Chandler Travis, King of the World
If George Carlin joined NRBQ, backed by the Mothers of Invention—no, if Captain Beefheart and Sun Ra commandeered the Village People . . . Hell, analogies are worthless when it comes to describing Chandler Travis’ “avant-jazz omnipop.” Travis has been
Wow, what a weekend, nothing to do except sit back and listen to one great band after another. Originally, I signed up for the Clang! Thang mainly because Chandler Travis and his different projects (Chandler Travis Philharmonic and the Catbirds)
Chandler Travis Philharmonic Blows! (Seven Stars) The world is full of acts who get it into their heads they can revive (imitate) some specific past musical genre or other and devote a career to it. They can be pretty good
Chandler Travis Philharmonic – Chandler Travis Philharmonic Blows! (2010) SOURCE: SOMETHING ELSE! This syndicated blog entry appears courtesy of Something Else!. Copyright © 2011. All rights reserved. By Mark Saleski When I was a little kid, we used to take
Recorded Thursday, July 29th, on board the Viking Princess in Provincetown Harbor by The Valet. We love doing these sunset cruises in P’town; sometimes, there’s only ten or twenty people, and we get to play without amplification, which is sort
It was the last time that I went to Folk Alliance, this singer songwriter convention. It was in San Diego that year, February of 2004, that I first ran into Chandler Travis. Several floors of a moderately good hotel are