Love Covers by Food For Thought

I have to admit that even as a young rap fan, the rap ballads on any album were always my favorite. As a music fan in general, I was always a sucker for the ballads on the albums. Tribe's "Bonita Applebaum," Erik B. and Rakim's "Teach The Children," Elvis Costello's "Allison," Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers To Cross," etc. I was dealing with break-up lament and single when I did these, but that's not the whole story. I was having fun playing around with how I'd translate my singing voice to the ballads I chose for this album. I had a lot of fun trying to sing the rapper Aceyalone's "Love and Hate" in an attempt at a Johnny Cash voice. I also around this time rapped Bob Dylan's entire 40+ minute "TIme Out Of Mind" album in less than 15 minutes, but it wasn't good enough to share, at least not yet. I had the idea to shoot on album cover that was me in bed under a comforter, with a microphone emerging from beneath the sheets that I held in my hand in a crooning pose. Thus, love "covers" would be a double entendre. I had a roommate shoot an attempt one day and I have the print but it's not worth sharing either. Maybe I'll get a photographically inclined friend to give it another try, once a major label hears these low-fi recorded gems and decides they need big budget backing. I hold my breath in wait.

Tracklist

1.	A Little Soul (Pulp)	5:23

2.	Love and Hate (Aceyalone)	4:00

3.	Metal Firecracker (Lucinda Williams)	4:42

4.	If You See Her Say Hello (Bob Dylan)	6:30

5.	Say You Miss Me (Wilco)	2:50

6.	Papa Was a Rodeo (Magnetic Fields)	5:10

7.	Harvest Moon Medley (Neil Young)	8:46

8.	Goodbye Jumbo Medley (World Party)	9:32

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released June 20, 2019

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