All A Cappella

I love travelin’ the good ol’ USA picking up strange vibrations from the ray-dee-oh. Glided thru the Mass. backroads today dialed into WERS (Emerson College). Mid-afternoon an All A Cappella show came on. The excellent woman DJ laid down track after track of instrumentaless vocals, college and pro. Even the white folk do black folk songs were worth a listen cuz of the stupendous arrangements. Here’s an except the University of Virginia Academical Village People doin’ Jackson 5 “I Want You Back”:

and Voices of the Dark Side w/ Pink Floyd’s “Brain Damage’: