This is not exactly current news, but since I’ve been out of the loop of things and never got a chance to comment on this development back in 2017 when it first appeared, check out this review from the (now unfortunately defunct) Music Review Roulette podcast of a rough cover I recorded with a buddy of mine of Nick Lowe’s classic “Peace, Love and Understanding.”
Here is a link to the podcast episode, where the Wishing Well Divers more or less made our online debut.
Not long after this episode aired, we went back into the project studio and put together a slightly more polished version of this tune (which incidentally was not programmed in any way but recorded more or less live/improvisationally with overdubs, complete with real hand-claps for the rhythm section): Here is a link to the later mix of the track originally reviewed on this podcast.
These recordings were of course never intended for any purpose beyond the fun and plain satisfaction of making them, so forgive the many rough edges. I was mainly just trying to find my new voice at the time, literally–my singing voice underwent significant changes after my divorce and during my brief misadventures in homelessness and de facto exile from respectable society.
At the point these recordings were produced, my personal life was in a major state of upheaval and general disarray, so circumstances kept me from doing much more with Wishing Well Divers until more recently.
Also, please forgive all the really rough lo-fi demos you might find floating around out there from this time period, if you happen to come across any.
I put out a lot of very lo-fi working recordings of songs in development and various scraps of song ideas online at a certain point a few years ago and don’t have the heart to clean up the mess they left behind now. That was me processing grief and comforting myself emotionally, not so much trying to produce serious new work for any audience other than myself, so you might find that material a little rough and uneven (and kind of pitiful, to be honest) if you ever do happen to come across any of it. 🙂