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Captain's Ledger

from The Disturbance Fields by Edison's Children

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Synopsis:
The 68 minute epic "Washed Away" from the album The Disturbance Fields by Edison's Children begins. The sounds of seagulls fill the air as "beachgoers" are completely oblivious to the perfect storm descending upon them. An old sea captain reminisces in his cabin strumming softly on his guitar... looking out upon a gray and stormy sea thinking about what he has seen and what he knows is coming. He has given up much to be where he is right now... the master of the sea; Broken Relationships... choices that can never be remade. He is fully aware that as he prepares to head back to sea one more time, that after all the battles he has fought against Mother Nature over the years... this is the one he will not win.

Liner Notes:
This track was written originally on an old 8 string "Cuatro" instrument native to Puerto Rico and the Caribbean islands. As Hurricane Irene raged over Pete Trewavas and Eric Blackwood (and artist and backing vocalist Wendy Darling) who were all hunkered down in their rustic beach house turned recording studio with mics and wires and guitars everywhere in Ocean City Maryland, they switched to acoustic instruments so that power surges wouldn't destroy any of their gear. Pete had quietly mentioned his thoughts out loud to Wendy that even though they may just make it out of this storm unscathed ... many may not be so lucky. Their homes and everything that they've ever known was about to be "Washed Away". The place they watched TV in the family room the night before and all the photographs they've taken of the children over the years... all the memories that were embedded into the bones of that olde house ... could be gone in the flash of an eye. Pete Trewavas didn't realize just how clairvoyant he was until the transmissions returned to Maryland and the National Weather Service was flooding the airwaves with Special Reports of the utter devastation of entire towns which had simply vanished due to the incredible storm surge overnight. Up and down New England reports were coming in of so many old New Hampshire homesteads which had survived so many storms and so many disturbances since before the Revolutionary war had indeed been Washed Away. Eric Blackwood looked at the lyrics he had scribbled on an old piece of looseleaf paper about an old sea captain looking back at everything he had given up to be the master of the sea... all the broken relationships ... all the times he chose for a life at sea over his life at home. And now ... the gratitude he would receive for making those hardened choices was to take on Mother Nature one last time... in a battle that he knew he would never come back from. After Pete and Eric had paused recording their 1st album "In The Last Waking Moments" and the song "Silhouette" which would grow into a 67 minute song on the second album "The Final Breath Before November" to concentrate on this overwhelming conceptual feeling that was uttered as just an after-thought from Pete for everyone who lost everything in the blink of an eye due to the wrath of Mother Nature. Of Edison's Children's 3 epics to date... The Disturbance Fields becomes the first time that Pete Trewavas was responsible for the development of an album's concept.

lyrics

i've spent 30 years on this stormy road
so much time away from my home
tell me everything will be alright
but i can't see you anymore
maybe i've gone blind...

i've lived a long and lonely time
seen far too much for any man alive
i've been led astray
everything that i've ever known has washed away...

credits

from The Disturbance Fields, released July 20, 2019
lead vox: eric blackwood
rhythm guitar: eric blackwood
24 string strum guitar: eric blackwood
sounds of the sea: john mitchell

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