POETRY ABOUT BIMINI SPOKEN BY ASHLEY SAUNDERS WITH MUSICAL INTROS.

20 MP3 Songs in this album (28:08) !
Related styles: AVANT GARDE: Sound Art, FOLK: Traditional Folk



Details:
ASHLEY SAUNDERS IS AN AUTHORITY ON BIMINI HISTORY AND LITERATURE AND WAS BORN ON THIS BEAUTIFUL ISLAND.HE WAS EDUCATED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AND RECEIVED A BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE IN PHILOSOPHY. HE DID POST GRADUATE WORK AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND HOLDS A DEGREE IN TOURISM, WHICH HE RECEIVED FROM O.A.S. HE IS AN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED AUTHOR AND POET AND HAS EVEN APPEARED IN SEVERAL MOTION PICTURES. HE HAS ALSO WRITTEN SEVERAL BOOKS ON ISLAND POETRY, AND ON THIS ALBUM, NARRATES HIS POETRY IN A UNIQUE AND ORIGINAL STYLE. THIS ALBUM WAS DISCOVERED IN BIMINI BY JOEY WELZ ON HIS HONEYMOON TO THIS ROMANTIC ISLAND. HIS WIFE, MARTHA, MET ASHLEY AND TOURED HIS UNIQUE HOME, THE DOLPHIN HOUSE,A HOME HE BUILT OVER A FIFTEEN-YEAR SPAN. MARTHA SAW HIS ALBUM DISPLAYED AND ASKED TO BUY ONE. ASHLEY OBLIGED AND SAID IT WAS HIS DREAM TO HAVE IT MADE INTO A CD. SHE TOLD HIM THAT HER HUSBAND OWNED A RECORD COMPANY,CANADIAN AMERICAN RECORDS, AND HE COULD DO THIS. WHEN JOEY HEARD THE ALBUM,
HE SIGNED HIM ON THE SPOT TO A PUBLISHING CONTRACT, AND THE REST IS MUSICAL HISTORY.....REALLY, ALL ABOUT HISTORY. M.P.