Monday, October 05, 2015

Songs It May Be Impossible to Do a Bad Version Of (An Occasional Series)

From their forthcoming eponymous debut album (which drops, as today's kids say, on November 17) please enjoy The Steve Deaton Three and their absolutely killer rethinking of/assault on the Nazz classic "Open My Eyes."




The band's originals are pretty transplendent as well; the album will be available via the usual suspects (ITunes, Apple Music, Spotify, et al) but in the meantime there's a pre-release version up over at Bandcamp where you can preview all the tracks, and you should do so posthaste.

I should also add that the album also includes a cover of a song by the great Sun Records rockabilly cat Jumpin' Gene Simmons...


...who happens to be Steve's second cousin.

6 comments:

buzzbabyjesus said...

Sounds as faithful to the original as Todd's covers are on "Faithful". That can be taken several ways, which is my intention.

steve simels said...

The drummer on this is an absolute monster. And I say that as somebody who thinks Thom Mooney, on the original Nazz record, totally rules.

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buzzbabyjesus said...

Paul Williams! I thought maybe helium.

I didn't go to Swami's much, had to pass Trestles to get there. Back in the day we slipped through a fence and ran down the road avoiding the US Marines. When Nixon was home it got pretty hairy.

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Anonymous said...

I would love to hear The Shoes cover this song.