Video: Okkervil River: "A Girl In Port" (solo acoustic version)
This video has some age to it, but it's new to me. It's Will Sheff performing a rough, voice-cracking solo version of "A Girl In Port" in a seaside Italian town last year, way before The Stage Names was released. Kinda makes you want to get on a plane, like, now. Sheff also had this to say:
"Our friend Mike Torres shot this 16mm (and Super 8) footage of us on a European tour in late 2006, when we had a day off in the area surrounding the walled city of San Elpidio a Mare, Italy. We took the van down to the beach; Scotty and Brian skipped rocks, Patrick and Travis played this weird little pseudo-poker shell and rock game, and I pulled out my guitar to play this song, inspired by the whole seaside scene. With footage from the beach and around the walled city. One of my favorite afternoons in recent memory."
[original version from The Stage Names; out now on Jagjaguwar]