Cool song download alert

While hunting up a link for the prior post on Vedera, I surprised myself by crashing into the Fleming & John page featuring the (free) download of "Winter Wonderland" melded with Led Zeppelin's "Misty Mountain Hop."

The main page had been inactive for quite some time.

Nifty Music: Vedera

I discovered (you know what I mean) this group while browsing at e-music.

The singer's voice on this tune falls between that of Leigh Nash (Sixpence None the Richer) and Fleming McWilliams (Fleming & John). Plus I like the guitar textures. Adds a U2/Choir/Sundays vibe to the tunes.

Well, cool. There's another video:

Fleming & John

Fleming & John (Fleming McWilliams and John Mark Painter) are probably best known for a mildly popular AOR hit called "Ugly Girl," though they also have some popularity coming because of their odd matching of music and lyric (as with "Winter Wonderland" to the tune of "Misty Mountain Hop" and "I Got You Babe" to the tune of "Black Dog").

The biggest problem with this talented husband-wife duo is the fact that they release far too little of their own music in recorded format. I'm delighted to post F&J's MySpace store, featuring (as of this add) two new--at least to me--Fleming and John tunes.



As for the sound, I was a bit disappointed at all the noise on "The Way We Are." I like a stripped-down sound considerably more. Over the Rhine's "Drunkard's Prayer," for example, was a delight.