Sailors & Ships is the songwriting project of Athens, Georgia’s Jeremy Wheatley. During the past 15 years, while recording and playing drums with bands and songwriters (Eric Bachmann/Crooked Fingers, Cracker, Palace Doctor…), he was also recording his own songs focusing on sparse arrangements and melodies. Jeremy says, “As I became more comfortable writing, as well as, recording/engineering, I just couldn’t stop…and there’s the reason.”
On May 15th Sailors & Ships will release a self-titled album on Laser Brains. As if a self-titled album doesn’t make the band’s name perfectly clear, one of the album’s singles is also called “Sailors & Ships”, and today we are excited to premiere it right here on Glide. The song is something of a manifesto for Wheatley’s project, showcasing his ability to write heartfelt songs that put an indie folk touch on a literary songwriting sense. This is a slow song and one that warrants paying close attention to the lyrics unfold. Wheatley manages to balance simplicity with a subtle richness that comes from the use of a synthesizer.
Jeremy Wheatley describes the inspiration behind the song in his own words:
“‘Sailors and Ships’ was written around twelve years ago when I started playing guitar pretty much everyday. Until then I just had small snippets of songs. A verse here and there, really just sketches, and it was the first song that felt complete. Lots of times I’ll just construct a song around one line that kind of sticks to me. ‘His treacherous past, forgive him of that’ is the foundation this one is built on. It’s a couple both ripped apart inside by their pasts who want to take some sort of next step, but don’t know how…mostly from fear, and at some point they realize that they trust each other enough to go forward…each looking out for the other.”
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