Beardsongs by Beardwagon » singles

Silver Stallion – cover

admin — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:52:02 +0000

Silver Stallion is of course made famous by 80s country super group the Highwaymen, see a live version of them doing it (with beautiful classic Nashville Tele playing) here. It has inspired some great covers, most notably from Cat Power and another one I really like by The Heavy Horses, it was written by Lee Clayton, this is the original.

Wide Open Road – cover

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:42:33 +0000

I think everybody should do a cover of this song, it would help it in becoming a contender for the National Anthem of Australia. Clearly its only a matter of time considering the elemental force of this 80s classic by The Triffids, written by the late David McComb (who is finally getting some recent belated interest) and containing such intense longing.
So. Here is the Beardwagon contribution, sounding drunken earnest & distorted like it was recorded live by a few friends in a garage on a hot afternoon after much BBQ tending, casual revelation and beer drinking.

And the full res version for download. 40mb wav file.

What Part of That

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:10:38 +0000

I started writing this song in my head while we were watching an old Aki Kaurismaki film on SBS one night. I love his films. There was nothing happening, someone was standing drunk in a doorway waiting for a taxi, oblivious. Seemed to be early morning, I only caught twenty minutes of it but it might have been Shadows in Paradise. This one was recorded in a pretty loose fashion & I seemed to be following the sound of that cavernous kick drum weaving through the verses. Again Shannon O’Neill mixed this so it scrubs up OK.

What Part of That 24bit (50mb)