But you take these steps because you have a vision as to why they’re important. Trust me.’ These are more mainstream, more current artists. “I came in and said, ‘Let’s do ‘ Bad Guy’ by Billie Eilish.’ And that was a little like, ‘What?!’ And I said, ‘It’s gonna be cool. “All of these songs, the main focus was, you may have not heard what was actually being said in these songs and why they’re relevant,” said Smith. Octoat Lakeshore Drive-in in Chicago, IL Photo by Barry Brecheisen
Shinedown guitarist Zach Myers performs on keyboard as one half of duo Smith & Myers. Volume II features thorough reexamination of everything from Billie Eilish (“Bad Guy”) to Billy Idol (“Rebel Yell”).
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On Volume I, the group took Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” and stripped it down, moving the emphasis from the scorching guitar of Young to Myers’ handling of the piano, putting the emphasis squarely on the song’s still relevant lyrics. For Smith and Myers, making perhaps otherwise familiar material their own was a critical way of establishing this project’s unique identity. The key to a great cover is in putting a new stamp on it. Also, if you were going to do a carbon copy of the song and basically just do a cover exactly the way the artist did it, that’s kind of boring. For the listener, we wanted to microscope some things that you might have missed in the original - how important the subject matter is and the lyrics are. “All of these covers were picked because of their story. “Zach has a great way of establishing this with these reimaginings,” added Smith. How would we have played these songs had we written them?” “We don’t have a bass player and we don’t have a drummer. No one ever wrote these songs,’” explained Myers of the duo’s approach to the covers. “When we went into it, I was kind of like, ‘Listen, pretend that these songs never existed. Lakeshore Drive-in in Chicago, IL Photo by Barry Brecheisen Brent Smith of Shinedown performs as one half of duo Smith & Myers.
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