Well, some scraps it’s hard to pile up into anything particularly orderly, huh? So here’s a handful of tunes that were under consideration for playing out or recording with some configuration or other and as part of the screening process underwent the home recording test. Of the stuff I have in the chamber, these hang together in a reasonable fashion so have at it!
“To Love Somebody” is the most high-profile of the lot, having been covered by everybody and his brother and sister over the years. One of the best early Bee Gees tunes, and featured on their first LP in 1967.
“Look at Miss Ohio” is from Gillian Welch and David Rawlings’ “Soul Journey” from 2003, wherein they went gently electric, Neil Young “Harvest” style. So I of course leaned into that….
“Jackie” is a sentimental fave of just about anyone who knows it, coming from the only LP by the Haynes Boys of Columbus, OH, in the alt-country days of 1996. Possibly self-titled and maybe called “Guardian Angel”? Dunno but it’s flush with great songs. Leader and songwriter Tim Easton has subsequently had a successful solo career in the folkie trenches and keeps churning ‘em out. As they say, “This is the way”…
JK
Roadkill Buttsteak 