Hello again Apple users-- To link directly to the song via BoxNet, cut and paste this here into your Safari or whatever fancy browser you're running:
http://www.box.com/s/fadm8yx23egaumpmg1n6
And a good day to the rest of youse also! Things have been hectic lately, including a typically "hectic" swing down to Baltimore, if you know what I mean... Anyway, I apologize for the slackness in posting, and hopefully can make it up to you with one last Kinks cover I had in the hopper. "Strangers" is one of little brother Dave Davies' many minor hits, and it's a predictable fave of the Kinks cognoscenti, in all its yelpy, 5/4 glory and garbled syntax. Being a member of one of the leading lights of the British Invasion certainly propelled Dave to stardom and, taking advantage of that, he did stepp out under his own name a tad in the late 60's. I like to think there's little doubt he'd have been a successful solo artist irregahdless, or at least a niche fancy for the usual music obsessives. (Matter of fact, his output has just been slapped onto a 27-cut import compilation of wheezy, wailing Dave-ness, so there is some justice in the world...)
So I'd been meaning to cover this one for a long while and before I was finished, I saw some YouTube/ Onion Undercover videos of the Baltimore band Wye Oak doing their stellar take on it. I almost hung up the enterprise right there but figured "Ah, the heck with it--- Let's just steal the idea of a fuzz-laden guitar spasm in the solo part, and be done with it." Enjoy!
jk
Strangers:
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