Will Butler's live track playlist: Sam Cooke, Prince, Violent Femmes and more

In support of his new live album, the Arcade Fire member picks a selection of songs performed in front of a live audience, including hypnotic Motown, Prince’s epoch and his grandfather on steel guitarThis is my grandfather playing steel guitar with his big band, taken from a live radio broadcast in 1940. Where to start? How about with the strikingly beautiful vocoder (technically talk-box, but whatever) performance. But also that one emotional brass moment that swells a third of the way i...

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