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False Alarm​/​Round Midnight

from Time​/​Travel by Normandie Wilson

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I am endlessly fascinated by songs by songwriters that appear 'out of character' or that are in a style the songwriter is not necessarily known for. I am a huge Sloan fan and I believe it was on a 2016 tour that I saw them perform False Alarm for the first time. It wasn't on my radar until then, as I am merely a simple person who loves a good tender pop song with a catchy hook. The original song is a blazing, smoldering fire of a story with a real edge to it, and I became quite fixated on it, listened to it a lot during the fall of 2016. ("A lot" for a songwriter meaning a truly ridiculous amount of repeated plays.) I really wanted to do a cover of it but I knew I couldn't pull it off in the original style. One day I was walking around the neighborhood listening to Julie London and I decided to try to interpret the song through that lens, 'try' being the operative word, we'll see how it lands. Or doesn't! Life is short. Go hard. Right? Right. Sure. 'Round Midnight' is the most recorded/covered song in recorded music. I'm not sure I did it justice but I also became obsessed with the song and the difficulty of it. If a song is one of the most recorded of all time, there is probably a reason for it. For the past five years, I have performed out a lot, and I've really learned the value of going back to the classics. There are songs every singer should know, especially anyone who claims to care about jazz. Devoting a lot of time to learning and being able to deliver my standards has been a grand adventure worth every bit of investment. There is a reason we all have our fake books and our lead sheets memorized. It is a wonderful humbling thing to attempt to play a song a million people have played a million times and try to give it life, or at least not let it suck terribly. I was going to do the whole thing front to back as a true medley but that turned out to be seven minutes and not as interesting. But that's what happens when everything you touch turns into a torch song! Anyhow this is certainly a 'creative' interpretation of it all, and I guess we'll see how it goes.

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from Time​/​Travel, released December 31, 2019
cover song: original tracks written by Sloan/J. Ferguson & Thelonious Monk

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