Seattle Songwriter Longboat Releases His New Record, ‘Album 28’

Longboat, the Seattle songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, continues on his quest to release fifty studio albums. One day, after meandering around the globe, Igor Keller began writing songs about his home town. These were collected in his 2011 debut, Greater Seattle – and Longboat was born. That release tapped a seemingly limitless fount of creativity, and Keller has been writing and recording at a steady clip since. On first blush, one might assume that the new Longboat record Album 28 has been given a rather tongue-in-cheek moniker. Yet it is not hyperbolic – and really just a hair past the halfway point set by Keller. The man has a head full of music and has set a goal of releasing at least fifty full-length recordings. That is, “if my own obscurity and the semi-ancien...

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