Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong has covered Jesse Malin‘s ‘Black Haired Girl’ for the latter’s upcoming tribute/benefit album.
Armstrong’s cover of Malin’s 2007 track is the latest to be released from ‘Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin’, a tribute and benefit LP for Malin, who suffered a rare spinal stroke last year that left him paralyzed from the waist down.
“Jesse is a dear friend to me,” Armstrong said in a statement. “I love his songwriting. He is all heart…His passion is endless. We send each other YouTube videos (mostly old Ramones clips and New York Dolls). Every time I’m in New York he goes out of his way to make me, my friends and my family feel at home. He’s always down for a laugh or a shoulder to cry on. Jesse, we love you and we’d do anything for you.”
Speaking about the cover in a statement, Malin said: “When I heard Billie Joe was doing Black Haired Girl, I was so blown away. He took it to another level, a lot of attitude, a lot of power, a lot of style, like everything that he does.”
‘Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin’ is set for release on September 20 and is available for pre-order here. Other musicians to be featured on the LP include Bleachers, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello, Frank Turner, Rancid and more. All proceeds will go to Malin’s Sweet Relief artist fund.
‘Silver Patron Saints: The Songs Of Jesse Malin’ tracklist is:
1. ‘Prisoners of Paradise’ (feat. Bleachers)
2. ‘Oh Sheena’ (feat. Counting Crows)
3. ‘She Don’t Love Me Now’ (feat. Bruce Springsteen)
4. ‘Black Haired Girl’ (feat. Billie Joe Armstrong)
5. ‘Brooklyn’ (feat. Dinosaur Jr.)
6. ‘About You’ (feat. Frank Turner)
7. ‘Turn Up the Mains’ (feat. Alison Mosshart, Wayne Kramer, Tom Morello, Steven Van Zandt, Mike Watt & Joey C.)
8. ‘Room 13’ (feat. Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello)
9. ‘Don’t Let Them Take You Down’ (Beautiful Day) (feat. The Wallflowers)
10. ‘The Way We Used to Roll’ (feat. Spoon)
11. ‘Shane’ (feat. Rocky O’Riordan)
12. ‘In the Modern World’ (feat. Butch Walker)
13. ‘High Lonesome’ (feat. Susanna Hoffs)
14. ‘Greener Pastures’ (feat. Graham Parker)
15. ‘Meet Me At The End of the World’ (feat. Alejandro Escovedo)
16. ‘Death Star’ (feat. The Hold Steady)
17. ‘Riding on the Subway’ (feat. Tommy Stinson and Ruby Stinson)
18. ‘St. Mark’s Sunset’ (feat. The Walker Roaders)
19. ‘Dead On’ (feat. Ian Hunter)
20. ‘Almost Grown’ (feat. Danny Clinch and Christopher Thorn with Daniel Donato’s Cosmic
Country)
21. ‘Shining Down’ (feat. Aaron Lee Tasjan)
22. ‘When You’re Young’ (feat. Low Cut Connie)
23. ‘All The Way From Moscow’ (feat. Willie Nile)
24. ‘No Way Out'(feat. Rancid)
25. ‘You Know It’s Dark When Atheists Start to Pray’ (feat. Gogol Bordello)
26. ‘God Is Dead ‘(feat. Agnostic Front)
27. ‘Frankie’ (feat. Murphy’s Law)
“Hearing these versions really got me through some of the toughest days. I know this record was made to help me financially during a hard time, but the emotional and spiritual boost is beyond anything that I’ve ever felt,” wrote Malin on Instagram.
In other news, Malin is set to return to the stage with two star-studded nights at New York’s Beacon Theatre on December 1 and 2.
The first show is sold out, but you can visit here to purchase any remaining tickets for night two. The lineup features Lucinda Williams, Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz and David Immerglück, Rickie Lee Jones, Jackob Dylan of the Wallflowers, Butch Walker, Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis, and Alejandro Escovedo and more.