Drab Day Ditties for Me.

  I find that some days just call out for melancholy melodies.

  When this occurs I find myself struggling to find the right album to wallow with and because of this, end up listening to something that changes my mood. This really is not a major problem. Music is enjoyable to me even if it has an unintended a effect.
  Oddly enough, it happens to be on the days when I am chipper and looking for some happy tunes that I stumble across Hayden's Elk Lake Serenade. Now do not get me wrong, this is a great album, but I find myself in a state of hum-drums after taking in this musical snack. It has the right elements for those chilly, somewhat dark days. Mumbled lyrics, simple instrumentation and a lot of minor key melodies.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B00026KGHO/ref=pd_krex_listen_dp_img?ie=UTF8&refTagSuffix=dp_img

One of these days I will play this in the appropriate mood. Until then it will continue to surprise me.

A Morning Musical Surprise

  I am not a strong believer in cover-bands or covers in general.  Usually they drive me nuts due to the fact that the artist covering will either try to copy the original exactly or create some sort of way-out-there rendition.

  Why copy, the original is awesome and to try to mimic it should be something you do at home for yourself.

  This is a generalization but massively altered and downright changed covers usually appear to be an attempt at proving musical savvey.

That being said, surprises do show up every once in a while. For instance this morning I went looking for Sufjan Steven's Seven Swans artwork and stumbled across this. 

http://onjoyfulwings.bandcamp.com/album/seven-swans-reimagined

  Seven Swans is an album that I hold in great esteem. It is solidly written and produced. To me it has a perfect blend of moody, joyful, out in the woods sentimentalities. One of those albums that if the suggestion had been made to cover, I would have scoffed at.

  I would have been wrong...