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.

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. 

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!!

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

Another year, another 5 albums. What?

Yep.. this year, i'm releasing 5 ALBUMS of covers. My plan is to release the next chapter in my Songs Of Other People (SOOP) series.. #3, in the next few weeks. Then after that i'll release the first disc of the Cuban Heels subscriber covers recorded last year as part of the release of the debut Cuban Heels album. Following that will be the next installment of the SOOP series, followed by the second disc of Cuban Heels covers.

But the best part is the content of the last album. You see, following on from the success of the Cuban Heels "pay to have any song recorded" thing from last year, and requests to do something similar again, i'm making an option available for people to pay to have any song recorded by me! They can even be a part of the recording if they like! As many of these as we get will be part of the final album, just before Xmas.. SOOP #5!

So.. how can you help?

Well... i'm boldly trying a 'subscriber' deal for this whole thing, to help keep the thing funded, and achievable. What you'll see below are a whole bunch of 'plans', as generous as i can make them, for you to look over, and perhaps buy into, involving "pre-purchasing" all 5 albums. If you do, you'll get immediate password access to a special project blog with exclusive videos, snapshots, lyrics, extra liner notes, random thoughts, extra bits of audio and whatever else comes to mind, where you'll be able to comment and interact (somewhat) with the project. You'll also get a bonus 6th album of outtakes and alternate mixes at the end of the package.

(The individual albums will also be available from my Bandcamp store, and iTunes/Emusic etc.)

OK.. So, here goes!

The 2011 SOOP subscriber plan 
Package 1 - $70 (All prices in Australian dollars) 

All content available through special login access for plan subscribers

5 albums of covers (3 by MC, 2 by MC & The Cuban Heels) by download only in a selection of either 320 kbps mp3s or 44.1/16 bit .wav files

1 bonus disk at the end of the project with outtakes, alt mixes, acoustic versions

Regular subscriber videos with news/info/fun content

Extensive downloadable artwork/liner notes for each release

Notifications of new content via exclusive emails.

Package 2 - $120 

 

All content from package 1, including immediate download of albums as they’re released

CDR in slimline case or plastic wallet with basic artwork for each release

Postage included for all 5 releases

Package 3 (limit of 15 packages) - $450 

 

$400 for download only

All content from packages 1 & 2 (package 1 for download only)

Subscriber selects any song for MC to record, in MC’s own style, with basic creative input encouraged from subscriber.

If subscriber is interested in being part of the recording process, this can be arranged at the subscribers cost (if not located in the proximity of MC)

Subscriber will receive a demo of the track, progress emails, videos and a final mix before the track is included on album #5 for the year.

MC will aim to do a completed studio video for each subscriber for this package.

Subscriber receives credit for selection of the song on all artworks.

(Note: For people who subscribed to the Cuban Heels pay for a song package last year, please contact me directly for a discount price for the remaining discs.)

Loose schedule of releases

April – SOOP #3

June – The Cuban Heels: By Request – Volume 1

August – SOOP #4

October – The Cuban Heels: By Request – Volume 2

December – SOOP #5

Ok.. over to you. Any thoughts/comment, please let me know.

Michael recording the new Cuban's project

The plan is to make this site more of a place that I feel comfortable with interacting with and updating regularly with news as it comes. This new fandangled technology has caught up with itself, and it should be a nice central place where you can find out what’s happening, as it happens.

So, have a look around and say hi every once in a while!

MC