I love dropping little covers in between albums of originals! There will be a few more coming to this playlist, but please sign on for the new album pre-order at https://www.gofundme.com/daphne-lee-martins-scared-fearless

Covers 2017

Little Birds

Night We Fell In Love

Make It Rain

More Flies With Honey

Smile At Perfect Strangers

I Still Want You

Five Points

Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Head

I'd Take A Bullet For You

Love Is A Rebellious Bird

Futureappletree  9/29/2015

Daphne Lee Martin is a talented songwriter and a sultry heart throb up on stage. Each year she releases a new song for Valentine's Day. 

"Lover I Don't Have to Love" has been one of those go-to songs that I use when coaching my bandmates' performances.  I show them live performances that I feel capture the rage and passion and sorrow and fear and recklessness that I want the piece to convey, and Bright Eyes has several live performances of this song that just slay, so we decided to take a crack at covering it.

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Lover I Don't Have to Love by Daphne Lee Martin (Bright Eyes Cover)

A new twist on the song made popular by Beck from the Soundtrack for the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Drums: Matt Slobogan
Violin: Kieran Ledwidge
Bass: Corina Malbaurn
Guitar: Thor Jensen
Keys: Isaac Young
Vocals: Daphne Lee Martin
Trumpet: Danny Motta

Mixed by: Jonah Tolchin

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime (Cover)

The third release in the series! Enjoy the wonderful guitar and production Jonah Tolchin brought to this one!

Wicked Game (Chris Isaak Cover)

Celebrating Valentine's Day with a gorgeous, new love song from Connecticut songstress Daphne Lee Martin. Spending this lover's holiday with Daphne has become something of a tradition. The singer has debuted a song with us on the radio show and/or on the music blog for years now. 

True to form this brand new song "Brandy" is a beautiful but melancholy "celebration" of relationship itself. The song is anticipated to appear on Daphne's forthcoming Scared Fearless record (2018). You're hearing and feeling it first!

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Brandy by Daphne Lee Martin

Till We Meet Again 
	Matt Slobogan – 1965 Rodgers Holiday, Istanbul & Meinl Cymbals, Zildjian Hats
	MorgenEve Swain – Upright Bass
	Andrew Sovine – electric guitar
	Kieran Ledwidge – Violin
	Eric Lichter – Vocals
	Isaac Young – Hammond Sk2 B3
	Daphne Lee Martin – Guild DCE5, Vocals
Written Feb 21, 2015 in a hotel room in Delaware in a blizzard. Part of the series with Young Man’s Game, In Certain Company, and Fuck Tinder. This was the first in the song cycle, the starry-eyed departure for a very long time on the road. Like Songbirds, this wistful little piece is another reminder of how important it is to have a place to call home. And often, that is in the arms of someone you love rather than a pin in a map.

Til We Meet Again

I Hope I Never Meet the Bitch Who Broke Your Heart 
	Isaac Young – Hammond SK2 Wurlitzer
	Andrew Sovine – electric guitar
	MorganEve Swain – Upright Bass
	Daphne Lee Martin – Vocals

I Hope I Never Meet the Bitch Who Broke Your Heart

Break My Heart Tomorrow
	Matt Slobogan – 1965 Rodgers Holiday, Istanbul & Meinl Cymbals, Zildjian Hats
	Isaac Young – Hammond SK2 Piano, B3, synth strings
	Eric Lichter – Fender Jazz Bass, Vocals
	Jonah Tolchin – Vocals
		Written summer 2014. This is a stand-alone, not part of a cycle.

Break My Heart Tomorrow

Willing Victim
	Matt Slobogan – 1965 Rodgers Holiday, Istanbul & Meinl Cymbals, Zildjian Hats
	MorganEve Swain – 49K Upright Bass
	Daphne Lee Martin – Guild DCE5, Vocals
Willing Victim was part of Fall On Your Sword and has had several incarnations, including a pretty sexy Daytrotter session version. For some reason, it just keeps asking to be played, a good warm-up at practices and generally great little moodsetter with plenty of room to jam. So we goofed with it at Dirt Floor and decided to throw it in the mix last minute. The lyrics are based on several pieces of literature, as all the songs from Fall On Your Sword. The opening about chains and carnations is from Neruda, the sympathy line is from Kerouac’s Satori in Paris, and most of the rest is based on Colette’s Vagabond.

Willing Victim

Fuck Tinder, I’m Standing Right Here
	Matt Slobogan – 1965 Rodgers Holiday, Istanbul & Meinl Cymbals, Zildjian Hats
	Eric Lichter – Fender Jazz Bass
	James Waine Carpenter – Epiphone Texan Acoustic Guitar
	Thor Jensen – Epiphone Casino?
	Andrew Sovine – electric guitar
Isaac Young – Hammond SK2 B3
Daphne Lee Martin – Vocals
Written at home Summer 2016, alongside In Certain Company, Young Man’s Game and Till We Meet Again as part of the same series. I have never been able to get my head around what online dating has become- the idea that you can shop for people like you’d shop for a rug, choose the size and shape and color without ever hearing their voice or looking into their eyes, and then dispose of them as easily. It frightens me, the idea of the attention getting that modern hookup culture champions as a surrogate for true affection built from shared interests. We built the arrangement and instrumentation to sound a little punky, erring on the side of Aimee Mann’s Magnolia Soundtrack.

Fuck Tinder, I'm Standing Right Here

Jack O’ Diamonds
	Matt Slobogan – 1965 Rodgers Holiday, Istanbul & Meinl Cymbals, Zildjian Hats
	MorganEve Swain – 49K Upright Bass
	Andrew Sovine – Les Paul Standard
	Daphne Lee Martin – Vocals
		Written July 30, 2015.

Jack O' Diamonds

Some Fool
	Kieran Ledwidge – Violin
	Thor Robert Jensen – Jerome Duffel Acoustic Guitar
	Daphne Lee Martin – Guild DCE5 , Vocals
Written April 14, 2016. I think this was a premonition for what was about  happen. My husband began to leave me the following month, and this was probably the first time I realized we had run our course. It was a way of already acknowledging that being away from home too long had helped to make us strangers.

Some Fool

John Henry’s Lullaby
	Matt Slobogan – 1965 Rodgers Holiday, Istanbul & Meinl Cymbals, Zildjian Hats
	MorganEve Swain - Violin
	Eric Lichter – Fender Jazz Bass
	Isaac Young – Hammond SK2 Grand Piano, Wurlitzer
	Daphne Lee Martin – Vocals
		Written summer 2014 about my best friend James Maple.

John Henry's Lullaby

Songbirds
	Matt Slobogan – 1965 Rodgers Holiday, Istanbul & Meinl Cymbals, Zildjian Hats
	MorganEve Swain – 49K Upright Bass, Vocals
	John Faraone – Martin D41, Vocals
	Mike Savino – Banjo
	Eric Lichter – Fender Pedal Steel
	Daphne Lee Martin – Vocals
Written March 2014 in York, PA in JJ Sheffer’s living room after an incredible tour with James Maple. This is a love song to the city of Knoxville, TN and to an exceptional human being who lives there. I wrote the first two verses, and plotted out a rough idea of a melody until I got distracted by James doing a morning fake striptease to motivate me to go out for coffee. So I took what I wrote to John Faraone, a fantastic songwriter to see what he might make of it. He wrote the third verse and set his own melody, which we adopted as permanent. We demoed a version out and gave it to MorganEve Swain, who listened and wrote a third harmony, which appears on the album. Playing it live with Eric pushed us toward a Workingman’s Dead vibe and Tall Tall Trees played us a wonderful banjo accompaniment to fill it out.

Songbirds

Karma 7:16

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