Sail on Honeybee: Adventures in the Bee Yard

by Doug Elliott

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Looking for America: A 20th Century Hero’s Journey, Of Ginseng, Golden Apples, and the Rainbow Fish: Live at the National Storytelling Festival, Groundhog-ology (and Marmotabilia): Of Whistlepigs and World Politics, Crawdads, Doodlebugs and Creasy Greens: Songs, Stories, and Lore Celebrating the Natural World (American Library Association Notable Recording Award), Raccoon and a Possum – Stories And Songs ‘Specially For Young Folks, Bound for Carolina: A Musical Journey Celebrating the Plants, Animals and People of the Southeast, Everybody’s Fishin’: A Cross-Cultural Fishing Extravaganza, Sail on Honeybee: Adventures in the Bee Yard, and 1 more. , and , .

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1.	Fifty Thousand Bees on my Head- Of Stingers, Swarm Catching, Queens, Drones, and Workers 16:49	buy track
2.	Sail on Honeybee (song) 02:24	buy track
3.	The Bikers and the Bee Man 08:50	buy track
4.	Meanwhile Back at the Hive- The Nuptial Flight of the Queen _ the Sad Fate of the Drones 05:36	buy track
5.	King Bee Hit the Road, Jack (song medley) 02:04	buy track
6.	The White Man's Fly- Of Robbery, Politics, and Protest 07:02	buy track
7.	Wonderful to be be Alive (song) 02:38	buy track

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Master storyteller, harmonica wizard, and long-time beekeeper, Doug Elliott, tells outlandish tales from the world of bees and beekeeping.

You’ll get practical advice about how to treat a bee sting and how to catch a bee swarm – also what to do if you are high up in a tree and fifty thousand bees fall on your head!

You’ll find out what can happen when a swarm of bees invades a biker bar.

You’ll marvel at the astonishing, sexy details of the queen’s nuptial flight and lament the sad fate of those hapless, helpless drones.

You’ll hear learned commentary from beekeeping pioneer, Karl Von Frisch, and from naturalist, philosopher, John Burroughs, as well as lively fiddle licks, rollicking harmonica riffs, rocking blues and soulful songs by Loudon Wainright III, bluesman Muddy Waters, and even a touch of Ray Charles.

You’ll find out that bees and humans have a great deal in common and that bees can teach us about ourselves and give us perspectives on politics and human society today.

Content warning: Parents, this recording contains a vivid, but discretely worded description of the mating of the queen bee. (The strongest word used is “horny”.)

46 minutes in length

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released April 14, 2020

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Whether he’s singing about catfish, pontificating on possums, extolling the virtues of dandelions, telling wild snake tales or wailing out a jivey harmonica tune — either on a backwoods trail or in a concert hall — Doug performs a lively collection of traditional tales, ancient legends, inspiring stories, folklore and outrageous personal narratives. ... more

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