"There's no other band that can stay that quiet and that dynamic at the same time," said Ryan Adams, the alternative country singer who performed on 2007's "Trinity Revisited" (Cooking Vinyl), a CD and DVD package that recreated "The Trinity Session" song for song.
The second-session songs would have limitations, perhaps barring consumers from sharing files or copying songs onto another disc.
He's written books, hosted global sing-alongs, and recorded an album Space Sessions: Songs From a Tin Can, which was marketed as the first-ever "off the planet" record, though at least one review said otherwise.
Some time later, I finally got to hear what they sounded like via a killer John Peel session containing songs from Lions Mouth.
During the first recording session for Songs of Leonard Cohen, he shouted encouragement: "Watch out, Dylan!" At the time, Bob Dylan was rock'n'roll's pre-eminent poet.
This week, Welsh band 9Bach return to our studio for a live session, playing songs from their new album, Anian.
During the first session, two songs were recorded: "Stuck In A Closet With Vanna White", and "Melanie".
That May he recorded his last session of songs, "Happy Go Lucky Me" and "Banjo Boy", the latter of which peaked at number 40 in the UK Singles Chart.
Earlier this year, House came to my place in Nashville for a session of Songs From My Couch, then answered some interview questions.
Set for Dec. 18 at the Theatre at Ace Hotel in L.A., the night promises to be an intimate affair: an all-acoustic session of songs from some of the area's most accomplished songwriters, with a Steinway & Sons-donated piano to add some class.
Those pioneering sessions included songs by the Carter Family of Virginia (A.P., his wife, Sara, and his sister-in-law, Maybelle) and Jimmie Rodgers of North Carolina.
