Stopping the show on YouTube

May 23, 2010 Leave a Comment

Thanks to the prevalence of webcams and the ease of use of youtube, there are now millions of videos of people sitting around with an acoustic guitar playing covers, or even their own work. Remarkably there are some real talents out there, and people (not very many) are actually getting discovered from the youtubes.

AJ Rafael is one of these artists. He has released the ‘Juicebox EP’ which is available on iTunes. One of his tracks ‘Showstopper’ appears on the EP in fully produced form, but was originally released as a solo acoustic video of AJ on a ukelele.  AJ released an mp3 as well as lyrics and chords along with it, and it has become reasonably well covered by his fellow tubers.
The original track manages to be all kinds of infectious, which is unfortunately lost in production.

Here’s a direct link to the mp3: AJ Rafael – Ukelele.

Another discovered on YouTube singer/songwriter, Alyssa Bernal, covering the song.

Reblog this post [with Zemanta]If you’re interested, and not yet sick of the song, the fully produced version is after the jump.

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