[and i'm sick to death of love]

[minervacat]

First, a PSA: I have been seriously bad at answering comments lately. I promise to try and get better sooner rather than later; regardless, I am always reading and enjoying anything you say. I'm just crap at responding these days

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[perfectbound]

hmm. can i interest you in the dar williams + cliff eberhardt cover of "whispering pines" (actually good, if perhaps not as good as kelly hogan's) or cub's cover of "she's like a rainbow" (a bit silly)?

[minervacat]

you could interest me in both, if you're amenable! :D

[perfectbound]

here's cub. sendspace is mad at me now so i'll have to try dar again later.

[perfectbound]

ok, here's dar.

[herrgooch]

I can get you the Goo Goo Dolls doing "Bitch" and Robbie Fulks doing a song that he claims to be kindred to "Brown Sugar". That latter relationship is distant and a lot of people just don't see it.

[minervacat]

I would totally appreciate both of those!

[herrgooch]

The Goo Goo Dolls - Bitch. From No Alternative, a benefit compilation from the early 90s... I think the money went to AIDS research. With your choice of two album covers and with a hidden Nirvana track. At a pawnshop near you. :-)

Robbie Fulks - White Man's Bourbon. From The Very Best of Robbie Fulks, which isn't (and was never intended to be) a "greatest hits" collection. Instead, it was culled from Robbie's contributions to Bloodshot Comps... this one comes from Nashville, We Will Slice Your Putrid Cunt to Ribbons: Insurgent Country, Vol. 6, released in 1995. In an effort to explain my cryptic selling point from earlier, I share this blurb from the liner notes:
This modest contribution to the canon of amour exotique fell afoul of a few sensitive souls at the session who, after huffily demanding and horrifiedly perusing a lyric sheet, objected to being publicly associated with such a thing on the grounds that it plumbed new depths of bad taste. I think they were suffering from irony deafness (and maybe actual deafness, since the

[minervacat]

thank you, sir!

[2ndary_author]

I had never heard of Rhett Miller or the Old 97s before the Fresh Air interview ...and then, like, a day later--here you were posting their music. Internet serendipity! I have a file of music called 'Covers' (in between 'Live' and 'Songs by Annoying British Girls'), for which I may snag some Dead Flowers:)

[tangleofthorns]

I think most of what I have has been posted--I'll take a look and see if I have anything else.