
Inevitably, a love of coverage leads to a constant, ever-vigilant search for thoughtful, well-crafted reinterpretation. I spend hours each week mining full albums for the hidden cover song, and scanning MySpace and email inbox for the promotional, the one-off acoustic in-studio radio track, and the otherwise unreleased singleton, and the endless discovery is eminently worth the pursuit. But there's no question that tribute albums are the cover lover's bread and butter. I gather these things in like truffles, and hold a special place for them in my heart and in my [...]
Way back when this blog was first taking shape I wrote a piece on local band Private Eleanor, their lovely folk pop gem Sweethearting, and their indefinite and unfortunate hiatus as a band . One... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]