Nothing of import to share, just a day of Email and reading and phone numbers. So we’ll get right to the good stuff, the magnificent return of a weekly feature that proves the point there is plenty of art out there just waiting for a play to show off, like YouTube.
The premise is that a musician is picked and we display a small handful of non-professional musicians covering their work. The musician this week is actually a band, Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros. They started out with their initial success online, so who knows where the people you watch today will end up.
First off Eric Smalls offers up his take on a song called Janglin. You’ve probably heard the original in a commercial here and there. Smalls makes it a bit more mellow. His mother, if you read the comments, really likes it. You might too.
Andy Glover plays 40 Day Dream and he gives it a nice little sound.
This is the song for which most people know Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. There are predominantly more covers of this tune on YouTube than any of their other ones. And while I don’t generally like kids singing, because it is just novel or odd or both. (But not your kid. Your kid sounds great.)
This little girl is adorable and and will blow you away.
That video has 5.8 million views. And you can see their website here, which I think just got invented toward the end of that video.
As for the band, they have a really cool three-page website.
Here’s how they play Home, on Morning Becomes Eclectic, which has remained one of the best radio shows in America for decades.
Enjoy the next cover you hear. There’s usually a great deal of love behind them.
