Recovered Cassette, Restored 2024
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
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1
Cape Cod Half-Time
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2
Port of Hyannis (First Light)
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3
Jah Bless the Ferry
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4
Ptown Riddim
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5
Lobster Season (Harvest Time)
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6
Clam Shack Calypso
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7
Vineyard Gyal
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8
Sandwich Town (Never Leaving)
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9
New England Ting
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10
Pull the Thread
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.