1. Where Have You Gone
2. A Field By The Sea
3. Cheatin’ Blues
4. The Ballad Of Johnny And
Mikey
5. Everything But Me
6. Mean Mistreatin’ Woman
7. I Woke Up With The Blues
8. Is This The Way
9. The Moonshiner
10. Beads Of Hope
11. The Ballad Of The Blue
Puttees
A Field By The Sea. It's pretty stirring title, Invoking, as it does, visions of desolate beaches, wind-swept heather
and frothy , undulating waves. Smokin' Joe Wiseman came up with it while looking seawards from Cape St.
George, where his eyes came across the cemetery - a field by the sea if ever there was one. While not exactly a
somber outing, Field does spend some time exploring death. The title track looks into outmigration, lamenting
the loss of Newfoundland and Labrador's young and wondering who will lie with the province ancestors in their
"marble orchards," which is another poetic handle for graveyards. Mr. Wiseman had coaching with most of these
songs. He's a member of various guilds, especially www.songu.com. Based in Nashville, the online university
provides a workshop environment for songwriters. Not only were a lot of his songs coached in that forum, but
the musicians who play on the record were sourced out through the university's rank and file. The boys just
passed the material digitally from one studio to another.
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