Freestyle

Josh Ritter covers Bruce Springsteen's "The River." Hear it for yourself for free. It's not the original, but Ritter takes it on acoustically and touches the sadder elements of the tune.

I love it when I go to an artist's site for information about tour dates and I uncover free music instead. That's the same way I found out about The Mars Volta's cover of "Back Against the Wall," thought they make you work for it a little.

To be fair, there's an ocean of legal, free, decent quality bootleg recordings floating around the Internet, but nothing beats a high-quality issue from the source.