Good day all. Here's hoping that your Thanksgivings were leisurely and unencumbered. It's a quiet time up for us in the midcoast, which is a nice break. The only think we can't really give thanks for is our not being able to see more of you fine folks, but plug away at that we shall. And this post wraps up the second Woodpile.
Anyways, both of these songs date back to our days on the north end of Bath, ME, Miss Oonagh and me. "Brand New Bird"? One spring day, the loudest goddarned bird set up shop in a huge, bedraggled oak across the street from us, in our neighbor Madeleine's yard. At the time, I was trying to be a good do-bee and study for that vile veterinary pathology board exam, but that dang thing was making me nuts for a few days with its boring-ass but extremely loud, sing-song "Peter-Peter-Peter" whistling. Turned out that crazy noisemaker was a plain old tufted titmouse. I'd always loved those lil' rats on account of their wide-eyed, crested, cartoon-y look and outgoing ways but I'd never appreciated the lungs on 'em, and things were looking grim for a while... Anyway, a metaphor ensued and I was off to the races! Mules kicking in the stall? Old-timey jug band stylings? Ain't that America!
"Five Days Crawl" is another ode to weeks spent working away from home. And a rockabilly player I am NOT, on rhythm, lead or bass, but I do love the rockabilly music. and by now at least I can fake it a bit. I'd written this as a straight up Elvis-Scotty-Bill rip-off, so such a version is long overdue.
Brand New Bird: https://www.box.com/s/k8395yfyq2w50bn155i6
Five Days Crawl: https://www.box.com/s/771crnuwzzrii6bvn4hh
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
RKBS4 Covers "EP"
Continuing a little pre-Thanksgiving belly-stretching, we follow up the previous post's gut-busting cornucopia with the remaining tasty leftovers from that session. This "EP" gets you the remixed cover material, as follows:
- "A Goodby Rye" (Richard Buckner). Good lord, but what heart-stopping and near-perfect albums comprise Buckner's out-of-the-gate trilogy! "Bloomed" (1995) finds him getting his dusty legs, and "Since"(1998) is a masterpiece, but "Devotion and Doubt"(1997) is the pinnacle. Band, voice, production, lyrics, songs... It all comes together and crushes you.
- "Game of Pricks" (Guided By Voices). From the best-by-far incarnation of Dayton's slop-pop-prog-lo-fi kings. We used to take this one up now and again back in the day with the Dillo band ("Motor Away" as well) but I swear I never knew the chords, which is a shame. Still atoning for past sins, I guess.
- "Save It for Later" (The English Beat). You might not peg me for a Beat fan but, oh my friends, I am one in spades! Someday we'll get back around to again covering their version of "Tears of a Clown" (as the pre-Buttsteak JHU roadshow used to do-- fast, fast, fast!) but in the meantime there's this classic. It's the sort of non-ska, non-political, poppy number that raised some hackles within the Beat at the time but Dave Wakeling (and management) won out and we're all the better for it.
- "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" (The Smiths). Yet another fine Smiths tune, and one long-covered by the Buttsteaks. This particular version reflects an effort on the part of Mike and me to rock it up a bit and keep the sappy maundering down to a minimum-- to dial up the Marr, Joyce and Rourke side and tone down Morrisey a tad.
- "From a Buick 6" (Bob Dylan). Tip of the hat to Son Volt, whose rip-roaring encore version of Dylan's "Obviously Five Believers" at Bohager's in Fell's Point back in the day convinced me that we should take a stab at this one.
A Goodbye Rye: https://www.box.com/s/hgbu1olsvgxsub6dcuoj
Game of Pricks: https://www.box.com/s/2z97neyh8gjcaj6qw0fm
Save It for Later: https://www.box.com/s/h6vcazl6n201a7qn85xz
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out:
https://www.box.com/s/bgfjzvf29vppc5daagz8
From A Buick 6: https://www.box.com/s/vyozlol9nl44a3ojauu6
- "A Goodby Rye" (Richard Buckner). Good lord, but what heart-stopping and near-perfect albums comprise Buckner's out-of-the-gate trilogy! "Bloomed" (1995) finds him getting his dusty legs, and "Since"(1998) is a masterpiece, but "Devotion and Doubt"(1997) is the pinnacle. Band, voice, production, lyrics, songs... It all comes together and crushes you.
- "Game of Pricks" (Guided By Voices). From the best-by-far incarnation of Dayton's slop-pop-prog-lo-fi kings. We used to take this one up now and again back in the day with the Dillo band ("Motor Away" as well) but I swear I never knew the chords, which is a shame. Still atoning for past sins, I guess.
- "Save It for Later" (The English Beat). You might not peg me for a Beat fan but, oh my friends, I am one in spades! Someday we'll get back around to again covering their version of "Tears of a Clown" (as the pre-Buttsteak JHU roadshow used to do-- fast, fast, fast!) but in the meantime there's this classic. It's the sort of non-ska, non-political, poppy number that raised some hackles within the Beat at the time but Dave Wakeling (and management) won out and we're all the better for it.
- "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" (The Smiths). Yet another fine Smiths tune, and one long-covered by the Buttsteaks. This particular version reflects an effort on the part of Mike and me to rock it up a bit and keep the sappy maundering down to a minimum-- to dial up the Marr, Joyce and Rourke side and tone down Morrisey a tad.
- "From a Buick 6" (Bob Dylan). Tip of the hat to Son Volt, whose rip-roaring encore version of Dylan's "Obviously Five Believers" at Bohager's in Fell's Point back in the day convinced me that we should take a stab at this one.
A Goodbye Rye: https://www.box.com/s/hgbu1olsvgxsub6dcuoj
Game of Pricks: https://www.box.com/s/2z97neyh8gjcaj6qw0fm
Save It for Later: https://www.box.com/s/h6vcazl6n201a7qn85xz
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out:
https://www.box.com/s/bgfjzvf29vppc5daagz8
From A Buick 6: https://www.box.com/s/vyozlol9nl44a3ojauu6
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