Bed Boat Song with Pizazz!

Here is yesterday's song dressed up a little with the use of Alex P's sweeet mic.

the Bed Boat Song by isaacgillespie

New Song Applause, vol. 2: I'm On A Boat?

Here's a song I've been trying to write for a while and just did finally today.



Because it deals in part with sea travel on a great ocean liner, it got me thinking about how much I'd really love to cross the ocean in a boat. Preferably work my way across the ocean on a freighter, but only if it's not too hard.

Anyway, this is what I found: http://www.freighter-travel.com/travel-itineraries.html

It's pretty badass and I definitely want to do it at some point. Maybe this summer to kick off a Europe tour? That would be totally rad.

Apologies if this blog has gotten off topic from being about the album, there's actually lots of great news about all that which I promise to post here soon. In the meantime enjoy the new songs.

New Song Applause!

I wrote this song last night while walking to the sidewalk cafe for my Antifolk Festival show. Then I recorded it last night just before bed. You can tell, I'm like basically asleep.

Hank and Pigeon

Hank and Pigeon is a new group formed by my two good friends (and Due Diligence members) Morgan Hank and Alex Pigeon.

They are awesome.

Here is a video I shot of them on the subway after our Zebulon show the other night:



More video to come, but in the meantime do yourselves a favor and check out their music.

Nuthin'

This is the MIA apology post. Have been busy like a bee, floating all over town like a butterfly. First my dear girlfriend came for Valentine's Day and then stuck around for President's Day and all of a sudden it's Tuesday.

Finally got a hold of the Tea Party recordings and they sound bloody great.

This week is super busy; show at Zebulon tomorrow and then Northeast Kingdom on Thurdsay (roommate Chloe's birthday!)

Shot a whole mess of press photos for Dan Costello and Rachel Devlin's tour today, last night shot a whole bunch for Joe Crow Ryan's new album cover. Now Eric Hinojosa's in town and we're gonna shoot a bunch of video tomorrow.

So there you have it; nothing in a nutshell.




Here's a picture Claire took:

Cover of the Day: Willie Moore

This one goes out to Aaron Invisible, with whom I recently went out on tour. He was teaching me the folk thumb-picking fundamentals. "It's all about the thumb" he says.

Willie Moore is a song that I first heard from the Kossoy Sisters on this really excellent folk music compilation. I mean really really excellent. Blows the water right out of the Anthology of American Folk Music in my modest opinion.

The Kossoy Sisters original recording of "I'll Fly Away" was featured in "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" (Allison Kraus & Gillian Welch sing it on the CD). Their recording of Willie Moore features supertight harmony and a chilling deadpan delivery of a tragic love story. Mine has a funny shirt:



One quick thing, when I was rehearsing this song my septuagenarian lefty roommate came out and said: "Oh I always knew that song with totally different lyrics. It's supposed to be about the unions." Awesome.

Self-Consciousness

Here is a still frame from the 1995 episode of the Simpsons where Bart dresses in disguise so as not to be recognized at the store where he's been caught shoplifting:



And here is a picture of what I for-real look like when I go outside these icy winter days: