My cool brother-in-law Dave made me a mix with a version of Bill Janovitz (frontman of Boston-based indie pop legends Buffalo Tom) covering Little Mascara by The Replacements (Minneapolis-based indie rock gods).
Apparently Bill Janovitz has a blog and posts a new cover song each week. So far he has covered Blondie’s Dreaming. Springsteen's "One Step Up", Paul Simon, etc. and I am sure a bevy of good stuff to follow.
I gotta hand it to Bill. for one, he is cool dude with good taste in music (and a nice guy to boot). But he is also embracing the inevitable ubiquity of the Internet and using it to his advantage. Doing what he loves and putting it out there for people as opposed to kicking dirt and resisting change. I am sure the result will ultimately be more people being exposed to, or rediscovering his music (as I just did) and ultimately buying more of his CDs.
Kind of like Ryan Adams doing soundboards of all his shows and putting them online virtually the next day, sometimes with CD cover art. Hey, do you think the Dead were onto something?!
Kudos Bill. And thank you. I am going to now expose your music by sharing these songs to a lot of new fans, and buy the latest Buffalo Tom CD next time I am in a music store.
Rock and roll will never die.
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