October 2010

Dave Matthews Plays an Acoustic Version of Chicken Panini

Acoustic Humor

Say what you will about Dave Matthews, but it’s nice to see an A-list musician with a sense of humor about himself. He even acknowledges the not-so-small demographic who thinks his face is stupid and wants to throw up in their hands when his voice comes on the radio. One wonders how Jason Mraz took [...]

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Broken Bells’ Acoustic Version of “The High Road”

Acoustic Originals

It’s a rare producer who develops a style so unique and interesting that he’s recognized by – and his music is recognizable to – your run-of-the-mill music listener. It’s a rarer producer still who is so capable an instrumentalist that the distinction between making and mixing breaks down completely. There’s no better example of this unusual [...]

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Acoustic Version of Norah Jones’ “Don’t Know Why”

Acoustic Covers

Pat Metheny is one of my favorite guitarists to watch – not only because of his utter mastery of the instrument, and not only because he brought jazz to an entire generation of mainstream Americans by fusing an unpretentious garage-rock sensibility with the modular and rhythmic complexity of top-notch jazz composition (1980′s American Garage reached [...]

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Acoustic Version of When You Were Young

Acoustic Originals

The Killers’ drummer Ronnie Vannucci, Jr. once commented that “everybody thought we were from England when we first came out.” This seemed to amaze Vannucci, but I think a listen to this acoustic version of When You Were Young – if you can hear it over all the screaming girls (itself a Brit-rock innovation, incidentally) [...]

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Alice In Chains Your Decision Acoustic

Acoustic Originals

Speaks for itself. Singing the ‘me’ as the vocal line melody makes this as tough as it is grunge.

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