{"id":184109,"date":"2023-01-21T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T23:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=184109"},"modified":"2023-01-21T15:53:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T23:53:06","slug":"and-a-cover-of-steely-dans-dirty-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2023\/01\/21\/and-a-cover-of-steely-dans-dirty-work\/","title":{"rendered":"And a cover of Steely Dan’s Dirty Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And as I was finishing the previous Steely Dan cover (Do It Again<\/a>) Aviva and I started watching George and Tammy<\/a>. Growing up, my mom had a Sons of the Pioneers album (Cool Water, which if you haven’t heard it you should), and we listened to a fair bit of country music when I was little. And one night as I was falling asleep I heard a country style intro to Dirty Work. And I was over my writer’s block on how to do a cover of this song.<\/p>\n

So here’s a somewhat country style cover. I listened carefully to the pedal steel guitar in George and Tammy and used some of those ideas here. I also used the strumming feature in the Martin guitar plugin in Ample Sound<\/a> for the first time. I just wish I sang better.<\/p>\n

The cover is pic of a prostitute propositioning someone in a car, which I solarized in Photoshop – I think that’s somewhat fitting for a Steely Dan cover.<\/p>\n