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  • “Emaline” (Ben Folds Five Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions

    Friday, August 27th, 2010

    Originally posted 2007-10-30 16:19:47. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

    By Jeff Copperthite:

    My 2nd installment for fusco-moore.com’s “Laptop Sessions”. This time we’ll get a bit more obscure.

    This song is from Ben Folds Five, and was a song that was intended for their album “Whatever and Ever Amen” – a great album – but Ben Folds decided to not put this song on because it had guitar, and would take away from the piano-rock theme they were trying to promote.

    This is such a great song, and I love hearing it at his shows. I hope you enjoy it as well.



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  • “Smoke” (Ben Folds Five Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions

    Thursday, May 8th, 2008

    By Jeff Copperthite:

    Welcome to another terrific edition of Thumpin’ Thursday! It’s Jeff Copperthite today bringing you another great song for http://www.laptopsessions.com.

    Going to a band that has treated me well in terms of getting viewers, I bring you another song by Ben Folds Five called “Smoke”. It is from their album “Whatever and Ever Amen”, which I have yet to draw from. I loved this song ever since I first heard it, and would most often be the track I just kept repeating from the entire album.

    I love the piano-string strumming that Ben does when this song is performed. Consequently, I only have a keyboard. Therefore, I decided to do a guitar rendition of this song. I hope you like it!

    I just crossed 11K views – in only 8 days since I crossed 10K. Thank you so much! We are nearing the halfway point of session-a-day. Can you believe it? We’ll keep posting – you keep coming back to http://www.laptopsessions.com !

    Be sure to check out Jim’s latest session tomorrow!

     



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  • “Jane” (Ben Folds Five Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions

    Friday, February 29th, 2008

    By Jeff Copperthite:

    Welcome to your Fabulous Friday edition of The Laptop Sessions, and I am proud to bring you a session that I’ve been waiting to do for a while.

    This session is “Jane” from Ben Folds Five’s last album “The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner”. I last did a song from this band as my 2nd Laptop Session – “Emaline”. That session is close to 1,000 views, so I thought this would be a good time to do another from Ben Folds Five.

    Not only that, but for this video I kept my guitar on the stand, and performed it on my keyboard.

    I think this version came out quite well, although I did have a bit of a “crack” in the chorus as I changed to falsetto. Ben Folds has an incredible vocal range that is just slightly out of reach to my voice. Other than that, I think that this video is a great one (it better be after 23 takes).

    Oh, and I should break 4K views over the weekend! Thank you everyone for making the Laptop Sessions so popular!

    I hope you enjoy “Jane”!

     



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Ben Folds Five Acoustic Rock Cover Songs and Free mp3 Downloads

Ben Folds Five is the ironically named indie music trio that hit the air waves with their 1997 single, “Brick.” A hit song on the modern rock charts, this band developed a fiercely loyal following among the college crowd. Ben Folds Five made a name for itself by shunning electric and acoustic guitar music, instead opting to base their sound around the piano. They somehow managed to rock and roll like no other piano-based band had before, writing and recording new rock music that was upbeat, full, and composed with fun and intelligent lyrics. When Ben Folds eventually embarked on his own career, he toured as a solo performer, just him and a piano – an unplugged presentation of sorts, and found receptive crowds who knew every word of every song by heart. The three songwriters of the Laptop Sessions are all avid fans of Ben Folds Five, and although the band does not technically have any acoustic music to be transformed into cover songs, there have been several sessions devoted to songs such as “Emaline” and “Smoke” and more music video blog entries are on their way.