Cover Club started as one of those "let's see where this goes" types of projects. We started with a friend's studio in Newtown, Pa with Break Neck Studios to showcase some favorite bands. While the goal of the project has always been to share the Philly music that we love so much, it has been a great opportunity to share our affinity for our favorite studios and sessions. We've worked with Nomad Recording Studios, Kettle Pot Tracks, and Cambridge Sound Studios; while making stops in Fairmount Park, the Sluice Box, MilkBoy, Church of Kong, and more! We'd be terribly amiss if we didn't take the opportunity to work with John Vettese of WXPN's The Key for a chance to collaborate for a Key Session - Cover Club edition!
Slight problem though, John is such an avid supporter of the Philly local scene, it's tough to find someone he hasn't already worked with. On top of that, how do you pick from the list of people he's on deck to work with next?
When Lou came up on the list, they were an obvious choice as someone people need to hear, and a band that would be quite intriguing to see who and how they'd cover!
According to Tess Emma of Lou, “We chose Chamber Choir because Pine Barons is easily my favorite local band right now, and how can you not love that song? Also, they are all super nice dudes who deserve everything they're accomplishing. It was a fun song to cover, they write some gnarly tunes for sure. "
Cover Club | Lou "Chamber Choir" (Pine Barons)
WXPN's Key Sessions have been a great way to get to know current bands for quite a few years now in Philadelphia. One band we've really wanted to get to know more about for some time now has been Lou. Seemingly coming out of nowhere, Lou was a featured performer on the Tri State Indie awards showcase this spring. When we had the chance to connect with John Vettese for a Key Session / Cover Club collaboration, we took advantage of the opportunity to get to know Lou. After they recorded their cover of Pine Barons "Chamber Choir" to start off their set, they got down to business with some of their own tunes!While the Key Session is a few tracks, each Cover Club session features one original track to go with their cover. For Lou, they chose to showcase new track "Grains." Tess Emma explained, "We chose Grains because it was the first song that we wrote together that we felt really showcased what we were going for dynamic wise. Originally we had been using a lot of Tess Emma songs and putting a twist on them. But, when we started writing new material we became somewhat lost about the direction we were going with. I wrote "Grains" and brought it to practice and we all just clicked on it and turned it into something we all really loved.
Cover Club | Lou "Grains"
The session was recorded in late June by at John Vettese with Rachel Del Sordo and Drea Rose at WXPN‘s World Cafe Live Studios. Video done completely by Bob Sweeney from camera work to edits.
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