presents:
The Solitary Seaman's Band...
...in a series of live, home-grown sets of sounds and music
-- edit-free, real-time songs,
stories, and rambling revelations, born and recorded at the:
"where
ravens meet, and eat!"
Podcasts:
Electric Foam (36 min) 2/6/20 --
Inez
takes the all-electric helm as lightning strikes the ship and thunder
rolls across the deck, setting the crew afire with St. Vitus' dance...
"
"Shawnee
Town" (00:00)
"When Johnny Comes Down To Hilo" (6:48)
"Lowlands Away" (10:10)
"John Cherokee" (16:26)
"Hail Queen of Heaven" (20:27)
"General Taylor" (25:05)
"Dar Komm Alibama" (32:42)
Ceili Goes to Sea (23 min) 1/24/20 --
Our free-reed fanatic Ceili Morse is fond of sailors, and gives a good
squeeze, so here she gets to show off her maritime chops, with some
help with Liza and the Lafittes. She finishes with some choice words in
her
native (and lately, endangered) tongue...
"Sailor's
Farewell/Strathspey/Nancy Dawson/Rogue's March"
"The Stars and Bars" (3:50)
"Row On" (5:50)
"The Rose of Alabama" (8:25)
"Pull for the Shore" (12:25)
"Blood Red Roses" (15:25)
"Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" (20:25)
Down the Road
(24 min.)1/19/20 -- From rags and Steve Weber, drinking and mermaids,
to World
Wars ! (New Zealand) and II (Germany).
"Down
The Road" ("Junco Partner") (00:00)
"Let
The Mermaid Flirt With Me" (6:20)
"Let's
Go Get Drunk Again" (9:35)
"Pokarekareana"
(20:00)
"Sail
Farewell" (Matrosenlied, Engellandlied)
David Blue
(11 min.) 1/13/20--
remembering
friend and lost songwriter of the '60s, used to eat fire on
slow
nights at the ZigZag Cafe, convinced me to go electric in the nick of
time :
"I
Like To Sleep Late In The Morning" (1:10)
"I'd
Like To Know"(4:00)
"So
Easy She Goes By" (7:58)
photo by Dylan Tays
The
Solitary Seaman's Band
includes:
John Townley, vocals,
and lieutentant, commanding...
Inez,
guitar – Ukiyo-e
floating-pickup Artist and
direct
descendant of famed Spanish luthier Salvador
Ibáñez,
conceived in Japan, born in China. Maple-strong, magnolia-sweet
Sagittarius
(Dec. 1), Moon in Scorpio. Audio costumes designed by Line
6…when she takes a break, her squeezable free-reed cousin Ceili Morse
fills in...
Liza,
backup vocals –
Part of her last name, but easier to remember than
“Voca”
(from Voca Raton?).
Knows all the parts, thinks she’s boss,
because, well…
Pierre
and Jean
Lafitte,
percussion, men's chorus – former pirates,
they know
how to operate
under the table….
With
Ceili at Land's
End,
Cornwall, Inez
decked-out in the main cabin.
