Blue Train (the slow one)

I loved baby_balrog and his band's rollicking original of this tune. For this cover, I figured I'd take the train down another track: slowed way down (down on the ground), stripped way down (just vocal and strumstick), and with a little different shade of blue for the engineer's hat.

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posted by flapjax at midnite (4 comments total)

like the tension this song sustains with the octave-up and the straight hum. the only time you hear the low bassy root is from the sliding up of your voice, so it sounds eerie.
posted by ageispolis at 10:40 PM on June 29, 2008

Dude! Completely awesome! I love it.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 11:34 PM on June 29, 2008

All that listening to old, old Blues recordings shows through here. I really like this old style Bblues. Very well done, flapjax.
posted by micayetoca at 5:51 AM on June 30, 2008

This is my new favorite song of yours. You seem to dig pretty deep vocally on this one and I don't mean tonally, I mean depth of feeling. I dig it!
posted by snsranch at 4:17 PM on July 1, 2008