New Cover: “Miracle Car”

These days, Sam Bisbee is an Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated producer of film and television, but at the turn of the century, he was trying his hand at being a musician, releasing a few alt-rock albums that I thought were pretty good, even if rock and roll stardom eventually eluded him. One of my favorite songs of his from that era is “Miracle Car,” which was a catchy, poppy song with ambiguous lyrics. It feels like a love song, but I don’t think it actually is; you don’t ask your eternal love to “pollute you,” or, at least, I don’t. Nevertheless, a pretty good song! I decided to try to cover it. Given the relative obscurity of the song (the original version has racked up 1K views in 11 years), it’s entirely possible that this cover of mine will be the first one I’ve essayed that most of you have not heard the original first. It is, of course, absolutely worth checking out, because Sam Bisbee does a better job with his own song, and also, his version is actually a duet. I did not do a…