For what is worth
Altres count me amongst the heretic thinking that your version of Into my hands is better than the original while No certainty attached makes me always think to the band in the saloon on the first Star Wars film.
And i really love the sparse arrangement of Lurker's Hotelwomb...but i already said elsewhere that i think that his Two Dreams is a little songwriting masterpiece.

All in all this double CD confirm my point of view: there are no musical genius...almost everybody has deep inside the ability to write, play, sing, arrange beautiful music, or at least add something interesting when interpreting someone else music (isn't this what classical musicist are doing from centuries now?).

I appreciate the John Black covers: Youth worshipper is, dare i say it, one really beautiful song and here, stripped of all the excessive orchestration, is really striking, and the slide work on Fading away is really suggestive.

Daniel has a really strong voice, direct and full of presence, while my italian fellow Davide Valecchi surely produced one scary, in a positive way, interpretation of one of the scariest songs from the Church catalog.

Absolutely unexpected but very welcome are the wind insert in Paradox by Alton Broussard and really disorienting, almost displacing in a different landscape, is the work by Charcoal Ed.

One of my favourite here is Tony Pucci Bel-Air...plain, simple but effective.

Those are the work that strikes me most on first listening, but i have to say that there isn't one bad cover on the CDs: it's always interesting to hear what other people may come up starting from, an already really interesting, set of songs.

...and i agree with Tony, John Frum Don't look back is the perfect song to close the whole show.

Saluti e baci
Maurizio

P.S. Any reaction from the objects of our deepest musical affection?