Brad Hinton covers Tin Bird Choir "Take Me With You When You Go" for #CoverClub - A special brand of Philly covers

When booking the first session of Cover Club back at Breakneck Studios in October 2013, musician Kevin Killen reminded "You know, we already do this;" referring to Philly Sings Philly.   Done each week in November, Philly Sings Philly, has numerous Philadelphia based artists covering each other on the stage of The Fire!  It must have seemed like more than coincidental when we were able to match up the release schedule of the first set of Cover Club videos with bands playing the celebration of Philly music.  Christopher Davis-Shannon, Kevin Killen, and Chelsea Mitchell each had their Philly-centric covers released and played Philly Sings Philly.

Brad Hinton, folk & country bluesman, the organizer of Philly Sings Philly and subject of the very first Club release (Christopher Davis-Shannon doing "Mourning Dove) was a more than natural choice to include in a future session.  In fact after seeing all the bands either covering Brad Hinton or including Brad in their band at Philly Sings Philly, it was a foregone conclusion that Brad would be doing a future session in any form he chose.  Once the date was set, there was no limitation on who he would play with or who he might cover, he had a promised slot no matter who was playing with him. 

Brad plays with so many musicians professionally; it was ironic that playing solo was the plan going into the week of the session.  But like with most Brad Hinton musical arrangements a collaboration ensued.  Katie Frank, who was recording a session at the Sluice Box the same day, with her band the Pheromones, was set to sit in with Brad for the original song.  During the session, although not planned, it soon became a natural match that she would also sit in on the cover.  Tin Bird Choir has beautiful arrangements between husband & wife team, Eric and Heather Hurlock, so it would have been just remiss to cover in any fashion.

Cover Club | Brad Hinton feat. Katie Frank 'Take Me With You When You Go' (Tin Bird Choir)

Check out Brad Hinton this Saturday, also in duet form with Bethany Brooks.   They play Steel City Coffeehouse, in Phoenixville, opening for Beaucoup Blues.