3 Characters, by Sunwatchers and Eugene Chadbourne

3 Characters

by Sunwatchers and Eugene Chadbourne

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1.	The Price of Paradise 05:15	buy track
2.	Political Song For Michael Jackson to Sing 02:53	buy track
3.	Ghost Spiel (featuring Mike Watt) 01:19	buy track
4.	Joe McCarthy's Ghost(s) 06:10	buy track
5.	The Anchor 02:57	buy track
6.	I Felt Like a Gringo 05:27	buy track
7.	Themselves 03:57	buy track
8.	The Product 03:38	buy track
9.	Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs 03:15	buy track
10.	This Ain't no Picnic 03:01	buy track
11.	Chicano (featuring Mike Watt) 01:50	buy track
12.	It's Gonna Be Easy 03:58	buy track
13.	Too Many Docile(d) Minds 05:47	buy track
14.	Give Back The Key To My Heart 05:25	buy track
15.	Uncle Sam Do 08:40	buy track

about

Sunwatchers teamed up with Eugene Chadbourne for two days of recording in October 2016 which resulted in SUNWATCHERS AND EUGENE CHADBOURNE's 3 Characters 2xLP/Digital (AMI 050).

These sessions were dedicated exclusively to the music of the Minutemen, Doug Sahm and Henry Flynt. Having never played together before, all the songs were completed in one or two takes and the recordings reflect an urgency and immediacy that audiences have to come to expect from these musicians.

The three characters invoked on these recordings offer models for our current political and societal struggles. Creating a music that is both personal and political, artistic and activist, these three figures were/are soulful and practical examples of the artist-as- laborer, addressing a call for social justice and musical spontaneity. Chadbourne and Sunwatchers have taken up this struggle, touring and recording, writing and collaborating, throughout their respective careers. Pushing this ethos out into the field and on this recording, 3 Characters is a reverential labor of love, where musical labor becomes a form of both love and resistance.

Mike Watt joins the conversation with spoken interpretations of lyrics, poetry, speeches and assorted agit-prop. Having Watt's contemporary voice alongside so many songs that he wrote and defined suggests this, and all artistic collaborations, function as part of a long continuum that inform future callings.

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released November 30, 2018

DOCTOR EUGENE CHADBOURNE: Acoustic and Electrical Guitars, Banjo, Dobro, Lead Vocals

SUNWATCHERS:
PETER KERLIN: Bass
JIM MCHUGH: Electric 6 and 12-string Guitars, Electric Phin, Backing Vocals on “It’s Gonna Be Easy"
JASON ROBBIRA: Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals on “It’s Gonna Be Easy"
JEFF TOBIAS: Alto Sax, Baritone Sax, Keyboatrds, Bass Clarinet, Backing Vocals on “It’s Gonna Be Easy"

MIKE WATT: Spiel and Labor Leader

Recorded live in one or two takes at Seaside Lounge Oct 16th and 17th 2016

Produced by Jim McHugh and Eugene Chadborne

Engineering work by Charles Burst

Mixed by Charles Burst and Sunwatchers

Mastering Work by Sarah Register

Artwork by Meredyth Sparks

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