ALBUM OF THE WEEK! SNAPSHOTS
Live and half-plugged...
) ALBUM OF THE WEEK—SNAPSHOTS
...Cappuccino and novel reading fueled SNAPSHOTS, an album of songs extracted from TV shows, concerts, and the studio. I released this in 2003 when I earned the tag "The Tasmanian Devil of the coffee house set." Part of my audience wanted a raw, acoustic album, hence SNAPSHOTS—a mix of blues, California pop, roots rock’n’roll, and gospel standards ("Workin' on a Building”). Live cuts include energetic covers of Patti Smith’s "Dancing Barefoot" and a Staples Singers-styled remake of "For What it's Worth” (Buffalo Springfield) performed on slide 12-string guitar.
Writers are outsourced in the Beatle-esque "Unresolved (Graham Greene's Script for Laurel and Hardy)" and "Desert Ruby" is a semi-autobiographical "Los Angeles allegory," with images from The Bible and Raymond Chandler. SNAPSHOTS also has 2 of my personal favorites, The Beach Boys-influenced “Like a Father a Son” and "Steinbeck Found the Valley"—an instrumental with accordion, cellos, piano, and trombones by Richard Marriott.
I’ve reduced the list price of my SNAPSHOTS CD to $5 AND I’ll sign your copy &/or you can download it:
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