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A truly unlikely cover of a song that barely exists itself, in promotion of the #LeonardCohen night at The Heatley this Sunday evening, where I will be performing (though not this song), this #StupidAccordionTrick is my cover of #wasnotwas' 1990 song #ElvisRollsRoyce, sung by Leonard Cohen himself. A real B side!

This ("The Abandoned Brain") is really a fragment of someone else's musical taste I inherited: founding Creaking Plank Ole taught it to Heather and I, and it just sat around in the songbook gathering dust until we briefly pulled it out of deep storage for Bryce-Thing's "Gutter Punk Space Opera" art opening at the Gallery Gachet way back in 2009. I don't know annnyyyyything about Robyn Hitchcock (well, I just skimmed his Wikipedia article before writing this blurb, but in the 23 years between learning the song and just now I gleaned no further details about the songwriter and felt no urge to find out more) and the song, well, is just a pleasant enough piece of melancholic whimsy.

I'm part of a #LeonardCohen tribute concert taking place at the Heatley the night of Sun Jun 28! So for this week's #StupidAccordionTrick I recorded one of his songs that I will not be playing that night, just to get everyone in the mood.

For complex and ultimately irrelevant reasons I took on the #GrandFunkRailroad version of #SomeKindOfWonderful for this week's #StupidAccordionTrick

Because I have fallen behind, I have pulled a canned recording out of storage: my #StupidAccordionTricks version of #JacquesBrel's #Amsterdam... en français épouvantable!

Just had to break out of my silent #StupidAccordionTricks rut with a sloppy squeezy rendition of Santo & Johnny's 1959 steel guitar instrumental #SleepWalk

Keeping my weekly #StupidAccordionTricks cover songs a little explicitly silly this month for April Fool's, here's #Trooper's 1976 #TheBoysInTheBrightWhiteSportsCar

Keeping April's foolishness going for my #StupidAccordionTricks this month, here's my take on #JimStafford's thirsty 1974 country tune #SpidersAndSnakes.

For this week's #StupidAccordionTrick, I persist in my April folly of covering humorous songs by going all the way back to 1939 to this number #GrouchoMarx sang in #AtTheCircus: #LydiaTheTattooedLady.

I guess I was taking it for granted that I could just play silly songs for April but an emergency recording session was convened after someone threatened to immolate an ancient civilization, big vibe killer. So at a loss, here's #FlandersAndSwann's 1964 anti-nuclear-arms #20TonsOfTNT

My #StupidAccordionTricks spree of iconic songs by women winds up with my running #TammyWynette's 1968 #StandByYourMan through the squeezebox

My #StupidAccordionTricks quest to celebrate IWD all month long has led me to some strange places, perhaps none odder than here: #ShaniaTwain's 1997 anthem #ManIFeelLikeAWoman

I keep trying to ride IWD all through March, so my latest #StupidAccordionTrick is, from 1999, #GoodbyeEarl as made famous by the #DixieChicks.

A bolder foray into my #StupidAccordionTricks campaign of songs by kick-ass women for IWD all month long, here's last year's #Manchild by #SabrinaCarpenter:

As the start of my spree of IWD-inspired #StupidAccordionTricks cover songs this month, I kick it off with #Jax's #VictoriasSecret song. (Why? Epstein, sadly.)