Coverville 47: All Request Sunday with Eva Cassidy, Bowling For Soup, Jimmy Barnes and more...

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All Request Night again! I'll sit back and let you pick the music for me, OK?:

"Positivity" - Suede (Uncovered Gem of the Week)
"Fields of Gold" - Eva Cassidy (originally Sting) requested by Martina
"River Deep Mountain High" - Jimmy Barnes (originally Ike and Tina Turner) requested by Anthony; Check out his site at ThePDAGuy.com
"Li'l Red Riding Hood" - Bowling For Soup (originally Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs) requested by Kevin - check out the Shiimadragon Radio podcast
"Always On My Mind" - The Pet Shop Boys (originally Elvis Presley, also Willie Nelson) requested by Alison
"I Feel Love"- Blue Man Group with Annette Strean of Venus Hum (originally Donna Summer) anonymous request

31 minutes |

Coverville 46: The Squeeze Cover Story

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The musical history of the UK Britpop band Squeeze - tonight's "cover story":

"Take Me I'm Yours" - White Rabbit (originally Squeeze)
"Another Nail For My Heart" - Rubber (originally Squeeze)
"Tempted" - Jools Holland & His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra (originally Squeeze)
"Up The Junction" - Goldfinger (originally Squeeze)
"Labelled With Love (I'll Stay With My Dreams)" - Kevin Rowland (originally Squeeze)
"End Of A Century (live)" - Glenn Tillbrook and Chris Difford (originally Blur)
"Red Light" - Squeeze (originally Merrill Moore)

35 minutes |

Coverville 45: Some Canadian covers and a trip back to 1965

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We'll start off with a couple Canadian covers - since people seem to think my show hails from the Great White North. After that, Sherman and Mr. Peabody take us on a trip back in time to January 25th 1965 - Cover Style:

"Dear God" - Sarah McLachlan (originally XTC)
"Fight the Power" - Barenaked Ladies (originally Public Enemy)
"I Feel Fine" - Curtis Stigers (originally The Beatles)
"Love Potion #9" - Rockapella (originally The Searchers)
"You've Lost That Loving Feeling - The Heptones (originally The Righteous Brothers)
"Downtown" - The B-52's (originally Petula Clark)

31 minutes |

Also, I keep forgetting to mention--check out two great podcasts that were nice enough to have me on as a guest for an interview:
The Clint And Doug Show- These guys are great. Low tech, but high cool. (www.clintanddoug.info)
The Keener 13 Podcast-This show takes me back to the 1970's, when I spent my days listening to AM radio. Keener 13 is a podcast dedicated to (now long gone) WKNR Radio out of Detroit. If you listened to AM radio at all in the 1970s, WKNR will bring back a transistor-load of memories. (www.keener13.com)

Coverville 44: Covers of the Beatles, Monkees and Credence, all by request!

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It's All-Request Night, and here's what you just might hear, if you listen closely:

"Christina" - The Idle Jets (Uncovered Gem of the Week)
"Last Train To Clarksville" - Cassandra Wilson (originally the Monkees)
"She's Leaving Home" - Billy Bragg (originally The Beatles)
"Spooky" - Daniel Ash (originally Classics IV)
"Fortunate Son" - Pearl Jam (originally Credence Clearwater Revival)
"Radar Love" - White Lion (originally Golden Earring)

31 minutes |

Coverville 40.5: The Director's Cut of the Lascivious Biddies' Interview

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Because the Lascivious Biddies deserve to be better heard in full rich stereo sound...

I proudly present the Director's Cut of the Lascivious Biddies Interview. Much better sound, "behind the music"-style introductions to each of their songs, and a little goodbye bit at the end. This is the way the interview was meant to be heard.

And you'll still get an All Request Sunday Show later tonight...

40 minutes |

Coverville 43: The Coverville Concert

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Live, on stage, and on mp3. Here's what's on tap for all-request night:

"Tracks of My Tears" - The Q-Tips feat. Paul Young (originally Smokey Robinson and the Miracles)
"Eleanor Rigby" - Joe Jackson (originally the Beatles)
"There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" - Neil Finn & Friends (originally the Smiths)
"Heroes" - Blondie (originally David Bowie)
"I Know" - Soul Asylum (originally Dionne Farris)
"Superstition" - Stevie Ray Vaughn (originally Stevie Wonder)

35 minutes |

Coverville 42: The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything...

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Well maybe the title it a bit lofty. Here's what's on tap for all-request night:

"Too Late For Love" - Crease (originally Def Leppard)
"Just What I Needed" - Damone (originally The Cars)
"Celluloid Heroes" - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts (originally The Kinks)
"Louie Louie" - Iggy Pop (originally the Kingsmen) Thanks to Danny Delany for the suggestion!
"State of Independence" - Jon and Vangelis
"Spiritual High (State of Independence Pt. 2)" - Moodswings (originally Jon and Vangelis

37 minutes |

Coverville 41: Covering Britney, Shania and Thom - All by request!

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Here's what's on tap for all-request night:

"The Beholder & His Eye" - The Sun Sawed In 1/2 (Uncovered gem of the week)
"I Am the Walrus (Live)" - Styx (originally The Beatles)
"High & Dry" - Jamie Cullum (originally Radiohead)
"You're Still the One" - Roper (originally Shania Twain)
"Oops! I Did It Again" - Richard Thompson (originally Britney Spears)
"Toxic" - Local H (originally Britney Spears)

31 minutes |

Coverville 40: The Lascivious Biddies' Interview and Covers

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Thanks again to the wonderful Amanda, Deidre, Lee Ann and Saskia of the Lascivious Biddies, who honored me with my first interview. Thanks also to Ben, for helping set the whole thing up, and putting up with technical issues and crazy schedules.

Interspersed with the interview, you'll hear the following tracks (all, of course, by the Biddies):

"You Don't Own Me", from the 2004 album "Get Lucky" (most famously by Lesley Gore)
"Head Over Heels" from the 2002 album "Biddy-luxe!" (originally by The Go-Go's)
"It's Only A Paper Moon" from the 2002 album "Biddi-luxe!" (performed by many, composed by Harold Arlen, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Billy Rose)

Question I wish I would have asked: "What exactly is a 'Happy Apple'?"

37 minutes |

Where have I been?

This has been a pretty crummy week for putting out a show. First, my cold earlier this week, and then wednesday my laptop crashes, and won't boot up. Can't do a FSCK fix, can't Archive and Install, nothing. Fortunately, I was able to install OS X on a FireWire drive, boot from that, and transfer over everything but the application and data file that caused this mess: Virtual PC 6. Even on a Mac, Windows can find a way to get me (I haven't had much luck with Windows, but I consider myself a dual-user work-wise, and a Mac guy the rest of the time). The good news is that I was able to save my iTunes library and my Lascivious Biddies interview, neither of which were backed up because because of size and newness, respectively. for now, I'm running off of my external drive, and will edit the Biddies' interview tonight, and mix it with some of their excellent covers. I hope to post the show late tonight. And back on schedule starting Sunday.

Coverville 39: Four Degrees of Coveration (and more)

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By the way, you'll notice tonight that I'm compacting the date in the mp3 file name. This comes from a lot of complaints that the date doesn't show up on the display of the iPod. Let me know what you think.

Thanks again to Bruce at NotLame Records. Make sure to let them know you heard it on Coverville if you order something from their site (like the excellent Cars tribute "Substitution Mass Confusion").

Here's what you'll hear on tonight's show:

"You Might Think" - Bleu (originally by The Cars)
"Come On Eileen" - Badly Drawn Boy with Jools Holland (originally Dexy's Midnight Runners)
"Watch Your Step" - Brenda Kahn (originally Elvis Costello)
"It's Not Unusual" - Belly (originally Tom Jones)
"Gimme Shelter" - Tom Jones with New Model Army (originally The Rolling Stones)
"Under The Boardwalk" - The Rolling Stones (originally The Drifters)

29 minutes |

Well, at least I know why I was feeling wiped out...

Looks like I've caught my wife's cold. Ugh. Congested and tired. Getting rest today, and hope to be back on track for the Tuesday night show tomorrow night. And I'll have a bunch of great requests for next week's All Request show.

For those of you looking forward to a show tonight, I'm sorry!

Sorry - Out of it tonight

After a wonderful interview with the Lascivious Biddies, and some after-interview microphone troubleshooting (iChat seems to temporarily negatively affect my Audio Hijack Pro recording), I'm too out of it tonight to record a show. All-Request Sunday will happen tomorrow (Monday) night, and we'll get back on track on Tuesday with a track from the brand-spanking-new Cars cover album (Awesome!). And on Thursday, I'll present the Biddies' interview show. Good night, and thanks for your continued listening and support...

Coverville 38: The Bobby Darin (Cover) Story

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One of the most charismatic performers of all time is celebrated on tonight's show. As a fan of Bobby Darin's music and style, putting together a show featuring Bobby Darin-related covers was a treat! Here's what you'll hear:

"La Bamba" - Bobby Darin (originally Richie Valens)
"Queen of the Hop" - Dave Edmunds (originally Bobby Darin)
"Dream Lover" - Kevin Spacey (originally Bobby Darin)
"Mack the Knife" - The Psychedelic Furs (originally Bobby Darin)
"Artificial Flowers" - The Beautiful South (originally Bobby Darin)
"Up a Lazy River"- Rickie Lee Jones (originally Bobby Darin)
"On Broadway" - Bobby Darin (originally The Drifters)
"Beyond the Sea" - Royal Crown Revue (originally Bobby Darin)

35 minutes |

Quick Note

Thanks to the folks at BlueHost (can't stop raving about them), my bandwidth issues are resolved. My audio files are being hosted on another site, so if you have bookmarks to Coverville mp3s, you'll need to go to the specific entry in the Podcast Category to re-point to the file.

Coverville 37: Uplifting covers to start your 2005!

Still working the kinks out of the new server and the feed. But here's what you'll hear tonight:

"I Can See Clearly Now" - Neil Finn (originally Johnny Nash)
"I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World) - Howard Jones (originally Donald Fagen)
"All Kinds of Everything" - Sinead O'Connor and Terry Hall (originally Dana)
"Music Box Dancer" - Enormous Richard (originally Frank Mills)
"Poor Jenny" - Rockpile (originally The Everly Brothers)
"Little Green Bag" - Tom Jones and Barenaked Ladies (originally George Baker Selection)
"Message of Love" - Saliva (originally The Pretenders)

31 minutes |

HELP! Boston-based listeners and really smart web people...

Hey Coverville listeners! I've got a couple things I need help with, if there's anyone out there that can assist:

First off, if there are any Boston-based listeners out there who can send me a copy of the Boston Phoenix article, I'll PayPal you your time and shipping if you don't mind mailing it out to me. Email me at brian at coverville dot com, and I'll send you my address to send it.

Secondly, and most importantly, my feed is having some trouble adjusting to the new server. Does anyone know anything about a file server that isn't letting MTEnclosures get the file sizes of my mp3s?

If you have any ideas, or further questions, email me at the address above...

Thanks!