The Driftwood Periodicals Volume II

This album follows Driftwood I in a series of recordings I am making in accordance with my surroundings. This album was recorded mostly in a little grass hut jutting off a tiny atoll fifty miles off the coast of Belize, some was done in the Dallas/Fort Worth airport at terminal C9, some was done in the village of Hopkins, Belize at a folk drumming center.

All of the music and most of the lyrics were composed on this trip and recorded on a Sony Walkman Minidisk with one condenser microphone and a handful of batteries, (the atoll had no running water or electricity) and played on either a resonator ukulele or a tiny octave guitar. A close listen will reveal birds, the ocean lapping its waves up through the floor, the wind, and the sounds of cooking over our gas hotplate.

Upon arriving home I realized the songs were recorded well enough to continue with. So I had my band overdub their parts at Pete Weiss' Verdant Studio in Athens, Vermont. Each player was given only one take to ensure the original spontaneity, and their interpretations are pure magic.

The cover photo of the bare feet was taken looking down into the Setee River and the inside photo is a shot of the hut where this album was conceived.

Credits

All songs written, performed, and recorded by Bow Thayer on the Glovers Atoll in Belize

Produced by Bow Thayer and Pete Weiss

Jeff Berlin: cocktail kit and other assorted percussion

Jeremy Curtis: upright bass

Pete Weiss: Moog synth, electric bass, short-wave radio, Fender Rhodes Piano

The Drummers at Lebaha: traditional Garifuna hand drums, vocals

Bow Thayer: vocals, resonator ukulele, octave guitar, acoustic guitar, piano. upright bass, banjo

Recorded in Belize & at Verdant Studio

Edited, mixed, and mastered by Pete Weiss

Photos by Bow Thayer & Lori Bullett

CD design by Julie Berlin

Thank You

Lori Bullett, Mildred (Mammie) Edwards, Elizabeth Freund & all at Beautiful Day, Chris Jones & Sue and all at the Middle Earth Music Hall, all the folks at Glovers Atoll, all our families for putting up with our dreams & all of you who make them come true...