By Jeff Copperthite:
Good evening, and welcome toThumpin’ Thursday! I’ve got a brand new band to bring to the blog tonight!
The band is somewhat well-known, called “Better Than Ezra”. They released an album that I have somewhere in my library called “Deluxe”. On it was a song called “Good”, which is tonight’s cover. It’s a very cool song that I actually never really understood the meaning of.
You know how there are songs that you really don’t “listen” to the lyrics? This is one of them. I mean, don’t get me wrong. I’ve long knew the words, but I never really bothered to figure out what the song means. It wasn’t until I was reviewing the lyrics for the session that I realized it’s a “damn she left and wrote a note about it”.
This song is still a solid one from what I call “My Alternative Library”. It’s going to be drawn from throughout the year, so you get to look forward to that.
I’m watching a really cool special right now on TV. Apparently George Carlin has been posthumously awarded the “Mark Twain” award. It’s a commercial free 90 minute special where multiple comedians are paying tribute and they are showing various clips from his television career – all the way from his very early Tonight Show appearances, Smothers Brothers set, HBO specials, and other things I haven’t seen. It was on a channel called WLIW21, so if you get it (or have heard of it before), you will have to watch it.
George has always been a favorite of mine. Sorry for the diversion from tonight’s session. I hope you enjoy it, and come back next Thursday for what I hope is the first cover video of a great song!
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!