Author: Valerie

The second video of my Lou Reed playlist, is an acoustic cover of The Velvet Underground song from 1967.

I mostly play the Cowboy Junkies version of this song, and that version is actually my top-viewed video with over 7K views so far. But I got a lot of comments from people assuming I[…]

Happy Lunar New Year!! I enjoyed a long weekend, and then a few days on some personal projects, new pedals, and a failed fire-patina attempt. Last night the snow began, and came down steady all[…]

Acoustic cover of the R.E.M. song from the supper sides of their 1986 album “Lifes Rich Pageant,” written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe.

An acoustic cover of the Rodriguez song “I Wonder” from his 1970 album “Cold Fact”

Acoustic cover of the Bob Dylan song from his 1969 album “Nashville Skyline”

Acoustic cover of the Grateful Dead classic, “New Speedway Boogie”, written by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter. Played on a Little Martin guitar, and featuring psychedelic visuals.

Happy New Year! Continuing with the theme of wordy songs about end-times, here’s an acoustic cover of Bob Dylan’s 1989 song from his album “Oh Mercy”, featuring footage from old Buster Keaton films. Despite the[…]

The very most appropriate song to top off this year — an acoustic version of R.E.M.’s classic song from their 1987 album ‘Document’, written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe. When[…]

New Original Song! Check out this overly complicated how-we-met story…