DENNY COVE

Straight Outta Chatham album cover

Recovered Cassette, Restored 2024

The Album

STRAIGHT OUTTA CHATHAM

Denny Cove · 1982 · 10 tracks

Recorded across seven April days in a working bait shop on Route 28 in Chatham, Massachusetts. One microphone, one borrowed four-track, twelve songs about a Caribbean Cape Cod that nobody else could see.

The cassette was sealed in a plastic bag and lost to the sea in 1983. It was pulled from a lobster trap forty-one years later, intact enough to save.

What you hear now is what was on the tape. Nothing has been added.

THE TRACKLIST

Ten songs, in order

  1. 1

    Cape Cod Half-Time

  2. 2

    Port of Hyannis (First Light)

  3. 3

    Jah Bless the Ferry

  4. 4

    Ptown Riddim

  5. 5

    Lobster Season (Harvest Time)

  6. 6

    Clam Shack Calypso

  7. 7

    Vineyard Gyal

  8. 8

    Sandwich Town (Never Leaving)

  9. 9

    New England Ting

  10. 10

    Pull the Thread

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The original cassette was recovered from a lobster trap off Chatham in 2024. Restored by a marine audio specialist at Woods Hole. The songs were intact.