ha, this is great! thanks!

I’m very partial to terrariums. I like their history, with its quaint Victorian “Wardian Case” nomenclature. People mistake terrariums for something precious adn a bit twee. Yet Wardian cases were almost single-handledly responsible for the advances in botany on the European continent, and were a material part of the advance of science in the west.

I think sometimes that artists are like terrariums. They don’t do the things that make them necessarily popular or easily understood to huge masses of people. Instead, they build their own self-contained universes. Sometimes those universes are “radical” and “experimental”, and yet often these new galaxies are galaxies of remembrance, of homage and of nostalgia.

I am a fan of finding sound where it resides, and taking it to new places. Yet sound would be hollow indeed if one had to disregard what came before in order to experience what comes now.

In this song, you use the lyrical conceits of the sea shanty, but also the folk-based exploration of the mid-1960s singer/songwriters, before the term became a euphemism for “radio ready”, but instead was an expression to describe people who wrote things meaningful to their own muse, and then shared them with their own voices. This earlier set of singers faded from view, but not from memory. Truth is like that—it rises, and is heard, and does not fit well between commercials for mayonaisse and nicotine patches.

I always like that you don’t worry too much about “fitting in”, but find your own ways to make the music you want to make. This is an expressive, spare and interesting song, which hearkens up all sorts of associations without being derivative at all. You’re not likely to be featured on American Bandstand with this one, but every one who listens with a little heart and a little attention will come out richer for the muse, and the music.

Self-contained, Wardian, tropical,
evergreen.

This must be your Woodie Guthrie phase shining through!!:)

Nice idea to put the guitar with the words and keep it simple

You take on a great almost Nick Cave type of story telling when backed by the guitar, rather suprised I was but also very pleased—I actually smiled!!!:)

Way to belt it out Anchor! I love the energy and real soul you put into your work. I’m glad you decided to just run with this one and let go of the pretenses you might otherwise bring to bear. I could taste the salty sea spray in my mouth and feel the wind in my hair. There’s something a little sparser and edgier here than the traditional shanties I have heard but that’s a good thing.

You know what they used to say bout the Grateful Dead once upon a time, that they weren’t the best at what they did, they were the only ones who did what they did, same applies to you, and you do what you do very well. Keep em comin’ :-).

Oh yea, those lyrics ain’t too shabby either :-).

I remember some people here mentioned a few things about remixing you in an unusual way or not heard before. I would say, that you remixed yourself in an unusual and unexpected way. That_s surprising though!
And you really get the impression you are playing the guitar on your knee, charming!
But if you want to go another time in this direction, “I am going with you” ! :-)

It’s all been said so eloquently by Gurdonark (and yes maybe there is some similarity with Nick Cave) - great performance and as always a magical way with words.