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Jul 09, 2014 By Cody Ray Shafer Beck

Back in 2012, Beck released a sheet music-only album called Song Reader. Fans and musicians were encouraged to learn and perform the songs themselves, and the official website hosts submitted versions. Now, Beck is releasing a pseudo-official recording of the album, featuring a host of musicians as contributors. Each track is performed by a different musician, including Fun, Lord Huron, Jack White, Tweedy, Norah Jones, Jack Black, Jarvis Cocker, Laura Marling, Eleanor Friedberger, The New York Dolls’ David Johansen, and others. Beck himself performs one track, “Heaven’s Ladder.” It will be available July 29. The full tracklist is below.

01 Moses Sumney: “Title of this Song”

02 Fun.: “Please Leave A Light On When You Go”

03 Tweedy: “The Wolf is on the Hill”

04 Norah Jones: “Just Noise”

05 Lord Huron: “Last Night You Were A Dream”

06 Bob Forrest: “Saint Dude”

07 Jack White: “I’m Down”

08 Beck: “Heaven’s Ladder”

09 Juanes: “Don’t Act Like Your Heart Isn’t Hard”

10 Laura Marling: “Sorry”

11 Jarvis Cocker: “Eyes That Say ‘I Love You’”

12 David Johansen: “Rough On Rats”

13 Jason Isbell: “Now That Your Dollar Bills Have Sprouted Wings”

14 The Last Polka: “Marc Ribot”

15 Eleanor Friedberger: “Old Shanghai”

16 Sparks: “Why Did You Make Me Care?”

17 Swamp Dogg: “America, Here’s My Boy”

18 Jack Black: “We All Wear Cloaks”

19 Loudon Wainwright III: “Do We? We Do”

20 Gabriel Kahane with Ymusic: “Mutilation Rag”