Dive into the archives.
- Christmas! Baby, Please Come Home
Looked through a list of eighties songs and thought I could do this one from U2’s ouevre. When I found some sheet music for it online, I started working off one version and saw that it was based on a live version by Death Cab for Cutie. Small world! I had a blast making this […]
- Holly Jolly Christmas
This one went through a couple iterations… I tried it rockabilly style, tried it all strummy and sixties… I settled for an Everly Brothers meets Burl Ives sorta melange. Think I should have changed the key but it is what it is – fast and furious, apparently that is me! Have a holly jolly Christmas! […]
- Come Find Me!
Jude got a big idea while I was dong laundry and wanted to play hide and seek. So from under this basket he instructed me to go off and count, then come back and find him. Then he added, “but don’t go RAWR!, OK daddy?”. So I dutifully counted and I didn’t say “RAWR!”, even […]
- Oodelloly
I loved watching the Disney Robin Hood movie. Christy and Brandon had the VHS copy and we would watch it again and again, and it was so cool that Roger Miller sang those molasses tunes for it. Of course this one is a staple around the house; our name is pretty prominant in it and […]
- Last Christmas
To kick off a month of Christmas covers, I decided to lead with George. I loved this song when I was a kid. I loved that it was really a love song, as well as one of those instances where the guy is the one admitting his own vulnerability. To mix things up I tried […]
