Sirens (SJ Tucker album)
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Sirens is an album by American
United States
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 singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 S. J. Tucker, released in 2006 (See 2006 in music
2006 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2006.-January:*January 10 – Eric Burdon releases his album Soul of a Man and begins touring with a new band....

).

Track listing

  1. "The Drowning" (Tucker, Valente
    Catherynne M. Valente
    Catherynne M. Valente , is a Tiptree–, Andre Norton–, and Mythopoeic Award–winning novelist, poet, and literary critic. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, the World Fantasy Award–winning anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities, along with numerous Year's Best volumes...

    ) - 1:56
  2. "Go Away Godboy" (Tucker) - 4:46
  3. "Lady Vagabond" (Tucker) - 5:27
  4. "Cold Sunshine" (Tucker) - 3:41
  5. "The Wendy Trilogy I: Wendy on Board" (Tucker) - 5:36
  6. "Storm" (Tucker) - 4:28
  7. "Carousel" (Tucker) - 5:52
  8. "The Wendy Trilogy II: Red-Handed Jill" (Tucker) - 5:34
  9. "Alligator in the House" (Tucker, B. Tinney, K. Tinney) - 4:32
  10. "Girl in the Garden" (Tucker) - 3:21
  11. "The Wendy Trilogy III: Green-Eyed Sue / Sue's Jig" (Tucker) - 5:27
  12. "Mandolin Holy Man" (Tucker) - 4:17
  13. "Valkyrie Daughter" (Tucker) - 11:48
  14. "Goddess" (Tucker) - 2:44

Personnel

  • S. J. Tucker - guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

  • Catherynne M. Valente
    Catherynne M. Valente
    Catherynne M. Valente , is a Tiptree–, Andre Norton–, and Mythopoeic Award–winning novelist, poet, and literary critic. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, the World Fantasy Award–winning anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities, along with numerous Year's Best volumes...

     - lyrics
    Lyrics
    Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...

     - "The Drowning"
  • Betsy Tinney - lyrics
    Lyrics
    Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...

     - "Alligator"
  • Katie Tinney - lyrics
    Lyrics
    Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...

     - "Alligator"
  • Kenny Sharretts - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

     - "Go Away Godboy"
  • Celia - Backing vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

     - "Lady Vagabond"; Bodhran
    Bodhrán
    The bodhrán is an Irish frame drum ranging from 25 to 65 cm in diameter, with most drums measuring 35 to 45 cm . The sides of the drum are 9 to 20 cm deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side...

     - "Lady Vagabond" and "Green-eyed Sue/Sue's Jig"
  • Betsy Tinney - cello
    Cello
    The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

      - "Cold Sunshine" and "Alligator in the House"
  • Joe Credit III - mandolin
    Mandolin
    A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

     - "Mandolin Holy Man"

Production

  • Mixing:
    • Tracks 1,3,4,6,9 and 13: Jay Kenney, Audiologic Inc, Seattle WA
    • Tracks 2 and 7: Ginger Doss, Eagle Audio, Austin TX
    • Tracks 5, 8, 10-12 and 14: Da'nelle Martin, Tekneek Inc, Denver CO
  • Album art: Nitia Cheveallier, Melissa Zagidulin, and Kevin K Wiley
  • Photos: Kevin K Wiley and Kevin Frost
  • Design and layout: Kevin K Wiley and S. J. Tucker
  • Producer: S. J. Tucker

The Wendy Trilogy

The Wendy Trilogy is a retelling of the Peter and Wendy
Peter and Wendy
Peter and Wendy, published in 1911, is the novelisation by J. M. Barrie of his most famous play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up...

story, diverting from the original at the point where Captain Hook
Captain Hook
Captain James Hook is the main antagonist of J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and its various adaptations. The character is a villainous pirate captain of the Jolly Roger brig, and lord of the pirate village/harbour in Neverland, where he is widely feared. Most...

 offers Wendy Darling
Wendy Darling
Wendy Moira Angela Darling is a fictional character, the female protagonist of Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie, and in most adaptations in other media. Her exact age is not specified in the original play or novel by Barrie, though she is implied to be 12 or 13 years old or younger, as she is "just...

 the chance to become a pirate. In this version, Wendy accepts the offer and starts an adventure of her own. Tucker states on her website that she first had the idea of the trilogy in 2005 while staying in Portland, OR after performing for the first time at the Faerieworlds
Faerieworlds
The Faerieworlds Festival is an annual music and arts festival currently held annually in Oregon. The festival's primary theme is the "realm of the faerie"...

 festival.

Wendy On Board

After accepting Hook's offer to become a pirate, the two enter into a deal in which Wendy joins Captain Hook
Captain Hook
Captain James Hook is the main antagonist of J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and its various adaptations. The character is a villainous pirate captain of the Jolly Roger brig, and lord of the pirate village/harbour in Neverland, where he is widely feared. Most...

's crew. Hook will become her foster-father if she manages to survive the challenges ahead of her, and she will be his heir if she exceeds expectations. They also both agree to walk the plank if caught double-crossing or betraying the other, with Wendy adding the caveat that Hook's ship will become hers if he betrays her. Wendy takes the pirate name Red-Handed Jill. Peter Pan comes attempting to save Wendy from Captain Hook, but becomes angry when he thinks Wendy has chosen Hook over him. The two become sworn enemies due to Pan's misunderstanding of Wendy's larger plan.

Red-Handed Jill

The second song in the cycle follows Wendy's struggle to become a respected member of the pirate crew. She faces challenges and derision from the pirates, but begins to pick up skills such as swordplay through bribery of the crew and reduces her load of chores by tricking the pirates into completing them for her.

Tinkerbell
Tinkerbell
Tinker Bell , is a fictional character from J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelization Peter and Wendy. She has appeared in multiple film and television adaptations of the Peter Pan stories, in particular the 1953 animated Walt Disney picture Peter Pan...

 comes to the ship and, despite the animosity between her and Wendy, Wendy confides in her the plan to wrest control of the ship from Hook. Tinkerbell agrees to carry the news to Peter and the Lost Boys to counter Pan's assumption that Wendy has betrayed him.

Wendy is on deck one night when she hears Hook and Smee plotting against her, in contravention of their deal to not plot against one another. Hook has a plan to marry Wendy to Bluebeard
Bluebeard
"Bluebeard" is a French literary folktale written by Charles Perrault and is one of eight tales by the author first published by Barbin in Paris in January 1697 in Histoires ou Contes du temps passé. The tale tells the story of a violent nobleman in the habit of murdering his wives and the...

, who he knows will murder her; he trusts in the fact that he is now considered Wendy's foster father to ensure that she will be unable to escape this fate. Wendy challenges Hook's treachery in plotting against her, offering him the choice of retirement or the plank and announcing her plan to take control of the ship by dawn.

Hook threatens Wendy with his hook, but she remains resolute. Peter arrives to assist her and carries Hook into the air, where he is helpless. When Smee injures Wendy and she cries out, Peter drops Hook into the water, where he meets the crocodile. Peter and Wendy are reunited. Wendy stays true to her promise to take over the ship, and she and her crew fight the Lost Boys on Saturdays.

Green-Eyed Sue

The third song in the cycle departs farthest from the original story. Wendy complains to Peter that she'd like to have more girls on her crew. Peter locates a disaffected tomboy named Green-Eyed Sue who is eager to visit Neverland
Neverland
Neverland is a fictional world featured in the works of J. M. Barrie and those based on them. It is the dwelling place of Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, and others...

 and escape the family that disapproves of her piratical dreams. Sue becomes Wendy's first mate upon the retirement of Smee. More "Lost Girls" are located, and learn pirating from Wendy and Sue.

Tales of Wendy and her ship begin to spread through other lands of fantasy, and the pirate girls become notorious to the point that they are asked to lead the Royal Fleet of the fairies by Titania and Oberon
Oberon
Oberon is a legendary king of the fairies.Oberon may also refer to:-People:* Merle Oberon , British actress* Oberon Zell-Ravenheart , Neopagan activist-Media and entertainment:* Oberon...

. Wendy agrees if and only if the Lost Girls can be permitted to keep their standing appointment on Saturdays with the Lost Boys. The offer is accepted; Wendy becomes an admiral and liaison between Neverland
Neverland
Neverland is a fictional world featured in the works of J. M. Barrie and those based on them. It is the dwelling place of Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, and others...

 and Fairyland
Fairyland
Fairyland commonly refers to the land of fairies, in folklore.Fairyland may also refer to:* Álfheimr, the abode of the elves in Norse mythology* Elfhame or Elfland, the abode of the elves in English and Lowland Scottish folklore...

.

Eventually Wendy makes good on the promise she made in the first song of the cycle, to use the pirate ship to "set a course for home". (Whether or not her brothers join her on this journey is unclear, although her farewell to Pan is included.) Wendy invites the Lost Girls to come home with her and be her sisters at home. Many of the pirate girls are happy; however, some, including Sue, do not wish to grow up or leave Neverland. Sue inherits the ship from Wendy with promises to carry on "the legacy of Red-Handed Jill". Under Sue's guidance, the pirate girls teach the Lost Boys how to sail.

The story ends with a caution from Tucker to brothers, instructing them to be kinder to their sisters lest they "turn pirate and run off to sail the seas". Further cautions are given to parents who discourage such fantasies in their daughters as improper or berate them for playing "boy's games", again lest they run away to follow their dreams.
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