Cover Your Friend's Songs

It will help them out and your audience will love it

Calling all musicians!

Cover your friend's songs. Tell everyone how great they are.

I noticed when attending concerts that most bands play some originals and some covers. Some play all originals or all covers. This applies to you too.

I'm great with bands playing originals. Do your own thing. And I understand that musicians include cover songs because a) they like the songs and b) it's nice to play some music the audience already knows.

My guess is all these musicians have friends who write good songs. I know I do. Could be someone they played with before and they already know the song. Could be a friend who plays in another band and you have there CD with original songs on it. Could be someone you barely know on the internet who has a youtube video of a song they wrote that you really like.

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Copyright Infringement Playing Stella By Starlight

From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-04-21

Thanks Marty, today we're going to hear a band of young musicians play a jazz standard.

It was my great good fortune to be able to work with high school jazz musicians at the Delta Jazz Workshop for several years. I enjoyed the workshop sessions and listening to rehearsals but my favorite job was rehearsing small groups made up of workshop attendees, mostly high school students.

In July of 2018 I was given some amazing musicians including a rhythm section of young musicians who were already playing at a professional level. So this was a great opportunity to show these students the whole process, selecting songs, creating instrumental sections, writing arrangements, and rehearsing for a concert.

And we had five days to make all this happen.

Something Blue - Shine

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Robert Glasper and Cory Henry. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

BLUES: SONGS OF THE DAY

THE ARTIST IS: FATT CAT FREDDIE

THE SONG IS: "Take These Blues"

BLUES: SONGS OF THE DAY

THE ARTIST IS: JASON BUIE

THE SONG IS: "DIMPLES"

Doreen Ketchens

Clarinetist

DJ Hairy Larry Presents John T. Parks Playing Life

From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-04-14

Thanks Marty, today we're going to hear a little philosophy from a fine Arkansas songwriter.

One of the benefits of volunteering to work at KASU and recording for Something Blue is that I get to meet so many great musicians. That's how I met John Parks, recording him at KASU live events. And there's been quite a few of them. I can even say that over the years we've become friends in music, one of the best kind of friends that you can have.

On November 11, 2014, KASU booked John T. Parks to play at the KASU Coffeehouse held at the Arts@311 in downtown Jonesboro. He played solo, standing there singing while accompanying himself on a 6 string guitar. I love duets, trios, and bands, and I've recorded John in all of these configurations. But there's just something powerful about a solo performance.

Especially when the performer is playing all original songs. The truth rings clear from a single voice, words and music written by the singer.

Something Blue - Dreams - April 13, 2024

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring The West Finch Blues Band, Blues Traveller, and Tribute To The Allman Brothers. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at https://sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at http://kasu.org.

Something Blue - Dreams - April 13, 2024

Tribute: A Celebration of The Allman Brothers Band Live at West Milford Farm / Cumming, GA on 2024-04-05 https://archive.org/details/tributeABB2024-04-05

Blues Traveler Live at Mary Rippon Theater, University of Colorado on 1992-05-16 https://archive.org/details/bt1992-05-16.treadwell.flac16

The West Finch Blues Band Unreleased recordings from 2006 Recorded at Delta Recording Service in Como, Mississippi, by Jimbo Malthus

MixRemix-Creative_Commons_Jazz_2024-04-12

MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2024-04-12 jazz.mixremix.cc

In a Natural State by The Sextet https://thesextet.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-natural-state CC BY-SA

Damascene by Secret Archives of the Vatican https://secretarchivesofthevatican.bandcamp.com/album/damascene CC NC-SA

Arnaud Martin Jazabana-Live in Goldengate https://www.jamendo.com/album/123557/live-in-goldengate CC BY-NC

5AM Trio-Triovision https://5ammusic.bandcamp.com/album/triovision CC BY-NC-ND

TINY STEPS by Konrad Bogen https://konradbogen.bandcamp.com/album/tiny-steps CC BY-NC-SA

JoosTVD-For Your Pleasure Vol3 https://www.jamendo.com/album/161376/for-your-pleasure-vol-3-2016 CC BY-NC-SA

BLUES: SONGS OF THE DAY

THE ARTIST IS: MIKE ONESKO BAND

THE SONG IS: "BRIDGE OF SIGHS"

BLUES: SONGS OF THE DAY

THE ARTIST IS: Mike Onesko's Guitar Army

THE SONG IS: "GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES"

DJ Hairy Larry Presents NJHB Playing Colossus

From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-03-31 https://sbblues.com/2024/03/31/dj-hairy-larry-presents-njhb-playing-colossus/ Thanks Marty, Today we're going to hear a radio edit of one of NJHB's most played songs. NJHB had their first recording session at HairyLarryLand on December 29, 2012. From that session we released our first album, "Circular Logic" that included my song "Colossus". In 2013 we were the New Jazz House Band playing once a month at TheArts@311 in downtown Jonesboro. Every month the personnel varied and every month we released another album. On February 2, 2012, we recorded the album "Colossus", with the cover art showing the Colossus Of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Then on July 6, 2013, we recorded our most accessible album, "Cookin' For Piper" and we closed the show with "Colossus".

MixRemix - Creative Commons Jazz - 2024-03-29

https://archive.org/details/ccj2024-03-29 MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2024-03-29 jazz.mixremix.cc

DJ Hairy Larry Presents Cottonmouth Playing July You're A Woman

From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-03-17 https://sbblues.com/2024/03/17/dj-hairy-larry-presents-cottonmouth-playing-july-youre-a-woman/ Thanks Marty, today we're going to hear some southern rock from a band that was big in Arkansas in the seventies. Sometimes I look around for just the right music to play on From The Archives Of Something Blue. And sometimes the music comes to me. Andy Fulkerson got in touch with KASU with some songs recorded in 1982 and Marty Scarbrough knew immediately that I would be interested. So, thanks to Andy for working with me filling in the details and bringing the Cottonmouth story to life.

BLUES SONGS OF THE DAY

THE ARTIST IS: THE JAKE WALDEN BAND

THE SONG IS: "BLUES IS BACK"

BLUES: SONGS OF THE DAY

THE ARTIST IS: ALTERED FIVE BLUES BAND

THE SONG IS: "ON MY LIST TO QUIT"