Beachgrass: The Music

 

Can't make it to the coast? You can entertain the Floating Glass Balls in your own living room! We'll trade you a CD or two for only a few dollars each.

Choose from our latest release, Ashore, and/or our first, self-titled CD recording, Floating Glass Balls.

We promise to be good - we'll not leave peanut shells on the coffee table; no beer puddles on your fine Persian carpet.

Really. See what earnest and trustworthy faces we have? Not sold on looks alone? We'll soon have song samples to help tip the scales.

Come on, take us home with you! We'll even pay our own way to your house...

ASHORE - The Floating Glass Balls' latest CD release

C.B. Junction
Atlantic City
Pretty Daughter
Evening Prayer Blues
Candlemaker
Just Let Me Fall
Marie
Old Boat
I Paid Her Alimony
Home From the Forest
Up the Street
Respiration
I Feel the Blues Movin' In
Foro Santa Luzia
Where the Soul of Man Never Dies

^$15⁰⁰ each post-paid  

"Pick up FBG's latest release ASHORE. The 15 tracks include vintage string classics like Bill Monroe's flowing but intricate Evening Prayer Blues, demonstrating FBG's adeptness of mando, dobro, fiddle and guitar picking. Just Let Me Fall, originally recorded by Happy Smith in 1952, features Dan Conner's vocals, lending authenticity to this Appalachian-rooted tune, and righteous old-timey harmonies contributed by Siegel and Marshall -- a constant you can count on from the band. ASHORE is a great mix of tunes passed between fellow musicians (the aural tradition continues) as well as stringband versions of tunes done by, for example, Springsteen, Gordon Lighfoot, and Townes Van Zandt, and treated to diverse and appealing arrangements. In addition, Seigel, Conner and Keiski originals (including Keiski's reggae paeon to clean air, Respiration), enliven this recording and add to the spirit of North Coast musical ensembles."

— Jenny Gamroth, hipfish, January 2006

FLOATING GLASS BALLS - The band's first, self-titled CD

Alderbrook Navy Medley
Airmail Special
Rockaway
Master's Bouquet
Roving Gambler
Bramble and the Rose
Big Sciota
Billy the Kid
South in New Orleans
Ballad of Spider John
Long May You Run
Red River
Gold Rush
HURRY - Limited quantity!

^$15⁰⁰ each post-paid  

Until now, this musical experience was available only to those in attendance at our weekly gatherings -- the locals, of course, but also family and friends who came as often as their lives allowed, from all over the upper left edge, with and without an instrument in hand. As well, there were those who, as vacationing visitors, happily stumbled upon a magical moment. But now, with the release of this, the first recording from what has become known as "The Floating Glass Balls," even folks who've never been to the Oregon coast can share the urge to let down their hair and dance... barefoot. To feel the sand between your toes...

The irrepressible Floating Glass Balls will be re-pressing this popular offering very soon. Watch for updates!

More Music...

You may also purchase other CD recordings by members of Floating Glass Balls. Such as...

When Dolphins Play Peter Siegel & Roland White Mandolin Music featuring Melodious Melodies . $1500 each post-paid

Friends and Legends Peter "Spud" Siegel w/the Lower Columbia Trio   . $1500 each post-paid   .

Internet CD purchases...              

are made through PayPal, via the Joyce Maynard Catalogue, courtesy of our dear friend, Joyce. All major credit/debit cards are accepted, so you don't need a PayPal account. If you have any questions or need to contact us regarding an order, please email Myrna, our web/order fulfillment person at myrna@joycemaynard.com.

Order by mail...

CD's are $15 each, the same price you'd pay at a performance -- we pick up the shipping!

If you prefer to order by mail you may send a check or money order for $15 for each CD purchased, and the name of the CD(s) you want, to:

Floating Glass Balls CD's
PO Box 636
Clatskanie OR 97016

 

— schedule | press | contact —

 

Floating Glass Balls is a band distilled from years of weekly musical gatherings at Bill's Tavern in Cannon Beach. The constantly changing faces around the table, patrons at the bar and the wishful tavern waifs peering in through the windows became a family of sorts... Through life, death, love, marriage, divorce -- and even the destruction and rebirth of the very building itself -- the music has continued.