One Take Wonders

Todays upload is Evie (Parts 1, 2 & 3) by Stevie Wright. It is a rare song in describing an entire relationship from Meeting, to being in love, to the birth of their child coinciding with her death during childbirth. Also, rare that it features all of these and (the original particularly) rocks really hard. Stevie Wright was better known as the songwriter/frontman for the band ‘The Easybeats’.

Unfortunately, when he performed Evie a few years back he wasn’t able to sing all the versus and didn’t stand up throughout the performance. Sadly, he has pretty much fried his brain and body with drugs while he was popular. For this reason, it was recently performed by the supergroup ‘The Wrights’ (consisting of members from Living End, Jet, You am I, Spiderbait, Dallas Crane, Grinspoon and even the Easybeats) to raise money to help drug rehabilitation.

Both the original and the cover are really fantastic rocking songs. Have a listen to them if you haven’t already. Interesting trivia: Evie is (reportedly) the only 11 minute song to ever reach #1. I hope you enjoy it. My voice is now at least a little shot…

 

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And for the second of the day is what is my favourite hymn of all time – How great thou art.

Many don’t know that Elvis recieved an Emmy for ‘Best Gospel Performance’ with the song. To me, it has one of the most uplifting chorus’s ever written. I think its a wonderful song, with a really poignant message, as well as being a fantastic hymn. It is one of the few songs that give me goosebumps when I hear the entire auditorium sing it at BPC.

I hope you enjoy it. I’m mostly happy with the recording, but I still might try it again due to a couple of little things on it.

Lachlan

 

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Sorry I’ve taken so long to put down another one of these.

This is Still Alive from VaLVES Portal. I highly recommend, if you haven’t already, that you play through the game. After all – How many games have you played which finish in the main enemy singing you a song that basically says ‘Hey – no hard feelings you know?’

I hope you enjoy it. I’m mostly happy with the recording but may do it again later.

Lachlan

 

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Good Afternoon!

I realise it has been a while since I posted one of these, and you have my apologies. Life can get in the way of these things. I’m hoping to post something bigger in the coming weeks so stay tuned.

Today, I have a jazz standard covered by many artists (including my personal favourite, Frank Sinatra) – Storm Weather. I hope you enjoy it

 

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This is my recording over the (in)famous Simon and Garfunkle song ‘Bridge over troubled water’, from their final album sharing the same name. It was recorded with my mixer, one mike, REAPER, my spanish guitar and my voice.

Its one of my favourite songs, and one that I would list among the greatest songs of all time.I hope you enjoy it.

 

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