Psalmships covers Honey Watts "It's A Shame I Know" for #CoverClub - A special brand of Philly covers

Welcome back to #CoverClub and welcome back to the Sluice Box! We last presented from the Sluice Box two weeks ago, sharing Katie Frank and the Pheromones covering Joan Jett and the Blackhearts "I Love Rock and Roll."  You last found us in a sitting room at the Sluice Box, amped up and rocking out.  But don't be fooled, the rest of the session was stripped, raw, and intimate.

When first putting together the session at the Sluice Box, I wasn't sure what the set up would be, but I knew to trust Psalmships, the anchor of our session.  You see, listening to Joshua Britton, the force behind Psalmships, is like a trust exercise.  Stand up, fold your arms, close your eyes and lean back.  As you fall back into Joshua's musical world, trust that your senses will enjoy what will soon envelop you.  In October I did this exercise at Kevin Killen's suggestion, when he was dismayed that I didn't already know Psalmships.

I chose to start with Songs For A Red Bird, which Kevin Killen produced and engineered, and began my fall into Psalmships.  My ability to blindly trust was hard to relent.  Psalmships is dark, it's bleak, it's a place I hadn't visited since letting go with the 2nd half of The Downward Spiral many years before.  Like Trent Reznor's intense opus, it became easy to float away with the emotional Psalmships.  Soon, I wasn't just leaning back with crossed arms, I was sleeping with it, I was waking to it, I was fully engulfed into Psalmships Songs For A Red Bird.

If it's your first time with Psalmships, let's let Joshua Britton start you off with a cover of his "favorite band on the scene", Honey Watts.  Like the original, Joshua Britton also takes a simple route on this song.  For the recording there were no microphones, no amplifiers, just him and acoustic guitar. Check out the results.

Cover Club | Psalmships 'It's A Shame I Know' (Honey Watts)   


Be sure to compare to the original track from Honey Watts found on their Bandcamp page. 
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Check back this week as we release a second Cover Club video with an original song from the upcoming I Sleep Alone.

Join Psalmships this Friday, June 6th, at Ortlieb's for a live presentation of the new material.