This week I will be on vacation on The Rock Boat. This is the third time my wife and I are enjoying this event. As in the past, Sheryl, and I are taking this cruise with my college roommate, Tim, and his wife, Marie. As happened last year, we each are bringing our twenty-something-year-old daughters so they could hang out together and talk about how cool their parents are.
The Rock Boat is hosted by a band called Sister Hazel that has five members. Since the passengers are a key ingredient in the overall experience, the name of the organization that puts on the cruise is called The Sixth Man. A number of artists besides Sister Hazel are featured on the cruises. I am looking forward to seeing Scars on 45 and Courrier. In general, all of these bands' songs are mid-tempo rockers with jangly guitars — not quite folk, not quite country, more of something in-between. The four day trek features bands playing throughout the day and night as the boat sails. There's one day on an island where bands play while we relax in the water and sand.
This year's lineup includes:
- The Alternate Routes
- Erick Baker
- Besides Daniel
- Bronze Radio Return
- Taylor Carson
- Collective Soul
- Courrier
- The Dunwells
- JD Eicher
- Michael Bernard Fitzgerald
- Gaelic Storm
- The Gallery
- Amy Gerhartz
- Will Hoge
- Honor By August
- Stephen Kellogg
- Ed Kowalczyk formerly of LIVE
- Edwin McCain
- MELODIME
- The Mowgli's
- Scott Munns
- Native Run
- Radio Birds
- Radiolucent
- Red Wanting Blue
- Reel Big Fish
- Sister Hazel
- Ed Roland & The Sweet Tea Project
- The Roosevelts
- DJ Soulman
- Scars on 45
- Tonic
- Headphone Disco
My guess is that you have not heard of many of these. I assure you that obscurity does not necessarily equate to inadequacy.
Music is alive in the lab.
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