The Product Is Relevant To You Because It:

v           Is in the acoustic music tradition of the USA

v           Relates to pirating history and events around the East Coast and in the Caribbean

v           Capitalises on current interests in the pirating world

v           Resonates with domestic and overseas tourists

v           Will be used again and again, unlike brochures etc

v           Will appeal to anyone with an interest in acoustic music worldwide

v           Is original and is an original concept

Pirates of the East Coat of the Americas and the Caribbean Sea is a musical concept album designed to appeal to adults of all walks of life even vaguely interested in Pirates as a subject - and that means most men, let's be honest.  Recent interest generated by certain Hollywood films has raised awareness of the subject but interest has always been and will always be, there: if anything interest is growing as fact finally becomes seperated fron fiction.

It can be packjaged to suit your needs.  Use the up to 12 page booklet to illustrate your attractions, events, timetables or places of interest.  Incorporate maps of your area, what to do, emergency contact information or other useful information.  Sell the booklet space for advertisements?  Why not.

Use it as a souvenir.  Take the basic package and we will rebadge it for you overlaying your logo onto the standard design or producing a design to your needs.  Tourism remains a growth area and impulse purchases are as strong as ever: let people take home a souvenir that will be used again and again rather than be stuck in a cupboard - we could bore you with tourism statistics but we are sure you are more than aware of the numbers already - they're big that's for sure!

The album contains over 60 minutes of original music and song, all pirate related, in styles designed to appeal to all age groups.  There are calypso, reggae, acoustic and country styles describing events or characters of the Golden Age of Piracy with a few invented tracks along the way - Polly, The Parrot of the Caribbean may be a true story but there are no written accounts of his fate.

Inspriration for the project originally came from a book entitled 'The Mammoth Book of Pirates by Jon Lewis and all credit is due to him for the inspiration he generated: it's good book - read it.

Pirates! Just the hoisting of the word is enough to bring a shiver to the soul of the innocent.

Pirates! There have been sea-robbers since Biblical times, but  the ones who sail down the wind  and broadside our interest are those who roved the Spanish Main in the 18^th century: the deadly Blackbeard, dapper Calico Jack Rackam, the twice-hung Captain Kidd,  Bartholomew Roberts, cross-dressing Mary Read…

Pirates! Why do we still love and fear them so, two hundred years after their historical heyday?  Because pirates were not mere, plain thieves: They were the Robin Hoods of the seas. Pirates were the pistol-toting redistributors of wealth, they were the thigh-booted escapees from slavery, they were the bad-to-the-skull-and-bones rebels who rejected their allotted lowly place in hierarchical society.   In our regulated, conformist post-industrial society  we yearn for freedom, but can’t quite achieve it - so we vaunt the  Golden Age pirate, the last of the free.

Pirates! In this CD Roy Mette has perfectly, eerily caught the folk-heroic aspect of the pirate - as well as all his (and sometimes her) dash and depravity, and all his menace and mocking black humour.  It’s an almost impossible trick: Roy Mette’s songs could have been sung rollickingly in the taverns of old Port Royal or wistfully by the crew of  Blackbeard’s Revenge as they languished in the doldrums.  Yet they are newly minted. As I say, some trick. And how sweet-Caribbean-rum, tropic breeze seductively performed.

Pirates! Come raise a glass to Roy Mette, the captain of  musicians, for he has given you something more precious than silver pieces. Music to imagine by.

Jon E. Lewis, editor THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF PIRATES, 2007