Mark Kozelek, best known as the founder of Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon, has reworked Bon Scott-era AC/DC songs into stripped-back acoustic folk ballads, stripping away the guitars and volume to expose them as character-driven story songs. The reinterpretation matters because it recasts Scott, usually remembered as a hard-rock frontman, as a serious lyricist and storyteller, an approach that reportedly won approval from Malcolm Young and support from Brian Johnson.

In interviews, Kozelek described tracks such as What's Next To The Moon, Rock 'N' Roll Singer and Riff Raff taking on a haunted, Leonard Cohen-like quality when played solo on acoustic guitar, so much so that audiences sometimes fail to recognise them as AC/DC songs. He said the Bon Scott era, and albums like Highway To Hell and Powerage, resonated with him because the lyrics felt "sinister and dark" yet naturally suited to folk-style delivery, and that performing them now feels "as if they're my songs."