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Listen, Talkin' Headline Blues

The Talkin’ Headline Blues #75

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Hey hey…look what I finally recorded and got up here. This week’s Talkin’ Headline. Nothing special or specific about this one. Just something to listen to and ease back into your brain.

I do, however, have some really cool news. I got 2 songs recorded and ready to put on a 7-inch vinyl record that’ll spin at 45 howlin’ rpms. After it gets pressed and primped I’m taking it out on the road for a tour of Rust Belt cities.

This all happens starting June 1.

“Why are you telling me this now?” you may ask…

Well, you can order your copy of the record now! How about that?!

Now, it’s really easy to do. Just click right here, and you’ll be taken to a kickstarter project page where you can watch a video explaining it all.

Then, after watching the video, you can donate to the project. In doing so, not only do you get the two new songs on sweet sweet vinyl, but you also can get some really original and fantastic rewards depending on how much you give.

Things like…Polaroid pictures and letters mailed to your door from tour stops, hand-printed posters, old (almost out-of-print) CDs, and a host of other things.

All the donations go towards the pressing of the record and the tour. You can be part of the process!

YOWZA!

So, please go check it out. Won’t take more than a minute or two.

Thanks so much!

Listen, Talkin' Headline Blues

The Talkin’ Headline Blues #66

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Here’s the new Talkin’ Headline for this week. Are you keeping up with these? I am…just barely.

Did you know that Poor Elvis has a show this Saturday? Come hear us at Quenchers Saloon. Starts at 9pm with the Sleepovers blitzin through some new-wave surf-rock and the End Times Spasm Band from Fort Wayne. It’s only $5 at the door. Don’t miss out!

Here’s the info on facebook.

Listen, Talkin' Headline Blues

The Talkin’ Headline Blues #65

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Here’s yet another Talkin’ Headline Blues. Have you been revisiting the older ones?

Also, did you know that Poor Elvis is playing at the Lillstreet Art Studio First Friday event? Come check it out. Browse some art and listen to some new songs. It’s free.

And, we’re also playing another show with the hot Fort Wayne group End Times Spasm Band on Saturday, February 11 at Quenchers Saloon. You really can’t miss this one; End Times is great. Hip-buckin’ surf rock band the Sleepovers open at 9pm, we go on around 10pm, and End Times follows. It’s only $5 to get in. More info here.

See ya there!

Listen, Talkin' Headline Blues

The Talkin’ Headline Blues #62

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Listen up! Read all about it! Or…Hear all about it! There’s some important stuff in this song today, I think. I don’t know. I only look at the headlines at CNN.com. So, I’m probably not the most informed person. Probably just ask your neighbor about any of the topics discussed in this song. Go ahead. Lean over and nudge them.

Did you also realize that Poor Elvis has a show this coming Friday? Did you also realize that this coming Friday is Friday the 13th? Since it’s the first Friday the 13th of the New Year, did you know that whatever you do on that day dictates your luck for the rest of the year? Did you know that if you come to our show (see the facebook event for info) then you’ll have good luck all year? If you don’t, well, you probably don’t wanna risk what’ll happen.

Best show up.

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Mister Mayor Says (I’m Guided By The Love Of Gold) (Version 2)

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Ok, folks. Here’s the second installment of “Repost Thursday.” You can check out the first one I did (a couple weeks ago) here. In that, I re-recorded the version of “Unworried Mind” that I first recorded the week of December 7 back in 2009. I hadn’t come up with the snappy name of Repost Thursday. I just did that yesterday. I think it’s got a nice ring to it. Or, at least some kind of ring to it, anyway.

Well, for this round I re-recorded my song “Mister Mayor Says” that I first released one year ago this week. (Listen to the original version here.) I wasn’t actually going to re-record it because this was a track on my record “It’s Chicago!” that I just put out in August. (You have a copy, right? No? Well, you’re in luck. You can go here to download the mp3s for a minimal fee. [You can also buy it on iTunes or Amazon, if you wish.] By purchasing the electronic files only you save trees and save on plastic production. If you need a real live hard-copy, though, I have those too.

That was a long aside, huh?

So, anyway, I was gonna not re-record this one and just use the album version, but then I figured that’d be an easy way out. Plus, the album version and the version I recorded in December 2009 are pretty much the same.

So I went ahead and mixed it all up.

This version is in 3/4 time. Has some mouth harp. The singing is quite different. The words are all pretty much the same, though.

If you didn’t know already, here’s the newspaper article that inspired this song. And here’s a picture of the beautiful Mayor Daley. He will be sorely missed.

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And, that’s that. I kinda like this version. I may even try playing this one out. I’d stopped performing it cause the Mayor’s quittin soon and I don’t like shooting fish after their already caught. Plus its got some references to things that happened a couple years ago (like Chicago not getting the Olympics).

Anyway…be sure to check back tomorrow for the old version.