It’s on rare occasions that I visit the free download or recommended links on websites, because they’re invariably linking to stuff in which I have no interest whatsoever. But today was an exception, and an exceptional exception at that: I found two tracks that are worthy not only of adding to my library but of blogging.
The first is something of a novelty item, granted, and I didn’t technically follow Amazon’s link to find it (it came from another site) but it’s still fun, and not just for the title — David Gillis’s The Theme to Spiderman – Acoustic Flamenco Solo Guitar Instrumental. It’s just… well, exactly what it says it is, and unlike Michael Bublé’s take was released without a Major Motion Picture™ to support it. I may just have to recommend it to Brian Ibbott.
The other is right off today’s edition of Amazon’s free downloads page, Apollo Sunshine’s Today Is The Day. I do love the rockabilly, and this one’s got the drive and the straight-ahead lyrics (now if that grass looks fun to roll in, then roll in that fun grass / look at that bird, he can fly, don’t you wish you could fly
) to qualify, and even some surf-rock elements that give it that extra sumpin-sumpin. Good stuff, that.
(More astute readers will observe that both tracks are by male artists, which is in itself a remarkable occurrence on this blog. To redeem myself slightly I’ll point out that I found the initial link on a page that linked to Oh Camille.)
So d’ya think that I can special request this ‘flamenco’ song at the Jesse Cook concert?
Seeing how it’s not his song, I doubt he’d take the request….