Originally posted 2008-10-04 11:46:16.
By Chris Moore:
Hello and welcome — one and all — to an all-new acoustic rock cover song music video! Yes, it’s a mouthful, but it’s the best way to describe this music blog that you’re viewing. Whether you’re a regular visitor or this is your first time, I hope you’ll see how much work we’ve put into the design, the variety of bands represented, and the quality of content for each post. We don’t just record a video; instead, we write substantive text posts to give you something interesting (we hope!) to read as you listen to the session of the day. Whenever possible, we share information about the band or our individual processes for recording the videos — and we hope that you find the reading worthwhile. We certainly have found these songs worthwhile and devote a lot of time to learning, practicing, recording, and writing about them.
Which brings me to my video for this Saturday session. Today, I picked John Mayer’s “Not Myself,” a great track from his great album Room For Squares. Yes, it may be an over-publicized album (having won many awards and much notoriety when it first came out) and it may be better known for such hits as “Your Body Is a Wonderland,” but it is so much more than these aspects would suggest. I still think this is John Mayer’s best album to date, as it combines great songwriting with great sounds, blending acoustic and electric elements nicely. Possibly my favorite John Mayer song, “Why Georgia,” is on this album, not to mention another close runner up, “Love Song for No One.”
And I’ll always have an odd memory of this album. When I first bought it and started listening to it, I was hooked and couldn’t get enough of it. It gradually became the album that I would listen to in the shower and sing along to, practicing and enjoying singing. Now, this was before I had a portable set of speakers for my iPod, so I would put the CD in my stereo and blast it loud enough to be heard down the hall, in the bathroom, with the water running for the shower. (I obviously only did this when no one else was home.)
So, I was thinking about songs that I really would like to learn and record, and “Not Myself” immediately came to mind. I’ve always liked the structure of the song and the overall mood of the studio recording. I hope I’ve done it justice and that you’ll enjoy listening to it!
Don’t forget to hurry home early, hurry on home (as Warren Zevon would say) for Jeff’s video tomorrow, then hurry even faster for the man, the myth, the legend — Jim Fusco! — on Monday. (And I must assure you that this warm reference to Jim has nothing to do with the fact that he gave me the best birthday present a man like myself could ever hope for — an all-expenses paid set of recording sessions at Fusco-Moore Studios and his creative input as producer on my new album! I’m more excited than I can quite explain in words right now to think about what my songs will sound like with his expertise and creative input, especially based on what his new unreleased music sounds like.)
See you next session!
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- “3×5″ (John Mayer Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
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- “Down Under” (A Men at Work Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
- “Lives of Crime” (Fruit Bats Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
- “I Ain’t Losin’ the Fight” (Bryan Adams Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
This is one in a series of acoustic cover songs, original music, and free mp3 downloads here on the Laptop Sessions Music Video Blog.
