Frank Turner followed up last year’s No Man’s Land in a rather unexpected way last month: with a split LP of folk-punk NOFX covers complemented by the skate punk band’s own covers of Turner’s tracks. It seems a mutual respect led to a fruitful collaboration in which a handful of the artists’ best tracks were reworked to suit the respective coverers’ sonic palettes.
One such track was NOFX’s 1992 ska-flavored single “Bob,” which Turner reinvents as a smooth acoustic rock track. “I’ve loved this song since I first heard it as a teenager, but always thought it had the ghost of a classic country song hiding in it somewhere, something like George Jones,” he shares. “So for the covers split I decided to lean on that angle, and here we are.”
It’s this song that Frank chose to play for his “Neighborhoods” session, filming a fully acoustic rendition of the song from his peaceful North London backyard. Watch the clip below, and hear more from his collaboration with NOFX here.
