CL music editor Leilani Polk has a nice smattering of live music New Year's Eve choices for you today, but that doesn't mean we're not going to ask you the age old question: "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?"
Thankfully, we've got a local music connection to make the inquiry sound all kinds of pretty.
The recording comes courtesy of a pair of New Granada Records acts — Tampa's Rec Center and Raleigh songwriter Tracy Shedd — who were rehearsing at New World Brewery on December 26. They would take the stage later that night as part of the local record label's 20-year anniversary, but this iPhone-recorded cover is candid and the epitome of charming.
It finds Rec Center frontwoman Susie Richardson-Ulrey, guitarist Michael Waksman, and Shedd working through the Frank Loesser-penned classic and captures the sounds of chit chat plus cars and trolleys clamoring by. The bubbling of New World's courtyard water fountain even makes a cameo.
Have a listen below, and don't forget to catch a cab tonight. We'll see you on the other side of midnight.
