Dillo/ Buttsteak '11, part 3: Ringo plus Bee Gees plus...

Hey alls-  As winter continues to treat us northeasterners to yet another aggressive lion-lamb spiral, here's pretty much the last of the stuff that Dillo and I completed from our N.C. heatwave summer shack-up back in 2011.   In the interest of clearing the decks for the next batches of posts (the Harpswell Hootenanny, Stackpole and Roadkill-Buttsteak sessions from 2012), I figured I'd just send these off.  I do hope you're enjoying them, and do love to hear back your thoughts on things, so don't be shy!

"Photograph" was a Ringo-George co-write on the "Ringo" album from '73.  This particular version stays true both to the original version and the version by our old faves Camper van Beethoven off their late-80s chock-full-of-wonderful EP "Vampire Can Mating Oven".

"Massachusetts" goes even further back for the Brothers Gibb.  1967 to be precise.  That's a good ten years before their full swing through R&B and then disco and then all the smooth, horrible, weird stuff that they closed out with. 

There are a couple beautiful versions of "By the Time It Gets Dark" by Sandy Denny, she of Fairport Convention and "The Battle of Evermore" and a solo career and the usual substance-fueled self-destruction.  You can check the YouTubes for a nice, smooth, Bonnie Raitt-like one, or a spare solo acoustic version, both from around '77, methinks....  The one here toes a hard line to Yo la Tengo's cover version of the song that showed up on their also chock-full-of-wonderful EP "Little Honda" in '98.

jk

Photograph (Ringo Starr- George Harrison):
https://www.box.com/s/zl4zcedwai724jra15lu

Massachusetts (the Bee Gees):                
https://www.box.com/s/o2zukjg5k4decgbpwkp4

By the Time It Gets Dark (Sandy Denny):
https://www.box.com/s/222nokiqi9z10nx04ai4