{"id":188812,"date":"2026-02-09T05:59:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=188812"},"modified":"2026-02-07T16:43:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:43:36","slug":"tune-of-the-day-148","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/tune-of-the-day-148\/","title":{"rendered":"Tune of the day #148"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Seatrain 8--Outwear the Hills\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/82CfU5w-fgc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Members of The Blues Project joined with fiddler Richard Greene, a Bill Monroe alumnus, and a few other musicians to form Sea Train (two words). Their 1969 self-titled debut had possibly the worst cover of any album &#8212; it wasn&#8217;t even ugly<span id='easy-footnote-1-188812' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/tune-of-the-day-148\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-188812' title='The visual of this &amp;#8220;video&amp;#8221; is not the album cover. The person who uploaded the tune didn&amp;#8217;t bother to find an image for it.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> &#8212; and it sold miserably. I&#8217;ve never met anyone other than myself who bought a copy. This is a pity, because it was a fully-realized example of progressive rock, intricate, complicated and ambitious. It&#8217;s almost completely forgotten. Sea Train is not even mentioned on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.progarchives.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prog Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The band subsequently underwent personnel changes, altered their name to &#8220;Seatrain,&#8221; and came to George Martin&#8217;s attention. The resulting album was better-produced and easier to listen to, and it yielded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SoTBx6NjUJ0\" target=\"_blank\">a small hit<\/a>, but it was less interesting than the one that preceded it.<span id='easy-footnote-2-188812' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/tune-of-the-day-148\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-188812' title='The album is worth seeking out for the final number, in which Greene introduced a million hippies to &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x7F7kF3T32U&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;bluegrass fiddle&lt;\/a&gt;.'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of The Blues Project joined with fiddler Richard Greene, a Bill Monroe alumnus, and a few other musicians to form Sea Train (two words). Their 1969 self-titled debut had possibly the worst cover of any album &#8212; it wasn&#8217;t even ugly &#8212; and it sold miserably. I&#8217;ve never met anyone other than myself who &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/tune-of-the-day-148\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tune of the day #148&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,710],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-tune"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-N7m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188812"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188981,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188812\/revisions\/188981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}