The day has finally arrived for us to lovingly release our music into the great, wide world! “Go Call the Captain” comes out today on Modern Vintage Recordings and we are so proud.

So much great energy has been wrapped up in this project – from start to finish.  The songs on this album span the entire life of The Whispering Tree – “Something Might Happen” was written before we had ever played a show together, and “Soon” was written a few weeks before we started recording.

And now our ten babies are all grown up!
We conceived them, birthed them, nursed them and now they are going on their merry little way! I couldn’t be happier for them – and for the world to get to experience their magnificence (yes, I am a proud parent but that doesn’t mean my children aren’t every bit as incredible as I say they are!)

Now I must put an abrupt end to this child analogy because I’m going to tell you where you can buy the album – and selling my kids just doesn’t have a good ring to it.

At amazon

On iTunes

Or you can pick up a hard copy at our FREE full band show tonight (4/6) at 9pm at Pete’s Candy Store.

While I’ve got your attention – don’t forget about our extra special CD release performance at the Folk Art Museum on April 30th from 5:30 – 7:30. (RSVP@folkartmuseum.org)

Hope we get to see you all soon!

To celebrate the release of our new album, “Go Call the Captain,” we are going to have an AMAZING CD release show at the Folk Art Museum (www.folkartmuseum.org) on April 30th from 5:30 – 7:30 (Since this isn’t a club we will actually be starting at 5:30.)

I tend to say “you don’t want to miss this”  a lot – but this time I’m going to say it in bold, caps, underlined italics with an exclamation point just so you know how serious I am: YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS!

We are going to be playing with our wonderful little drummer boy, Chris Schultz, and the amazing Dan Tirer on guitar.  We are also working on getting some mandolin/lap steel action going on with the spectacularly talented Clifton Hyde – our original guitar player.

Please RSVP@folkartmuseum.org

See you there!

The imagery and metaphor of the ocean is featured heavily in pretty much all of the songs on our upcoming album – hence the title “Go Call the Captain.”  It is also featured in our spectacular album art.

I don’t know how to say this and sound normal, so I’m not even going to try: Being born into this world was like drowning (how I know this is another story – a really good one, too.)  Being suddenly surrounded by this reality was jarring, to say the least, and I think I have been working through the trauma of birth since…well, since I was born, and this theme is apparent throughout the album.

Not only have I been writing about this for awhile, I have also been drawing and painting houses floating in water for a really long time.

Our EP pictures a house in the water and for our new album I wanted to keep exploring that image.

The house is our human selves, our lives, everything we know, can talk about, can think about, can begin to conceptualize.  And the ocean is everything else.  And we are IN it but we don’t really know it.  There’s all this other stuff happening beyond the small reality we are focused in – we are floating in it, on it, we could reach out and touch it if we wanted to – but we usually just stay in our little houses.

So here’s the original painting I did.  Some people (cough cough) thought it was too amateurish so we started looking for a “real” artist to better convey this concept.

I’m actually really happy that we did, because we found Vitaly Umansky, and what he came up with was really quite perfect.

So here’s our amazing album art:

You can check out Vitaly’s work at his website, he is really spectacular: Vitaly Umansky Illustration

Hello again,

Just wanted to update everyone on the album progress. As you know, we finished recording the album and I was just going to release it BUT apparently there’s this thing called ‘promotion’…and apparently we are supposed to be doing it. So, in short, I was a little trigger happy when I said the album would be out in October (obviously) and I am going to have to withhold these magnificent tracks from you for a tiny bit longer while we grapple with this new concept. Tentative release date is now in February.
The good news is that I found an INCREDIBLE artist for the album artwork. No cheap graphic design or cheesy photos for us! The preliminary sketches look great and are really evocative of the vibe of the album.
In other album news, we received honorable mention in the New York Songwriter’s Circle songwriting competition for the title track of the new album, “Go Call the Captain.”

Hello again,

We have just listened to the mastered tracks – they sound REALLY good.  Thank god for Elie, that’s all I can say.  Elie actually means ‘god is my help,’ although in this case Elie is my help.  He has an INCREDIBLE ear, and was present and active throughout the mixing and mastering sessions.  He can hear things I can not, so he did a lot of stuff that I can’t really hear but is probably really important.  He can also juggle fire…and  I’m still trying to find a way to incorporate that into the live show.  In short, Elie is an incredible artist and I am amazed that I get to work with him.

At the moment we are putting the album art together and then we should be good to go.

Can’t wait to share this with everyone!

Today we are launching our Song of the indeterminate time period.  Every week so often from here on out we will be putting up a song for you to download (audio or video).  This may be a cover, a re-mix or demo of an original song, or a performance video.

This week we did a cover of “If I had a Hammer,” which we think is an awesome song.  I don’t know why people stopped writing protest songs, there’s still plenty of bad shit going on!

Anyway, hope you enjoy it and hammer out all the love you can this week 🙂

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