The September Cover-up:
30 days for 30 covers from 1 man with 1 guitar and 1 iPhone

Week 1: Diva Week

After a few technical difficulties, we're trying to get back on schedule!  We'll be releasing a few tracks in the next few days to get us on track.

Today's track is one of my all time favorite songs.  Brandi Carlile sang this song like nobody had ever sung before.  A true diva sings the way she knows she can. 

-Andrew

Day 6: The Story

The September Cover-up:
30 days for 30 covers from 1 man with 1 guitar and 1 iPhone

Week 1: Diva Week

It's the last day of Diva Week!  And this is the perfect segue into next week's theme (which you get to learn tomorrow).  Nobody has leapt to superstardom this year quite the way Idina Menzel has.  In honor of her meteoric rise to fame, here's a song that everyone has probably heard one time too many.

-Andrew

Day 7: Let It Go

The September Cover-up:
30 days for 30 covers from 1 man with 1 guitar and 1 iPhone

Week 2: Broadway Week

In accordance with the actual event, week 2 is broadway week!  All this weeks songs will be coming from musicals, from the classics to the brand new.

Today's song comes from Jason Robert Brown's short lived "Bridges of Madison County".

Day 8: It All Fades Away

The September Cover-up:
30 days for 30 covers from 1 man with 1 guitar and 1 iPhone

Week 2: Broadway Week

Today's track comes from one of the best shows to come out of NYC in the past few seasons: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812.  Written by Dave Malloy, Comet is a musicalization of an excerpt of Tolstoy's classic novel War and Peace.

Day 9: No One Else

The September Cover-up:
30 days for 30 covers from 1 man with 1 guitar and 1 iPhone

Week 2: Broadway Week

Today's track comes from a truly underrated show, 110 in the Shade.  Based on the play The Rainmaker, 110 tells the story of one woman's struggle against loneliness against the backdrop of a town's struggle with drought.  When a mysterious man appears in town, he claims to possibly be able to help with both.

Day 10: Is It Really Me

The September Cover-up:
30 days for 30 covers from 1 man with 1 guitar and 1 iPhone

Week 2: Broadway Week

It's not broadway week without a little Sondheim.  Though Merrily We Roll Along is considered to be a flop, it contains some of Sondheim's most iconic songs, such as "Not A Day Goes By," "Opening Doors," and today's track, "Good Thing Going."

Day 11: Good Thing Going

The September Cover-up:
30 days for 30 covers from 1 man with 1 guitar and 1 iPhone

Week 2: Broadway Week

In March of 2012, I was a sophomore in college and though I owned a guitar, I didn't really know how to play it.  A new show had opened on Broadway just a month earlier and a good friend of mine had recommended that I listen to the album.  That cast album was for the musical Once.  And I played my guitar every day for the next two months.

Day 12: If You Want Me

The September Cover-up:
30 days for 30 covers from 1 man with 1 guitar and 1 iPhone

Week 2: Broadway Week

Today's track comes from John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", a rock musical detailing the story of one youth's journey from East Berlin to America and from man to somewhere in between.  Hedwig finally got its broadway debut this spring starring Neil Patrick Harris and Lena Hall.

Day 13: The Long Grift

The September Cover-up:
30 days for 30 covers from 1 man with 1 guitar and 1 iPhone

Week 2: Broadway Week

Today is the close of Broadway Week!  In celebration of the genre, today's track is (mostly) from the iconic musical Rent by Jonathan Larson.  But there may be a verse of another song  hidden in there somewhere...

Day 14: Without You and...

The September Cover-up:
30 days for 30 covers from 1 man with 1 guitar and 1 iPhone

Week 3: Country Week

This weeks tracks come from my heritage!  I was raised in a bluegrass household as a kid and it very much shaped me as a musician.

This first track comes from a spectacular band that I saw live over the summer, Secret Sisters.  They were opening for Nickel Creek (we'll get to them later) and I was blown away.  This was the last track on their set and the lyrics really really stuck with me.