Acoustic Humor

4-Year-Old Acoustic Version of Hey Jude

Acoustic Humor

The second in a series highlighting the next generation of acoustic versionists. See the first here.

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Acoustic Version of Darkwing Duck

Acoustic Humor

I didn’t know you could bring so much passion to the Darkwing Duck theme song. Which gets me to thinking: the only thing standing between plenty of TV theme music and its rightful status as high art is an acoustic guitar and a little bit of soul. (Write that down.) So, I call on you, [...]

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Acoustic Versions of Bohemian Rhapsody and Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town (with outtakes)

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Talk about holiday spirit! ortoPilot, on the heels of his third album of original music, just completed a December run of 25 songs in 25 days. Each tune is an acoustic version of either a Christmas song or a Yule-time chart-topper. Savvy as he is with video editing (you’ll notice lots of cool little tricks [...]

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Neil Young Plays “Whip My Hair”

Acoustic Humor

I love Neil Young. He’s one of the greatest songwriters to pick up a guitar, and has authored some of my personal favorites – Old Man, for example. But his voice is definitely an acquired taste, and there’s no sense in denying that he can be kind of goofy. Anyhow, here Neil teams up with [...]

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Bossa Dogg (Snoop and João Gilberto Meet for a Sensual Seduction)

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João Gilberto and Snoop Dogg make an unlikely pairing. The former, a 79 year old Brazilian guitarist and singer, invented the Bossa Nova style during the late ‘50s. The latter, well.. you know who he is. Gilberto, along with legendary saxophonist Stan Getz, made an album in the style – entitled Getz/Gilberto – which won [...]

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