ukeamillion

tonight jessica and i were reviewing the ukeamillion archives and picking favorites to make a cd for a friend (shout out to jill…what what!) we decided to record a little something to see how we were sounding these days. here it is aretha franklin’s “respect” the abridged verson. also with all the soul sucked out of it and sung by two white girls! 

enjoy.

here we are again…months in between posts EXCEPT this time with exciting news!

a ukeamillion / Some New Trend  collaboration! 

Some New Trend is a favorite site of mine put on by two amazing folks, Carrie Rollwagen and Kevin Wilder. They are writing a young adult novel and posting a new chapter each week. So far, it’s all you could hope for…the mall scene, teen angst, bad summer jobs, and love triangles. The cherry on this young-adult-novel-sundae (real flavor) is the illustration by John Yam to go along with each new chapter. 

Check out their site to read the very nice words they had to say about ukeamillion and get sucked into Some New Trend. 

- a little info on this song-

kevin asked for a cute love song. ben lee delivers big time with Red Slurpee. easy to play, fun to sing. cary was kind enough to play and sing with me on this one…its always better to share the ukeing. 

its been too long, we can all agree on that.

tonight on lpb/pbs there was a show about the history of rockabilly (just fyi - they called it rockabilly long before they called it rock-n-roll) in which buddy holly’s career was reviewed. what a man, what a man. so anyway…i decided to break the silence after watching this program.

lately i’ve been missing the past i never knew, for shame!

so here it is. my father and i covering “oh boy” by buddy holly. (also featuring sadie on the squeaky toy briefly at the beginning) 

side note: my dad showed interest in learning the ukulele. i’m excited about this and hoping he doesn’t bail on it. 

i have spent my thanksgiving break in alabama and it has been very enjoyable. it also also resulted in this masterpiece of a collaboration. that’s right folks, ukesex has teamed up with Cat Steve Evans to record a song by the mr. t experience. 

points of interest:

1) cary received a new ukulele for thanksgivchristmasfestivis and is now even better equipped to sweep your ears off their (your) feet, as you can bear witness to in this little tune. 

2) kevin, the musical wonder male (as we affectionately call him), is front and center on this number. he is singing lead vocals, bgvs, and sharing the love of an occasionala cappella rendition of a fleetwood mac song on the out-takes. (you’ll have to join our elite membership club group to hear these archived treasures)

3) cary, myself, and kevin all gathered together to scream and wail for the bridge of this song. its hard to use your vocal instruments to recreate a powerful electric guitar ditty, but i think we have done our best.

4) we had a lot of fun doing this. hopefully, there will be more of this in the future.