{"id":2642,"date":"2010-03-25T10:05:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T14:05:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-15T14:44:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T18:44:23","slug":"your-personal-covers-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/your-personal-covers-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Personal Covers Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z9Y0x1jLkLg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nHave ever fantasized about putting together an album of <strong>cover songs<\/strong> that would represent something about where you&#8217;re coming from musically, spiritually, or <em>whateverly<\/em> My close personal friend, <strong>Townsman andyr<\/strong>, and I have long joked about recording a &#8220;solo&#8221; album of covers that mean a lot to us but that we could not realistically see convincing our bandmates rallying behind. We&#8217;ve had some success in getting our bandmates to cover songs that would fit the model, such as <strong>R.B. Greaves<\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;Take a Letter Maria,&#8221; but bandmate <strong>chickenfrank<\/strong>, in particular, quickly catches onto how corny a path we would lead the whole band, if we had our druthers. That&#8217;s cool.<\/p>\n<p>These songs we joke about adding to that album have never been set in stone, but they share core musical values from our AM radio-informed youth, especially an abundance of <em>chooglin&#8217;<\/em> rhythms and quick I-IV-I chord progressions, such as the hook in the chorus of <strong>The Box Tops<\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;Soul Deep&#8221; (and Nick Lowe&#8217;s &#8220;Skin Deep,&#8221; for that matter). <strong>Billy Swan<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;I Can Help&#8221; definitely makes the track list. We have never formally discussed what would be on our joint solo album, but I&#8217;m pretty sure it would be done in the slavish manner of <strong>Dave Edmunds<\/strong>&#8216; <em>Subtle as a Flying Mallet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For <em>us<\/em>, mind you, this covers album would not necessarily be a collection of our favorite songs but a representation of a particular aspect of our collective tastes. (Other musical influences we might cover would be left to another project, such as the equally long-discussed Clash cover band, The Magnificent Seven, which would play exclusively a rotating set of 7 Clash covers.) <strong>Your personal covers album<\/strong> can be organized according to whatever principles your heart desires.<\/p>\n<p>So think about it &#8211; and andyr and I will too, in the course of this thread: <em>What 10 songs would make up your personal covers album?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have ever fantasized about putting together an album of cover songs that would represent something about where you&#8217;re coming from musically, spiritually, or whateverly My close personal friend, Townsman andyr, and I have long joked about recording a &#8220;solo&#8221; album of covers that mean a lot to us but that we could not realistically see <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/your-personal-covers-album\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}