Track List Fabulous Shadow Checkout Line Spinach In A Can Have You Seen the Movie? Trimming the Bearded Lady If I Were You and Knew I Could Oh Herman Never Die She Has A Fabulous Shadow Live Like An Angel Lizzie's Letter Snow in Paradise Oh Paradise of Bachelors Where the Prairie Begins To the Ocean Cattle Ranch Dreams of Thy Youth

Notes

Me & Melville came about when I found out that Herman Melville once had a job setting up bowling pins in a bowling alley in Hawaii. Here was a regular guy! We both loved the Berkshires, we both had lived in Manhattan where we had menial jobs, and we both had deserted from whaling ships in the South Seas and lived among cannibals for several months.

This commonality evolved into Me & Melville, in which I have attempted to weave together my songs with some of Melville's themes and subjects---love, death, immortality, friendship, forgiveness and the sweet taste of whale's milk.

Read Moby Dick and understand why 'this fabulous shadow only the sea keeps.' (from Hart Crane, "At Melville's Tomb").

--JoAnne