The Christmas Tree Ship (EP)

The Christmas Tree Ship
EP by I Like Trains
Released 24 November 2008
Genre Post-Rock
Length 22:10
Label Beggars Banquet
Producer I Like Trains
I Like Trains chronology
Elegies to Lessons Learnt
(2007)
The Christmas Tree Ship
(2008)
He Who Saw The Deep
(2010)

The Christmas Tree Ship is the second EP by I Like Trains. It was released on 24 November 2008.

It is an entirely instrumental concept album, based on the storm that sank the Rouse Simmons.

The Rouse Simmons was a schooner that for twenty years delivered Christmas trees to Chicago, until on the night of November 23 1912 it was lost in a storm on Lake Michigan, with all hands and a full cargo of Christmas trees.[1]

The five track titles relate to different aspects of the story.

The album was released as a limited-edition CD and DVD, but the general release was only as an MP3 download. Since then, I Like Trains have made the album a one-track EP for download.

Track listing

  1. "The Christmas Tree Ship"
  2. "South Shore"
  3. "Two Brothers"
  4. "Three Sisters"
  5. "Friday, Everybody Goodbye"

References

  1. About The Christmas Tree Ship on I Like Trains' website. "The Christmas Tree Ship".
  2. Jacobson-Tews, Lori. Pier Wisconsin. "The Story of the Rouse Simmons (page 4)". Accessed 12 January 2007.
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