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I’ve long maintained that one of the great covers of any era was this 1982 take on Pink Floyd’s “Lucifer Sam” by Sacramento’s TRUE WEST. It was on their debut 45, and later on their first EP as well.

Big, swelling aggressive non-psych take on what was already a brilliant song. I saw these guys a few years later and they were already pretty watered-down jangle – opening for R.E.M. and The Three O’Clock, no less.

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TRUE WEST were an early 80s Sacramento-based band conveniently (and not totally undeservingly) lumped in w/ the roots-Americana and paisley underground scenes of the time.

Their first EP from ‘83 was pretty stellar through and through, and features a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Lucifer Sam” that’ll knock you clean across the room. Just press the play button and you’ll see what I mean.