Minneapolis blogebrity Max Sparber has a not-so-secret dark side channeled through a tattooed and pierced sailor puppet known as Sailor Martin.
Max and Martin just released their first full-length album of original music, available for free listening and download from the blog 50,0000
Sparber Fans Can’t Be Wrong.
Sailor Martin is a deep sea monster expert, an unapologetic womanizer and quite a nasty drunk, so it’s no surprise he writes songs that mirror these proclivities: “Horrible Things What Live in the Sea,” “It’s Hard For Me To Enjoy It When You Sit On It” and “Pour Me Another Box of Wine.”
The album is a 15 track reason to listen to your parents, go to college and get a real job, yet there’s something to be said for tales of wicked debauchery and its ensuing wisdom only a drunken sailor could share. And for a puppet, Martin is quite a good ukulele player.
Sailor Martin : “I’m Not As Drunk As You Think I Am” (mp3)
From the press release: The album consists of 15 songs, borrowing from the lost art of the underground “party albums” of the 40s, 50s, and 60s, and consisting of a collection of bawdy songs of drunkeness, bad women, and sea monsters.
The album was entirely performed using a ukulele and a selection of instruments purchased at toy stores, recorded and mixed on Garage Band. Nonetheless, This Is Sailor Martin often manages to sound like a raucous frat rock album from the 60s.
And if you’re an instant fan, check out Sailor Martin on Twitter and Facebook.
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