As a I was telling MO in another thread, one of my passions is singing. I have had some pretty long lasting dark nights of the soul and always wrestled with a very poor self image but what I’ve found over the years is that singing is one of the only things that I’ve found that truly brings me joy and not only that but it gives me an outlet for creative expression that allows me to convey the deeper elements of my soul to those who may be willing to give a listen.
It’s been a past time pet project of mine to make vocal covers of songs that I really enjoy. I’ll either sing over the original song playing at a softer volume so my vocals pretty much overlay on top of the original vocals so those are a little more bootleg and questionable as far as copyright concerns go but then I’ve also discovered karaoke accompaniments and instrumental tracks for other songs I like so I have some slightly better quality recordings that are strictly just my vocals.
They may not be for everybody and I’ve kept them pretty close to the vest for quite a while but I recently started finding more ways to share them with others. This isn’t some professional endeavor by any means and the recording quality is very poor and of course there will always be trolls and snide folks online that have talked crap in the past about my songs but I just laugh it off and chalk it up as just part of the whole awesome experience of being an artist. My haters are just loved anyway and lumped right on in the category of motivators.
One of my all time inspirations as far as music goes is the late Daniel Dale Johnston. He fought a lifelong struggle with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and his music is remembered by critics as childlike and pure. His vocals are very off key and strange sounding and it’s just so raw and from the heart. His music style is very avant-garde indie folk sort of stuff and I have a more broad range of inspirations in terms of actual music but it’s the fact that Daniel Johnston had almost no care in the world what others thought of his music he just wanted people to hear it and he wanted even more just to make it and sing it.
He started making mixtapes and passing them out to whoever would take them when he was working at a McDonalds cleaning the lobbies. I guess my point is what inspires me the most about him is how his music came from this very deep part of his soul and comes out so unfiltered and unpretentious and humble.
It’s my aim as a singer/artist whatever to sing and make music in that very same sort of manner.
So without further ado here is one of my favorite songs originally performed by an amazing group called Big Thief. This is one of their songs called “Masterpiece” and I’m singing along to their acoustic solo version in case anyone’s wondering. They have a faster slightly more rockier version that’s really good too but I chose to cover this one because it gives the song and the lyrics a little more heart, in my opinion.
Thanks in advance so much for listening! And hey if you don’t like it or it’s not your cup of tea, I totally understand. At this juncture, it means way more to me if a very small handful of people actually enjoy my songs (which they already do, and so I already have this) than if fifty million people think my songs are crap lol and they might if they ever listen but hey then I’d have fifty million listeners on the songs that my small handful of people love and enjoy! Regardless I already won and these songs from my heart and soul are just the victor spoils I choose to share now that my proverbial cup runs over.
SoundCloud link to “Masterpiece” (Big Thief Cover) sang by CM:
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/ajXqecWaQmutSUNSA
https://soundcloud.com/cmslaps/masterpiece
It’s been a past time pet project of mine to make vocal covers of songs that I really enjoy. I’ll either sing over the original song playing at a softer volume so my vocals pretty much overlay on top of the original vocals so those are a little more bootleg and questionable as far as copyright concerns go but then I’ve also discovered karaoke accompaniments and instrumental tracks for other songs I like so I have some slightly better quality recordings that are strictly just my vocals.
They may not be for everybody and I’ve kept them pretty close to the vest for quite a while but I recently started finding more ways to share them with others. This isn’t some professional endeavor by any means and the recording quality is very poor and of course there will always be trolls and snide folks online that have talked crap in the past about my songs but I just laugh it off and chalk it up as just part of the whole awesome experience of being an artist. My haters are just loved anyway and lumped right on in the category of motivators.
One of my all time inspirations as far as music goes is the late Daniel Dale Johnston. He fought a lifelong struggle with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and his music is remembered by critics as childlike and pure. His vocals are very off key and strange sounding and it’s just so raw and from the heart. His music style is very avant-garde indie folk sort of stuff and I have a more broad range of inspirations in terms of actual music but it’s the fact that Daniel Johnston had almost no care in the world what others thought of his music he just wanted people to hear it and he wanted even more just to make it and sing it.
He started making mixtapes and passing them out to whoever would take them when he was working at a McDonalds cleaning the lobbies. I guess my point is what inspires me the most about him is how his music came from this very deep part of his soul and comes out so unfiltered and unpretentious and humble.
It’s my aim as a singer/artist whatever to sing and make music in that very same sort of manner.
So without further ado here is one of my favorite songs originally performed by an amazing group called Big Thief. This is one of their songs called “Masterpiece” and I’m singing along to their acoustic solo version in case anyone’s wondering. They have a faster slightly more rockier version that’s really good too but I chose to cover this one because it gives the song and the lyrics a little more heart, in my opinion.
Thanks in advance so much for listening! And hey if you don’t like it or it’s not your cup of tea, I totally understand. At this juncture, it means way more to me if a very small handful of people actually enjoy my songs (which they already do, and so I already have this) than if fifty million people think my songs are crap lol and they might if they ever listen but hey then I’d have fifty million listeners on the songs that my small handful of people love and enjoy! Regardless I already won and these songs from my heart and soul are just the victor spoils I choose to share now that my proverbial cup runs over.
SoundCloud link to “Masterpiece” (Big Thief Cover) sang by CM:
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/ajXqecWaQmutSUNSA
https://soundcloud.com/cmslaps/masterpiece
