“Harmony” (Jim Fusco Cover)

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By Jeff Copperthite:

And here is my installment for “Original Wednesday”, where we at FMP dig into each other’s libraries of original songs and play them on video.

I chose Jim’s song “Harmony” from his 2005 album “What about today?”, which is available on fusco-moore.com, and other well-known sites.

This song closes out that album, and is the perfect album closer. Up-tempo, short, meaningful, and extremely catchy.

During the second bridge my voice went a bit nasal on me, but I recovered in perfect harmony (booya! Another one for the Jeffster!). This is also the first one I recorded in my “studio”, which is my spring upgrade project. Watch out for the video “As the wall is built” when I work on painting and building this studio into a sweet looking musicstation.

I hope you enjoy the video!

Editor’s Note: Unfortunately, Jeff’s acoustic cover song music videos are no longer on YouTube, but we decided to keep his cover song blog posts up.  We figured these music blog entries would be good for posterity’s sake and because Jeff always gave such insightful posts each Session.  We hope to see Jeff’s impressive catalog of acoustic rock songs here on the Laptop Sessions cover songs and origianal music blog again in the future.  But, for now, please make sure to check-out hundreds of other acoustic cover songs from all of your favorite bands here on the Laptop Sessions music blog!

Busted strings = no video

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So tonight I wanted to put up a video from Toad the Wet Sprocket. I made it 35 seconds into the song before going to the wrong chord. I then decided to strum the strings very hard and mute them.

In doing that, the G string broke.

And i’m out of replacement strings (yeah, some guitar player I am).

So naturally, I will have to delay this evenings’ video. I’ll be back tomorrow or Saturday with new strings, and the video I had planned for this evening.

Until then…

“So You Say You Lost Your Baby” (Gene Clark Covers)

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By Jeff Copperthite:

Welcome to a special Tuesday edition of The Laptop Sessions. This song is so popular among FMP, we’re giving you THREE editions of it! We’re calling it “So You Say You Lost Your Tuesday”.

Ok, that’s not fully true. Turns out Jim & I had recorded this song on video, and rather than one of us getting to post it, we decided to ask Chris if he’d join in and all of us post.

This is a short and great song from the awesome Gene Clark. While the recorded version sounds somewhat different, this version is based off of his acoustic sessions’ recordings.

I wanted to cover this song because I always liked the version Jim did on his album “That’s all…”, which was released in 2003. Gene Clark has been one of my favorites since Jim introduced me to him and Byrds’ music.

We hope you enjoy the hat trick!

Look for our next edition of “Original Wednesday” as Jim plays a song from my album Greenlight!








Editor’s Note: Unfortunately, Jeff’s acoustic cover song music videos are no longer on YouTube, but we decided to keep his cover song blog posts up.  We figured these music blog entries would be good for posterity’s sake and because Jeff always gave such insightful posts each Session.  We hope to see Jeff’s impressive catalog of acoustic rock songs here on the Laptop Sessions cover songs and original music blog again in the future.  But, for now, please make sure to check-out hundreds of other acoustic cover songs from all of your favorite bands here on the Laptop Sessions music blog!

Blitzen Trapper’s “Destroyer of the Void” (2010) – YES, NO, MAYBE SO?

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Blitzen Trapper’s Destroyer of the Void (2010) – MAYBE SO

Destroyer Of The Void (Blitzen Trapper, 2010)

Destroyer Of The Void (Blitzen Trapper, 2010)

(June 8, 2010)

Review:

This summer, I wrote off Destroyer of the Void for sounding too much like a throwback to seventies rock, but I dropped the ball on this one: beyond the obvious comparisons, it has a strong instrumental foundation, creative lyrical sense, and adds up to a strong album.

Top Two Tracks:

“Below the Hurricane” & “Love and Hate”