ARTiST: Don Chambers & Goat
ALBUM: Zebulon
BiTRATE: 202kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Warm Electronic Recordings
GENRE: Indie
SiZE: 71.96 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 47min 01sec total
RiP DATE: 2008-09-13
STORE DATE: 2008-09-09
Track List:
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01. Conjuring A Dead Rabbit 4:04
02. Falling Off the Edges of the 4:01
World
03. Friar's Lantern 2:40
04. Open The Gates 3:15
05. Ghostly Leg 3:15
06. Highwater 4:40
07. Paint the Moon 3:21
08. I Can Waltz 4:43
09. Fire in the Kitchen 3:36
10. Send Me No Angels 5:17
11. This I Know 3:21
12. Bind My Wounds 4:48
Release Notes:
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NAME Don Chambers (described as a weather-beaten balladeer who writes creaky
dirges and Southern tales, haunted around the fringes but always solid
underneath, also looks like heÆs been dragged through a bush backwards after a
blinding night on bad moonshineö - Flagpole Magazine) and Goat (described as
going ôfor broke, burning up the night like a petrol-soaked bonfire of dry
mesquite and hickory scrubö - Flagpole Magazine)
MODUS OPERANDI Don has been playing music (1989 - present), was in the band
Vaudeville (1991 - 1998), did a solo record called ôBack in the Woodsö (2001).
Soon after, Goat was formed and recorded the aptly named ôDon Chambers and Goatö
album (2005) followed by the cumbersomely named ôI Got the Recollection of the
Blood of the Lambö (2007). The present record is called ôZebulonö (Sept 2008).
GOAT PARTS While the band has changed members as these endeavors go, the core
members are as follows Matt ôPistolö Stoessel (guitar, pedal steel), Bandon
McDearis (Drums), Jim Wilson (ladder, percussion), Fritz Gibson (bass), and the
ones who got away - Patrick Hargon (guitar), Lisa Hargon - Smith (bass), Kevin
Lane (bass).
ON ZEBULON "I take a lot of notes when traveling, town names, street names,
business names, signs and wonders all along the way. All this goes into a book
to be visited later when I have forgotten the details and the directions. While
touring south Georgia with the band I saw a sign for the town of Zebulon, in
Pike's County. Songwriting is like the guy giving you directions with way too
many details, "now once you pass the sign with the bullet holes turn left at the
Doolie Hill Trailer Park, you know they say ole Doolie he had a predilection for
vegetables, well then hang a louie till you get bored and then look for the
twisted oak tree with a pair of rotting converse sneakers hanging in em and
then...". You have no idea where he's telling you to go. Hell, you forgot where
you where going, but your fascinated with the rhythm of speech and details, your
eyes are glazed over and you lose track of time. I like records that give you
that kinda feeling, like your going somewhere and you not sure how you'll get
there, sometimes the music ends and you feel you have arrived, other times
you're sure you went somewhere but your not sure exactly where it was, but it
definitely was traveling. These are adventure songs, instructional and
subjective, throw out the map and drive, the joy is in the journey. Moses said
the tribe of Zebulon would suck of the abundance of the seas and of treasures
hidden in the sand. That's what we are going for here, the pirates dream of
buried treasure. Another Zebulon was Zebulon Montgomery Pike Jr., for which the
afore mentioned town and county was named. He was an American soldier and
explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado is named. Oddly, he never actually made
it to the top of the mountain now famously named after him. These songs came out
of travel and adventure, being away from home and coming back. Feeling stuck and
feeling like your floating, untethered and strange. Waiting to feel homesick,
while you are living in the mercury present."
- Don Chambers