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JEFFREY NORDSTROM

"Gentle on my Mind."

6/5/2020

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I made another covers video for my YouTube channel. This time, John Hartford's "Gentle on my Mind."
"Gentle on my Mind" is simply one of the finest songs ever written. It's sentimental and chock-full of imagery. I think I've always loved it, always known it, that it was part of the ether growing up.

It surprises me sometimes how much songs like this fade from mind from pop culture, how something that seemed ubiquitous can become somewhat ephemeral. But the song's still out there, getting covered now and then by the likes of R.E.M. and Alison Krauss.

​My uncle, Monte, wrote a comment on the bottom of the YouTube video:
There’s a personal connection to this particular song. My late aunt Lil, was John Hartford’s book keeper, when she & Uncle Evert lived in Sherman Oaks. John continued to send her Xmas cards yearly, after they retired to Redding [California].
So there's a weird little family connection to the song too, which I wouldnt've known if not for posting this video. Neat.
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Coronaoke: "Someday Soon"

4/17/2020

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Recorded a video for the "Coronaoke" Facebook page. 
I chose "Someday Soon" because I'd never really paid attention to it before I heard people sing it at karaoke in Agassiz. And when I first heard it, I didn't like it. But it grew on me. So it felt a fitting song to choose to post to a group of people who miss doing karaoke.

I kinda' miss karaoke too, but mainly I miss going to pub jams. So I did this recording and kinda' did a pub jam with myself. 
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Last night: "Take my Breath Away."

1/28/2018

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I will be playing at the Valentine's Dinner at the Hot Springs Villa and Restaurant in Harrison Hot Springs on... wait for it... Valentine's Day. As a result, I need to learn how to play some proper love songs. 

Here's "Take My Breath Away," a song I clearly remember enjoying as a kid, feeling like it was a good-quality song overall. As a kid, I couldn't hear just how dated the synthesizers were, how oddly repetitive the lyrics were, and just how weird the song was.

So I gave it a little bit of a bossa rhythm, which I consider... appropriate.
https://jeffnords.tumblr.com/post/170215365961/from-tonights-show-at-the-restaurant
Here's the original. Berlin have re-recorded it a few times, so it's important to make sure you listen to this official video-version. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't overdub a different version of the song on the "official" video.

I added a video to a @YouTube playlist https://t.co/DOFbIV5JHV Berlin - Take My Breath Away

— Jeffrey Nordstrom (@jeffnords) January 16, 2018
Didn't realize that Moroder was a co-writer until I printed it off. Cool, Here's the best Moroder thing:
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From Saturday night: Roger McGuinn's "On and On."

1/22/2018

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I played at the Hot Springs Villa on Saturday night. It felt like an "off night," and I couldn't quite seem to connect to the crowd. But I got at least one OK video out of it. 

Here's me singing Roger McGuinn's "On and On."

Jeffrey sings Roger McGuinn's "On and On": https://t.co/YwGf0sSWWQ via @YouTube

— Jeffrey Nordstrom (@jeffnords) January 21, 2018
Here's the orginal.

Also from Saturday night, I shaved my horrendous moustache.
https://jeffnords.tumblr.com/post/169953025086
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What my restaurant shows are like: 20180106.

1/7/2018

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So last night I took my recording stuff to my restaurant gig and recorded a couple videos. Here's what the shows are like. 

Half of the recordings below are pretty loop-heavy. But most of last night was taken up playing requests from the audience, sans loops. I still need to get a couple good recordings of some of that sort of stuff.

From this evening's performance at the restaurant. It was a pretty good night. Glad I set up the recording stuff. https://t.co/2LJeAzfbiT

— Jeffrey Nordstrom (@jeffnords) January 7, 2018

Another from this evening, though not part of my "Under the Covers with Jeff" series. I'll wait for a better take for that. https://t.co/fIEEVE69V9 via @YouTube

— Jeffrey Nordstrom (@jeffnords) January 7, 2018

Just a fun clip from last night's restaurant show. Some folks asked me, after throwing out a load of requests, what I actually like to play. I didn't have a clear answer and settled on "Bad Romance." pic.twitter.com/iRdGO7L70H

— Jeffrey Nordstrom (@jeffnords) January 7, 2018
I play covers at the restaurant because they keep the customers happy. But I hope to sneakily incorporate a few originals over the coming year as my confidence in my own work returns.
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