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Bocce & Bourbon: The Comfortable Songs of Chandler Travis & David Greenberger,. is a nineteen song testament to their enduring friendship and the astounding, good-naturedly errant art that has been its by-product... or perhaps its lifeblood! The collection includes seven new songs, one radical re-arrangement, and eleven that have appeared on various releases by Travis many musical vehicles: ,b.The Chandler Travis Three-O, The Catbirds, The Chandler Travis Philharmonic, The Incredible Casuals,/b., solo, and with Rabbit Rabbit. David and I first met in 1980, Travis recounts. He worked in a nursing home and had started The Duplex Planet, a publication built around his conversations with the residents. Besides the hundreds of issues that appeared from 1979 to 2010, it also spawned books, CDs, a comic book adaptation, and many performances of monologues with music. He was at the beginning of that long and wonderful journey and I had just started up with The Incredible Casuals, which also turned into something that spanned a few decades. At the same time David was playing bass with Men & Volts who released five albums over the course of the eighties. (A four LP box set titled Honeymoon Luggage was issued earlier this year.) He lived in Boston and I lived on Cape Cod. When we visited each other s homes we were both pleased to discover that they were similarly stuffed with knickknacks, ephemera and music. He had co-written Men & Volts Records Go Round that the Casuals covered and it became a staple of our sets. I asked him if he d like to write with me and our first song was (You and Me) Pushin Up Daisies. That was also the first of a handful of old man songs we ve written, including This is Home, January, The Strongman of North America, and Take Me With You, which are also on Bocce & Bourbon. At this point we ve written some fifty songs. When we started, he d send lyrics that I'd put to music, but in the last few years we've done more that start with the music, with him adding the words to my melody. I just did an interview and was asked what I love about David s lyrics, and I said that it s the same thing I love about The Kinks Village Green Preservation Society and a lot of their material from that period. It s pastoral and unusually concerned with the minutiae of life the little things. It s unpretentious and never overblown, just matter-of-fact empathetic; there s no grand statements. And I ve always admired his facility with images. He takes his time, he s very sweet, a little odd and definitely funny, and I just love him.
Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed
TRACK LISTINGS
1. Air Running Backwards (The Chandler Travis Three-O)
2. All In a Day (Chandler Travis)
3. Baby Come get Your Cat (The Chandler Travis Philharmonic)
4. I Bit the Hand That Fed Myself (Chandler Travis w. Rabbit Rabbit)
5. By the Way (The Chandler Travis Philharmonic)
6. Calling Me Back Home (Chandler Travis)
7. The Crutch of Music (The Catbirds)
8. Graciously (The Chandler Travis Philharmonic)
9. I'll Wait (The Chandler Travis Philharmonic)
10. January (The Chandler Travis Three-O)
11. Make the Small Things Pretty (The Chandler Travis Three-O)
12. When the Roses Shine In Picardy (The Chandler Travis Philharmonic)
13. She Laughed (The Incredible Casuals)
14. The Strongman of North America (The Chandler Travis Philharmonic)
15. Take Me With You (The Incredible Casuals)
16. This Is Home (The Chandler Travis Philharmonic)
17. Typos (The Incredible Casuals)
18. Waters of the World (demo) (Chandler Travis)
19. (You & Me) Pushin' Up Daisies (Chandler Travis)
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