By Jim Fusco:
Welcome to your Super Bowl Sunday edition of The Laptop Sessions! As a quick note on the Super Bowl, I’m a Jets “fan”, so even though this concerns two northeast teams, I really don’t care who wins. On top of that, I’m a baseball fan, so hearing that the Mets signed Johan Santana, it already feels like a win.
On to today’s Session:
I’ve said it before, but Gene Clark is one of the best songwriters of all time. Those know know Gene’s music share my admiration of it, and even though finding someone who’s even HEARD of him is few and far between, I know this Session will make a lot of fans very happy.
This song is called “Dark of My Moon” and is an “unreleased” song that was formally released only as an acoustic demo a few years ago (long after Gene passed away). This has been a favorite of everyone in my family since we first heard it and I’m proud to bring it to the Laptop Sessions.
This literally took me 30 takes to do. This is a very powerful song and I needed to do it right. I found that the more I played it, the harder it became to sing. But, after plenty of loud obscenities, I finally got the perfect take, which I present to you today.
Listen to the words of this song and listen to how the music rises and falls with the emotions. This is only the first of many solo Gene Clark songs to come (not to mention those he did with the Byrds), so I hope everyone enjoys it!
Stay tuned as the Laptop Session a day in 2008 “keeps burnin’”! (to quote another great Gene Clark song)
| Download a FREE mp3 of this song at the Fusco-Moore Store by Clicking HERE! It’s on “The Laptop Sessions, Vol. 2″: |
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- The Laptop Sessions: “So You Say You Lost Your Baby” (Gene Clark Acoustic Rock Cover Songs)
- The Laptop Sessions: “Surrender To Me” (McGuinn, Clark, and Hillman Acoustic Rock Cover Song)
- The Laptop Sessions: “Long Long Time” (McGuinn, Clark, & Hillman Acoustic Cover)
- The Laptop Sessions: “Man On The Moon” (REM Acoustic Cover Song)
- The Laptop Sessions: “The Girl With No Name” (Byrds Acoustic Rock Cover Song)
This is one in a series of acoustic cover songs, original music, and free mp3 downloads here on the Fusco-Moore Productions Blog.