Tag: cover tunes

  • New sounds of silence

    New sounds of silence

    I’ve recently been following this artist on Soundcloud, Sarah Walker, whose specialty is freely reinterpreting standards of the past (many of them from my own formative years) in what I might say is a more contemporary style, reminiscent of popular singer-songwriters of the moment (think Tay Tay, et al.). The premise seems to be imagine…

  • Wish Y’all Were Here

    Wish Y’all Were Here

    So, so you think you can tell…

  • Who Loves The Sun? (waltz)

    A cover of a favorite VU song as a waltz, for the Layers of Meta album UNTITLED 1, performed by small pleasurecraft (Christian on vocals, lead, and rhythm uke & Dan Brodnitz on backing vocals, guitar, keyboards, and production).

  • carry that water of love to me

    Got on a Dire Straits kick recently and started teaching myself to play “Water of Love,” one of their first hits. Here is a sort demo mixdown of a draft arrangement (experimenting with a new way to embed audio):

  • A town the size of Mountain View

    Starting to get this cover tune into shape (a Hunter/Garcia original that debuted on Jerry Garcia’s first solo album, Garcia, and popularized by the Dead):

  • Bringing the rain

    Earlier this year I was in New York on business so of course I spent some time hanging out with my brother, codename “xourmas.” (We have a little duo when we play together called the Power & Mighty.) He taught me a few cover tunes he had been working on over the past little while,…

  • I like to watch things on TV

    Recently Cecil aka Dan aka Cecil suggested that the Kincaid cover a Lou Reed song I’ve loved for quite some time, “Satellite of Love.” I’ve been working out a ukulele part and the other night in my hotel when I couldn’t sleep I spent some time putting together a quickie solo version of it: Satellite…