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14 Fish, 2 Bottles & a Shoe

Review: ISS Newsletter Jan 2007

Walt Sargent Serves Up Something Fishy

BY PEDRO

You’ve probably heard most of the songs if you have seen Walt Sargent perform around the area in recent years. Now you can have them to keep, in a sparsely produced CD titled "14 Fish Two Bottles and Shoe."

Released late last year, this collection of songs shows off the considerable talents of the ISS webmaster, from the now operatic, now understated vocals, to the competent guitar playing, to the thought-provoking lyrics. Walter, who teamed up with Huntington-based producer Dave Cook, also an ISS member, to put the CD together, demonstrates in this collection of tracks why he has often won the Writer’s Choice award at ISS.

His songcraft is well-developed, producing work that is at once pleasing to the ear and intellectually compelling. Standout tracks include the ballads "Don’t Go Now" and "Me, Myself and I."

Most of the songs feature only vocals and one or two guitar tracks, with the opening track, "Beautiful," being an exception. In "Beautiful," Walter shows that in addition to playing delicate finger-picked patterns and melodies, he can also make an electric guitar scream.

Broadjam.com Reviews

  1. "great vocal tone…fun energy"

14 Fish, 2 Bottles & a Shoe has fourteen songs, and three instrumentals. It is the quintessential FROJ (folk-reggae-opera-jazz). numbered first edition while supplies last

It sounds better than it sounds.

Available at CD Baby

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SONG LIST:
  1. Beautiful
  2. Me, Myself and I
  3. Mr. Know-It-All
  4. Helpless
  5. Easier to Love
  6. A Blue Bottle
  7. Don’t Go Now
  8. In the Future
  9. Conversations with Myself
  10. You Found Something
  11. Horseshoe Crab
  12. I Won’t Say a Word
  13. Photograph
  14. Some Things Never Change
  15. Another Blue Bottle
  16. All We Need Is Here
  17. Ball of Clay
CREDITS:
  1. Recorded at TechnoCrunch
  2. Engineered by Dave Cook
  3. Manufactured by DiskMakers