‘listingShip’ & ‘the burlingtonFamily’ @ ‘cole’s’, (april foole’s day 2006)
Sunday, April 2nd, 2006 | otherStuff
(this is olde news, but i like it, so here it some more)
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…i fell in love, [again], last nite, this time w/a band called; ‘listing ship’
[which way does she list? -to port? -to starboard? -i meant to ask ...my guess would be port; as in; 'to the left', or like porter in a glass bottomed tankard, or like sweet port wine]
…at one point this project was called ‘leather hyman’, a clever name that would almost guarantee them no air-play, [on the stations they might've liked to be heard on], & a moniker that gets more clever when you know it was really just a shuffling of the names of the heart & soul of the band; heather, [viola, banjo & vocals], & lyman, [guitar, banjo, vocals]
…but now they are ‘listing ship’, & i found it altogether too hard NOT to fall for them
…listing ship is honey & ginger strings, & chords, like rich, silk ribbons swelling & rolling, & humming in blonde & auburn voices
…listing ship is yin melody & yang rhythm, waxes & rosins & a soft brushing caress on your flushed cheek w/ the callused fingertips of a left hand
“i know a girl who says she’s strong, been a woman for so long”
[ah, the maiden's energy, followed like a shadow by the woman's wisdom]
…listing ship is a gleam of a steel banjo string, & a shine of polished wood sighing in harmony beneath a sad, yet wistful baritone
[lyman mentions a sore throat, & is immediately offered a cough drop from an audience member]
…listing ship is a wise smile under hair in the eyes, hair pushed back outta the way, hair in bangs cut straight across
…listing ship is swaying w/ eyes closed, tuning a stand-up bass string on the fly, while the tempo is tapped out on thin denim-ed thighs
…syncopated sea chanteys, french lyrics & la la la’s like kisses
…cole’s, [the venerable venue], is a 100yr old sandwich shop …they used to generally be closed by late afternoon, after the last of the lunch crowd had trundled back to the office w/ ‘au juice’ stains on their ties …their doors were secured by sunset in a neighborhood you need a good reason to be in after dark
…but lately they’ve been home to a wooden music crowd
…like the burlington family, who are there every 1st saturday nite of the month, & who opened for the ship that lists
…the burlington family; 2 brothers from different mothers, intoning harmonies that carry the scent of fresh cut wood; they are a raw & simple joy
…one burlington brother shared his good fortune w/ this reviewer; a glass of dark, amber chimay ale …brewed in france by vow-of-silence trappist monks, shipped in bottles w/ corks that pop like the amens to prayers
…at ‘cole’s’ they serve chimay, & whether by chance or design, chimay is exactly the right beverage for listing ship
…lager’s too lite, insubstantial, stout’s too heavy & ponderous
…chimay has just the right spice, fruit, & froth for this music
…chimay tastes like listing ship, listing ship sounds like chimay
…you need to know more, so go to:
listing ship’s website
listing ship’s ‘my space’ space
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