Rambling Sailors New Album now on CD Baby!

Short but sweet, a letter of marque to all of the crew not currently in our hemisphere!

You are hereby licensed and authorized to commit to memory the relevant contents of the Enclosed Page, such Page being the Home and Dwelling in the Ether of that Rambling Sailors folio known as Bright Shining Clear, and shall recognized and acknowledge same to the benefit of All Good Sailors who might profit Thereby.

Given under my Hand, and the Great Seal of the Province this 27th day of April in the Year 10 of This Millennium

Special Thanks

I may jest periodically about his role, but I have to say that we owe enormous thanks to a man who has made our recordings sound as good as they do. I'm not kidding when I say he worked longer hours on this project than we did, recording everything we did, balancing and adjusting and equalizing to make it sound the way it was supposed to, occasionally arbitrating our differences of style and giving feedback when we were too tired to know what we were hearing, and his honest opinion when we needed it. Matthew Trautwein is more than our devastatingly talented and dedicated engineer; he is a lively actor, a witty performer, and tireless bandleader of the wonderful Lost Boys. There was nowhere near this kind of room to thank him on our album, but we do so here, enthusiastically and sincerely. Dude!

http://www.thelostboysonline.com/

Rambling Sailors Big News

So after several years of friends telling us, "This festival is GREAT! You need to be here!" We finally got the opening in our schedule. Da-da-daaaaa -

First stop after Scarborough Fair: The Port Washington Pirate Festival!

If you haven't heard of this intense four-day jaunt on the shores of Lake Michigan, it is one of the most popular fairs of its kind. Over thirty thousand flock to Port Washington's piers during its early June run to see live pirate fighting, catch the invasion and boarding of ships by said invaders - and hear the music of the sea. Romanticized? Sure. Commercialized? You bet! But who are we to disdain the legitimate promotions of the PW Chamber of Commerce, their only goal to lure the innocent into the temptations of pira- *cough* promote the attractions of their fine city?

And so, June 4th - 7th will see us on the shores of Port Washington, facing into the bracing June winds and giving our strongest voice to the loudest, most rollicking songs we know.

Plus - squee! - they told us we had to be available for the ship action! *jumping up and down* I can't WAIT!

*Ahem* - see you out there mateys! ARRRR!


http://www.portpiratefestival.com/

OH!

Didn't I mention our new CD is finally here?

I write now from the galley of our shipmates Frank and Rick, kindly lending us a legitimate address to which the booty may be delivered. Shortly a man whose name we do not know will visit the doorstep, dressed conservatively in brown, to pass on to us 5 packages in plain brown wrapping. No treasure is worth more to us at this moment, as these are the product of years of hard practicing, months of fiddly recording, and hours and hours of agonizing mastering. (OK, the mastering was actually kind of fun, but the rest was really *hard*; all those endless days of watching Matthew sweat over a hot keyboard...almost pierces my conscience...)

Anyway, we look forward to sharing with you the sweat of our collective brow (and, as a plus, in a completely metaphorical sense!) We'll be at Sherwood Forest Festival this weekend, as usual, and won't wait until Scarborough to share with you our new favorite recording!

Hope to see you there!

http://www.sherwoodforestfaire.com/

On the road again

Looks like we lost several posts when we got hacked a while back.
Anyway, our second CD is done (Bright Shining Clear) and should be available in a few weeks. Matthew did a great job recording us, Jim Hancock stopped by and did several tracks on mandolin and vocals and a few of the Lost Boys helped out on Pirate's Life. Our friend Jason did an amazing job with the album art, we think you'll dig it.
We're on our way to the brand spankin' new Sherwood Forest Faire. We stopped for the night at a KOA in Lafayette and should be there in the early afternoon.
It's nice to be home for the Winter, but it's great to be back out here on the road singing our songs for the people who love them.

Wind in yer sails,

-Rambling Gregg the Shantyman