| Cover
songs |
These
were recently recorded just for fun, and will not appear on the CD.
Earn
Enough For Us
The first song I recorded with Apple's Garageband, spring 2004. A pretty
faithful cover of a song by XTC from their 1986 album Skylarking.
Between
Something and Nothing
My second song in Garageband. This was a minor hit for The Ocean Blue
back in the 80's.
Wake
Up
My third Garageband song, another very faithful XTC cover, from their
album The Big Express. I did this primarily to see if it was
possible to duplicate the rather complex production on the song.
No
One Is To Blame
My own arrangement of the 80's hit by Howard Jones. The vocals have
been touched up, but I think they still need to be re-recorded. |
| Duet
with Glenn Tilbrook |
From
A Whisper To A Scream
Glenn Tilbrook had been touring solo to promote his own solo album,
"The Incomplete Glenn Tilbrook," and on the tour, he'd been
getting requests to do "From A Whisper To A Scream," a song
on which he had done a duet with Elvis Costello, which appeared on Elvis'
album "Trust". So, who sang the Elvis part? Somebody from
the audience. In November 2002, Glenn came around to Arlington, to club
Iota. This time, I was the only volunteer. He prefaced the song by saying
it would be a "crueler" version, where if the audience didn't
like me, they could vote me off, in the spirit of reality TV.
With that in mind,
we launched into the song. I sang Elvis Costello's part, Glenn sang
his part and played guitar, the crowd were kind, the sound system was
good, and the song was a rousing success, bringing me lots of compliments
afterwards.
And that was that,
or so we thought. It turns out somebody at the show was secretly taping
it. Ellen got wind of it on an online chat list, and got a copy of the
show on CD-ROM. It was taped with a tiny hand-held tape recorder, so
the quality is a bit shaky, but you can hear it pretty well. |
