AT HOME: the maine tour

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At Home: the maine tour
CD / DVD & Digital Download
released septemeber 2015

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betty and i moved with our three daughters to the coast of maine over forty years ago. since then, i've done the occasional benefit concert - from fort kent to portland - but have never done a concentrated tour of the state in one season. until last year. from ogunquit to eastport (check THAT out on a map), i recorded (and subsequently edited and authored) these 24 music videos for the DVD and (amazingly) all 24 of the songs fit on the accompanying CD.

the songs represent a broad range: THE CABIN FEVER WALTZ (homage to the rigors of enduring the lengthened winter in maine), a new version of WHATSHERNAME (a bittersweet jazz shaded reminiscence of a middle-aged man in denial) originally recorded on the PP&M 1700 album, FAMILIA DEL CORAZON (a new song that speaks to the immigration issue in compassionate rather than political terms), WEDDING SONG (with the 'original' lyric and a spoken introduction) and THE LADY SAYS SHE DON'T LIKE JAZZ (a commentary on a common misperception of the creative process).

i hesitate to call this a memoir - though it does span 50 years of my music - but i DO appreciate the fact that 1) it's all about the music - 95% of the visual is 'in performance', 2) the camera work is intimate - both fixed and handheld coverage by videographers sharing the stage during performance and 3) it's as relaxed and 'stookey' as it can get - what with no accompaniment except my guitar.

'sort of what you'd expect if we were together AT HOME...

ONE & MANY Public Domain Foundation / Noel Paul Stookey, Elizabeth B. Stookey, Sam Lardner

OBEDIENT SERVANT Public Domain Foundation / Noel Paul Stookey, Kevin Hunter

THE LADY SAYS Neworld Music Publishing / Noel Paul Stookey

DOG OF TIME Lou & Peter Berryman Publishing / Lou & Peter Berryman

NUKES R NUTS Neworld Music Publishing / Noel Paul Stookey, David Krieger

FACETS OF THE JEWEL Neworld Music Publishing / Noel Paul Stookey

SIMPLE SONG Neworld Music Publishing / Noel Paul Stookey

THE LOVE IN YOU Neworld Music Publishing / Noel Paul Stookey, Elizabeth B. Stoookey,Paul Julian, Richard Kniss

CABIN FEVER WALTZ Neworld Music Publishing / Noel Paul Stookey

SEPTEMBER SONG Hamshire House Publisihng, Chappell Music /Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill

VIRTUAL PARTY Neworld Music Publishing / Noel Paul Stookey, Elizabeth B. Stookey, Dave Tkachuk

FATHER'S HOUSE Public Domain Foundation / Noel Paul Stookey

WHATSHERNAME Neworld Music Publishing / Noel Paul Stookey,Richard Kniss, Dave Dixon

FOR THE LOVE OF IT ALL Neworld Music Publishing / Noel Paul Stookey

WEDDING SONG Public Domain Foundation / Noel Paul Stookey

CUE THE MOON Neworld Music Publishing / Noel Paul Stookey, Marvin Messex, Sally Farr

GLORY TRAIN Neworld Music Publishing / Adapted & Arranged:Noel Paul Stookey

ONE & MANY (REPRISE) Neworld Music Publishing / Noel Paul Stookey

NOT THAT KIND OF MUSIC Neworld Music Publishing/ Noel Paul Stookey, Jim Mason

FAMILIA DEL CORAZON Neworld Music Publishing / Noel Paul Stookey, Sam Lardener, Paul G. Hill

JEAN CLAUDE Neworld Music Publishing / Noel Paul Stookey, Lan Okun, Richard Unsworth

AMERICA Neworld Music Publishing / Noel Paul Stookey, Katherine Lee Bates

IN THESE TIMES Neworld Music Publishing / Noel Paul Stookey

IRISH BLESSING Public Domain Foundation / Noel Paul Stookey

CREDITS:

primary videographers: DYLAN HOWARD (ogunquit, brownfield, boothbay), JIM CAMPBELL (stonington, camden), RICHARD KANE (ellsworth). video verite: PHIL HALL.

audio design and primary recording engineer: DAVE TKACHUK, venue recordists: JAY MICHAUD (stonington), PAT O'DONELL (brownfield). DVD audio remix: JIM MASON and JIM BRADY. CD audio remix: JOHN STUART.

still photography and CD/DVD graphic design: SALLY FARR. editing and DVD authoring: NPS. string advisor: RON DELBY nylon and steel guitar luthier: DAVID LAPLANTE.

administrative, logistics and moral support: JOYCE HALL, DAVID SNYDER, NANCY TKACHUK. and, especially and always BETTY, my wife and best bud.

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