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Seattle's Campfire OK will be at the Crocodile on September 23rd opening for Fences CD Release Show

Shenandoah Davis

Photo by Abbey Simmons ::: Saturday September 4th at 4:30pm Shenandoah Davis plays the Bumbershoot edition of the Round with Goldfinch and Tomo Nakayma

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September 4th, 5th, and 6th at Seattle Center

March 1, 2010

Dave Bazan - “Flirted With You All My Life” - from Last Night’s Vic Chesnutt Tribute

Dave Bazan closed last night’s emotional Vic Chesnutt Tribute night at The Tractor Tavern with “Flirted With You All My Life.” I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house. (Mine certainly weren’t.)

We’ll be posting more on the tribute show,  including more videos later this week, but we had to share this with you all right away.

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February 17, 2010

Dueling Covers of Tom Waits’ “Green Grass” by Mountain Man and Kaylee Cole

This past weekend I was treated to something that has never happened before: two bands covering the same song on back-to-back nights. A song I’d never heard covered (outside sad sad karaoke nights) before.

The song? The don’t-mind-me-crying-in-my-whiskey and oh-so Valentines Day appropriate “Green Grass” by Tom Waits.

The cover culprits? Mountain Man doing an a cappella version on Saturday at the Josephine and Kaylee Cole breaking our hearts at the Sunset Tavern on Valentines Day.

To me, they’re both beautiful heartache. Which cover of “Green Grass” do you prefer?

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November 24, 2009

The Solvents Cover Beyonce and Madonna

Who doesn’t love a surprising, solid cover song? Port Townsend residents and long time Sound on the Sound favorites The Solvents certainly deliver the  goods with these two videos, which the band recorded this weekend.

First up is the band covering Beyonce’s “Halo,” a song that sounds more mounrful, but just as catchy with a Solvents string arrangement and Jarrod Paul Bramson’s Gibbard-meets-Mangum vocals. The second video is a slowed-down take of Madonna’s “Get Into the Groove.” Ever wonder what this dance track would sound like as a downtempo dirge? Now you know.

Jarrod tells me the covers are part of a Solvents cover CD which the band is recording in their Port Townsend living rooms and will hopefully be available by Christmas. We can’t wait to hear what they cover next.

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February 16, 2008

Ooohh…. Maybe my New Favorite Cover

Hearing this cover on the radio this afternoon completely made my day in a way that makes me a gigantic dork. I loved the first incarnation of this song by Blackstreet (produced by  somehow involving Dr. Dre if my memory serves me correctly) and definetly did some dancing to it at a few high school dances. However, the cover (even a straight-up one) by a few dorky british boys ten years later makes my heart soar!

Go on over to the great blog, You Ain’t No Picasso for a listen of your own.

And when you’re doing so, what are some mid-90’s covers you’d love to hear some of your current favorites play? I feel like the Klaxons doing “No Diggity” - completely opens up some new doors.

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