Well today’s the day. The album has been released. Before you start to listen to any of it go ahead and set aside an hour. It ain’t easy being an album person in a single teeny-bop world. I made the album to be enjoyed as a whole and it does have a theme and a cohesive story. If anyone is curious about any of the songs meanings or inspirations I would be ecstatic to explain. Have a listen:
For a little Valentine’s Day cheer we decided to do some songs that contain the word “love” and let people download said recordings have a listen:
Well its time for another cover song to get posted up here. As a little background for this one, it is a Buddy Holly song that I have had this version of worked up for a while. I grew up near the same area of Texas that Buddy is from and have always been a fan.
I am a fan of the collected works of one Ian Thornley and have mentioned such several times. I was excited for a few minutes when I found out about this contest:
There are few things as wonderful as hearing someone cover a song and make it sound new and refreshing to you. In fact there are some groups that I only enjoy through the filter of being covered by someone else (Beatles). If you feel as I do, oh, you should be as excited as I am about what I came across today.
Let’s try this again. 2010 was actually a pretty good music year and after some technical and memory glitches I am ready to put out a full list. Let’s start with the bad stuff so you can end on a positive note. This year had several disappointing showings from a few bands.
Written by: Dave
Written in 1997.
Recorded in 2004 in a mattress filled garage.
This is the first fully lyric-ed and finished, non-instrumental song I ever wrote. I wrote it on my second guitar, which is named “Penny”.
I will start with the honorable mentions who were all very difficult to not include in the official top 5. We have Eric Clapton, Kirk Hammett, Jerry Cantrell, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Johnson, Explosions in the Sky, Rich Robinson, Dimebag Darrell, Travis Meeks (pre-Meth-ed out phase), The DeLeo brothers and Yngwie Malmsteen. I purposefully excluded Van Halen and Jimmy Page. The former because he has been a jerk in the public eye many times and the latter because of horrific decisions since Zeppelin split, that, and he stole music. I do however recognize their talents.
If you know me you know I don’t like greatest hits albums. Many times anyone who cares enough about a group or artist already has all of the greatest hits as released on previous albums. Making things more annoying for me is when there is one or two new, good songs on a greatest hits album, thus forcing the dedicated fan to buy an album of material they already own to get one song. You would also know that I do not like to buy singles from itunes and such. My favorite way to experience music is as an entire album on vinyl. All of this leads to frustration when a band I like puts out a “best of” album
What were they thinking, keeping these off the album? In no particular order here are 10 of the great non-albums songs. You can listen along:
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