Rose O'Brien, Eva Cassidy / Paul Simon's "Kathy's Song" (Lyrics Video and Live Recording)

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Rose O'Brien plays Eva Cassidy's arrangement of Paul Simon's "Kathy's Song" (recorded live, December 2012). For similar videos, visit our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/RoseOBrienMusic.

Paul Simon recorded "Kathy's Song" in 1965 for The Paul Simon Songbook and rereleased in on the Simon & Garfunkel's 1966 Sounds of Silence album. Eva Cassidy's short, studio version can be heard on Time After Time (1996), on the compilation album Wonderful World (2004), and on the soundtrack for the Jennifer Lopez movie Maid in Manhattan. Our version follows Eva's longer live recording, which was released last year on Simply Eva. Other fine renditions of "Kathy's Song" include Nancy Wilson's on Live at McCabes Guitar Shop and Lavinia Rodgers's on Celtic Women.
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Rose O'Brien is a Northern Californian acoustic trio with an eclectic repertoire of folk, rock, pop, and jazz.

Katherine O'Brien—vocals
Robert O'Brien—fingerstyle guitar
Ken Rose—fretless bass resonator guitar
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For guitarists, here are Eva Cassidy's "At Last" chords.

Intro: Dadd4, C, G, G, Dadd9, C, G (the bridges are variations of this).
Verse: C, G, C, G, D7/F, G, D, C, Am, G, D, G
Ending: G, Em, Am7, Eb7/Bb, D7/A, G, Em, Am7, Eb7/Bb, D7/A, G7/9.
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For musicians and audio nerds, here's the lowdown on our gear, live setup, and recording method.

Katherine uses a Shure Beta 58A.

Ken runs the signal from his Dobro fretless bass through a Fishman Platinum Pro-EQ. An unaltered signal goes to his Hartke amp (when we rehearse he uses a Fender Bassman). An eq-ed and compressed signal runs into our board, a Phonic Powerpod 620.

Robert uses a Dunlop medium thumbpick and .0225 silver-nickel fingerpicks to play his Taylor 414 limited edition (spruce top, rosewood back and sides). He runs one signal from the Taylor's Expression System though a Baggs Para DI (for eq) and Zoom A2 (for reverb and chorus) before sending it to the board. Another, unaltered signal goes from the Baggs to a Fishman Loudbox Mini and then to the board.

Vocals go into our Phonic 10-inch monitors, and everything into Kustom 12-inch mains. For small venues, we only need one monitor and one main.

RCA-to-1/4-inch cables run from the PowerPod's tape outputs to a Zoom H4n set to stereo mode. We put the Zoom's WAV files into GarageBand, where we edit them—trimming the ends and adding reverb—before sending them to iTunes.
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For Mac users, here's how to make a YouTube lyrics video in twelve easy steps:

1. If it's not there already, put your music in iTunes.
2. Open iMovie, go to the File menu, and open New Project.
3. On the iMovie window's right-hand side, click the note button and use the search feature to find your tune.
4. Write down its length on a piece of paper.
5. Drag the tune to the Project Library and click on the T button to the right of the note button.
6. Choose the style of title you'd like and drag it to the Project Library.
7. Choose your background.
8. Write your title and click Done.
9. In the Project Library, double-click on the black box and write the length of your song in the Inspector.
10. Go to the end of your project, hold down the cursor on the end of the title bar, and drag it back near the beginning of the project.
11. Drag titles to the appropriate places in the song and write your lyrics. (You can make this part go more quickly by using iMovie's beat markers.)
12. When you're finished, either (1) go to the Share menu, click YouTube, and follow the instructions or (2) export you movie to your desktop then go to the YouTube site and follow the instructions for uploading a video.
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The video, Regen ("Rain"), comes from the Short Format Films collection on archive.org, which describes it as "a short documentary film by legendary Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens." IMdb says Ivens shot the film in Amsterdam December 1929. There's a good description of the rest of Ivens's amazing career on Wikipedia.