Obscure Mush and Guilty Pleasures

Stonebolt is obscure. I only learned the band name last year, though they have a song that's pretty addictive, and can be classified as a guilty pleasure. The song was a minor hit in 1978, but had some measure of airplay in Philippine radio stations. Of the three known songs with the same title (one by Dolly Parton, but the version by Whitney Houston is more popular), this is probably the least eeeeky.

Stonebolt's I Will Still Love You, on 4track

And, apparently, Stonebolt is still active!

Covers Album?

Picture of covers for the  cover of the covers album

This blog has been alive for 3 months, and I just counted I have enough songs for a Covers album.

The album will start off with something educational :

Sesame Street!

Then say hello to the fool

The Fool On The Hill

Trying to be fanny

Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)

With some anticipation

Anticipation

For somebody

Somebody

Talk to the lineman

Wichita Lineman

And to Marilyn Monroe\

Candle In The Wind

Grab your clutch bag!

I Am, I Said

Some Lennon

Oh My Love

Then say goodbye (or hello?)

Hello Goodbye

Lennon 1971 and looking for the rasp

I got tagged in pesbuk on a post showing Ozzy Osbourne's cover of John Lennon's "How".  It's from Lennon's 1971 "Imagine" album, and I got reminded of how awesome that album is. It's a slow burner, seemingly simple songs that cut through after two or three spins of the vinyl. "Gimme Some Truth", "How", "How Do You Sleep", and that unassuming anthem since massacred by a thousand unworthy covers, "Imagine"

I'll steer away from "Imagine" and just do the B-side, "Oh My Love", which some critics say is the finest vocal performance of Lennon. Here's my take :

Oh My Love (Lennon cover)