Chandler Travis, King of the World
Bringing you a new song every week (or so…)
Often the song will be a recently recorded live, home demo, studio track or video from Chandler & Co; or it could be something from our archives, culled from our discography or from the live vault; other times it will be music by friends or musicians that we just plain dig and want to share with you; and occasionally it will be a fan video or some bizarre YouTube video that uses our music as a soundtrack.
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“Swamp Gal” – the Catbirds, recorded at the Wellfleet Beachcomber Aug. 22, 2014 by Chris Blood and Anton “Fred” T. Jodsworth Boak (aka The Valet) (the latter also mixed) This one is a cover of an old Tommy Bell song
“Vasco Da Gama“- Chandler Travis Philharmonette at Bubala’s Sept. 11, 2014, recorded by The Valet (aka Fred Jodsworth T. Boak); attending June Trailer Dancers: Berke McKelvey and Ken Field. This is one of the songs we play most live,
Bubala’s special!: the Chandler Travis Philharmonette with the GGs (Edwige and Sophie Yingling and Vanessa Rose) – “Gee the Moon Is Shining Bright“; with Vanessa Rose – “Can’t Help It If I Love You So“; both from Aug. 28, 2014;
“Unidentified Flying Thing” – Chandler Travis Philharmonette, Bubala’s, July 3 -recorded by The Valet. Lots of new songs this summer, holding off on most of them until we have better versions, but this one’s pretty good… It’s part of our
“I Couldn’t Find Myself” -Chandler demo. Hey, anyone wanna finish this one? Just did it last night… probably needs a bridge and some more lyrics… having a good time w my old high strung Guild that got pretty much condemned,
“Celery Stalks At Midnight” -Chandler Travis Philharmonette at Bubala’s, Sept. 1, 2011, recorded by The Valet. A rare Rikki Bates appearance at Bubala’s (although she’ll be there this Thursday as well), covering an old Will Bradley Orch. feat. Ray McKinley
Here’s a couple minutes from the Catbirds recent show at Herring Cove beach in Provincetown a couple weeks ago (great venue, by the way, and the Philharmonic will be back to wrap up their series of concerts on the beach
“Maybe This is Our Year / My Blue Heaven” – recorded by The Valet (that’s me!) at Janice & Billy Perkins’ Birthday Hootenanny, July 26, 2014 – Chandler premiered this song in January 2013 during a Cape & Islands Radio interview. Pretty
“Tony Kent Arena Hazardous Waste Drop“- Recorded by The Valet at Harvest Gallery Wine Bar in Dennis, MA on May 30, 2014 -This was stolen more or less verbatim from a sign I saw on the way to the Harvest
This week on Song of the Weak: John Clark sings! A rare video of John (aka Whit Tilleston Jr.) lettin’ it rip on the old Joe Maphis favorite “Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Loud, Loud Music“, shot live at the