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“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.” ~ Oscar Wild
The PIRATE album is an acoustic folk-rock album, a musical statement about our modern life, world, society and politics. Pirate is an album of majestic failure inspired by the volcanic movement of global politics and society changes. The album is a song cycle of social and political love poems; a musical missive about the past and everything we should have learned, but failed.
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The Musicians:
Michael Johnathon: Martin D-28s guitar, VEGA long neck banjo, percussion
Jeff Yurkowski: organ and accordian
Tom Covello: Bass
Melissa Johnathon: background vocals
Jacob Zeckely: Cello
Tripp Bratton: congas and perc
David Elliot: french horns
Frank Bowers: electric guitars (Assassins …)
Rick Marks: drums, background vocal on The Accusation
RECORDED AND MIXED: RICK “Button Boy” MARKS, RMAV Studios, Lexington, KY
MASTERING: JEFF MEYER, TOWER STATION STUDIOS, Lexington, KY
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Only $10 each post-paid in the USA (international please add $4 shipping, sorry) Any 3 Titles for $20
PIRATE
The title song of the album. This is a musical poetic journey of failure and redemption … “who needs a pirate who is lost at sea, forever drifting in the tide …”
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ASSASSINS IN THE KINGDOM
Written at the fall of the twin towers, it sat in my folder for several years. Lately, this dark, cryptic, gothic composition about War … think Dylan meets The Beatles meets Pink Floyd … has come to life again. For me, an unusual recording but I wanted to keep in the ominous spirit of the lyrics.