of Roy Orbison's 'Crying,' Featuring Snacks, the Cat

  March 12, 2013 – Best Coast ditched the alt-country sweep of last year's The Only Place LP to revisit their lo-fi roots on "Fear of My Identity," the Los Angeles duo's upcoming Record Store Day exclusive. Now SPIN cover girl Bethany Cosentino and bandmate Bobb Bruno split the difference between strumming and swooning on a fresh cover of Roy Orbison's "Crying," which can be heard below. …
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• Roy Orbison, 'Roy Orbison: The Monument Singles Collection' (Legacy)

  April 26, 2011 – Rockabilly's operatic soul, the sensitive, bespectacled Orbison forged a new genre of American music during his 1960–64 Monument Records hit streak (these two CDs compile A- and B-sides). Drawing from country, R&B, pop standards, and a Ravel-like classicism, Orbison tied it all together with his rapturous voice; filtered through the era's slapback echo, it was both achingly human and otherworldly.  …
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