Donovan wrote Season of the Witch for his 1966 LP Sunshine Superman, it helped weed out the Dylan copyist stuff that Pennebaker had planted in Don’t Look Back. Here’s a live version from French TV in 1967 Luna’s version was recorded during the Penthouse sessions and was first heard on the soundtrack of 1996 film [...]
OK, I know that Sally Free & Easy wasn’t originally by Trees. It was written in the 1950s by English folk singer and songwriter Cyril Tawney, but I can’t help but think that the Magic Hour version was more likely a cover of the track as recorded by the English folk band Trees for their [...]
Ride Into the Sun never made it onto any of The Velvet Underground’s official releases until, I believe, their posthumous Another View compilation was released in 1986, the version on that was an istrumental version recorded in 1969, an earlier version, with vocals, had turned up on the 1993 Australian box set, and an out-take [...]
Seven tracks Dean Wareham released solo before he released what Pitchfork called “astonishingly, his debut solo release”
Random Rules was released on Silver Jews third album American Water in 1998. Silver Jews were a NYC band that was led by David Berman and featured Stephen Malkmus (of Pavement) and Chris Stroffolino. Dean & Britta’s cover was the penultimate track on their 2003 album L’Avventura MP3: Dean & Britta – Random Rules Here’s [...]