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the tracks (mp3s): to put this record together, you will need: + glue of course, feel free to just download the songs and listen to them. but if you feel crafty: :: the cover art (in PDF format) please download and print out and put together as many of these eps
as you'd like, give them to friends. this is a translucence
release (lux007). around december 2002 i recorded covers of songs some of my friends had written. i put the recordings on a cd and gave it to them as a present. there were no plans to release the songs, but i'd like to make them available, so here they are. 1 :: the first song is a cover of a song called calamity jane by the david slade, who is now in the band american princes, from little rock. me + the slade once recorded one of his songs -- discreet charm -- together under the name the young toughs: he sang and played acoustic guitar, and i played electric guitar and sang the backing vocals. the slade also co-founded the short-lived but much loved garbage czar records. 2 :: a cover of cops by eliot rose / the scientifics. the original version appeared on the scientifics album green wave, which i put out on translucence. 3 :: this is a song called sioux falls which was written by webster mcbride, who is in a band called carrier. [me + web + karl tupper, also of the health, used to be in a band called pinstripe: here's an mp3 of watermelon seed, which came out on an a cd released by garbage czar records (RIP).] web + karl, as the health, recorded some songs here in LA with me as engineer + producer. this is one of them: things don't fall apart. 4 :: a cover of wheat and chaff by the wind-up bird. the real song title is something quite a bit longer, but then, the actual song is quite a bit longer than my version, too. [you know, i've played more shows with the wind-up bird than with any other band. as of this writing, 57 shows together. crazy.] thanks to my friends for letting me upload my interpretations of their fantastic handiwork. |
