Recently, Jim Fusco of the Laptop Sessions acoustic cover songs music video blog reached 1,000 subscribers on the popular video site YouTube.
Jim has been recording videos for the Laptop Sessions series for over three years and has amassed over 200 videos. He has almost 700,000 video views and is happy to reach this goal of 1,000 subscribers.
His new season of cover song music videos begins in September, 2010. Jim’s next goal is to reach 1,000,000 video views. Stay tuned!
By Chris Moore:
Hello and welcome to the third installment of the 2010 Project preview series. If you’ve been around the blog recently, you’ve seen the unveiling of both the opener “No Lights, No Sound” and the second track “I Would Prefer Not To.”
Now, on to track three…
“Socrates’ Gulps” is a fairly recent song, one that knocked the older “No More” down to the fourth slot. It features one of my more ambitious vocals in the chorus, which guaranteed its place in the third slot. I won’t say much about it, other than to note that it is the song I plan on recording tomorrow and/or Saturday. For once, I’ll have the song speak for itself.
Outside of tonight’s video, I’d like to emphasize that I haven’t forgotten about the Weekend Review. In fact, I have the next six reviews lined up and ready to be written. Finding time is the issue. I did finish my class, which has freed up a lot of time, but I have been spending a lot of time hanging out with friends, reading books that I want to finish before the summer is out, and kicking off recording sessions for my first album in four years, The 2010 Project.
In other words, I’ve been enjoying the latter half of my summer break!
But stay tuned here, as I’ve pledged to post 52 of my 2010 music reviews here at the Laptop Sessions, and I am confident that I will be able to do so. (As for my Bob Dylan review-writing goal, I’ve shifted that to included his sixties releases only…)
As a final note, be sure to glance behind me in the video tonight and check out the Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin lithograph that has covered up my previous Dead Weather Sea of Cowards poster. I mention this, first, to give Wilson’s new album a shout-out (it just may end up being the seventh review on my list), and second, to re-iterate how much I love Newbury Comics, whose coupon brought the album price down to a reasonable $9.99 and included the poster for free.
At that, I’ll leave you to this Original Wednesday video and turn my attention back to the increasingly depressing Mets game, currently in the bottom of the twelfth inning. With any “luck,” Ollie Perez is getting warmed up. I mean, his role is as the twelfth inning specialist, isn’t it?
See you next session!
Click HERE to read the review!
1) “Who Needs Sleep?”
2) “Old Apartment”
3) “Falling for the First Time”
4) Improv 1 – “At Mohegan Sun” rap / “Something Tells Me I’m Into Something Good”
5) “Every Subway Car” (with Angel Taylor)
6) “Told You So”
7) “Easy”
8) “Eraser”
9) “Another Heartbreak”
10) “On the Lookout”
11) “Sound of Your Voice” (acoustic)
12) “It’s All Been Done”
13) “Too Little Too Late”
14) “Golden Boy”
15) “You Run Away”
16) “Four Seconds”
17) “Big Bang Theory Theme”
18) “One Week”
19) “Pinch Me”
20) “If I Had $1000000”
21) Improv 2 – “Oh, It’s Magic, You Know” / rap / dance number
22) “Alcohol”
23) “Watching the Northern Lights”
24) “Brian Wilson”
“Scare Easy”
Mudcrutch
Am G Em D
My love’s an ocean, you better not cross it
I’ve been the distance and I need some rest
Yeah, I had somebody once, and damn if I lost her
I’ve been running like a man possessed
C G D
I don’t scare easy
Don’t fall apart when I’m under the gun
You can break my heart and I ain’t gonna run
Am D
I don’t scare easy for no one
Yeah, I’m a loser at the top of my game
I should have known to keep an eye on you
I got a sky that ain’t never the same
Yeah, I got a dream that don’t ever come true
CHORUS
SOLO to verse chords
Sun going down on a canyon wall
I’ve got a soul that ain’t never been blessed
Yeah, I’m a shadow at the back of the hall
Yeah, I got a sin I ain’t never confessed…
CHORUS
CHORUS
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