Category: Audio

My cover of “Road to Nowhere”, a 1985 Talking Heads tune, started off as a little experiment one Saturday morning. The idea to cover it had occurred to me around the time I purchased my melodica. The original song employs an accordion (or so says this song’s Wikipedia page), but I had the pleasure of… Continue reading Road to Nowhere

To me, “Steppin’ Stone” is the prototypical “garage band” (two words, lower-case) song. If you were ever in a rock & roll band and didn’t play this at least once, I question your sensibilities. It’s been recorded by Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Monkees, the Sex Pistols, and many others. The song, written by… Continue reading (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone

I got a bit of a confidence boost recording “Secret Agent Man” because I felt like I was able to capture a reasonable facsimile of the original’s lead guitar bits, so I decided to apply the same approach to “Stray Cat Strut.” This is a tune my good friend and neighbor Chris and I ran… Continue reading Stray Cat Strut

Christmas 2020 was approaching, and I thought it would be nice to record a Christmas tune. I had been playing “Blue Christmas” on my ukulele for about a decade, and I thought it might be fun to record a version in the style of Elvis Presley’s version, but one which starts with the uke providing… Continue reading Blue Christmas

After recording “Fire“, I had a couple of misfires. I tried covering “Ticket to Ride”, the backing tracks for which came out OK (not great), but I couldn’t sing it. I started working on “(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone”, but wasn’t thrilled with how that was progressing, so I shelved that, too. “Secret Agent Man”… Continue reading Secret Agent Man

I had barely finished unboxing all of my new studio equipment when I started recording “Fire.” Of all the songs played in all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, why I chose this to be my first recording, I have no idea. I think the song had just been going… Continue reading Fire