31 Track Adam Schlesinger Tribute To Benefit MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund
Songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Adam Schlesinger died on April 1st at the age of 52 as the result of complications from COVID-19.
He was a member of multiple bands, including Fountains of Wayne and Ivy, but also collaborated on songs for movie soundtracks and the TV show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Friends and colleagues are paying tribute to his life and work via a Bandcamp-exclusive benefit compilation, Saving for a Custom Van. The 31-song collection features musicians putting "their own spin" on songs he created, spanning his entire career.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creator, executive producer and star Rachel Bloom turns Fountains of Wayne's "Stacy's Mom" into a "jazzy cabaret moodpiece", while Schlesinger's Fountains of Wayne bandmate Jody Porter contributes a "melancholy, shimmering take" on Ivy's "Four in the Morning."
Sarah Silverman, who had teamed up with Schlesinger on the upcoming musical The Bedwetter, works with songwriter Ben Lee for a "folk-leaning take" on "Way Back Into Love".
Other musicians on the compilation take on other Fountains of Wayne songs:
Letters to Cleo's Kay Hanley, "Radiation Vibe"
Motion City Soundtrack, "Dip in the Ocean"
Nada Surf, "Sick Day"
Vivian Girls/Upset member Ali Koehler, "Hackensack"
Ivy songs are also featured:
Belly members Tanya Donelly and Gail Greenwood, "Undertow"
Ted Leo, "Everyday"
THUNNY, "Tess Don't Tell."
Saving for a Custom Van, is co-curated and co-released by Father/Daughter Records and Wax Nine, the label/journal run by Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie Dupuis.
One-hundred percent of Saving for a Custom Van proceeds will be donated to MusiCares' COVID-19 Relief Fund, which is dedicated to helping music industry and community members affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Here's a full annotated track listing of the offering available now on Bandcamp:
- Apex Manor - Utopia Parkway
- Tanya Donelly and Gail Greenwood - Undertow
- Jeff Rosenstock - Please Don't Rock Me Tonight
- Kay Hanley - Radiation Vibe
- Ben Lee and Sarah Silverman - Way Back Into Love
- Remember Sports - Just the Girl
- Rachel Bloom - Stacy’s Mom
- Christian Lee Hutson - Red Dragon Tattoo
- Sad13 - A Fine Day For a Parade
- Jack Dolgen - What’ll It Be
- Motion City Soundtrack - A Dip in the Ocean
- Field Mouse - Valley Winter Song
- Cheekface - That Thing You Do
- Lucy Stone - I’ve Got a Flair
- Nada Surf - Sick Day
- Jody Porter - Four in the Morning
- Suzy Shinn and Charlie Brand - All Kinds of Time
- Ted Leo - Everyday
- Potty Mouth - I’ve Got A Feeling
- Cocktails - Sink to the Bottom
- Bree McKenna - Our Twisted Fate
- Ethan Eubanks - Troubled Times
- Ali Koehler - Hackensack
- Charly Bliss - Pretend to Be Nice
- Julian Velard and Alex Dezen - Michael and Heather at the Baggage Claim
- HUNNY - Tess Don’t Tell
- Mikey Erg - Hey Julie
- Off Book and the Family Band - Come On
- Prince Daddy & The Hyena and Just Friends - Mexican Wine
- Lisa Prank - Little Red Light
- Joshua Stoddard - Survival Car
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