You can now buy the Walrus classic rock CD "Uncovered" at CDBaby.com. The URL is: http://cdbaby.com/cd/walrus
Soon you will be able to buy digital downloads of these 11 new rock classics at iTunes and other on-line stores.
Each of the 11 songs is so different that the debut album defies categorization in a single musical genre and sounds like a "Walrus Greatest Hits" collection. The songs range from "The Garden," inspired by the 1992 New Age novel, "Ishmael," and employing Crosby Stills Nash & Young-style harmonies to the deliciously vampy "Tongue in Cheek" to the psychedelic-sounding "Gaia."
The CD is rich with classic rock, pop and folk vocal arrangements; ballads about friends who are like a "Second Family" and about empowerment. There are screaming electric, acoustic and pedal-steel guitar licks and love songs about absent as well as cheating lovers. The synergy of original themes and lyrics combined with Sgt. Pepper-inspired rock song melodies points to the versatility and experience of Bellingham's rockin' sea mammals.
Two songs on the album are directly inspired by the Beatles, the Walrus' favorite band to cover. Joe Young's "Abbey Road" describes the ups and downs of rock music stardom, and "Hold Your Hand" is a 96-second dance number with harmonies as crisp as The Beatles' No. 1 hit, "All My Loving" (and reminiscent of a number of early Beatles songs including, of course, "I Want to Hold Your Hand").