The Poem Blue America (next entry below) is an attempt to tie each of the songs on the CD together into a coherant narrative. Perhaps a little background is called for here. Of all the songs we play regularly, we selected the songs on "whererwegoin" because they were written to address issues of war and peace. Having defined the set of songs we needed an order for the printed CD. In the end we chose the order based on the principle that we should put those songs which best represent our sound - balanced sax and voice - first and then alternate songs based on their emotional content (like a gig set). We specifically resisted the temptation to force a narrative onto the song order - like a false kind of conceit - like a 70s concept album. But here on the site under the music tab we have had the chance to experiement with mutiple song orders. Playing with that process late into the evening we found that a narrative emerged which makes some sense. Check it out below or under the music tab. Under the music tab each line of the poem is shown with the song which inspired it and you can listen to each song in sequence to have a kind of musicaL narrative experience. Give it a try and let us know what you think... Below is the poem alone.
