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Cover of the Week 36 Ebony Eyes
Like most people my age, Motown was a given, as omnipresent as the Beatles from my first waking moment. It was still a vital label and musical force, adapting to the changing times, as I became more conscious of pop music and the artists creating it during the early 1970s, with records from Marvin Gaye, …
Now on Twitter
I needed yet another way to waste time and connect to “the people.” Find me on Twitter @billjanovitz or click the icon on the right below the links section. Well, it was nearly all summer we sat on your roofYeah, we smoked cigarettes and we stared at the moonAnd Id show you stars you never …
Cover of the Week 35 Evening Gown
We had some friends over for the Independence Day holiday this Saturday. We had been dealing with a month of almost solid rain in Boston. Seriously, I believe there was something like 20-ish per cent of available sunshine in June. I was starting to lose it like everyone else — kids in the house all …
Wow — Some Sort of Translation
I found this in a feed I get. I have no idea, but it is clearly some sort of aggregate translator of blog content. The wording is hilarious and I am thinking of replacing everything I wrote with it. This is a translation of my most recent post. http://billjanovitz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
Cover of the Week 34 Wendell Gee
I almost thought I would not be able to get to this week’s cover. Two Buffalo Tom shows, a rehearsal, and a night in the studio earlier in the week, a crazy day job week and, last time I checked, a family to spend a few minutes with. Thanks to all who came to cheer …
FAQ on the Cover of the Week project
Hi all — I have been getting requests to detail the recording set up I use. If there are any other questions you want answered regarding the blog, let me know under comments and I will try to answer. By the way, I have been recording the most recent Buffalo Tom guitar and vocal overdubs …
Cover of the Week 33 Comfort Me
The Bomb Shelter Recording Studio I got in last night at around 11 after being at Fenway for a rather miserable loss, though a lovely night at the ballpark with another old friend of mine. We parted ways after the ninth and I made my way back to my car to find my second parking …
Cover of the Week 32 Bell Bottom Blues
Bell Bottom Blues has remained one of my favorite songs since childhood. I remember a friend’s father had an electric guitar well before I even started playing. I’m talking around the age of 8, just marveling at this thing. His father could play, sort of, “Layla” along with the sheet music, as if one could …
Cover of the Week 31 Brown-Eyed Women
When I moved to Medfield, Massachusetts at the age of 16, it was the dead of summer, from my hometown, the town I grew up in, to a place where I knew no one and had little chance of meeting many people for the rest of the summer — a little town in the woods …