I played this cover for my daughter. It’s now in her top 10. Quite rocking.

Cover by Girlyman Sorrry…a day late

It’s a high school dance. Not a particularly special one–just a random weekend night sometime between homecoming and prom. The debate team needed to raise funds, so they hired a DJ, charge five bucks at the door, and another dollar for a dixie cup of warm, flat coke from a two-liter. You were at a [...]

(or Saturday Morning Dance Party, as the case may be. Sorry I’m late.) WNKU is as bad for my iTunes budget as Coverville.

I tweeked the sig on my iPad to read “Message sent via a bottle thrown into the ocean. It seems I’m not alone in being alone.” This is inspired by the Police’s “Message in a Bottle.” I’m a fan of the Coverville podcast. Brian Ibott, the host, does a great job of presenting interesting takes [...]

Today I turn fourty. So, I decided to pick a birthday song. Not a fan of the Beatles. They are OK, I suppose, but tremendously overrated. On the other hand, I dig the Sugarcubes.

Doing the Horsey Hundred this weekend…

I first heard this song on an episode of the short lived “The Unusuals.” They used it during a chase scene, and it worked. The rhythm made it a great song to have in my head while riding my bike. All in all, I really dug it. As an Indian song, I didn’t understand the [...]

I mentioned we went to a concert last weekend. Girlyman and their opening act, Coyote Grace, are folk/roots artists. They ended the show with a joint cover of “Stayin’ Alive.” The video is not from the show I attended, but it still is ptty awesome.

In 1962, a fan challenged Dick Dale, King of the Surf Guitar, to play a song on one string. Thinking of his uncle playing a traditional Greek song on an oud, he modified it, and came up with “Miserlou.”