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The Features
“The Drawing Board”
Form & Function Sessions (2006)Here’s another of the handful of tracks (specifically, 3) that have surfaced from the band’s initial demo session for their followup to Exhibit A. This version of “The Drawing Board” features keyboard horns as opposed to the real horns that appear on the version that would appear on Some Kind of Salvation a few years later. “The Drawing Board” debuted in December 2005 and this recorded version appeared on the band’s MySpace page (yep!) not too long afterwards.
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For the week leading up to the release of the Features’ new album, Some Kind of Salvation, I will be posting an older version of some of the songs from the album. This is part 1 of Some Kind of Week.
The Features
“The Drawing Board”
Live @ Tucker Theater
January 20th, 2006
This punchy song immediately became a fan-favorite and show highlight after its debut. The buildup during the verses to the explosive shouting in the chorus is brilliantly paced, with every instrument hitting in sync on the beat, beating like an overworked heart. Then when that chorus, all unified shouting and screaming, erupts…it’s unlike most anything in a Features song. Seeing the entire band yell “we just meet back here and do it again” for the first time blew everyone away, as it was extremely rare for all four of them to sing on a song.
“The Drawing Board” had a very short life from its debut in December 2005 to the band’s hiatus in Spring 2006. During that brief time, the song managed to be played at nearly every Features show and even made it to the Elite 8 during the message board’s annual March Madness poll. The song was demoed in early 2006 with Matt Mahaffey and placed on the band’s MySpace page. In 2008, the song found a place as the big and brassy second track on the band’s second album, Some Kind of Salvation. The song remains virtually unchanged, with an added “we just meet back here and do it again” after the first verse.
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Some Kind of Salvation, album release (2008)
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The Features are a Nashville, Tennessee based rock band. The purpose of this Tumblr is to provide a comprehensive and interactive database
of the Features' music. The blog is named after the Features song "The Damage Is Done."
If you would like any of the unreleased songs featured on this site, you can download them yourself or email me for copies. I am not able to send every Features song I own in one go, mainly because I don't have a way of hosting all the files, and I also gotta keep some song tricks up my blog sleeve. Specific song requests are the easiest ones to fulfill. It might take a little while to respond but I will try my best. I will not send songs that have been officially released in any capacity, so buy their albums.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
BRETT WHITE is a New York City-based comedian who has appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman and written for Wizard Magazine. He is currently a writer on the Upright Citizens Brigade sketch team Thunder Gulch. He performs improv comedy with the groups Iron Ruckus and Daddy. He is also the author of the web comic Tales To Diminish and contributes to the nerd-humor site Topless Robot.
His obsession with the Features began when he first saw them on October 18th, 2001. His college years were spent posting on the Features message board under the name DigsySlattery. He has seen the Features over 50 times in concert and never makes a mix CD without including at least one Features song.
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