And so the story goes.......
Here are some songs that have been covered by other folks that are merely breathtaking to say the least.
Already Covered Songs:1.
Flesh and Blood:
Emmy Lou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Sheryl Crow w/ Marty Stuart. (originally written & recorded by the late Johnny Cash).
2.
Give My Love to Rose: Bruce Springsteen (originally written and recorded by the late Johnny Cash)3. Wurlitzter Prize: Norah Jones (originally written and recorded by Waylon Jennings)4. The Maker: Willie Nelson w/ Emmy Lou Harris (originally written and recorded by Daniel Lanois)*also recorded by The Dave Matthews Band ( a very good cover indeed)5. I Still Miss Someone: Brad Otts (yours truely), (originally written and recorded by the late great Johnny Cash)Now granted, I am not nearly in the company of the previously mentioned artist, but I must say, my rendition of I Still Miss Somone, I will say is rather beautiful.
Stay beautiful my babies.
Daddy's coming home soon.
Happy New Years to you & yours. Be careful and drive safe.
otts
Merry Christmas My Good Friends. It is Christmas Eve and I am with my family watching "National Lampoons: Christmas Vacation". It is still brilliant every time I see. Brilliant I tell you. BRILLIANT !!!
So, during my last post I mentioned some folks that I would love to hear sing songs that I love, that were written by other musicians that I love.
Well, I found out that #5, Tom Waits doing a cover of a song that he wrote that Norah Jones recorded on her last album. The song is called "Long Way Home". Tom Waits actually did do a recording of that was recorded on a movie soundtrack. It is a breathtaking song.
Here is a new list..........for a very special TOP 3 for Christmas Day.
1. Rufus Wainwright w/ The Darkness: "Bohemia Rhapsody" (originally recorded by Queen)
* recommended by my lovely wife, NOELLE.
2. Rosie Thomas and Sam Beam (from Iron and Wine): "White Christmas" (traditional)
3. Tom Waits: "O Holy Night" ( traditional standard)
** I am well aware that some of these songs will never be able to be recorded by these artists, but a boy can always dream.**
I just want to wish all of the 3 people that have ever read this blog a very merry christmas, good healthy living, and to take care of yourselves.
Cheers and God Bless,
b & n
I love when musicians I really like cover songs that I really love. Or at least they cover them in my brain. I have this daydream where I am working with all the great bands I love and they come to me to record songs that I love(d) and then all I do is produce these songs and put them out as records and then all the money goes to multiple charities of my choosing.
I have started to compile a bit a long tally of these bands and the songs that they are dying to have me produce.
1.
Nickel Creek-
"Big Iron" (originally written & recorded by Marty Robbins.)
2.
Norah Jones- "Honest Eyes" (originally written & recorded by Jud Newcomb)3.
Wilco- "Forever"- (originally written & recorded by The Beach Boys)4. Tom Waits- An Entire Album Dedicated to Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five Peppers Band (doing all New Orleans Jazz)5. Tom Waits- "Long Way Home" (
originally was written by Tom Waits, but was recorded by Norah Jones)6. The Magic Numbers- "California Dreamin' " (originally written and recorded by The Mama's & The Papa's)7. Ben Kweller- "Barbara Ann"- (originally written & recorded by The Beach Boys)8. Kelly Joe Phelps- "Jesus Gonna Be Here" & "Down in the Hole" (both songs originally written & recorded by Tom Waits)9. Rufus Wainwright- this song that Kermit the Frog sang at his wedding to Miss Piggy in one of my all time favorite movies "Muppets Take Manhattan". 10. Beck- "Sing me Back Home"- (orginally written and recorded by Merle Haggard)11. The Assylum Street Spankers- "Missippli Delta Blues" (originally written & recorded by Jimmie Rogers., also recorded by Merle Haggard.)That is all that I can think of at the moment. Stay tuned in for more.Bienvenue.wow,love**bjo
It's a funny thing.....you know...words. How they can break a heart, cause a fool to fall in, to bring a suddren rush of emotions to your endorphins thus causing you to shed a watery substance from your eyes that also brings along a thing called an "emotion", thus causing some sort of physical reacion to not only your psychee (pronounce it psyche-eeeeeee.......that's for the folks that can not pronounce well...) but also that thing in the middle of your chest called your HEART. It's a funny thing you know.
Tom Waits writes songs I like. Rather...Tom Waits writes songs (like alot of songwriters I enjoy) that take me too another place. This place I cannot begin to describe. Someone...rather...all have been there sometime in their life. It's up to them to tell their story. I shall tell mine.
If you are lucky enough, Tom Waits put out an album about a year or so ago called "Real Gone". On my list of Tom Waits albums it's not my favorite cover to cover. However, it is steadily climbing the charts. There are 15 standard tracks on it, and the last track on the album brings more emotion/HOPE/love to my heart than 99.3% of the songs that have come out in the past 25 years. The song is entitled,
"The Day After Tommorrow". First and foremost I beg you...do not burn this song if you have access. It is too beautiful to steal from him. It deserves your money. He made it and it moves you (if you take a moment to listen to it, and think about the lyrics he is saying), and it causes you to think about what we are doing as humans.
Tom Waits causes me to cry. I have said it. There are times i have musical emotions so intense I almost can not handle them in terms of being able to keep myself together.
I could care less. Bring me the friends that experience this kind of emotion (in music alone) and I would consider it a priveledge to call them me chaps.
Please listen to this song and buy Tom Waits material along with material by Brad Otts,
www.bradotts.com ,
www.noelleandbrad.com . It will make you happy. I am thusly tired.
I love all of you.
Cheers
brad
The past few days I have been sitting and thinking about the Top 15 Albums that People MUST BUY RIGHT NOW or they will die: I think I have come up with an acceptable list.*WARNING: If you do not buy these albums in the next month you WILL SURELY DIE !! * *these albums are in no specific order1. Sufjan Stevens- "Illinois (Come on Feel the Illinois !!)"2. Rosie Thomas- "If Songs Could be Heald"3. Nickel Creek- "Why Should the Fire Die?"4. Iron and Wine w/ Calexico- " In the Reigns" EP5. The Magic Numbers - "Self Titled: The Magic Numbers" 6. The Redwalls- "Universal Blues"7. The Redwalls- "De Nova"8. Tom Waits- "Mule Variations"9. Tom Waits- "Alice"10. Wilco- "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"11. Ryan Adams- "Jacksonville City Nights" (out Sept. 27)12. Ryan Adams- "Cold Roses"13. Elizabethtown Soundtrack- click for track listing www.elizabethtown.com 14. Damien Jurado- "On My Way to Absence"15. The Autumn Defense- "Circles"This is the end of this post. be kind to each other.blessings*bjo*
Summer has bid a fond farewell. He has tipped his cap to us here in Brooklyn and given us to the ole' "go get 'em sport"....."see ya' round the bend" look your tee ball coach used to throw your way when things didn't work out as well as you would have liked your first at bat of the season. Although it does seem anti-climactic since I am no longer student of higher education in the school of academia, but rather a regular old Joe, "working with my nose to the grindstone" or whatever ancient work analogy you would prefer to use here. Summer's don't really revolve around the usual aspects of my misbegotten youth, whatever they may be (golfing and drinking, drinking and swimming, drinking and drinking, etc...). Oh how fruitfull those summer's were. Not a moment wasted right? That's what we said. How how humerously ironic, sad, and hillarious it all is now. None the less, Fall is upon us here in this fair metropolis and I can honestly saw that I am sad yet very happy all at the same time. I love the Falls here in the Northeast part of this country, however I am somewhat dismayed to say that as for the forseable future, it is my last for sometime. A little over a year now I moved to this great city from the Lone Star State, and now I am leaving. However the difference from this time last year, I will not be leaving alone. My wife (of coming upon 5 months) and I are moving to one of the 3 greatest cities in the country, Austin, TX. Most of you may not be familiar with Austin and I all I can say is that you are without a doubt missing out a great deal. From it's breathtaking scenery, to it's politics, to it's ARTS scene, the food, the beautiful people that reside there, everything.....whispers that Austin (although it's growth over the past decade or so) is but a diamond in the rough. We leave Oct. 1, as my wife and I will be taking new jobs down there. My wife, Noelle (in case you weren't aware of who the most breathtaking woman on earth was....that's who it is....call off the search party...) she works for the amazing Whole Foods Market (based out of Austin, TX), and will be transfering to their headquarters store in downtown Austin. Working in Union Square has run it's course as has our living here. We love it in so many ways, but when it comes down to it, the Financial reasons, if I may be so bold, pummel all the other reason's ass's into the ground. I will continue my working for different Health Food and Body Care companies Rep-ing their product, demo-ing their products in Health Food stores in Austin, and working for a company our of Austin called Presence Southwest. We shall miss our friends here in Brooklyn (which is too beautiful for words), we will miss waiting on the L at 1 am whilst it takes it's merry little time, drinking pints at Pete's Candy Store, The Alligator Lounge, THE LAKESIDE LOUNGE, Benny's Burrito's, Grimaldi's, DTUT's, Crissy and Tim's Roof, Two Boots Pizza, Sweetwater, ENIDS, shopping in the East Village, baby's in Brooklyn (we are with you in spirit Misty and Andrew), our friends at FOREFRONT, Theology Pub, and a million other things, but.......life is bekoning us in A-town and we shall not keep her waiting.Here are some pics of us to keep you steady. More to come. Dry eyes. Soft cheeks. No more pitter patter of wetness on your tissue. God is curious with his moves and ever so delicate with his hand. Ciao.
