Songs about Cocoa Beach / Cape Canaveral: anthropoetry

11 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Modern Folk, ROCK: Acoustic



Details:
Contains "Blue Tip Match" which won Garageband.com's

Blues Rock Track of the Day, May 29 2006

...as well as other Garageband.com awards:

Best Male Vocals in Blues Rock, week of 29May2006
Best Lyrics in Blues Rock, week of 29May2006
Best Mood in Blues Rock, week of 29May2006
Most Original in Blues Rock, week of 29May2006
Feel Good Track overall, week of 29May2006
Feel Good Track in Blues Rock, week of 29May2006

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The world has only one moonport...on a skinny island that contains Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach. In the 1960s, Cocoa Beach was on an island with mosquitos, surfing, Cape Canaveral, boats, the press, German scientists, tourists, sting ray bicycles, sting rays, The Pink Wedge, Teen Town, The Officer's Club, astronauts running on the beach, astronauts in parades, drugs, beach girls, manatees, dolphins and sharks...

For a straight Cocoa Beach 20th century narrative, listen to "Last Cocoa Beach Song." The complete arc of a night-launch of a Jupiter-C. Think Joyce's "The Dead". Got it?

Robert's voice is a traveler's escaping as tourists and retirees flow into the Sunshine State. Guitar, vocal, and electronics woven into a t-shirt hitchhiking down A1A.

Cocoa Beach Songs is Robert Edgar's collection of anthropoetic songs about the island. Spanning the days of the early space program through the explosion of the Challenger, Robert's electric folk music paints new images of a place that no longer exists. The missile gantries have rusted and were hauled off, the white beaches eroded by hurricanes, and the patches of beach scrub jungle ripped out and replaced by condos.

Never has the universe been more local.