Song of the Day: Peter Doherty - Sheepskin Tearaway (feat Dot Allison)

A song I've recently re-discovered and one of the finest songs in Doherty's back catalogue. Exemplary of Grace/Wastelands, "Sheepskin Tearaway" features the defining hazy production and strings of that album, and includes the perfectly-suited vocals of Dot Allison. Her voice compliments Doherty's well, both sounding vaguely unpolished and conjuring a mood that suits the lyrics; telling the story of a woman who "opens her heart" to "a tearaway, all covered in scars and full of heroin," it's easy to view this as an autobiographical piece by Doherty, but another interpretation would be that this is another song paying tribute to the underdog, a frequent topic of his.