A Fistful of Covers May 2011. After many years of recording original material with "The Men They Couldn't Hang" Phil (Swill) Odgers fancied trying his hand at an EP of some songs by other people. These are his unique interpretations of tales of hangovers, heartbreak and hopelessness. Songs that, at one time or another, he's played during the "acoustic section" of TMTCH gigs or on family occasions... The first song, 'Sunday Morning Coming Down', was introduced to him by good friend and sometime drinking buddy Wildcat O'Mahony, who told him about a rare version that Gene Vincent once did at the Corral Club, Topanga Canyon, Ca. (U.S.A) just four months before he died in October 1971. Swill forst heard 'Fools' sung as a duet between Peter Perret of The Only Ones and Pauline Murray of Penetration back in the twighlight days of Punk. 'I'm a Lonesome Fugitive' is a song made famous by Merle Haggard but Swill adds a little twist to it here. 'The Parting Glass' is one of the most popular songs in Scotland and Ireland. The last track, 'Bottom of the World', is a Tom Waits song that Phil and his kids learned so that they could sing it together at a family Christmas get-together last year. www.twitter.com/swillodgers www.tmtch.net email:orders@tmtch.net