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The Christmas Tree Ship (EP)

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Released
  
24 November 2008

Producer
  
I Like Trains

Release date
  
24 November 2008

Genre
  
Post-rock

Length
  
22:10

Artist
  
I Like Trains

Label
  
Fantastic Plastic Records

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The christmas tree ship


The Christmas Tree Ship is the second EP by I Like Trains. It was released on 24 November 2008.

Contents

It is an entirely instrumental concept album, based on the storm that sank the Rouse Simmons.

The Rouse Simmons was a schooner that for twenty years delivered Christmas trees to Chicago, until on the night of November 23 1912 it was lost in a storm on Lake Michigan, with all hands and a full cargo of Christmas trees.

The five track titles relate to different aspects of the story.

  • The Christmas Tree Ship is about the sinking of the Rouse Simmons itself.
  • South Shore, Two Brothers and Three Sisters were the names of three other ships that sank the same night.
  • Friday, Everybody Goodbye is the opening sentence of a message in a bottle thrown into the sea by the captain of the Rouse Simmons.

    • The album was released as a limited-edition CD and DVD, but the general release was only as an MP3 download. Since then, I Like Trains have made the album a one-track EP for download.

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    Track listing

    1. "The Christmas Tree Ship"
    2. "South Shore"
    3. "Two Brothers"
    4. "Three Sisters"
    5. "Friday, Everybody Goodbye"

    Songs

    1The Christmas Tree Ship2:47
    2South Shore5:13
    3Two Brothers3:45

    References

    The Christmas Tree Ship (EP) Wikipedia
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