New Video - "The Boy From Tupelo" (Emmylou Harris cover)

New video - "Look Through Any Window" (The Hollies cover)

SOOP #5 - available now!!

So.. after a few unexpected delays, the last installments of this covers series is completed. It's available now from the Bandcamp Page, iTunes and Spotify, as well as your favourite digital places to get stuff.

As you may have heard, SOOP #5 is a duets album, done with as many of the important musical people in my history as I could get access to for this record. The track listing, original artists and the guest artist are listed below.

1. Where The Bands Are (Bruce Springsteen) - with Perry Keyes

2. She Don’t Care About Time (The Byrds) – with Marty Rudnick

3. Big In Japan (Tom Waits) – with Matt Fell

4. Awaiting On You All (George Harrison) – with James Cooper

5. Look Through Any Window (The Hollies) – with Rob Smith

6. Thorn In My Side (Eurythmics) – with Suzy Connolly

7. If You Can’t Rock Me (Rolling Stones) – with Chris Murphy

8. Wouldn’t It Be Nice (Beach Boys) – with Lukah Boo

9. I’ve Been Waiting (Matthew Sweet) – with Eddie Owen (and Bill Gibson on bass and BVs)

10. I Don’t Wanna Know (Fleetwood Mac) – Dominique English

11. Everybody Oughta Make A Change (Sleepy John Estes via Eric Clapton) – with Paul Carpenter

12. Already Gone (The Eagles) – with Jason Walker

13. Rockin’ All Over The World (John Fogerty/Status Quo) – with Too Many Guitars

14. The Boy From Tupelo (Emmylou Harris) – with Kylie Whitney

So, another interesting and diverse group of track, done with some amazing artists. I know you're going to love this. You can go and listen to the whole album here.

Christmas 2011 track and video

And i managed to squeeze out a new Christmas track in 2011 as well. You can download it for free here..
 

Kinda new video - "Life Gets Better" from SOOP #4

This is a fun little video I forgot to post here from a few months back for this track from SOOP #4
 

New album with the Cuban Heels - "By Request Vol 2"

Hey gang..

The next album is just done, just in time for Christmas!! This is album #4 in the series, and the second of the 'By Request' series I've done with my good friends, the alt.country band The Cuban Heels. It even includes requests by the band themselves!

The track listing is..

1.  Our Love (Rhett Miller)
2.  Tapioca Tundra (Mike Nesmith)
3.  Ruby Tuesday (Rolling Stones)
4.  Is It Any Wonder? (The Cowsills)
5.  Barrytown (Steely Dan)
6.  Breakfast In Marin (Sean Tyla)
7.  O Girlfriend (Weezer)
8.  I Don’t Want To Grow Up (Tom Waits)
9.  You Belong To Me (Elvis Costello)
10. Story Of An Artist (Daniel Johnston)
11. Good Morning Irene (Michael Adelsheim)
12. Mercury Blues (David Lindley)
13. Love And Mercy (Brian Wilson)

Of course, you can go to the Bandcamp page to have a listen. There's a few free tracks available there for download also. The CD will ship mid January, and it should be on iTunes etc right at the start of the new year.

New Video - "The Whole Of the Moon" from SOOP #4

New video, capturing the recording of "The Whole Of The Moon", from SOOP #4

Third album for the year - SOOP#4

So, here's the third record for the year, SOOP #4. I'm a little further behind schedule, but the quality is still up there! This is a really interesting collection of tracks... lots of new ones, and few old and REALLY old ones. This is probably the most obscure collection of songs, but there should be enough familiar ones there to make the ones you won't have heard worth the journey!

1. End Of The World (Jonah's Road)
2. Neil Jung (Teenage Fanclub)
3. The Whole Of The Moon (The Waterboys)
4. Life Gets Better (Graham Parker)
5. Getting Closer (Wings)
6. Stagefright (The Band)
7. That's Alright By Me (Gene Clark)
8. Keeping Me Alive (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
9. Learning To Fly (Kate Lush)
10. Goodbye Angel (Butterfly 9)
11. FM (Steely Dan) 

As usual, head to Bandcamp to have a listen to the album. 

Michael Carpenter & The Cuban Heels - By Request: Volume 1

Hey all..

Here's the track listing to the second of the 5 covers albums i'll be releasing this year. All recorded late last year by The Cuban Heels, in blistering time.

1. Different Drum (Mike Nesmith/Stone Ponys)
2. Tried So Hard (Gene Clark)
3. Everytime She Passes By (George Ducas)
4. It's Only Love (The Beatles)
5. She's Not You (Michael Shelley)
6. Slow Turning (John Hiatt)
7. Lovesong (The Cure)
8. Nature's Way (Spirit)
9. Here Come The Good Times (A House)
10. Mission In Life (Bernie Hayes)
11. She Goes On (Crowded House)
12. Everlong (Foo Fighters) 

To go and have a listen you can go to my Bandcamp site. 

Enjoy!!

SOOP #3 Tracklisting (and original artists)

Hey all...

Here's the tracklisting for SOOP #3. It's available RIGHT NOW by joining the subscription thing below, or by going to my BANDCAMP store. You can preview all tracks at the Bandcamp store also. It should be up on iTunes, Emusic etc in the next day or so.

Tracklisting for SOOP #3.

1. They Don’t Know (Tracey Ullman)
2. What’s So Funny About (Nick Lowe)*
3. Annie Mae (John Kater)
4. Every Little Thing (Jeff Lynne)*
5. Think About Me (Fleetwood Mac)
6. If I Needed Someone (The Beatles)#
7. Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry)
8. Love Is Like A Bullet (The Shoes)#
9. Junior’s Farm (Paul McCartney)
10. Marcella (The Beach Boys)#
11. Fading Out (Butterfly 9)
12. Time To Change (The Brady Bunch)*

*previously released version

#new mix or recording