September 28 2009

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“Hey” by Erika Lloyd & Cameron Mizell
originally by The Pixies
from Pour A Little Everything Else

September 20 2009

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“Run Of The Mill” by Marco Benevento
originally by George Harrison
from Me Not Me

September 17 2009

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“Cherry Coloured Funk” by Erika Lloyd & Cameron Mizell
originally by the Cocteau Twins
from Pour A Little Everything Else

(More songs from this album on Tumblr here.)

September 14 2009

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“Everything Means Nothing To Me” by Erika Lloyd & Cameron Mizell
originally by Elliott Smith
from Pour A Little Everything Else

September 12 2009

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“Nobody Home” by Erika Lloyd & Cameron Mizell
originally by Pink Floyd
from Pour A Little Everything Else

September 10 2009

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“All I Want” by Erika Lloyd & Cameron Mizell
originally by Joni Mitchell
from Pour A Little Everything Else

September 09 2009

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“Soul Love” by Erika Lloyd & Cameron Mizell
originally by David Bowie
from Pour A Little Everything Else

September 08 2009

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Black Hole Sun - Lauren Zettler (Soundgarden Cover)

Cam and I just did this real quick as a favor to someone who asked for it….this song is funny to me because I always thought it was “black holeD sun” AND this is the first music video I can actually remember watching as a kid.  For some reason the image of the little girl spitting out ice cream really stuck with me.

(via laurenzettler)

Hadn’t played this song in about 15 years, or whenever it came out. It’s fun to just sit down and (re)learn a new song and record it within an hour’s time. Next up, we’ll be recreating the video in my living room.

August 22 2009

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“Alabama Song” by Erika Lloyd & Cameron Mizell

Rolling with the cover song theme for the day, here’s a track from Pour A Little Everything Else. Written by Kurt Weill (music) & Bertolt Brecht (words) in 1927, used in their opera Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mohagany, and recorded 40 years later by The Doors. 42 years after that, Erika and I recorded it.

Sans organ, I was trying to create a weird string band sound, as if it comes from a different place, but you can’t exactly figure out if it’s Eastern European or Mexican or something entirely different.

We use Jim Morrison’s lyrics in the second verse because we thought changing “show me the way to the next little girl” to “show me the way to the next little boy” might be a little creepy/pretentious. However, after finishing the album we learned that in Kurt Weill’s opera, the song was song by a group of prostitutes and the lyric is “show me the way to the next pretty boy.” Would have been a nice touch, but we were far beyond redoing any vocals.

July 21 2009

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“Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing” by Erika Lloyd & Cameron Mizell
(originally by Stevie Wonder)

from Pour A Little Everything Else.

July 12 2009

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“Fool On The Hill” by Erika Lloyd
(originally by the Beatles)

From Pour A Little Everything Else. Erika wanted to do a track of all vocal, and she knocked this one out of the park. There’s no autotune or copy and pasting. She sang each part all the way through.

July 10 2009

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“One Caress” by Erika Lloyd & Cameron Mizell
(originally by Depeche Mode)

from Pour A Little Everything Else.

July 08 2009

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“Faith” by Erika Lloyd & Cameron Mizell

Originally by George Michael. This is one of the tracks off Pour A Little Everything Else, the covers album Erika and I just finished. You can hear the whole thing at my website.

selected discography

  Life Is Loud
  iTunes / CD Baby
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  Cameron Mizell
  iTunes / CD Baby
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  Sounds Like Snow
  Be Still
  iTunes / CD Baby
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  Pour A Little
  Everything Else

  Erika Lloyd
  iTunes / CD Baby
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  On Your Back Porch
  Lauren Zettler
  iTunes / LZ's Store
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  Simpler Times
  Dunham Van Durham
  iTunes / CD Baby
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  Follow Through
  w/ Matt Ketteman
  iTunes / CD Baby
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About Cameron Mizell

I'm a freelance guitarist in Brooklyn, NY. You'll usually find me working next to the talented Lauren Zettler or fronting my own jazz/funk trio with organist Brad Whiteley and drummer Kenneth Salters.

To find out when I'm performing with these groups or others, please check the calendar on my website.

Along with playing and writing music, I'm a co-founder and author for MusicianWages.com, a website about the musician business. The website takes a pragmatic approach to the discussion about making a living as a musician.

I also blog here.