Songs I Wrote

Expectations

Download it on bandcamp - https://alecspiegelman.bandcamp.com/track/cupid

Engineered by Benjamin Julia at Converse Rubber Tracks
and by Alec Spiegelman (me!) at the Webster
Mixed by Alec Spiegelman (me!)

with Benjamin Lazar Davis on electric bass, Dave Flaherty on drum set, and Alec Spiegelman (me!) on everything else

Cupid

Our inherited repertoire of folk songs -- from colonial-era broadside ballads to the 20th century contributions of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and their many followers -- is full of lyrics attached to pre-composed popular melodies. Even the melody of our national anthem had a prior existence as a British tavern song.

It is in that spirit that Michael Winograd (the contemporary Klezmer master) and I have penned new words for a well-known melody by the film composer John Williams.  

Alec Spiegelman - voice
Michael Winograd - pump organ, clarinet, chimes
Adam Moss - violin

engineered and produced by Alec Spiegelman at The Webster

The List

This one was written quickly, sitting with a cup of coffee at Milk and Honey on Newkirk Ave. in Brooklyn. (Thanks, Max!) Benjamin Lazar Davis plays the bass. Dave Flaherty plays the drums. Basics recorded at Converse Rubber Tracks. Finished up at the Webster.

Better

Michael Winograd wrote this chorus. He sang it at the upright piano in gentle&loving mockery of Randy Newman. We wrote the remainder of the tune together, and then I went off alone until I had four verses about gentrification in Los Angeles. Dave Flaherty (on drums) and Benjamin Lazar Davis (on bass) joined me at Converse Rubber Tracks to do the basics. Nearly a year later, J.E. Sunde sang the six-part choir in my living room when he had a free afternoon in NYC. 