[Janovitz's website]
And so … for the next two weeks it’s “Bands with <and>
in the name”. You could make a game out of this: how many such bands can you
think of without Internet help? But the real/money question is: how many can
SMM highlight and which would you have had us mention? (You can do so in the
comments)
For the most part, bands in this category include the famous
leader in the name (ex: Eric Burdon and the Animals), but there are almost
equally many others where the “lead” is a figment (Derek and the Dominoes).
Bill Janovitz is prolific. He founded Buffalo Tom back in 86
and they are still playing together out of the Boston area. If you do a YouTube search
for him, you’ll find clips of Bill Janvitz and Crown Victoria, Tanya Donelly and Bill
Janovitz and more collaborations/ands. One of his projects has been a coversong blog started back in 2007 where you can read his thoughts about and
download close to 100 songs. In his blog, he says:
I would love to share what I have been listening to more often, and as an artist, I encourage such use of music as another outlet for exposure. I don't want anyone posting files for downloads of whole records as thievery, but a sample tune or two would be fine.
Several years back, I had the fortune to pick up a couple of
songs by Bill Janovitz and Crown Victoria, from music.download.com in what was then a legal process. Despite
Bill Janovitz’s sentiments about sharing, the song I wanted to post has been flagged as copyrighted by my file
hosting service, so I can’t share it here.
