EASTHAM – We would love to be a fly on the wall when all of the musical voices inside of Chandler Travis’ head talk to each other.
Chandler Travis
Short of that, we are left his new album, “Bocce & Bourbon, The Comfortable Songs of Chandler Travis and David Greenberger,” in which Travis teams up with a lyricist, Greenberger, that he has worked with for 30 years, over the course of six different bands.
(Here is a video of a song off the new album, “By The Way”}
“You can always tell which one of my songs are by David,” said Travis, who wrote the music on the album. “It’s the ones with the great imagery.” Through the years, he said, they have collaborated on more than 50 songs.
In fact, said Travis, when the two of them decided to release an album of their favorite collaborations over the years – along with eight new songs – he realized that it was something of a greatest hits album of many of his favorite songs from his many musical vehicles.
“Chandler is one of these guys, 50 years after he’s gone, people in their 20s are going to be digging all this stuff up, and wondering, Who was this guy?“ said Greenberger. “Some kid in France, or some kid in Portland in 2075 is going to be discovering Chandler Travis.”
Who Are These Guys?
“I aspire to pessimism, but I rarely make it,” said Travis, 65, who was born in New York City and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, and Fairfield County, Connecticut wanting to be either a songwriter or an actor. He now lives in Eastham.
Greenberger, 60, was born in Chicago and grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania. He was interested in art and creativity. “I liked finding a way to say something about the way I saw the world,” he said. Greenberger now lives in Greenwich, New York, an hour north of Albany.
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