IMSC Ep 63 - Cover by Monique Booker

Monique Booker is a native Iowa artist from Indianola. She let us use stretched out version of her wonderful painting for our cover.

Original version of the painting

Labels: artwork, cover, covers, Des Moines area, IMSC Ep 063, Indianola, Monique Booker, painting

YOUR OWN PRIVATE IOWA - Episode 26: AIBU

This week I hung out with AIBU, her incredible talent of covering songs and making them "original covers" is beautiful. Joining her Quervo, who plays guitar and backs her vocals. Quervo was my first repeat customer as he calls it. These two had a lot of fun jamming out in the studio playing their original song, and covers from Bob Marley to Lorde.

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"I sing anything, good music is good music. But I guess I prefer a lot of indie songs...

"Just a Yaady doing covers of songs to try and make your brainy parts happy �"
- from her Facebook page

YOUR OWN PRIVATE IOWA is a podcast produced and hosted by Richard Sutton. We feature any new episodes the Wednesday after they were recorded.

Ep 61 and 62 - Covers by Stutterin Jimmy

Most people know Stutterin Jimmy for the music he does with The Goosebumps. But Jimmy also does a lot of the flyers for his band. And since I, Dan OlderMusicGeek, liked his flyers, I asked him if he'd be interested in doing a cover for our podcasts. And he happily did both covers for our Sump Pump Records podcasts and has volunteered to do more. And we're happy to have him do so.

The original cover
before we stretched it out
to make it a square

Jimmy doesn't have any website for his artwork, but you can check out his music at the following sites...

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/StutterinJimmyandtheGoosebumps/

ReverbNation:

https://www.reverbnation.com/theGoosebumps

Labels: artwork, cover, covers, drawing, Ep 061, Ep 062, Stuttering Jimmy

IMSC Eps 52, 53, 54, and 55 - Covers by Dean Sturtevant

"Local Des Moines artist that works in sharpie. Artist, Owner, Public Speaker at Green Unicorn Art. Come see me at my shows and cons."
- from his Twitter page

"Central Iowa native Dean Sturtevant is a self taught artist who has been drawing as long as he can remember. He always seeks to encourage and inspire others with his art, his own inspiration stemming from his love of comic books, movies and super-heroes. He does all his work with Sharpie markers, using a displacement style to fill in the colors. "Dean loves to delight others and make people laugh with his whimsical, fun drawings, often gifting custom work to people who need a pick-me-up or encouragement. He has been featured in many local art shows and cons over the last year..."
- from Green Unicorn Art's Facebook page

Original version of the cover of Episode 52

Cover of Episode 53

Cover for Episode 54

Cover for Episode 55

Home page
http://greenunicornart.com/

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/GreenUnicornArt/

Deviant Art:
https://greenunicornart.deviantart.com/

Labels: artwork, covers, Dean Sturtevant (artist), Des Moines, Des Moines area, drawing, Ep 052, Green Unicorn Art, Halloween, Halloween 2017

PLAYLISTS: New Iowa Music on YouTube 2

Well, it was moving day for me yesterday, and unpacking day today. So even though I had this playlist ready early in the week, it's only coming out now!

We have one of new Iowa music playlist once again. This week, the new stuff up on YouTube!

If you're an Iowa artist or band, and have a YouTube channel, send me a link at iowamusicshowcase@gmail.com!

We start off with an acoustic cover, then a string quartet cover, followed by some hip hop, piano boogie-woogie, Americana, and blues!


IMSC post featuring New Iowa Music on YouTube:
http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20Iowa%20Music%20on%20YouTube

IMSC posts featuring playlists:
http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/search/label/playlists

IMSC posts featuring YouTube:
http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/search/label/YouTube

IMSC posts featuring YouTube playlists:
http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/search/label/YouTube%20playlists

One year ago...
PLAYLISTS: Random Iowa Music SoundCloud Playlist 1 -
http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2016/09/playlists-random-iowa-music-soundcloud.html

Two years ago...
Episode 16 - Lipstick Homicide Retrospective, Part 3 of 3 -
http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/2015/09/episode-16-lipstick-homicide.html

Other IMSC websites and links:
Feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/IowaMusicShowcase
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Iowa-Music-Showcase/364796883703114
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/iamusicshowcase
Instagram:
https://instagram.com/iowamusicshowcase

Ep 51 - Cover by Kristi Catrenich

The only info I have on Kristi Catrenich is that she is probably married to rapper Angle and her Facebook profile lists her as listening to Angle!

Original version of photo by Kristi Catrenich

Ep 48 - Cover by Mike Newman

Mike Newman is a native Iowan and boyfriend to Washington (the state) transplant - we forgive you, Lisa - and Iowa classical composer/singer Lisa Leher. He doesn't have a website for his photography, but according to Neher, "he's just got a good phone camera and a nice eye!"

Original version of the photograph

Labels: classical, classical music, cover, covers, Ep 048, Lisa Neher, Mike Newman, photography

Ep 46 - Cover from the 1978 Des Moines Roosevelt High School yearbook

This photo is from the 1978 Theodore Roosevelt High School Yearbook, which carries no copyright. The photographers are listed in the yearbook as: Jeff Jones, Mark Tatarud, Mark Parker, and a fourth name I cannot make out.

Original version of the photo

Labels: cover, Ep 046, photography, Roosevelt (Des Moines) yearbook

Ep 45 - Cover by Russ Richardson

"My passions are music, sports, and my faith."
- from his Facebook profile

"No website or anything. Whenever I go to a (Blue Band) gig, i take pictures. I do it because Bob has provided all of us so much over the years, it was a way for me to give back to him 👍."
- from a message sent to this podcast

Original version of photo used as the cover

Labels: covers, Ep 045, photography, Russ Richardson

Ep 44 - Cover by Robert Braune

“ There is this desire that I have, to want to paint people the way that they are seen. The way that I see them. But if I am honest with myself, I find that I lack a talent that is needed to achieve such an image. So while still attempting to do so, part way through I am reminded of the difficulty that is involved with this task. So I find this medium ground where I can still portray human without it being pure representational. They become these monster like humans, but retain human qualities. Thus becoming less monstrous and more humanly relatable. Or I would like to think so. I’m not other people so I cannot speak for them.

"More so, I am ultimately trying to create memorable images. Ones that people will one day want to put in some college students art history book. So, the images I paint, I try to make them as representative of my work and the way that I plan to continue to work...

“I would say my work is abstracted realism. Often I paint from something that is real but it becomes abstracted through the quality of my work. By definition I would be abstract. But abstract is an abstracted word. It’s been simplified to the point that it’s to easily applied to things... Honestly, when people ask me what I paint, I usually just say still lifes and portraits. Then I just show them some photos of work. People can make up their own minds on what my paintings are.”
- from an interview with Jon from the Art Beacon website

Original version of artwork
in its original proportions and form

Home page:

https://robertbraune.wordpress.com/

Deviant Art page:

http://mostmodernism.deviantart.com/

An old website of his:

http://most-modern.blogspot.com/

Labels: artwork, covers, Ep 044, painting, Robert Braune

Ep 42 - Cover by Matt Smith

This is NOT the Matt Smith of "Doctor Who" fame!

This is a business schooled Iowan who raps under a secret identity, but still apparently dabbles in graphic design.

And he made this wonderful poster for our live show on Sat, Feb 4, at Lefty's Live Music! - https://www.facebook.com/events/756507931165093/

So go to the show! Check out the bands! Prove that Matt Smith knows how to make an awesome poster!

Poster by Matt Smith
in its original proportions and form

Labels: artwork, covers, Iowa Music Showcase Live, Matt Smith, photoshop Ep 042, posters

Ep 41 - Cover by Monique Booker

"We capture the essence of rural Iowa through nature /wildlife prints, keepsakes such as keychains and magnets w/ image, and photo to wood transfers."
- from the Native Iowa Keepsakes Facebook page

: I provide nature/wildlife/barn and photo to wood transfer. I also DO CUSTOM ARTWORK AS WELL IF YOU WOULD LIKE A PICTURE MADE JUST SHOOT ME A MESSAGE AND I WILL DO MY BEST FOR YOU :)"
- from the Native Iowa Photography Etsy page

Original painting

Facebook page for Spiritual Fantasy Artworks:

https://www.facebook.com/spiritualartworkdesigns/

Facebook page for Native Iowa Keepsakes:

https://www.facebook.com/nativeiowakeepsakes/

Etsy page for Native Iowa Photography:

https://www.etsy.com/people/moniquebooker

Labels: artwork, covers, Des Moines area, Ep 041, Indianola, Monique Booker, painting