I checked out Wish You Were Here. It takes monster-sized balls to take music so completely enmeshed with a sound and give it a brand new sound, especially Southern-fried-tinged rock. But it works, for the most part. I don’t like the sloppiness of the singer: “Did they get you to tra-a-a-de” should be a gliscando; slurring them together isn’t more folksy; it’s just lazy.
It was a short lived project but yes, I think it did work.
Not many good quality versions out there.