Portland Adult Entertainment: Lone Fir Cemetery inspires an eerie CD by Portland musicians
by kingofportland… I’d tell a story about a steamship explosion and one of the musicians would say, ‘I want to take the angel of the person whose fault it was, for the song.’ They’d pull one little piece out of a story, explode with that idea and run with it.”
Chris Robley heard the story of a fellow who’d been responsible for thousands of men being drugged and shanghaied in Portland. The man had even done it to his son.
In Chris’ song, he “imagined the letter the son would write his parents when he woke up in the middle of the sea,” Kate says.
Jen Bernard, of the band The Taciturns, says she elected to tell the story of a French prostitute who lived in what’s now Old Town. Known as “a hooker with a heart of gold,” the woman saved money all year to feed the poor at Christmas. “Someone brutally murdered her right before Christmas and took all the money,” Jen says.