December 2010
6 posts
Video time
Hi guys,
had a little time these past few days to look through some video footage shot on tour this year.
Here’s Deeper Well performed by Eva Hillered in Bad Nieuweschans/NL in October with me playing some guitar and speeding things along.
Eva Hillered & Markus Rill - Deeper Well from markusrill on Vimeo.
And here’s an impromptu encore of The Weight at my gig at Zimmer 16 in...
Beauty Of The Moment (live)
Hi guys,
here’s a live recording of Beauty Of The Moment, a song I co-wrote with Danish songwriter/guitarist/all-around good guy Klaus Caprani. This was recorded at Zimmer 16 in Berlin on October 23. Enjoy.
The studio version of this is available at markusrill.bandcamp.com on the EP “Makin’ Trouble”.
Merry Christmas, happy holidays! Markus
Not Too Late To Dream in Swedish
Hey guys,
while touring Annika Fehling and I co-wrote four or five songs, among them a cool little number called “Not Too Late To Dream”. Annika translated it into Swedish and has been doing it regularly with her new trio ABA. Here’s their version “Lat drömmarna vara kvar”. Kinda cool.
And here’s a home demo of the English version. It’s not perfect...
In which I talk about Bruce Springsteen →
Bridgetandbruce.com is one of the funnest websites I’ve recently found. It is Bridget Joyce’s campaign to get to sing with her big idol, Bruce Springsteen. Bridget is a young singer/songwriter in Nashville. Every week she’ll post a cover of a Springsteen song. She’s hoping her site will become popular enough for the Springsteen camp to hear about it and eventually invite...
Pimp my rhyme, part 2 →
I think this is some really useful stuff for songwriters, it’s certainly useful for me. Strategies for how to make your line interesting even if the rhyme isn’t all that great. I wrote this article for the Ravenous Raven songwriting community & website
Big River - the Huckleberry version
Yesterday I had this glorious idea of starting a band named Huckleberry that would mostly do songs relating to the Mississippi. So I tried putting a different spin on Johnny Cash’s Big River. Obviously, there’s nothing wrong with the original version. I love it dearly and we often play something close to the original version at live gigs. Trying it with a different fingering, however,...