You should. I literally said it two minutes ago.
Totally Covered
No originals here.
Thursday, May 18, 2023
18 May 2023 - Breanne Düren - Everlasting Light
You should. I literally said it two minutes ago.
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
2 May 2023 - An "If You Could Read My Mind" Special
The late Glen Campbell, a fellow storyteller himself, paid great tribute to Lightfoot's worldwide #1 - arguably the greatest breakup song every written.
In 2019, I recorded a cover of Gordon Lightfoot's haunting "If You Could Read My Mind" for my Runaway Horses 30th Anniversary box set. https://t.co/ACT4InvEJt
— Belinda Carlisle 💙 (@belindacarlisle) May 2, 2023
It's one of my favorite songs.
RIP #gordonlightfoot pic.twitter.com/s6cRWFh9Jx
Monday, April 10, 2023
10 April 2023 - The Breeders - Freed Pig
Friday, March 24, 2023
24 March 2023 - Lights - How You Remind Me
Friday, March 3, 2023
3 March 2023 - Lisa LeBlanc - Ace of Spades
Thursday, February 16, 2023
16 February 2023 - Frank Turner - Bob
I never truly considered getting a tattoo until I had a
stroke a year before the “plague” hit the world.
Lying in a hospital bed for weeks of rehab and listening to
my iPod at night will do that to you. I probably listened to Frank Turner’s “I
Still Believe,” dozens of times in those weeks. I would meditate on this single
line from that song, “Now who’d have thought that after all something so simple
as rock and roll will save us all?”
I was convinced that when I got out of that place and got
“well enough” I would get that line tattooed on my arm as a reminder of where I
was and what I wanted to be. After my release I had an uphill battle with
glorious victories, and annoying failures. Went back to work after a few weeks
of my release (albeit in four-hour shifts) and was able to drive after five
months. Sadly, playing guitar proved too frustrating and typing on cellphones
or laptops is still a freaking chore (left hand freely types away while right
hand labors behind frustrating me with errors as every misstep drives me
bonkers.
But the greatest moment in the recovery process came just
before I was headed to Jamaica for my annual vacation. My doctor, after a boring year of forced, yet absolutely necessary sobriety,
cleared me to drink alcohol with one caveat: drink like an adult and not like a frat
guy. I happily complied. I then thought, “I’m back. When I return from my trip, I’m gonna get that tattoo.”
Had a great vacation. Came home and saw some friends at the
bar. We laughed about some threatening virus
as we were saying our goodbyes.
Covid.
F@cking Covid.
Suddenly everything fun was over. Not for days, or weeks, or
months, but years. We seem to be getting back to a new normal, but the urge to
get that Frank Turner lyric etched onto my skin has waned. It’s still a
beautiful thought.
Anyway, here we are with Frank covering “Bob” by NOFX. The video is very meta as NOFX portrays Frank’s band covering themselves. "What is Bob gonna do now that he can't drink?" for a while there, I could certainly relate. Enjoy!
Thursday, February 9, 2023
9 February 2023 - Molly Tuttle - Olympia WA
The first five Rancid albums are “go to” albums for me (the
records after…not so much but they each had their “moments”). That said, they
are one of my favorite bands ever. …And Out Come The Wolves is
punk perfection.
Over the years I discovered that I like bluegrass music, too.
Well, if the singer is a woman. I can’t think of a male bluegrass singer I
like…and that includes Billy Strings who everyone seems to dig. Hell, I even hated Sturgill Simpson’s two bluegrass
albums where he reworked his perfect contributions to country music into a bluegrass bore. Gimme
Sarah Jarosz, Sierra Hull, Alison Krauss, Rhonda Vincent and the like and I
swoon. It’s time to now add Molly Tuttle to that impressive list.
And as the world is now learning of her via her latest album Crooked Tree (which received a couple Grammy nods), I’m still grooving to her previous album …But I’d Rather Be With You which includes this tasty Rancid cover, among others.
- Random Point 1: I went to Olympia High School. Totally unrelated to this song.
- Random Point 2: I went to Olympia High School with the drummer of Mastodon. He was two years younger, and we didn’t know each other (surprisingly I was told this bit of info on Facebook by my considerably shocked friends from high school). This random point is even funnier to me as I’ve been a huge Mastodon fan for at least 15 years.