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4 unusual facts about Leigh Marble


Leigh Marble

The long-awaited collection – fifty tracks in all, including digital bonus tracks – was released on October 12th 2010 as a two CD package digital bonus tracks) with cover illustration from Carson Ellis.

Two years later, he contributed a version of Led Zeppelin‘s "Immigrant Song" for the Jealous Butcher compilation ‘’The Land of Ice And Snow: The Songs of Led Zeppelin’‘ alongside a star-studded line-up featuring such artists as Chris Walla, M. Ward, and The Long Winters.

That same month, Marble recorded the track “Inebriate Waltz” for a compilation to benefit Portland's Lone Fir Cemetery.

The son of two Harvard, Massachusetts software engineers and nephew of science fiction novelist Piers Anthony, Leigh Marble is also the direct descendant of 19th century spiritualist Hiram Marble who spent years vainly searching for pirate's treasure that he believed lay buried within the abandoned cave of Dungeon Rock (now part of the Lynn Woods Reservation of eastern Massachusetts).



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