January 25, 2007
CD Cover Art and Smithereens/Beatles Homage
The Smithereens have released a cover song/homage album of 12 Beatles songs. The cd features caricatures/bobbleheads of the Smithereens band members as the cover design. If you've heard the Smithereeens muisical catalog you'll no doubt recognize the Beatles influence in their song writing. I Want to Hold Your Hand, I Saw Her Standing There, and All My Loving all came from the Beatles classic 1964 realease Meet The Beatles, their first "official" album in the United States. It's worth mentioning that in the mid 60's it was quite rare for an artist to release song written by the band itself
Listen to some Meet The Smithereens streaming tracks.
Purchase Meet The Smithereens
Jim Babjek, guitarist for The Smithereens says about playing Beatles music, "it is so much fun to play if you're a musician. I highly recommend it. It brings back some real good feelings; feelings I had growing up and dreaming of playing in a rock 'n' roll band."
