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"Live Review- Back in the Ring"

The lineup revolves to focus on the work of Tim Denson (formerly of Starlite Motel), evolving into the slightly more conventional singer-songwriter sound of Captain #1’s acoustic indie-pop. Think Will Johnson’s The Carlton Chronicles meets Art Garfunkel. Captain #1 and Enoch are starting a 14-show tour which will land them back here in Athens at the end of the month, whereupon the trio may call Georgia home for a while as they promote and build from their new split EP Color What You Want. Captain #1 is a more comfortable fit for those looking for more soothing harmonic indie pop - with occasional glances towards a relatively contemporary sound, albeit with a rough tilt towards sparse Flaming Lips-style indie-pop perfection. - Flagpole magazine


"Support Our Troops- Color What You Want"

Captain #1 is a beguiling Athens-based group whose delicate, lowe-key songs sparkle with a childlike pop charm; (the other artist on the split) is eccentric singer-songwriter Enoch N. Bledsoe of Fort Myers, Florida. The CD is titled Color What You Want, and the package folds out to reveal several color-by-numbers drawings. The idea is, the listener is encouraged to assign a color to each track based on whatever color they feel or see when listening to that particular song, the n fill in the numbered spaces with those corresponding colors on the CD cover. Eh, so it's sorta silly, but won't you feel special having unique art for a CD no one else you know has heard of? No?
-Jeff Clark - Stomp and Stammer -May 2006


"Relative Theory Records Blog"

Captain #1 was started in the fall of 2003 by Tim Denson, formerly of succesfull south florida indie rockers Starlite Motel (guitarist/instrumentalist/vocalist). After putting out 2 critically acclaimed releases and over 150 shows, Starlite Motel disbanded in 2004.
In 2005 Captain #1 moved to Athens, GA where Tim started forming a partnership with the other floating members of Captain #1. While playing shows in the Athens area Captain #1 finished writing the songs that would land on their first release ‘Color What You Want’, which is a split with Tim’s contemporary and long time friend Enoch. Captain #1, in conjunction with their label Just Me Records, believe in using DIY and punk ethics to produce and market their music. With the release of ‘Color What You Want’ in December 2005, Captain #1 is set for a year full of touring.
1999 up to 2004 Enoch played in and with various groups throughout Florida. Self-booking tours, and recording. Song writing and playing is his passion. In the summer of 2004 moved to Los Angeles Ca. (Long Beach). Lived there for little over a year. Working at Music stores and Recording Studieos. While delving into diverse musical projects and becoming aquainted with the Artist community. In the summer of 2005 he visited Athens Ga. and recorded a split with Captian#1. In support of this Enoch will be touring indefinitely starting Jan. 2006. While continuing to record and make shirts etc. with the DIY mentality. - Relative Theory


"The Humble by Captain #1 record review"

ou can come at Captain #1's second record partially through its packaging, which consists of two different pieces of paper folded in threes, one rotated 90 degrees from the other and placed inside it, both with a hole punched through a middle and fastened with a brad. It's cute, it's clever, it's creative and pretty, but it's also ultimately a little frustrating and impractical. Captain #1 is the baby of Tim Denson, recently moved to Athens, veteran of other bands and head of the Just Me Records label.

The Humble definitely has some high notes. Some of the songs run together, but my ears pricked up every time a few of them had their turn in the rotation: namely, "On the Back of a Whale," a simple, melodic guitar tune accented with glockenspiel; "Clockmaker's Son," a woozy, rhythmically strummed singalong that features up-front female vocals and weird, strained, near-yelling in the background; and "Apple of My Eye," the second really good song by that title that's come out in Athens this year (the first is by the Broken Bits), and by far the best track on the album, a fact the band no doubt knows, as it comes up first on Captain #1's MySpace page. "Apple of My Eye" chimes and swings and blends its disparate instruments just beautifully, in a compact fashion that contrasts with the meandering that ends up killing some of the other songs.

A simple guide to the better songs on the album can be gleaned from merely looking at their running times. "A Matter of Time," for example, could make its point the same by chopping off two minutes, and "Hope in a Mason Jar" is a nice tune that seems more fun to sing, in the end, than to listen to. More discipline here would produce a higher percentage of great stuff, but, while the "single" is most worthy of your time, it's not the only thing on The Humble that is.

Hillary Brown - Flagpole


Discography

ALBUMS:
The Humble (full length)
The Florida Player Volume 1 ep
Color What You Want-split lp
Released: December, 2005 on Just Me Records

COMPILATIONS:
Athfest 2008 (Ghostmeat Records; 2008)
Just Me Records 2004 sampler;
Just Me Holidays (2003)

Radio:
-Sin Is These Ya and Christopher O'Reilley are receiving considerable airplay in southeast; in rotation at WUOG 90.5
-Christopher O'Reilley has been featured on many Podcasts
-Full-set performance broadcast on WUOG 90.5 on April 4, 2006

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Captain Number 1 began as sounds echoing out of the Florida Everglades into abandoned farmhouses and trailer homes along the sides of state roads. Those same sounds slowly made their way through south Florida till they crawled inside a man's ear. That man now lives in the foothills of Georgia and creates music with friends and travels to cities to play you those lonely songs born in the everglades. Songs about murders, about love, about angels and hydrogen balloons, set to the music of glockenspiels, mandolins and toys.
Captain #1, in conjunction with their label Just Me Records, believe in using diy and punk ethics to produce and market their music. They attempt to blend creative and surprising art into all parts of the band. In the past they have incorporated coloring books into their records and woven in interesting stage shows to their live performances. In the spring of 2006 Captain #1 joined the Branch Collection music collective. Captain #1 is carving out a niche that the musical world can't help but fall in to and scrape at the walls of.

In 2005 Captain #1 moved to Athens, GA where Tim began to form a partnership with the other floating members of Captain #1. While playing shows in the Athens area Captain #1 finished writing the songs that would land on their first release 'Color What You Want', which is a split with Tim's contemporary and long time friend Enoch. Captain #1, in conjunction with their label Just Me Records, believe in using DIY and punk ethics to produce and market their music. They attempt to blend creative and surprising art into all parts of the band. In the past they have incorporated coloring books into their records and woven in interesting stage shows to their live performances. Captain #1 is creating a niche that the musical world can't help but fall into.