Name: Small Town Lad Sentiments -Context - cover. by Minnie Birch
Duration: 3 min 21 s
Description: I'm totally smitten with this song so thought I'd try to cover it

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Ksalol - you 

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Special Halloween cover of Dead Man's Bones with a little Screamin' Jay Hawkins thrown in to really piss off Satan.  

My Body's A Zombie For You (I Put A Spell On You)

Yesterday I met up with Emily Minnie Jacques to record a cover of the 90's classic 'Stay' by 'Shakespears Sister'.
I made an arrangement to suit Minnie's beautiful style that she has and I also asked Danny Poulton to sing the middle part of the song that the woman who used to scare me sang! 
Here is what we came up with together, enjoy!

STAY - Minnie Birch Ft Danny Poulton

Thank You

Emergency by Blythe Pepino

For a special edition of The Big Sound Machine in 2018 (broadcast on NorthHerts Radio) I was joined in the studio by a fabulous group of local artist to have a bit of a chat and create some unique versions of some well known Christmas songs.

Time again to enjoy these creative arrangements and spontaneous collaborations from

@elliot-porter
@zphillips
@danthomassolo
@baron-goodlove
@minnie-birch
Jessica Taylor and Quivering Lip

Happy Christmas!

All tracks recorded live at The Cream Room Recording Studio December 2018
Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Martin Lumsden (www.martintheproducer.com)

Big Sound Machine

BSM Christmas_Jingle Bells - Minnie Birch

Something a bit different!
"I love the "made up" language idea. It's one of those songs that sets you thinking "Have I heard this before? Do I know it?" Brilliant. Joe is in great form. I like the "Roger Whitaker" whistle too." Liz Franklin Blues and Roots Radio
This husband and wife team release their first collaboration.
An age old scenario played out here. We've all experienced it to some extend perhaps? 
Joe and his wife Helen Meissner turned her hand to song creation during lockdown and decided not to be limited by genres. They wanted to stick to the 'balladeer' style with which Joe is associated while letting Joe free to take the song where he needed to in terms of lyrics and delivery. 
Like Karl Jenkins' Adiemus, Joe's operatic style singing is in a made up language... (in case you were wondering).

'Having recorded covers over the last two years, this was a complete revelation for me, to sing a song as it came naturally. Having your wife as producer is helpful as she let me 'play' with what just flowed out of me. We didn't have to worry about studio time/costs and other agendas. It's all an experiment in a sense. Would we be able to co create something which others might find palatable? let alone the fact that neither of us have ever written song (or desired to) make music of our own and Helen had never been behind a mixing desk or recorded anyone before!
The fact that some people have already commented favourably is a real thrill to us. 
The song is quite unusual, because I was free of constraints of expectations from the listener (this is not the case with covers!)
We didn't have any words for the pre chorus and I just started singing these meaningless words and pretending I was in front of thousands of people in an opera! (something which will remain a pretence by the looks of things, for some while to come!). I was not expecting Helen to use this aspect of the song and was resisting it's inclusion until I heard the finished track, and I have to say, I love it! The whistling in the middle 8 was just random and spontaneous too. It was the only take I did of the whistling and again was not expecting it to make the final cut. I was just killing time before singing the last chorus!'
We are encouraged by the reaction to this and are excited to be developing some more tracks which we've created entirely ourselves.
Thanks so much for listening!
Will be on general release (spotify etc) 6th November 2020.

Music by Helen Meissner
Performed by Joe Rose
Lyrics by Helen Meissner and Joe Rose
Engineered, produced, mixed and mastered by Helen Meissner

Small Town Lad Sentiments -Context - cover.

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