Captain #1 Press articles and reviews:

Get An Earection music blog - January 12, 2009

Captain #1 is probably the #1 most underrated and unknown super awesome indie folk artist. The music is just super lo-fi and chill. Not too much going on, an acoustic guitar, a voice and some randoms here and there. It is just enjoyable, relaxing music that is well written. I highly suggest this album.

I Carry It In My Heart music blog review of The Humble - January 3, 2009

Athens-based Captain #1's sound is the product of Tim Denson, formerly of Starlite Motel. The Humble's tracks sparkle with not only twinkling acoustic guitars in open tunings, but glockenspiels, tambourines, maracas, and sometimes what sounds like a well-handled kazoo. Perfect low-key, mellow, indie pop.

I Carry It In My Heart music blog review of Color What You Want - January 3, 2009

2006's Color What You Want is a split-EP from Captain #1 and Fort Myers, Florida's Enoch Bledsoe. Enoch's sound is very folky and sometimes aggressive, providing an interesting contrast but a beautiful accompaniment to Captain #1.
Tracks #1-5 belong to Tim Denson and Captain #1; tracks #7-11 are Enoch Bledsoe's. Track #6 is an instrumental featuring a harmonica, performed by both artists.

Flagpole Reviews Captain #1's The Humble - Nov. 14, 2007

You 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

Lawrence.com - Show Feature - Sept. 25, 2007

Captain Number 1 was started as a side project by Tim Denson formerly of Starlite Motel (prominent south florida indie rockers). The outfit consists of Tim and a revolving group of members, many from the Just Me Records family. Focusing more on the song than production, Captain Number 1 pulls from the 60's folk revival and the indie rock/Lo-fi movement of the 90's and today, with a dash of pop and something different.Betraying his obvious delight in the enchanting possibilities of low-tech recording devices, Seamonster's ring-ding-jangle-'n-tap bedchamber pop pieces give off some whiff of mellower, mid-90s Apples in Stereo tracks. Yet the real archetypes for Seamonster are Neutral Milk Hotel's early, hissy recordings, though Seamonster focuses on the stuff that really made NMH so good in the first place.

Support Our Troops- Color What You Want review
Stomp and Stammer -May 2006
"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 www.stompandstammer.com

Color What You Want split review
Punk Planet magazine issue 74 - July 2006
by Sean Moeller

The songs by Florida's Enoch and Athens, Georgia's Captain #1 are musical attempts at the very intimate genre of memoir. Tim Denson, who is the Captain, and Enoch Bledsoe, of the similary named Enoch, could have both been named Elliott and no one would have blinked an eye, writing pretty, self-aware, and bare-knuckled acoustic guitar ditties that get about as far in three to five minutes as you can in super slo-mo. They both have lovely enough voices, but when songs engage as lightly as the 10 on thissplit do, even the coloring book that comes with it can't keep you preoccupied.
www.punkplanet.com

Live Review- Back in the Ring - January 12th Athens, GA show review
Flagpole magazine- January 2006
"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." www.flagpole.com

Threats and Promises music news
Flagpole magazine - January 18, 2006
by Gordon Lamb

Indie label Just Me Records, formerly of southern Florida, moved up here to Athens over this past summer, but is only just now starting to, um, get its groove back. Evidence of this grooviness is the new split release on the label between Athens band Captain #1, the brainchild of Tim Denson from Florida’s acclaimed Starlite Motel and Just Me Records honcho, and Long Beach, CA songwriter Enoch. Called Colored What You Want: A Color By Number Adventure, the album, according to Denson, “merges art and music and expands on the idea of listening to an album.” Musically, the two acts share a common love of low-fidelity, acoustic indie stuff with a dash of psychedelic flavor. Both are currently on a month-long tour of many states. www.flagpole.com

Show feature
Relative Theory Records blog - January 24, 2006

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. www.relativetheoryrecords.com/blog