This might be the last post for a long time, or ever if I don’t get back to it. It’s been a lot of fun, but lately I haven’t gotten down to work on new covers. My new album Identity Theft i...
https://acawriteoff.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/kid-j-jay-z-radiohead/
Here’s another post of a song from the seventies (actually 1980 here, but hey what’s the diff) about the glamour of rock and roll. Fashion by David Bowie is from his critically acclaimed Scar...
https://acawriteoff.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/fashion-david-bowie/
I think my first introduction to this song “Do You Love Me?” was a Kiss covers compilation that featured a lot of early 90’s grunge bands including Nirvana. I was a freak about Kurt Cobain ...
https://acawriteoff.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/do-you-love-me-kiss/
This week’s entry is another female penned and sung song “Sunny Sunday” by Joni Mitchell. I’ve always loved this song and a handful of others from her mid-90’s album Turbulent Indigo. S...
https://acawriteoff.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/sunny-sunday-joni-mitchell/
This week’s post “The Playboy Mansion” comes from U2’s polarizing mid-90’s album Pop. This was the tour that Bono wore the tight glittery shirts, the fake muscles and the stage was mean...
https://acawriteoff.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/the-playboy-mansion-u2/
So, it’s been two weeks since I posted here. Sorry for the delay, but I had lots of stuff going on. I was mastering my new album “Identity Theft” which will be out soon via all the glorious...
https://acawriteoff.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/lifes-what-you-make-it-talk-talk/
I wasn’t sure what cover song I was going to record this week and post here, because honestly it’s hard to find a song a week unless I go through a lot of my record collection or happen upon ...
https://acawriteoff.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/some-weird-sin-iggy-pop/
I was thinking earlier today what I might write about today’s song “Vibrate” by Rufus Wainwright. I thought of a number of things regarding my take on the song and how I put it together. Or...
https://acawriteoff.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/vibrate-rufus-wainwright/
I first bought The Pleasure Principle, the album by Gary Numan that features the song “Films”, when I was living at the Shape Shoppe loft. This was probably around 2002 and we had a foosball ...
https://acawriteoff.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/films-gary-numan/
I originally recorded this song for a wedding CD compilation for my friends Erik and Jocelyn’s wedding. The compilation was called Happy Together and featured a bunch of artists on their label ...
https://acawriteoff.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/im-your-puppet-jimmy-bobby-purify/