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GLORIOUS, the first release by a member of Serious Pilgrim in six years, is now available!

Order GLORIOUS by e-mailing us, or by sending a check or money order for $10 per copy to Martin Rivas, 1396 Clove Road #3, Staten Island, NY 10301.

The idea for GLORIOUS was born in 1998 when Mart compiled a CD of previously released songs for the guests of Hall-of-Fame Weekend 6. The CD was titled Betty's Twisted Acres Hall-of-Fame Weekend 6: Campfire Soundtrack, and it contained songs that were popular around the campmfire, along with tracks that Mart felt captured the essence of the Big Weekend.

The following year, he recorded The Twisted Acres Campfire Song, brought a copy of it up to Hall-of-Fame Weekend 9, and offered to copy it onto a cassette for anyone who wanted it. Mart has always been inspired by Twisted Acres, and he felt it only made sense to write an entire album's worth of music that paid tribute to this special place and the people who frequent it.

The tracks were written, recorded and mixed between August 1999 and May 2000. Recording took place at Mart's house onto a Tascam 4-track recorder, though it certainly sounds much bigger. Mart plays every instrument... in fact, the only noises not made by Mart are Thomoose Foley's interpretation of the spoken monologue on Are You Lonesome Tonight?, and samples of Bob Will's voice and fiddle on Western Turkey.

May you feel half as good listening to GLORIOUS as Mart felt making it.