If It's Too Loud...

Photo via Facebook I've been a huge fan of Shovels & Rope's series of Busted Jukebox albums. I tend to love everything Shovels & Rope puts out, and then add guest collaborators and cover songs and you're hitting my absolute sweet spot. The duo tends to pick not obvious covers and reimagines classics in their Americana/folk/rock 'n' roll style perfectly. For Busted Jukebox Volume 3 , they're changing it up a little. They explain in a Facebook posting: "The minute we realized that the word Juicebox sounded like the word Jukebox, we knew that volume 3 of our covers series would have something to do with kids. The songs on Busted Juicebox: Busted Jukebox Vol 3 are collaborations with friends who are also navigating the unique circumstances of raising children within the structures of a traveling band or within the music world. In many ways diapers and nap schedules replace sex and drugs as the sustaining routines of our touring lives. So many of our fri...

We're quite open with our love for cover songs here at If It's Too Loud..., and today we bring you one of the most obvious choices for a cover that we've ever brought you before. Jim James of My Morning Jacket was basically created to make complex, dense musical arrangements. He has an upcoming covers album coming out, and one of the more obvious choices is the first song we can currently listen to: His version of The Beach Boys' "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times." The song, originally off Pet Sounds , is a gorgeous, lush ballad, with instrumentation far more complex and involved than it seems on first listen. James' version of the song is an almost perfect recreation, with just a few slight changes here and there. You can watch the video for Jim James' version of "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" below. It is off the album Tribute To 2 , which is a sequel to Tribute To . The first in the series was an EP of The Beatles and G...