Cat Got Tongue, by Alex Archibald

Cat Got Tongue

by Alex Archibald

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doctor turtle This is just a terrific album. I fully expect to be going to school on it for the rest of the year, and if I graduate I'll be a happy man. Favorite track: Red Sky at Morning (W/Lorna Rowe).

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1.	Eastern Alleys After Hours 03:27	buy track
2.	Red Sky at Morning (W/Lorna Rowe) 03:44	buy track
3.	Safe Room in a Storm 03:21	buy track
4.	a Fox and a Possum 04:31	buy track
5.	String Figures 03:08	buy track
6.	Domovoi 03:18	buy track
7.	British Columbia Nightingale 04:11	buy track
8.	Ocean Beach Years 02:53	buy track
9.	Rupert and The Empress 09:28	buy track
10.	still feel that way sometimes (dance) (W/Lorna Rowe) 03:50	buy track
11.	The Windsurfer and The Librarian 01:35	buy track
12.	Barefoot Again in The West 02:15	buy track

about

My Great Great Grandfather Rupert Archibald was the captain of the CPR (Canadian Pacific Railway) steamship The Empress of China, one of the Pacific Empresses. He was captain for 20 years and ran The Empress up on the rocks off the coast of Japan in 1911. There had been heavy weather which developed into a typhoon, after which a heavy fog set in. They were off course with no indication and none of the fog signals were sounding from the shore. There was no loss of life or of cargo but the ship was a write off. The back cover of the album is a photograph of The Empress of China and the record is sort of unofficially dedicated to him and to personal and family history. The subtitle is 'Still Feel Like a Child Sometimes.' Who knows what the future holds?...

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released February 20, 2019

Alex Archibald:
Guitars: Fraulini Angelina 14 fret, 1934 Sears Supertone Resonator (a Fox and a Possum), 1930s Oahu Square neck (British Columbia Nightingale)
Banjo: (5 string carl arcand open back)
Lorna Rowe:
Fiddle (Fiddle)

Recorded by Lorna Rowe over 4 days, winter and spring 2018
Except String Figures and field recordings by Archibald June 2018
Mixed by Alex Archibald with Lorna Rowe
Mastering: Josh Stevenson
Cover Illustration: Halley Pfeifer
Songs: Archibald
Except "Red Sky at Morning" and "still feel that way sometimes (dance)": Archibald and Rowe

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Alex Archibald Vancouver, British Columbia

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